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1. Master sharpness acutance and resolution Control bokeh and depth of field Correct with curves adjustments Print with a laser printer 1 Make the most of standard zoom len 12 95 INCL GST Panasonic Cm Fujifilm X100S Sony RX1 x Pentax MX 1 Plus 6 lenses bs 771445 90700 E Q What s your favourite colour A Now you have 100 choices Pentax Q 10 is an amazing camera now with an amazing choice of colours It s the world s smallest interchangeable lens camera Extraordinarily sharp with incredible image resolution even in big poster enlargements Now choose your colour on our website and you ll have your own custom colour camera in around 14 days Choose a body colour and a grip colour to make it your very own There s no other camera like Pentax Q 10 And now there s lO no Pentax 0 10 7 MAKE NO MISTAKE like yours LINE L Buy now at www pentax com au q10 From glass plates to Glass Making a wet plate negative is hard work First you have to make the collodion emulsion This entails dissolving cotton that has been treated with nitric and sulfuric acids in a solution of ether and alcohol while adding a few drops of nitric acid and a dozen grams of zinc bromide Next you prepare a separate solution of water alcohol and silver nitrate The two solutions are then combined and left to ripen overnight After ripening
2. hl lab iyi SIOE m ie LA Li TA Da AT t s DIM Hir Tim Griffith 2012 Architectural Photographer Of The Year Ry n Schembri 2012 Wedding Photographer Of The Year It has recently been suggested that of all the photographs ever taken in the world 10 were taken in the year 2012 So how do you stand out from this crowd Tell them you are a professional Show them you are a professional Demonstrate to them what a professional can do Accredited Make 2013 Professional the vear YOU Photographer y a Trained Educated and Skilled as Jo I n the Al P P a Professional Photographer www aipp com au Kelly Brown 2012 Creative Photographer Of The Year INSPIRATION Jaspher Roads Phoebe Ayla Kahlia Litzow and Grace Athanassiou L R interact with bubbles whilst waiting to see in the first dawn of 2013 Each year thousands of attendees of the Woodford Folk Festival gather on a hilltop to celebrate the New Year 26 PHOTOREVIEWAUSTRALIA Issue 56 T view com au m he INSPIRATION Alive and clicking Documentary photography is a threatened species but Lachlan Gardiner is a young practitioner who clearly has what it takes to breathe new life into this nu n gt i gt challenging field NI J 1 LE f 9 a a L m K s 4 7 AA u Y FP i A gt 4
3. PHOTOREVIE V AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au Daniel Doherty bootmaker Gulgong ON 4 Box 2 No 18220 This is an unusual image in the Holtermann Collection because the individuals have changed into their best clothes for a second exposure by the photographer Here bootmaker Daniel Doherty in waistcoat and white shirt with his daughter son and employees have dressed up for the American amp Australasian Photographic Company s operator Even the dog is posing An earlier photograph of the same scene in Herbert Street Gulgong with the same individuals and dog shows the participants looking more casual in their work clothes The man on the far right is the manager of Doherty s branch store at Home Rule Digital order no a2822166 Sam Hand s Boarding House 1872 CHARLES BAYLISS WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE ON 4 BOX 3 NO 18332 Sam Hand s boarding house was next to a butcher s shop in Home Rule According to the Gulgong Guardian 13 July 1872 The irrepressible Chinese have taken the lead in providing restaurants and are well patronised especially on Sunday when the patrons have to wait their turn outside The Gulgong Argus quoted in the Queanbeyan Age 4 January 1872 told the story of one Chinese boarding house owner being overrun by miners when he advertised roast beef pork turkey and goose for Christmas He needed 10 extra cooks to cater for the 200 who turned up The newspaper noted Five years ago J
4. and also a photographer noted On the face of Time to stock up on film Fujifilm and Kodak have flagged increases in the prices of their remaining film products with Kodak also discontinuing production of three slide films Fujifilm has announced a substantial rise in the price of Fujifilm photographic films effective from last April However there may be a delay before increases kick in in the US prices rise on July 1 providing a window in which customers can stock up No precise figure has been given but it is expected to be at least double digit in value In the US the increase has been set at approximately 20 percent across all film products including single use cameras This follows a 20 percent price rise implemented by the company in 2012 The Kodak films that will no longer be manufactured due to declining demand are E100VS E100G and Elite Chrome Extra Color 100 The company s intention to cease production of these films was announced roughly a year ago Kodak still produces Portra and Ektar colour negative films and Tri X T Max and BWAOOCN monochrome films The company PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au it the basis that people don t have an inherent right to privacy and can be photographed in a public place does not change HOWEVER if Somebody objects to having a photograph taken and is of the belief that the act of doing so is inappropriate or illegal regardless
5. RRPs range from about 25 to 100 depending on the size of the hood and what it is made from Theoretically there shouldn t be much price differential between plastic and aluminium hoods although in practice the former are more common and generally cheaper because of the perceived superiority of metal components In fact modern plastics are very robust and less likely to shatter or become dented when subjected to impact shock than lightweight metals Plastics are also less likely to show they cover a larger field of view which is more likely to include the sun Fish eye lenses are particularly vulnerable because hoods can t be fitted so most have built in hoods that are very short Accordingly manufacturers generally design them to be more flare resistant to bright light Sources Zoom lenses are usually more flare prone than prime lenses as they have more internal elements and multiple surfaces tend to produce more scattering Adding a filter can also produce flare particularly in the form of ghost images of bright lights Flare can also occur as a result of internal diffraction on an image sensor which acts like a diffraction grating due to its pixel structure Flare effects are sometimes introduced deliberately to add a sense of drama and realism to computer and video games 9 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au scratches than metals particularly when the latter are painted black Lens
6. most shooting conditions The VR II stabilisation proved capable in most situations Subjective evaluation suggested the review lens was also a competent performer However Imatest showed it failed to reach expectations for the camera s sensor across its focal length range This was probably inevitable as very few lenses of this type would be able to match the capabilities of a 24 megapixel image sensor Lateral chromatic aberration was generally low Full review at www photoreview com au SPECIFICATIONS Lens construction 19 elements in 14 groups including 3 aspherical lens elements and 3 ED lens elements Lens mounts Nikon F mount Minimum focus 45cm at 300mm focal length Dimensions Diameter x L 83 x 120mm distance from camera lens mount flange Weight Approx 830 grams AT A GLANCE A high power 16 7x zoom lens with built in vibration reduction for Nikon s DX DSLR cameras RATING out of 10 Build 8 5 gt Autofocusing 8 5 gt Versatility 9 0 ASP 1200 Distributor Nikon Australia 1300 366 499 www nikon com au gt Handling 8 0 gt Image quality 8 0 OVERALL 8 3 94 PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au 00 18 5 CX LENS 1 Nikkor 18 5mm f 1 8 Announced with the Nikon 1 V2 camera in October 2012 the 1 Nikkor 18 5mm f 1 8 provides an angle of view roughly equivalent to a 50mm lens on a 35mm camera Offered in silver
7. threads on the hood taking care to avoid touching the front element of the lens This should make it easier to remove next time released lenses to be included either as the sites don t appear to have been updated recently However you will find hood patterns for some very expensive fast tele lenses for which the hood RRPs are 300 or more Order online at www talubooks com or call 02 9948 8600 PHOTOREV IEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au m BUYERS GUIDE FX amp DX LENS AF S Nikkor 50mm f 1 8G The AF S Nikkor 50mm f 1 8G is designed for use with both FX and DX camera bodies covering an angle of view equivalent to 75mm on the latter It has no aperture ring so it s best used on a modern camera body Owners of Nikon s FX cameras will find its performance is worthy of consideration Only 72mm long and weighing 185 grams this lens is compact and light Build quality is generally good Nikon s Silent Wave Motor SWM drive ensures fast accurate and quiet autofocusing Two focus modes are provided distance scale M A autofocus with manual override and M manual Built in stabilisation is not provided Autofocusing was not particularly fast and resolution was highest at wide aperture settings with the highest figures around f 4 Lateral chromatic aberration was negligible Slight barrel distortion was detected but vignetting was barely noticeable Bokeh was variable but out of focus highli
