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Fujifilm Fujinon XF 56mm F1.2 R WR
Designed to pair perfectly with Fujifilm’s high-resolution cameras such as the X-H2 and X-T5, the XF 56mm F1.2 R WR provides a full-frame equivalent focal length of 85mm, which is a classic option favoured by portrait photographers. It has an f/1.2 m
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Canon EOS R6 Mark II
It’s only a little over two years since Canon introduced its original enthusiast-focused EOS R6, alongside the 45MP EOS R5. While its high-resolution sibling grabbed all the headlines, the more affordable model set about establishing itself as the re
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Unseen Saul Leiter
Most of us think of Saul Leiter as a street photographer. We probably know him for his stylish documentary of the atmosphere that existed in parts of the New York of the fifties and sixties. He did though spend much of his working life as a professio
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Viewpoint Rod Lawton
Where does the value lie in your photos? Does it lie with your unique ‘take’ on the world and your individual vision, or does it lie with the technical quality of your images? Most photographers would say you need both and might assume you can have y
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When Imagination Takes Flight
Andrew Fusek Peters is a wildlife and landscape photographer based in South Shropshire. His photos regularly appear in the national papers and magazines, and he is on commission to the National Trust documenting the wildlife on the Long Mynd. His boo
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Best Buys
IN ASSOCIATION WITH ● £399 ● www.olympus.co.uk Olympus’s Tough compacts have habitually won our underwater camera group tests, and this latest model is still the best of its type. It’s waterproof to 15m, shockproof against a 2.4m drop, crushproof and
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Bluetti EB3A Portable Power Station + PV200 Solar Panel
● £798 ● bluettipower.co.uk WHETHER for financial or environmental reasons, everyone is trying to be more careful with their energy consumption. Solar power is one way we can all harness some green energy, and the Bluetti EB3A Portable Power Station
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Reader Portfolio
About Thomas Thomas is primarily a landscape photographer, but also shoots occasion and wedding photographs. See thomasrossvincentphotography.mypixieset.com Favourite subjects I love to hike, so waterfalls are one of my favourites. You need to hik
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Professor Newman on… Grounded
Recently my eye has been caught by the appearance of a new lens, which seems to be quite a departure from the norm. The lens is the Voigtländer 50mm f/1.0 Nokton Aspherical, to give it it’s full title. Optically the design of this lens follows well-e
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Inbox
Write to the Editor at ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk and include your full postal address. Please don’t send letters in the post as there is no one in the office to receive them. Replies are from the Editor unless otherwise stated To print or not to print – the
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Final Analysis
There’s a word which is in use regularly today which, quite frankly, drives me up the wall.. That word is ‘backstory’. It is, sadly and annoyingly, a word often used when describing a photograph. It is particularly beloved of landscape photographers,
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Welcome
If it wasn’t for the fact that I’ve seen butterflies in real life, I’d probably think that they are mythical creatures from some fantasy realm, like unicorns. Around 60 species of butterfly can be found in the UK, from late March, as well as over 2,0
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Know Your Rights
How do you manage your images, and protect your copyright? Copyright is designed to protect your work so that you control who uses your images and, where applicable, get paid for your work. It’s worth noting that whilst copyright laws vary from count
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Bob Mortimer
Looking back at portrait shoots I did much earlier in my career, it’s interesting to see how my shooting style has changed over the years. Back in 2000, for example, when I photographed Bob Mortimer, I would have taken a range of equipment to the sho
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SECOND-HAND CLASSIC Sony Cyber-shot RX100 III
The Mark III version of Sony’s RX100 series arrived in June 2014 at a cost of £700. At first glance, it looked similar to the previous models, with the same pocket-friendly size. But it advanced in a few key areas, notably its lens, which covered a w
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Viewpoint Isabella Ruffatti
A lot of travel photography and videography today seems over-concerned with being aesthetically pleasing. You get a lot of extremely beautiful landscape pictures that don’t say much, the must-take photos of a historic building, and images that attemp
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The Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2023
Until 11 June The Photographers’ Gallery, London £8 / £5 concessions See photographersgallery.co.uk for full opening times Established in 1996 and organised in partnership with the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Frankfurt / Main since 2016,
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Amateur Photographer Of The Year
Experiencing cultures different from our own is exhilarating, and the sights and colours of new places provide almost endless inspiration for our photography. Distilling such experiences into a single image is a huge challenge, as it’s tempting to in
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It's Good To Share
Canon EOS 6D, 17-40mm F4L at 17mm, 10sec at f/4, ISO 1600 ‘The space-weather readings and clear skies meant that aurora was on the cards for many. I wanted to get some reflections and managed to get to my planned location in time for the main phase o
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Twenty For Travel
● £10-30 ● www.amazon.co.uk These little USB-powered chargers are incredibly useful for keeping spare batteries topped up during a day’s shooting. They’re available for almost every imaginable type of camera, and come in versions that accept one, two
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Complete Mirrorless Kits For Travel
What do you reckon is the most gut-wrenching, heart-breaking, clothes-rending decision a photographer will ever have to make? For our money, there’s only one candidate. ‘What cameras and lenses should I bring on holiday?’ You probably had one of two
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Vallerret Alta Arctic Mitt
● €129.95 (around £115) ● https://photographygloves.com/ THE ALTA Arctic Mitts are Vallerret’s warmest and heaviest duty gloves designed for photographers. They can be worn by themselves or over another pair of gloves. They’re designed for use in the
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Voigtländer Ultramatic
LAUNCHED 1961 PRICE AT LAUNCH £152 5s 9d (approx £152.28) GUIDE PRICE NOW £80-120 Shutter-priority automation is often thought to have started with electronic cameras in the mid-1970s. But here’s shutter priority, using a selenium cell meter, from mo
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The Art Of Travel
Since starting in 2003, Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) has become one of the most prestigious photography competitions in the world. For the most recently judged competition (2022), some 20,000 images were submitted from amateur and professi
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Final Analysis
I don’t know much about the countryside. The first 20 years of my life I lived by the seaside. For the last 30 I’ve lived in the city. The countryside makes me nervous. I don’t like being away from the blue and pink blink of neon lights. I find the c
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Flying With Camera Kit
Being able to explore a new location or country is an exciting opportunity for a photographer. But travelling can be stressful at the best of times. Factor in luggage allowances, getting through security and keeping your kit safe, and it can suddenly
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Inbox
I thought that your response to the letter from Michael Kane about expensive cameras (Inbox, 21 February) was a trifle harsh. After all, in these straitened times there must be fewer folk able to fork out the money for a new mirrorless camera plus le
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Travel Lighter
When we talk about the best kit for travel photography, we often laud how light and small something is. Carting around lots of lenses to cover off different travel subjects, never mind actually having to change those lenses while on the go and in the
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On The Road
Tom Svensson is an award-winning conservation photographer and an environmental influencer. See more at www.tomsvensson.se, Facebook @TomSvensson.conservationphotographer or @tomsvensson1 on Instagram Plan your trip thoroughly. This all comes down to
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Cape Crusade
Last November my wife and I spent two weeks in Cape Town, South Africa, on our first holiday since 2018. It wasn’t her first choice destination but, knowing me very well, and suspecting that Cape Town would be ludicrously photogenic, she agreed to go
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