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WITH THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM both Nikon and Canon coming just a few weeks out from this year’s Photokina, you might think a bit of the gloss would have been taken off the show, which was being held for the last time in its traditional autumn-in-Ge

UNDOUBTEDLY THE BIGGEST news at Photokina 2018 was the formation of a new strategic partnership between three major brands to develop and promote a full-35mm mirrorless camera system. The “L Mount Alliance” comprises Leica, Panasonic and Sigma – a pr

WHILE THE L MOUNT ALLIANCE was the headline news from Leica at Photokina, it continued a busy year with a number of new product announcements, including a silver version of its CL ‘APS-C’ mirrorless camera (and already a member of the L mount family)

THE VERY FIRST digital camera from Zeiss has a full-35mm format CMOS sensor, but it’s not a mirrorless design or, indeed, a D-SLR. Instead, the Zeiss ZX1 has a fixed Distagon T* 35mm f2.0 wide-angle prime which, of course, is very precisely matched o

AFTER WE’VE WAITED for at least a couple of years for Canon and Nikon to get their acts together with full-35mm format mirrorless camera systems, both have launched within a couple of weeks of each other… emphatically ending Sony’s long honeymoon in

YOU CAN READ our full review of Nikon’s new flagship full-35mm mirrorless camera, the Z 7, elsewhere in this issue, but here’s an overview of the Z System on which the company is building its future in interchangeable lens cameras. It’s based on the

DESPITE THE AVAILABILITY of a full-function adapter for fitting F mount lenses to the new Z series mirrorless camera bodies, Nikon’s challenge will be to deliver as many new Z mount lenses as it possibly can and as quickly as it can… especially if it

HERALDED AS THE fourth-generation X mount mirrorless camera, Fujifilm’s X-T3 steps up to an all-new sensor and significantly expanded video capabilities matching those of Panasonic’s Lumix GH5/5S. Sharing similar styling and sizing to the X-T2, the X

DIGITAL STORAGE EXPERTS Seagate and drone manufacturer DJI have collaborated to develop the LaCie DJI Copilot, which is designed to allow the easier management and back-up of image files and video clips while flying on location. LaCie DJI Copilot ena

At last year’s presentation ceremony for the Camera Magazine Imaging Awards back in October 2017, there were a number of veiled references from prize recipients along the lines of ‘Wait and see what we’ve got coming next year’. It became something of

THERE MAY HAVE BEEN no contest here, but the K-1 Mark II has the potential to take on any challenger given it represents the peak of D-SLR technology as we know it now. Just what parent company Ricoh has planned for Pentax down the track isn’t immedi

THIS WAS THE ‘power hitters’ category this year with a bunch of very high-credentialed finalists, all with the features and performance that could potentially take the win. Then along came the Nikon Z 7, just scraping in in terms of eligibility, but

IT’S A FUNNY OLD world, isn’t it? Suddenly consumer-level D-SLRs have taken on a new importance as the affordable entry-points to an interchangeable lens camera (ILC) system. In fact, this is now probably the most interesting of the D-SLR categories

MOST ATTENTION HAS been focused on Fujifilm’s higher-end X mount cameras as the company intensifies its campaign for the hearts and minds of pro D-SLR users, but there’s good stuff going on in the lower ranks too. The X-T100 is a deliberate attempt t

IT’S BONKERS, BUT it’s also brilliant. And regardless of what you shoot with regularly, you’re going to find the Coolpix P1000 very hard to resist. It does stuff that there’s no other way of doing without spending a fortune (and probably doing your b

WHILE SONY IS FACING stiffer competition in a market segment it has had largely all to itself for quite a while, the A7 III shows why it’s the newcomers who will need to be on their game. For starters, Sony is still packaging the full-35mm format sen

IN GENERAL,THIS CATEGORY recognises the video capabilities of cameras that are also designed for still photography, although we have occasionally strayed outside this brief when something warranted it. Of course, video is now an integral part of most

THE PHOTO PRINTER MARKET has changed out of all recognition from when we first introduced this award category. As the technology has matured, the life cycles of models have steadily increased and the imperative to upgrade on a regular basis has stead

SUCH IS THE AMOUNT of activity happening in interchangeable lenses that, as with last year, both our lens categories are again the most hotly contested of any in these awards. It was a challenge to even get down to a workable shortlist… which, inevit

ONCE IN A WHILE a product comes along that just seems to get everything absolutely spot-on. From the moment it’s taken out of the box, it delivers on expectations, often even exceeds them. So it was with Tamron’s 100-400mm telezoom which wowed us fro

The fettler’s track to maintain the old Ghan railway in South Australia was once a very rough route to follow. Today tourism has turned this track into a wide and well-graded dirt highway. Not far from the Mount Dutton railway ruins, a narrow slit of

Now that we’ve all heaved a collective sigh of relief following the arrival of the full-35mm mirrorless camera systems from both Nikon and Canon, it’s time to get down to the nitty-gritty of seeing exactly what’s on offer. Of course, Sony has been in

In the days of shooting film, keen photographers often amassed vast collections of filters which had both creative and corrective applications. If you had a few lenses with different screwthread filter fittings, you could also end up with multiples o

When it comes to making long-lasting, durable and saleable prints the emphasis has always been on pigment printers. The Epson Artisan 1430 (reviewed back in 2012) has been a notable exception because of its Claria dye-based ink set. Wilhelm Research

OVER THE LAST YEAR WE’VE BEEN searching for Australia’s most talented teenage photographers. If you were aged between 13 and 19, you were eligible to enter the 2018 competition and show off your camera skills… and plenty of you did. Now we’ve picked

It may be a bit of a cliché, but the phrase ‘a picture is worth a thousand words’ perfectly sums up the photography of Michaela Skrovanova. Her images are full of emotion, beauty and drama, capturing in a brief moment what would take pages of words t

Perth-based photographer Chris Saunders has been judged the AIPPs 2018 Australian Professional Photographer Of The Year. He won the prestigious title with a portfolio of four abstract aerial landscape images which also earned him the title of 2018 AI

If you’re in the market for a full-35mm format mirrorless camera, you’re suddenly spoilt for choice. By mid-2019 there’ll be five major manufacturers all competing for your business. Here’s what Canon’s EOS R system has to offer… BODYSHELL: Magnes

We loved this picture when we first saw it back in the May/June issue and it still resonated with all our judges when it came to picking this year’s grand prize winner. A brief moment is captured beautifully by David Edwards who took this image with