8. 8 ASPH is the first and so far only standard zoom for a mirrorless camera system with a constant maximum aperture of f 2 8 Made from high quality polycarbonate on a metal frame it is dust and splash proof and includes internal focusing plus POWER OIS stabilisation Like the 35 100mm lens it takes 58mm filters which don t rotate during focusing It comes with a reversible petal shaped lens hood a soft storage pouch and front and end caps Imatest showed the review lens was capable of meeting expectations for the GH3 s sensor at all focal length settings Lateral chromatic aberration was negligible and distortion was relatively slight Correction for vignetting is optional and accessed via the shooting menu The M4 3 format reduces the background blurring potential by approximately two f stops compared with a 35mm camera But the wide f 2 8 maximum aperture produced attractive bokeh in close ups with the 35mm focal length The stabilisation system was very efficient Full review at www photoreview com au SPECIFICATIONS Lens construction 14 elements in 9 groups including 4 aspherical elements one UED lens and one UHR lens Lens mounts Micro Four Thirds Minimum focus 25cm Dimensions Diameter x L 67 6 x 3 8mm Weight 305 grams AT A GLANCE The fastest standard zoom lens available for Micro Four Thirds system cameras boasts effective image stabilisation plus dust and splash proof construction RATING out
9. Hood Designs All lens hoods must be designed to cover the field of view of the lens to which they are fitted Their shapes can vary from a simple cylinder or conical section like a traditional lamp shade to a complex petal or flower shaped hood Some hoods for wide angle lenses have cylindrical attachments but end in rectangular or square shapes In petal shaped hoods the longer petals are set to correspond with the longer axes of the image frame while the shorter petals match up with the shorter axes Between them are lowered areas that correspond to the corners of the frame and admit more light to prevent vignetting corner darkening Rectangular lens hoods have a shape that closely matches the image frame shape Best suited to wide angle prime lenses they can be longer than circular lens hoods without blocking the angle of view or causing vignetting A few third party manufacturers produce adjustable hoods with a bellows like design usually made from rubber They are generally conical in Shape and attach to the lens via the filter thread Users can extend the bellows for longer focal length lenses and reduce it with wider angles of view Although not precisely matched to any particular lens this can be an option if used carefully which means checking that the hood doesn t become visible in the frame by stopping the lens down An example of an image affected by flare Note the loss of contrast and
10. Matching page to access the profile settings Select Driver Matching Mode from the top menu then check the Application Colour Matching Priority button For the Matching Method Accessing the profile settings in the driver for the Canon LBP7200Cdn HOT 24 Mordor Canon Beth Batch Came Sem LDE Riata og UE RGB Canon driver profile The profile settings in the driver for the FujiXerox DocuPrint CP205 44 PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au E Samsung Easy Color Manager Standard Profile Samsung RGB RGE Pure Black ro Not Applied Hot Appbed Input 1 RGB RGB Source Profile Samsung RGB RGB Pure Black Output Rendering Intents Relative Colorimetric Color Adjustment 3 choose Perceptual Monitor Colour Matched Opening the Monitor Profile drop down menu allows you to select your monitor profile It s more difficult to use ICC profiles with the Samsung CLP 680DW because while there s limited profile support in the Standard printing mode it is blocked for the Photo printing mode which seems counter intuitive Profile access is also difficult to locate in the printer driver even in the Advanced section The driver is set to block access when it perceives a conflict in settings as shown in the screen grab Samsung s Easy Colour Manager software which has to be downloaded from the company s website and the
11. ON 4 BOX 8 NO 18821 The American and Australasian Photographic Company established a studio in Tambaroora Street Hill End in 1872 Beaufoy Merlin s assistant Charles Bayliss stands hands in pockets in the doorway with studio operator James Clinton behind him Beside the door is a frame containing large photographic views of Sydney including the General Post Office and harbour Among the group of curious miners who have chosen to be part of the tableau is the driver of Merlin s outdoor photographic van to Bayliss s immediate right The miners could also have their portrait made in the studio and a standard carte de visite is visible in the window above the boy For the sartorially challenged the A amp A studio supplied suitable clothing Digital order no a2822709 6 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 50 www photoreview com au k E ES EJ Ld We re in the NSW State Library s climate controlled archives The low ceilinged secure room is filled with row upon row of chest high cabinets containing the State Library s collection of some 1 5 million photographs Alan Davies Curator of Photography for the Library is standing next to a single wooden case that looks big enough to hold a stack of largish flat screen TVs However inside this particular case there are a number of immense glass plate negatives dating from the 1870s Measuring 900mm x 1600mm 19th Century glass plate negatives of this size are ex
12. PA r f k h h le Packe Thus LI thie w 7 M f 7 A dde i e f LI ee Di lt ta DV OLT V a PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au 0 j INSPIRATION Gresham Brown a Brisbane Indigenous Elder raises him arms in protest whilst partaking in the 2011 Brisbane Invasion Day march which is the alternative Indigenous observance of Australia Day How did you first become interested in photography After finishing high school on the Sunshine Coast in 2006 had no intention of becoming a photographer was accepted into a Bachelor of Engineering but decided to defer that and bought a one way ticket to New Zealand Before left my mum bought me an almost SLR which was my introduction to using a camera beyond auto mode stayed in NZ for about a year worked in the cycling industry and enjoyed taking travel photos After returning the engineering studies didn t excite me any more so hunted around and discovered the Bachelor of Photography at Griffith University s Queensland College of Art moved to Brisbane and really didn t know what was getting myself into just thought it would be fun and creative soon discovered visual storytelling and developed a social conscience through doing the documentary and photojournalism side of things After four years graduated in 2012 with a Bache
13. Unsharp masking at the editing stage increases image sharpness by boosting acutance edge sharpness detail is present However applying noise reduction processing will often soften image details Careful judgment is required when applying noise reduction processing to shots captured at high ISO settings Sharpness is also influenced by viewing distances Images can look quite sharp when viewed from several metres away yet have relatively low resolution when viewed close up This can have a bearing on the amount of post capture sharpening the image can tolerate before it begins to look artificially sharpened Post Capture Sharpening All digital images are slightly unsharp because of the way colour photographs are captured The Bayer filter in front of the sensor produces red green and blue signals that must be combined by interpolation to produce the colour image This reduces image sharpness Although many cameras allow photographers to apply sharpness processing to JPEG files immediately after they are captured and some do it by default we counsel against it because you have very little control over the type and degree of sharpening applied It s better to sharpen when the image file is edited Minor softening from Bayer interpolation is easily corrected with unsharp masking The process works by boosting contrast differences along edges in the image thereby increasing acutance The image looks sharper as a result Unsha
14. against rain spray and dust although lenses that aren t weather resistant shouldn t be exposed to the former While some people attach UV filters to protect the front elements of their lenses it s actually better to use a lens hood Unless they are made of very high quality glass and properly fitted filters can degrade image quality They may also produce ghosting with some bright light sources due to reflections between the internal surface of the filter and the outer surface of the front element of the lens Unfortunately lens hoods are often under valued even by professional photographers They take time to fit add length and weight to PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au al A typical cylindrical hood for an 85mm prime lens A longer petal shaped hood for a 70 200mm tele zoom lens TIPS BUYING A typical rubber lens hood the length of which is adjustable by pulling out or pushing in the ribbed cylindrical section A short petal shaped hood for a 35mm wide angle lens R ET 10 5mm Et ge WEM I Nikon m HEYE Wis Ffig A typical fisheye lens has a very short hood that is permanently attached Source Nikon About Lens Flare Light reflected back from the glass air surfaces of each lens element and scattered due to irregularities in the glass causes a loss of contrast and colour saturation and visible artefacts in images produc
