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Current to 21 July: Exhibition. Street Photography 1930s – 1960s. Photographs drawn from private collections documenting Sydney’s busy streets shown alongside contemporary street photography by photo-media artist Anne Zahalka. At the Museum Of Sydney, corner Phillip and Bridge Streets, Sydney, NSW 2000. Gallery hours are 10.00am to 5.00pm daily. Admission fees apply. . For more information call (02) 9251 5988 or visit wwwsydneylivingmuseums.com.au Current to 25 August: Exhibition. Wildlife Photographer Of The Year. One hundred images from the finalists and winners in the 2018 edition of the world’s biggest wildlife photography competition. At the Australian National Maritime Museum, 2 Murray Street, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW 2000. Entry is $20 which includes admission to the museum’s permanent galleries. Museum hours are 9.30am to 5.00pm daily. For more information telephone (02) 9298…

Lens ‘exotica’ is very fashionable at the moment, but Tamron has opted for a more sober approach with its new A043 model zoom for the Canon EF and Nikon F mounts. It’s a 35-150mm f2.8-4.0 Di series (for full-35mm D-SLRs) zoom which spans medium wide-angle to short telephoto focal lengths, making it useful for a wide variety of applications. The versatility is enhanced by a compact and lightweight design, a weather-sealed external construction, built-in optical image stabilisation – claimed to give up to five stops of correction for camera shake – and a minimum focusing distance of 45 centimetres across the full focal range. The optical construction comprises 19 elements in 14 groups which includes three with low-dispersion characteristics to minimise chromatic aberrations and three hybrid aspherical types to correct…

In October last year I read a book, No Friend But The Mountains, written by one of the refugees on Manus Island, Behrouz Boochani, who is a Kurdish-Iranian journalist. A particular section where he described being photographed by the media made a significant impact on me. In this passage Boochani described how he felt as he crossed the tarmac to board a plane that would take him to Papua New Guinea, an act akin to running the gauntlet. “The airport on Christmas Island has become a studio for a photo shoot. It seems that they are waiting in ambush, waiting for the time they can see me helpless and fragile. They are waiting to make me a subject of their inquiry. They want to strike fear into people with the…

WITH ITS LONG HISTORY IN cinematography – making both film (which is how the company started) and lenses, it’s a bit of a surprise that Fujifilm has taken a while to get into gear with video in its X mount mirror-less cameras. But it really steps up to the plate with the X-T3 which is easily as accomplished a ‘hybrid’ video/still camera as the best from Panasonic or Sony. It looks a bit like Fujifilm went through the specs of the Lumix GH5 and decided to give the X-T3 the full works too. Soooo… the X-T3 shoots 4K Ultra HD (3840x2160 pixels) or Cinema 4K (4096x2160 pixels) at 60, 50, 30, 25 or 24 fps, using a 1.18x crop on the ‘APSC’ sensor. Significantly, at 60 or 50 fps, there’s…

IF YOU THOUGHT THE CAMERA market was competitive, it’s nothing compared to the huge range of brands and products available when it comes to things for carrying your cameras and lenses. Bags comes in a dizzying variety of styles – from fashionable to utilitarian – and photo backpacks in probably just as many designs and sizes. The reality for most working photographers is that no one bag or pack suits all applications so you’re going to end up with a few… perhaps an all-purpose shoulder bag or satchel, then something smaller for when you want to travel light, and a pack for taking gear to more remote or challenging locations. Backpacks also make a lot of sense when you need to carry a lot of equipment since they allow for…

The innovative Wine Country Cameras filter holder system is now being distributed in Australia by Blonde Robot which also handles Tamron lenses, B+W filters, Velbon tripods, Three Legged Thing tripods, Think Tank Photo camera bags and backpacks, and Peak Design accessories. The Wine Country Cameras filter system incorporates a number of convenience features, including a built-in circular polariser in the holder, and a ‘filter vault’ system to enable easier handling of 100 mm and 150mm filters. For more information visit www.blonde-robot.com.au…

At the time it unveiled its second RF mount mirrorless camera body, the EOS RP, Canon also revealed its plans for six new lenses all scheduled for launch sometime this year. The first of these, the RF 85mm f1.2L USM, arrives on the market about now, and is the first additional lens since Canon’s full-35mm mirrorless system made its debut in September 2018. The new 85mm f1.2 L series prime is designed to make the most of the mirrorless camera configuration, so its optical construction employs Canon’s new ‘Blue Spectrum Refractive Optics’ (BR) element – as introduced with the EF 35mm f1.4L II USM – which is designed to deliver, among other things, superior correction for chromatic aberrations. The BR optical element is located in the lens so that it…

The original Q has proved to be a big seller for Leica, combining many of the traditional values of a classic M camera with modern amenities such as autofocusing, an electronic viewfinder and programmed exposure control. The new Q2 model has the same Smilax 28mm f1.7 ASPH fixed wide-angle lens, but has a higher-resolution sensor, weather sealing, an OLED-type viewfinder and 4K video recording. The new full-35mm CMOS sensor has a total pixel count of 50.4 million (47.3 MP effective) and is claimed to deliver 13 stops of dynamic range. The maximum image size for both JPEGs and RAW files is 8368x5584 pixels. The sensitivity range is equivalent to ISO 50 to 50,000. The Q2 captures JPEGs in three sizes and RAW files in the DNG format with 14-bit RGB…

The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has announced the winning imaging products in its annual TIPA World Awards which covers 40 categories. The global group of photography magazines currently has 28 members – including our sister publication Australian Camera – from around the world including USA, Canada, Brazil, China, India, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Greece and the United Kingdom. The representatives of these publications recently convened in Bangkok to judge the short-listed products in this year’s awards. A sign of the times is that there was only one specific D-SLR category this year – as there was only one new eligible product –versus seven for mirrorless cameras. Consequently, a revising of the camera categories for 2019 sees them now defined by sensor size rather than body type. Perhaps not so…

Test images captured as JPEG/large/fine files with the Fujinon XF 16-55mm f2.8 R LM WR zoom (equivalent to 24-82.5mm) and XF 18-135mm f3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR zoom (equivalent to 27-202.5mm). Shutter-priority auto exposure control, multi-zone metering with the Vivid ‘Film Simulation’ profile. Best quality JPEGs exhibit excellent detailing and definition with a wide dynamic range and smooth tonal gradations. Colour saturation and sharpness are well maintained across the native sensitivity range with the image quality excellent up to ISO 6400 and still very acceptable at ISO 12,800.…

Type: Enthusiast-level/professional digital mirror-less camera with Fujifilm X bayonet lens mount. Focusing: TTL automatic hybrid system using both phase-difference detection and contrast-detection measurements with 425 measuring points (25x17 pattern) in total. Single-point (five sizes), zone (13x9, 7x7, 5x5 or 3x3 point clusters selected from 117 points) and wide/tracking modes. Five tracking scenarios plus a Custom setting (to adjust Tracking Sensitivity, Speed Tracking Sensitivity, Zone Area Switching). Face/eye detection with left/right priority. Manual switching between one-shot and continuous AF modes. AF+MF mode. Low-light assist via illuminator. Manual focus assist via magnified image, ‘Digital Split Image’ display (colour or B&W), ‘Digital Microprism’ or focus peaking display (white, red or blue; low or high levels). Sensitivity range is EV -3.0 - 18 (ISO 100). Metering: 256-point multi-zone, centre-weighted average, full average, spot and…