15. amp A PHOTOGRAPHIC CO WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE ON 4 BOX 9 NO 18830 Hill End s streets were said to be kept with an indifference to utility that would drive Macattam out The road directly in front of William Meare s Criterion Store on the left covered a test hol sunk by a an early prospector and this hole subsided in the winter of 1872 to form a bog The Sydney P e k ig Herald 12 September 1872 described the scene As regards the mud in Clark street never have heard an exaggeration No to Clark street wilkgive the palm for mud and p ill manner itis 2 m It possesses three remarkable features being narrow crooked and filthy Digital order no a2822718 M PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au Australia s single most important collection of 19th Century photographic images spent 80 years in a Chatswood garden shed By Don Norris T i fo 3 s e TuS i n i VIP h w vs Am m Be need 7 Dt Pao fi ai ag lt a Agee EST a E Pi INSPIRATION 1 ET gea rc a dh ua N a Pi 1 m 7 mm i Ae a_i a Pei ee aL 4 saan EX it I e T mai ye X dicum e wn n s The A amp A Photographic Company 1872 A amp A PHOTOGRAPHIC CO WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE
16. be made by clicking on a point on the curve and entering numerical values in the Input and Output text boxes Alternatively you can select the pencil icon and draw a new curve over the existing one To even out irregularities click the Smooth the Curve Values icon to smooth the curve you drew Dragging a control point left or right increases or decreases the contrast in the selected tonal area The image we ve chosen is rather flat so we will boost the contrast in the middle tones by dragging the mid tone point circled to the left Adding points as you go allows you to make subtle adjustments to brightness and contrast and turn a flat uninteresting image into one with the tonal range you wish to present to viewers 40 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au with S B A Curves mm 7r CED Preset Delauh Tae Preview The Curves dialog box A B moo F G H I J K Curves presets dropdown menu Channel selector The Curves adjustment can also be applied to CMYK LAB or Greyscale images For CMYK images the graph displays percentages of ink pigment For LAB and Greyscale images the graph displays light values Edit points to modify the curve The output levels axis The black point The input levels axis Sample in image to set black point Sample in image to set grey point Sample in image to set white point Set grey point The
17. best bokeh appears when the subject of the photograph dominates and the bokeh literally retreats into the background and is unobtrusive When the blurred background elements take your eyes away from the subject of the photograph the bokeh is classed as poor There are a couple of ways to minimise the influence of potentially unattractive bokeh Filling the frame with the subject is the most straightforward You can also change your shooting angle to ensure bright highlights are excluded from the background because large contrast differences can make the bokeh appear choppy Bokeh and Lens Design To understand bokeh you need to know a little about how images are formed so this section will be a bit technical Each picture element pixel is generated when the beams of light passing through the lens aperture combine to form a light cone The base of this cone is the lens aperture which can be adjusted to produce exit pupils of different areas When the apex point of the cone falls upon a pixel in the sensor the image is focused when it falls short of or beyond the sensor it is out of focus The diameter of the cone of light at the point where it becomes a disk instead of a point is known as the circle of confusion or blur circle An example of attractive bokeh Note the smooth tonal transitions in the blurred background areas that enable the viewer s eyes to concentrate on the main subject 70 300mm f 4 5
18. black and white it is currently the lightest lens in the 1 Nikkor line up The non reversible HB N104 hood is an optional accessory that will cost you roughly 30 Despite its light weight and small size this lens is nicely constructed with a sturdy metal mounting plate that meshes well with the V2 body Manual focusing is via the ring around the arrow pad A vertical distance scale is displayed on the monitor or in the EVF The review lens delivered sharp contrasty images for stills and movies and met expectations in our Imatest tests Diffraction reduced resolution at f 11 Lateral chromatic aberration was generally low Autofocusing was fast and silent in most situations Flare was generally well controlled and bokeh good for a lens of this type Full review at www photoreview com au SPECIFICATIONS Lens construction 8 elements in 6 groups including 1 aspherical lens element Lens mounts Nikon CX Minimum focus 20cm Dimensions Diameter x L 56 x 36 mm distance from camera lens mount flange Weight Approx O grams AT A GLANCE A fast prime lens with a standard angle of view for Nikon 1 cameras RATING out of 10 Build 8 5 gt Handling 8 5 gt Image quality 8 8 OVERALL 8 5 gt Autofocusing 8 5 gt Versatility 8 0 RRP 235 Distributor Nikon Australia 1300 366 499 www nikon com au M4 3 LENS Panasonic Lumix G X Vario 12 3bmm f 2 8 ASPH The Lumix G X Vario 12 35mm f 2
19. business with my partner who studied with me through the bachelor and honours Photojournalistic skills transfer very well to weddings because it s basically all about storytelling l ve also shot a lot of event and portraiture work for various companies and organisations architecture for a construction company sport When you re starting out you have to take any opportunity you can get gt To see more of Lachlan Gardiner s documentary photography visit www lachlangardiner com d opr is x tute Or eo A O CELEBRATING 50 YEARS P dd un AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF n PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY m 0 Q N In 2013 the AIPP celebrates 50 years 50 years as the membership organisation of choice for professional photographers The world we live in has changed drastically during the last 50 years Photography has changed radically in the last 50 years and the AIPP has adapted to keep up with these changes Throughout the last 50 years the AIPP has always represented the best interests of its members and the professional photography community Why not make 2013 the year you join the AIPP Together we can be stronger As an added incentive to help us celebrate 50 years if you join the AIPP in 2013 either as an Accredited Professional Photographer or an Emerging member we will give you a 50 voucher which you can use to reduce the cost of attending any AIPP event semin
20. compositions as much as can But that style doesn t always suit the story and make an effort to shoot a story in a style that suits it which can be challenging at times For example with the work l ve been doing recently with war veterans It s a quiet reflective and often traumatic atmosphere try to respect and adapt to that What gear do you use l ve had Canon gear all the way through for no particular reason It works well and they have a good range to choose from I ve had an EOS 50D and currently have a 1D Mark Ill and 5D Mark Ill prefer to use prime lenses because it forces me to think more about composition and to change perspective and position use 24mm 50mm 85mm 135mm whatever own or can get my hands on at the time Black and white used to be almost standard for documentary photography but you obviously prefer colour feel that black and white still has its place but for my generation unless you have a strong and well considered reason for shooting in black and white colour should be the default PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au 0 A surfer watches the within in the Noosa For me a lot of emotion mood extra information and data and depth to the story can be added through colour do sometimes use black and white for commercial work where there s a need or expectation l ve started up Ginger and Spice a separate wedding and portraiture
21. gt ALD m x PE 0 E a SUR r 8 sw f d i gt I n i r E 7 DA an B E y i x v P IN gt VS gt O 2 gt L 9 a EW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 PHOTON al strive for colourful dynamic compositions as much as can But that style doesn t always suit the story photography photojournalism and documentary and through all of those there s an element that covers the morals the expectations the politics the historical aspects However to a degree you re left to find your own voice as a storyteller To be ethically comfortable with what you are producing is always a challenge learnt that having an understanding of the sociological historical and political foundations to any story or issue is of vital importance Were you expected to do a lot of assignments and come up with ideas for photo essays Quite a lot A story close to my heart is Fifteen Years to Jericho about Bill a homeless man who lives at the end of my street l d chatted to him over the years and working with him became part of my third year graduate project tried to focus on Bill as a person instead of photographing an issue that needs fixing also did an essay on horse racing called Sport of Kings l d never been to the races and had an
22. in sharpness or brightness between one side of the shapes and the other or if you can see outlining of the shapes the bokeh is inferior Practice looking for bokeh when you re watching TV or viewing movies The shapes of the blur circles can tell you a lot about both the bokeh of the lens and the type of lens that was used The best bokeh comes when all the blur circles blend together attractively When they appear as regular polygons the number of points corresponds to the number of blades in the iris diaphragm Note odd numbers of blades can produce twice as many points as the number of blades while even numbers of blades always produce the same number of points If the blur circles are circular around the centre of the frame but oval towards the edges the scene was probably shot at full aperture If they are vertical ovals roughly twice as tall as they are wide it was shot with an anamorphic lens for cinemascope projection SUBSCRIBE AND SAVE Have Photo Review magazine delivered to your door for just 39 per year 4UN AUG 2013 I HOELEN That s Wilq EL GAUNT 5 the North K KIMBER t and Dark LAN a Alive and Clickin PRE GOM The Holtermann Collecti 0 HOW ro sharp Pictures Image HDR E It or lose it S the good oil Master I l E 7 REVIEWS Panasonic GH3 F Penta Ujifilm IT else mW Sony gy S Photo Review Pocket Guides Print
23. of shooting conditions effectively Autofocusing was quite fast and very accurate for a camera with a contrast based AF system Imatest showed colour accuracy to be generally good with JPEG files and saturation was only slightly boosted in the warmer hues Resolution came close to expectations with JPEG files and slightly exceeded them for ARW RAW files It also held up well across most of the camera s ISO range Long exposures at night contained plenty of detail up to ISO 6400 with slight softening becoming evident at ISO 12 800 Auto white balance performance was similar to the SLT A99 with a slight orange cast remaining under incandescent lights but close to neutral colours in fluorescent lighting Plenty of in camera corrections are provided The fixed 35mm focal length and AF limitations make it difficult to record video clips that are as engaging as those from one of Sony s SLT cameras with a zoom lens Engaging the SteadyShot digital stabilisation also changes the camera s field of view Video quality can best be classed as adequate but clips recorded in the MP4 1440 mode were vertically distorted Soundtracks were clear and few operational noises were picked up The review camera powered up in approximately 1 5 seconds Capture lag averaged 0 25 seconds but was eliminated with pre focusing Shot to shot times averaged 0 9 seconds without flash and 5 6 seconds with It took roughly a second to process JPEG or ARW RAW
24. of whether it is or not then the photographer may find themselves in court charged with a one shoe fits all type of charge such as disorderly behaviour and found guilty Think about the implications of that particularly if you are a street or documentary photographer The Arts Law Council http www artslaw com au has some useful Fact Sheets on photographers rights In short it states It is generally possible to take photographs in a public place without asking permission This extends to taking photographs of buildings sites and people There are however some limitations There are no publicity or personality rights in Australia and there is no right to privacy that protects a person s image Existing privacy laws are more concerned with storage and management of personal information and are of limited relevance to the present issue You will still be able to buy Portra but you will pay more will be increasing the price of all its films by 15 percent although no date has been provided for the price increase Both companies attribute the changes to a falling demand for film products coupled with increasing costs for raw materials and energy Photo Review readers buy everywhere and often Photo Review s recent reader survey was well supported by subscribers with the size of the survey group 5 percent of the magazine s circulation around 1096 of subscribers providing a realistic insight into the b
25. of 10 Build 9 0 gt Image quality 9 0 gt OVERALL 8 5 RRP 1599 Distributor Panasonic Australia 132 600 WWW panasonic com au gt Handling 8 5 Versatility 8 8 M4 3 LENS Panasonic Lumix G X Vario 35 100mm f 2 8 Panasonic s Lumix G X VARIO 35 100mm f 2 8 POWER OIS lens is a companion to the Lumix G X Vario 12 35mm f 2 8 ASPH lens and with it makes up the prestige lens kit for the GH3 Splash and dust resistant it is compact for its build quality and optical design and ideal for portraiture sports and wildlife photography Internal focusing is driven by a stepping motor making it smooth and silent POWER OIS stabilisation provides roughly three f stops of shake compensation The review lens produced sharp images and movie clips Imatest showed it could meet expectations for the GH3 s sensor at all focal length settings Lateral chromatic aberration was negligible and distortion was barely perceptible We found slight vignetting at 35mm and 100mm at f 2 8 but not at f 3 5 Traces of veiling flare were seen in some strongly backlit shots but they didn t compromise picture quality Subject isolation was easy to achieve with wide aperture settings and bokeh was generally attractive Full review at www photoreview com au SPECIFICATIONS Lens construction 18 elements in 13 groups including two ED lenses and one UED lens Lens mounts Micro Four Thirds Minimum focus 85cm Dimensions Diame
26. quite difficult to define precisely because it s based on subjective evaluations which are influenced by the contrast along edges in a photo This characteristic is known as acutance We judge an image to be sharp when the edge contrast differences we see are relatively large While any photographer can recognise a sharp image we often disagree about how sharp that image is Different individuals perceive sharpness differently and each person will make a different assessment of the sharpness of an image at different times Perception may be more acute first thing in the morning before the eyes become tired or in the middle of the day when the brain eye interface is at its most efficient Assessments can also be biased by the evaluator s pre An example of a subject and treatment wide angle of lens that viewers would expect to be sharp edge to edge conceptions We all know instances of people who have rated large and medium format prints higher than prints from cameras with 36 x 24mm or smaller imaging areas when that may not be the case Sharpness also varies with different subjects as do our expectations of what should appear sharp We generally expect landscapes and shots of buildings to be sharp edge to edge but are much more forgiving for portraits and close ups Soft unsharp images can be aesthetically satisfying in many cases and images in which only part of the frame is sharp can be pleasing to many
27. settling on the digital revolution are we travelling back to the future Our Issue 54 Challenge My Nightworld attracted so many inspired entries we ve devoted an extended picture spread to a selection of them CONTENTS t Editor a Don Norris 4 dnorris photoreview com au Technical Editor t E Margaret Brown s mbrown photoreview com au 47 Making the Most of Ei fu Trade News Editor Keith Shipton Sta n d a rd Zoo m Le nses keiths photoreview com au Sony Cyber shot DSC RX1 Contributor Steve Packer We begin a new series on lens types by looking at standard kit zooms Creative Director 51 The Value of Lens Hoods ADVANCED COMPACT ILC ANG Why you should always fit a lens hood David O Sullivan and how to make your own when 56 Panason IC LU m IX dosullivan photoreview com au Publication Manager necessary DM C G H 3 Pauline Shuttleworth pshuttleworth photoreview com au A durable Micro Four Thirds camera Accounts Manager for enthusiasts who require versatility Kate Addison performance and creative controls for mpaccounts photoreview com au shooting stills and movie clips Media Releases 54 Nikkor AF S 50mm edmail photoreview com au Advertising ss ADVANCED COMPACT FIXED LENS SS 54 Nikkor AF S DX 18 Subscriptions 300mm F 3 5 5 6G 57 Fujifilm X100S inn GST and celer ED VR 58 Sony Cyber Shot RX1 See page 37 this issue or 7 phone 02 9948 860
28. smooth and attractive Full review at www photoreview com au SPECIFICATIONS Lens construction 15 elements in 12 groups including 2 aspherical and 2 UD elements Lens mounts Canon EF Minimum focus 20cm in normal range 1 5cm in macro mode Dimensions Diameter x L 83 4 x 93mm Weight Approx 600 grams AT A GLANCE Built in stabilisation and a macro mode are featured in this lighter less expensive alternative to the EF 24 Omm f 2 8L USM lens RATING out of 10 Build 9 0 gt Image quality 8 8 OVERALL 8 8 RRP 1949 Distributor Canon Australia 1800 O21 167 www canon com au gt Handling 8 8 gt Versatility 8 8 PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au iH BUYERS GUIDE SPECIFICATIONS Image sensor 17 3 x 13 0mm Live MOS sensor with 17 2 million photosites 16 05 megapixels effective Lens mount Micro Four Thirds Image formats Stills RW2 RAW JPEG Exif 2 3 RAW JPEG Movies AVCHD progressive AVCHD MP4 MOV with stereo audio 3D MPO Max Image Sizes Stills 4 3 4608 x 3456 3 2 4608 x 3072 16 9 4608 x 2592 1 1 3456 x 3456 Movie options 1920x1080 at 50p 50i 25p 1280x720 at 50p 25p 640x480 at 25p Focus system TTL contrast detection system with 23 AF points One area AF Pinpoint touch focus selection supported face detection AF Tracking Power supply DMW BLF19E rechargeable lithium ion battery CIPA rated for approx 540 shots charg
29. that there would be a total decline in the camera market of 1196 in 2013 with compacts dropping 18 and interchangeables DSLR and mirrorless up 12 However three months into 2013 something is seriously wrong According to CIPA overall Jan March camera shipments are down to 57 of 2012 Jan March levels in volume Half as many digital compacts were shipped this Jan March compared to 2012 Jan March which is smaller camera and lens systems haven t captured the imagination of the more committed photo enthusiast at this stage See story below on mirrorless interchangeable shipments When it comes to printing their photos there s an even split between those who print photos at home and those who print at a digital lab But it s not an either or situation survey respondents were able to nominate more than one printing preference and it s clear that many of the respondents print both at home and in a store What they don t do much of is use online printing services only 16 nominated online printing as a preference However almost one quarter use an A3 printer Imagine how many more might consider using an A3 printer if they were more readily available for some reason Australian photo retailers haven t supported this marvellous enabling technology very well When it comes to purchase intentions Photo Review readers are what you might call high value individuals as far as the photo companies are concerned Sixty p
30. viewers eyes You can read more about the importance of bokeh the quality of the blurring in unsharp areas in an image in the special feature on pages 36 38 Whereas perceived sharpness is a combination of resolution and acutance only one of these parameters can be adjusted by photographers Captured resolution is defined by the sensor lens and focus in the image and can t be changed But acutance can be adjusted in post capture processing People tend to judge images with higher acutance as being sharper even though this is not necessarily associated with higher resolution By increasing tonal differences along edges in an image we can make it appear sharper even though the actual resolution of the image may be reduced This is how unsharp masking works See right Resolution defines the amount of detail in an image regardless of how it was captured Of the three qualities we re looking at resolution is the only one that is quantifiable measurable Resolution can be measured in several ways The most common method when assessing lenses is to look at how well the capture device camera lens can separate closely spaced lines Tests of spatial resolution record the number of line pairs each consisting of one J PHOTOREVIE V AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au High acutance Step x The diagrams above show the differences in hish and low acutance In images with high acutance the transitions between contr
31. white point TIPS EDITING Three Cierny Cures Capi Dptiona Thom UAM 288 T gj god 8 ca i Moving the arrows on the input levels axis circled in red in to meet the ends of the image s tonal graph increases the overall contrast in the image To lighten highlights move a point near the top of the curve upwards Dragging the mid tone point circled to the left increases contrast in the middle Moving it down will darken them tones without affecting the highlights or shadows The inset Curves graph shows how control points have been added to enable the contrast in the shadow areas to be increased slightly while the contrast in the lighter mid tones is reduced to emphasise the misty atmosphere in the scene PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au TIPS OUTPUT Printing Photos Margaret Brown with a Laser Printer How to get good looking photo prints from a colour laser printer Conventional wisdom says laser printers shouldn t be able to produce decent looking photo prints After all they use only four colours and they re designed for productivity not reproducing tonal nuances But when needed a couple of prints in a hurry and my monitors weren t profiled a colour laser printer was at hand and switched on so decided to use it To my surprise it delivered photo prints that were good enough to surprise friends and colleagues with
32. www photoreview com au Panasonic Lumix Performance Our Imatest testing was carried out with the 12 35mm f 2 8 lens Raw files were converted with Adobe Camera Raw rather than the inferior Silkpix based bundled software Resolution performance matched subjective assessments of test shots across the camera s ISO range Both JPEGs and RW2 RAW files exceeded expectations for a 16 megapixel camera with the raw files producing higher figures in the tests Long exposures taken in dim lighting showed little visible noise right up to ISO 6400 even without noise reduction processing Colour accuracy was maintained at high ISO settings Noise became evident by ISO 12 800 and obvious at ISO 25 600 Flash exposures were evenly balanced throughout the camera s ISO range and colour reproduction was reasonably faithful at settings up to ISO 3200 when the influence of ambient lighting could be seen and images were a little soft Auto white balance performance was similar to the Gd s Autofocusing was very fast and hunting was minimal in low light levels Focus tracking was also efficient both when capturing bursts of shots of moving subjects and while recording movie clips Video quality was excellent in all movie formats Soundtracks were clear and free of extraneous noise thanks to the use of power zoom lenses The wind filter did a reasonably good job of suppressing wind noise The review camera powered up almost instantaneously and
33. your emulsion should have creamy consistency that means it s ready to be washed But before you can wash it you ll need to tip it into a dish to let the solvents evaporate off Once that happens you wash the now gelatinous material with water and then alcohol before finally re dissolving it in a mixture of ether and alcohol Photography in the 19th Century wasn t about taking a photograph it was making a photograph Alan Davies Curator of Photography for the NSW State Library Just before you want to take a photograph you retire to your darkroom or dark tent if you re in the field to coat your plate The process entails pouring an amount of the emulsion on to a glass plate which you then carefully tilt back and forth to achieve an even coating The final step before exposure is to dip your still wet plate into a container filled with silver nitrate solution so that your plate will become light sensitive With your wet plate loaded in the camera some dripping is normal you tell your subject to remain absolutely still as you remove the lens cap for a 5 to 30 second exposure A competent wet plate photographer could capture around 20 images a day but real pros like Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss whose work appears in Pure Gold The Holtermann Collection starting on page 14 could produce an astonishing 70 to 100 negatives in a single day s work Convoluted and complex as the wet plate process was it could be s
34. 0 or online 5A Nikkor ql 18 5mm f 1 8 60 Fujifilm X 20 www photoreview com au Photo Review Australia is printed on 55 Panasonic Lumix G X 60 Pentax MX 1 Pacesetter Satin Paper with ISO 14001 Environmental Accreditation Va rio 12 35m m f 2 8 2 Printed by Pegasus Print Group ASPH 6 Image Review Design by Cirasa Design Don s critique of Photo Review hello cirasadesign com au 55 Pa nason IC LU m IX Va rio G readers images Distributed by Network Services X 35 100m m f 2 8 All content in Photo Review Australia is protected under copyright and cannot 55 Canon EF f 4L IS USM be reproduced in any form without written consent from the publisher Photo Review Australia is 64 Net Effect published by Another healthy handful of websites to M DOA fascinate and educate the photo enthusiast PUBLISHING Media Publishing Pty Limited ABN 86 099 172 577 PO Box 4097 Balgowlah Heights NSW Australia 2093 Ph 02 9948 8600 AS NE Cover image b Em edmail mediapublishing com au y www mediapublishing com au Lachlan Gardiner www photoreview com au See page 26 Alive and Clicking ontro Pentax MX 1 Imagine More otto 2 camera insert FOR YOUR CAMERA There s been a lively debate on the rights and wrongs of street photography following the charging and conviction of a photographer for taking street snaps last New Years Eve in Perth He was charged with disorderly behaviour causing offence by
35. 5 6 lens at 300mm f 5 6 on a full frame camera body Filling the frame with the subject can minimise the influence of the background particularly when the subject is five metres or more in front of the background 75 300mm f 4 8 6 7 lens at 171mm f 8 on an M4 3 camera It is almost impossible to achieve attractive background blurring when you shoot with a small sensor digicam even though the lens can focus very close to the subject bmm focal length f 3 3 i x k 1 M o 4 i W bokeh seen in this image Even though the subject was many metres in front of the tree behind the contrasty background could not be defocused enough at the aperture used to produce smooth Outlining of the blur circles can indicate the lens suffers from longitudinal chromatic aberration bokeh 75 300mm lens at 210mm f 5 6 on 24 105mm f 4 lens at f 4 73mm focal length camera with an APS C sized sensor PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au dg Catadioptric mirror lenses are often criticised because they can produce donut shaped highlights in out of focus backgrounds 500mm f 8 reflex mirror lens In a perfect lens blur circles should have sharp edges and even illumination Real lenses are never perfect although some can come close Spherical aberration will cause light to be unevenly distributed within the cone and produce different intensity across the circle and when attempts are made to
36. AW and JPEG files The highest resolution was achieved at around f 4 Little noise was visible in shots taken at ISO settings up to ISO 800 Lateral chromatic aberration was negligible Camera response times have also improved X Full i Image sensor 8 8 x 6 6mm X Trans CMOS II sensor with 12 megapixels effective Lens Fujinon 7 1 28 4mm f 2 2 8 lens 28 112mm in 35mm format Zoom ratio 4x optical approx 2x digital Dimensions wxhxd 117 0 x 69 6 x 56 8mm Weight Approx 333 grams without battery and card Photography Ebooks Convenient quick reference guides to better photography Head on iPad Kindle tablets iPhone smartphones Photo Revi Landscape Photography 2 Nature Photography Fully illustrated guide to superb images of the natural environment 8 chapters 69 images 2 Landscape Photography Trusted tips and advice on how to improve your landscape photography 12 chapters 56 images A Ken Duncan Inspirational Hope 24 stunning panoramic images inspirational quotes and related stories We Mastering Digital Photography A New Zealand Guide to the best photo locations on the north and south islands of NZ 30 locations 168 images A Mastering Digital Photography Everything you need to master the fundamentals of digital photography 10 chapters 109 images 1 SLR POCKET GUIDE iz k 2 Travel Photography Easy to follow guide to the bas
37. James Balog started a project to document the changes to the world s glaciers 28 solar powered DSLRs are set up at 13 glaciers around the world Each unit records an image every half hour and Balog has transformed the imagery into a dazzling and sobering feature length film called Chasing Ice the trailer for which is on the website 64 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au One for the DIY ers gt bit ly pr56ne3 DIYPhotography net is a bit of a grab bag In addition to DIY projects such as building a softbox from common household items the site features cheat sheets how tos tutorials and product reviews of the sort you won t find just anywhere like using a game controller to speed through your image culling chores esr n arm d g Bottoms up gt bit ly 10N47xM Christopher Jonassen s photo essay entitled Devour consists exclusively of pictures of the bottoms of fry pans Scroll through and admire the beautiful results of his simple idea 4 Floating concrete from three parts sand two parts cement PIN TURES UNDER DISCUSSION Na AE BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL oy FOTO BIENNALE X image O Tony Hewitt P coca Le www ballaratfoto org La i EI LI pr L media partner b n l REG AUSTRALIA TOURIS B
38. NGE The woman is looking out to sea hoping to see the ship return or maybe she s turned her back as it s all too much to bear HMAS Sydney Il memorial in Geraldton WA gt Honourable Mention Untitled by Andy Parkee When my sons are getting ready to sleep our dog Rocco will jump up on their beds look out the window and give any passing dog or cat a good barking at Here Rocco monitors the street after some rainfall 10 PHOTOREVIE V AUSTRALIA Issue DO www photoreview com au This photo was taken whilst camping near Steep Point Western Australia exposed for the sky and filled in the foreground from various points with my LED torch Couldn t control the weather but my trusty little Panasonic FT3 weathered the wild storm found this alley the other day when had to drop my motorbike off for repairs and walked to work It got me inspired to show a different side of Maroochydore PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA issue bb www photoreview com au f TAKE THE NEXT PHOTO REVIEW CHALLENGE Wildlife We re casting the net widely for our next challenge Your task is to capture a denizen of the natural world engaged in some interesting activity A denizen may be anything undomesticated that is bigger than an insect Activity means just that engaged in some behaviour as opposed to perching sitting reclining or otherwise resting It isn t absolutely essential that your subject be native to Austral
39. Queensland Mounted Police stables west of Brisbane also enjoy photographing Indigenous communities in Brisbane and rural Australia What about your Woodford Folk Festival photos You seem to have an intimate connection with that I ve been to five festivals and been a volunteer at the last three It s visually and culturally very vibrant and set in a beautiful location so each year take my camera and keep adding to a growing collection of photos INSPIRATION Opposite page Top A patron lies on the sidewalk after tripping whilst leaving the Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane Bottom left A punter inspects the horses before a race at the Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane Bottom right A group of Patrons brave the rain to cheer the final race of the day at the Eagle Farm Racecourse in Brisbane An afternoon storm put an early stop to the day s proceedings PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au J INSPIRATION prefer to use prime lenses because it forces me to think more about composition Do you think you have an individual style as a documentary photographer Like anyone know have to strive to develop a point of difference and I m not sure I ve fully found that yet generally shoot best in vibrant lighting conditions be it natural or something create myself into sunlight or early and late in the day or using car headlights or whatever strive for colourful dynamic
40. TOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au durable and they re lighter than metal and glass components Plastic lenses can be moulded with high precision and made from materials with high levels of clarity and light transmission However plastic lens mounts are vulnerable to wear and impact shock If you are hard on gear and or like to shoot in bad weather you will probably need a more substantial lens But you ll also need a camera body to match 2 Speed Kit lenses are typically a stop or two slower than prime single focal length lenses or premium quality zooms This means they have poorer light transmission which reduces the brightness of the image in optical viewfinders They also make it more difficult to achieve smooth out of focus areas when you want to isolate subjects from distracting backgrounds Built in stabilisation either in the lens itself or in the camera body can support hand held shooting in relatively low light levels although it won t make the viewfinder any brighter Nevertheless it s worth paying more for a stabilised lens if your camera body doesn t provide stabilisation 3 Autofocusing The autofocusing systems on kit lenses are often based on screw drive motors These are usually slower and noisier than the ultrasonic drives used on more expensive lenses 4 Focal length range If you find the wide end of the zoom range doesn t produce the dramatic angles of view you seek you m
41. The shape of the tones within the image is represented as a shadowed area on this graph The image we have chosen has a restricted tonal gamut which can be extended by drawing out the ends of the tonal graph on the Input axis This sets the black and white points pure black and pure white values in the image The Input value changes as you drag Pi nm AEQ Ge te Losi i ee Ee mem ser imar S aa can quae C LEimwhtadizzzHHIM e ug fe rue E Tje 2 Coal dato Coin Lu Liu 1 IPOS FASS W N N Sila Fi mH Selecting the Curves control in Photoshop Tonal Adjustments with Curves Clicking on the diagonal line allows you to select the tonal area you wish to adjust and also anchors the tones at the point selected It s a good idea to start by anchoring at least three points on the diagonal to cover shadows mid tones and highlights You can add up to 14 control points to the curve Points on the curve remain anchored until you move them allowing you to adjust one tonal area without affecting other areas To remove a control point simply drag it off the graph Moving a control point in the right side of the curve will adjust the highlights Moving a point in the centre of the curve adjusts the mid tones and moving a point in the left section of the curve adjusts the shadows Dragging a control point up or down lightens or darkens the tonal area you re adjusting Adjustments can also
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43. a hood is essential and others where it s not In this feature we ll look at what flare is how to avoid it the benefits of lens hoods and how to make your own lens hood if one isn t provided or you feel the asking price is excessive The Roles of Lens Hoods The primary role of a lens hood is to prevent the direct sunlight or another light source from shining on the front element of the lens Studio photographers are seldom worried by flare because they can control the direction of their lights with gobos and barn doors both of which can be attached to lights to prevent the illumination from spilling into areas where it is not wanted Lens hoods play the same role but are much more portable because they are attached to the end of the lens rather than the light De h r IV 1 NI rf IIFSP BUYING F wp aa 6 source This also enables them to be effective for light sources that aren t controllable such as the sun Aside from minimising the effects of flare a lens hood can protect the lens from physical damage It will act as a buffer between the lens and the environment preventing your fingertips from straying onto the delicate front element and leaving greasy marks that will degrade your photos A hood can also protect the front element from being scratched by branches or chipped by impact with hard objects for example if the lens is dropped Lens hoods on longer tele lenses will also provide some protection
44. alf head was Royce Holliday s simple but cleverly constructed picture of a feather by torchlight In recognition of his effort we ll be sending him a Kata Revolver 8PL Backpack To overtax the horse racing motif you could throw a blanket over the rest of the field this PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au time around Penne Stevens sculpture by night photograph wouldn t have been nearly as dramatic by daylight and Robert Zappia s frog close up also benefits from the noirish effect of a single spotlight amidst the inky shadows We had our preconceptions about Maroochydore challenged by the gritty urbanism of Luke Smith s nicely composed street picture Nick from Showgloss Pics found a striking streetscape himself and although we re not sure just what s going on no one could say Geordie Elliott s composition lacks drama Although pushing the limits of his camera s sensitivity we found Andy Parkee s watchful dog a pleasantly peaceful mise en scene And Jarrad Van Beem s photo reminded us of many a night at camp under a starry sky Heard a croaking noise after some recent heavy rain so grabbed the camera and a torch and went outside A lovely big green frog had taken up residence on top of the water tank and was just begging to have its photo taken seems like humans aren t the only species affected by celebrity culture PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au PHOTO CHALLE
45. amera stabilisation Camera response times were generally faster Capture lag averaged O 1 seconds but vanished with pre focusing Shot to shot times averaged 1 1 seconds without flash and 1 5 seconds with It took 1 3 seconds on average to process each file regardless of format Continuous shooting times were slightly slower than the published specifications and the buffer filled after eight or nine shots with RAF RAW files and RAW JPEG pairs Capture rates were just over six frames second for both formats Full review at www photoreview com au PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au 7 BUYERS GUIDE SPECIFICATIONS Image sensor 35 8 x 23 8mm Exmor R CMOS sensor with 24 7 million photosites 24 3 megapixels effective Lens Carl Zeiss Sonnar T 35mm f 2 prime lens Image formats Stills ARW RAW v 2 3 JPEG Exif 2 3 RAW JPEG Movies AVCHD AVC MPEG 4 with stereo soundtracks Max Image Sizes Stills 3 2 6000 x 4000 16 9 6000 x 3376 Movie options 1920 x 1080 at 60 50 25 24 fps 1440 x 1080 at 30 25 fps 1280 x 720 at 30 fps 640 x 480 at 30 25 fps Focus system Contrast detection AF with 25 selectable AF points range 25 cm to infinity macro to 20cm Power supply NP BX1 rechargeable lithium ion battery CIPA rated for approx 330 shots charge Dimensions wxhxd 113 3 x 65 4 x 69 6mm Weight Approx 453 grams AT A GLANCE The first fixed lens camera with a 36 x 24mm sen
46. ar workshop or awards entry fee www aipp com au 0 6 0 Mero Joshua Halko Pei rU ay ae J UR Lo ts pF TE BU WE ag ef um a a E px Caroline Bowe i TIPS SHOOTING Dokeh Depth of Margaret Brown Use of a long focal length and a wide distance between the subject and the background ensures attractive bokeh in this shot even though it was taken with an aperture of f 8 a full stop down from the maximum aperture of the lens 70 300mm lens at 300mm f 8 on a full frame camera body and Field How to capture images with attractive out of focus areas Whenever you read a lens review you re almost certain to come across an evaluation of the bokeh of the lens It s an aesthetic quality that can be difficult to define and quantify Most definitions refer to the way the lens renders out of focus points of light or the blur quality of out of focus backgrounds The term comes from the Japanese word boke pronounced bo keh which means haziness dizzyness or confusion Bokeh is generally associated with a shallow depth of field This is easier to achieve with long telephoto lenses but is also an essential parameter in macro photography Bokeh can also be important for portrait photography where medium telephoto lenses typically 85 150 mm in 35mm format are generally used In all these si
47. ast boundaries is sharp and details have clearly defined borders Transitions are blurred in images with low acutance leading to a perception of lower sharpness High resolution Low resolution I Resolution is a measurement in lines per millimetre of the smallest details a lens can resolve The parallel bars in the top diagram are easily separated into pairs of black and white lines providing an example of high resolution Differences in the line pairs are blurred in the lower diagram which can occur when a low resolution lens is used E _ Low acutance An image straight from the camera is often slightly unsharp due to colour interpolation based on the Bayer filter overlaying the sensor black line and the adjacent white space within a millimetre width A resolution 10 lines mm means five black lines alternating with five white lines or five line pairs per millimetre Ip mm When looking at digital images and camera sensors the term resolution is often used to define the size of the pixel array Thus a camera that can produce images with a maximum resolution of 5184 x 3456 pixels has a resolution of 18 megapixels This is derived by multiplying pixel columns by pixel rows and dividing by one million For printing and monitor viewing resolution usually refers to the number of pixels per unit length Images that will be printed usually require a resolution of 300 pixels per inch ppi Compu
48. ay want a wider lens Alternatively you could try shooting and stitching a panorama using the camera held vertically AT Few kit lenses are long enough to take close ups of animals and birds in the wild although they are fine for photographing pets Kit lenses are also unsuitable for close up shots of sports action For some subjects simply moving closer could solve the problem Photographers who enjoy shooting extreme close ups will also find a kit lens limiting A dedicated macro lens will probably be required or a telephoto zoom with good close focusing capabilities 5 Flare Kit lenses are often flare prone This can often be solved by fitting a lens hood Unfortunately few manufacturers supply hoods with their lower priced lenses so you should consider adding a hood when the kit lens is purchased Ag PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue O www photoreview com au 989 OLOH Sl NE woo asnoyeiawed d p Pm xiz M WU 98 1 YY SNI1 MOOZ ONNSIYS ONNSWVS 9 e A Ed p wuor 2t 43 SN Nooo cb 1 ar P A leo A al IT Shooting Tips Most kit lenses are very versatile At the wide end they re useful for capturing landscapes while at the tele position they become handy portrait lenses In between you can use them for group portraits street photography tabletop shots and even
49. ay to get a lens or two that suits the camera Professional and pro sumer cameras are usually sold in body only configurations although some manufacturers may bundle higher featured lenses with them Bundled lenses are often affordably priced and cover popular focal length ranges for everyday photography The most popular kit lenses have zoom ranges that extend from a moderately wide angle of view to a modest telephoto typically 28mm to around 85mm in 35mm format E AE e A a T a Kit lenses tend to be relatively small and light which makes them a good starting points for building a worthwhile camera kit They enable you to sample the focal lengths most frequently used by serious photographers You can then decide which lenses to add as you develop different aspects of your photography Limitations of Kit Lenses Kit lenses are probably a lot better than many people give them credit for But they do have a couple of significant shortcomings 1 Build quality Because they re built to a price kit lenses often contain a relatively high percentage of plastic There s nothing wrong with this modern plastics are tough and 23 Ci ic m m et a p 4 v tuta 2 Being small and light kit lenses are much easier to carry on challenging trips than faster more solidly built lenses When you re shooting in bright conditions you may not be able to use very wide apertures overcoming their main limitation PHO
50. c trove goes to one Keast Burke editor of Australasian Photo Review no relation In 1951 Mr Burke wrote to then Mitchell Librarian Phyllis Mander Jones about a name he d come across while investigating 19th Century panorama photographs The Librarian told him that Mr Holtermann s daughter in law Mary lived in Chatswood leading him in turn to the momentous discovery in her garden shed In 1952 Bernhardt Holtermann s grandson Bernhard donated the Holtermann Collection to the Mitchell Library For the next two decades Keast Burke researched the negatives history and in due course it became clear that they were not in fact taken by Bernhardt Holtermann but by two photographers Beaufoy Merlin and Charles Bayliss 5 aa NI 7 ste p n Taken over a brief period from late 1872 to 1875 the Holtermann Collection said Alan Davies is one of the most important photographic collections in the country should say the most important photographic collection in the country full stop There s nothing to match it It s the only internationally significant collection of photographs It s mentioned in photographic histories overseas because it s so unusual By the time Beaufoy Merlin met Holtermann in the NSW gold mining town of Hill End in late 1872 he d been working as a photographer for about eight years He and his young assistant Charles Bayliss had established the modestly na
51. can only access the full span when shooting JPEGs For raw files you re restricted to 200 6400 ISO inclusive The hybrid viewfinder is a big improvement on the X100 s although the optical finder is largely unchanged but with improved parallax correction that can adjust the framing guide for close ups to within about 5Ocm from the lens the limit for normal focusing However this framing guide only shows about 90 of the area captured by the sensor The resolution of the EVF has been boosted to 2 360 000 dots nearly double the resolution of the X100 s 1 440 000 dot screen An integrated prism enables it to display shooting data overlaid on the scene Fourteen functions can be displayed including shutter speed aperture focusing distance selected focusing point exposure compensation electronic level and histogram Manual focusing is also improved with a more responsive focusing ring and a Digital Split Image system that uses phase detection to show accurate focus peaking and highlights focused areas in white The camera s start up time has been reduced from 2 seconds to 0 9 seconds and shot to shot times are cut from 0 9 seconds down to 0 5 seconds The top continuous shooting speed increases from 5 fps to 6 fps The buffer capacity has been enlarged accordingly to accommodate up to 31 JPEG frames These improvements are only a few of the 69 listed in our online review of the 100 While the video capabilities of th
52. capture lag of less than O 1 seconds was eliminated by pre focusing Shot to shot times averaged 0 5 seconds without flash and 0 85 seconds with Flash recycling times averaged 5 25 seconds when fully discharged It took 3 1 seconds on average to process each image file For continuous shooting the review camera could record at 10 frames second with the super high speed setting With raw files or RAW JPEG pairs 11 frames could be recorded in 1 6 seconds at the highest frame rate It took 6 2 seconds to process a burst of 10 JPEG shots and up to 25 8 seconds for RAW JPEG pairs Full review at www photoreview com au SPECIFICATIONS Image sensor 23 6 x 15 8mm X Trans CMOS II sensor with primary colour filter and 16 3 megapixel effective resolution Lens Fujinon 23mm f 2 lens 35mm in 35mm format Image formats Stills RAF RAW JPEG Exif 2 3 RAW JPEG Movies MOV H 264 with Linear PCM stereo audio Max Image Sizes Stills 3 2 aspect 4896 x 3264 16 9 aspect 4896 x 2760 1 1 aspect 3264 x 3264 Movie Options 1920 x 1080 pixels 60fps 30fps Focus system Intelligent Hybrid AF TTL contrast AF TTL phase detection AF with area and multi modes AF assist lamp minimum focus 10 cm macro mode Power supply NP 95 rechargeable lithium ion battery CIPA rated for approx 300 shots charge Dimensions wxhxd Approx 126 5 x 74 4 x 53 9mm Weight Approx 405 grams without battery memory card or accessor
53. colour saturation and the faint streak of red which creates an artefact near the centre of the picture Many graphics programs include starburst ring or angular patterns that can be moved according to the position of the light source using ray tracing technologies but unless applied by very skilled operators they rarely appear genuine and using the depth of field preview If you have lenses with different filter diameters you ll need a separate hood for each lens Manufacturers are aware of at least some of the inconveniences associated with lens hoods and usually produce hoods that can be reversed onto the lens for easy compact storage Some lenses notably ultra wide angle lenses come with permanently attached hood like mouldings that act as lens hoods In other cases the front element is recessed deeply into the lens barrel providing basic protection against flare and impact DIY Lens Hoods If you re strapped for cash or can t find the hood you need you can always make your own There are a couple of UK based websites that provide printable patterns for lens hoods in PDF format These patterns can be traced onto black cardboard cut out and attached to the lens with adhesive tape They are also easily trimmed to suit individual lenses Go to http www lenshoods co uk for 35mm and digital SLR camera lenses or www lenshoods net for lens hoods optimised for digital SLRs with 1 5x and 1 6x crop sensors Usage Tip
54. correct it they often compound the problem instead of solving it Chromatic aberration particularly longitudinal CA can produce rings around the boundaries of blur circles The shape and number of the diaphragm blades in a lens define the shape of the blur circle but otherwise have no effect on bokeh Shoot through a cut out star shape or triangle and you will see how the shapes of blur circles are affected The reason some manufacturers try to create relationship between bokeh and diaphragm blades is because this can create a point of difference between lenses Myth has it that nine blades produce superior bokeh but that s simply not the case However if the blades close to a circular aperture they will produce genuine blur circles regardless of the number of blades although the more blades the easier it is to approximate a circular aperture Seeing Bokeh If you want to check the bokeh of a lens set it to the maximum aperture and focus it on a distant light source such as a street lamp at night in a reasonably well lit area where you can discern details in the surrounding area Scan PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au the scene looking at out of focus areas Now adjust the focus moving between a point in front of the light through to one behind the light and check how the rendition of the out of focus areas changes If you see soft edged shapes you have good bokeh if there s a noticeable difference
55. e X100S have been improved they still aren t particularly impressive Like its predecessor the X100S will suit landscape street and candid photographers but is limited for portraiture sports and wildlife Performance Test shots were a little soft straight out of the camera but we observed more detail in shadow and highlight areas in shots Slight edge softening was revealed by our Imatest tests although Imatest also showed the camera to be capable of above average resolution for both JPEG and RAF RAW files Resolution remained high throughout the review camera s sensitivity range although softening could be seen in JPEGs recorded at the top two sensitivity settings Shots taken at ISO 25 600 showed visible noise Flash shots at ISO 25 600 had reduced edge sharpness and overall contrast Lateral chromatic aberration was consistently negligible and we found no evidence of coloured fringing in test shots The review camera was more flare resistant than its predecessor Auto white balance performance was similar to the X100 s Plenty of adjustments are provided for correcting colour balance as you shoot Autofocusing was generally fast particularly after dark In movie mode phase detection AF enabled the camera to re focus during recordings although autofocusing in movie mode remained relatively slow Video quality was slightly better than the X100 s although many of the same limitations remain particularly a lack of in c
56. e sailor suit is topped with the hatband of HMS Cadmus a 21 gun wooden steam corvette of the British Navy Digital order no a2823746 4 a wg ue Fr WLLE amp L LRR ddhkbhk ddia eee 1 k i LIE Al gt lt _ _ cuni o m E 0 u n F ime uw T 0 il A HAD IUE L W 0 0 0 9 S LLLA reer 4 EW AUSTRALIA www photoreview com au INSPIRATION 0 30 UTR H 4 Herbert Street Gulgong 1872 A amp A PHOTOGRAPHIC CO WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE ON 4 BOX 2 NO 18242 The incongruous sight of toy dogs among the rough and ready types that inhabited a frontier gold town has been captured in this view of Herbert Street Gulgong According to the Empire 28 May 1872 The streets so to call the dusty avenues between the rows of shops and Inns are thronged in the daytime by much about the same number though not apparently by the same sort of persons as the streets in Sydney There is not the same bustling activity about them There are also fewer women amongst them and fewer well dressed men The yellow clay stained fustian trousers which have never made and never will make acquaintance with the wash tub invest the lower extremities of every two men out of three Digital order no a2822178 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au 1 INSPIRATION 00
57. e with H HS12035 lens Dimensions wxhxd Approx 132 9 x 93 4 x 82 0mm Weight 470 grams body only AT A GLANCE A durable Micro Four Thirds camera with professional video functionality for enthusiasts who require versatility performance and creative controls for shooting stills and movie clips RATING out of 10 gt Build 9 0 Ease of use 8 5 Autofocusing 8 8 gt Still image quality JPEG 8 8 RAW 9 0 gt Video quality 9 0 gt OVERALL 8 8 RRP 1599 body only Distributor Panasonic Australia 132 600 www panasonic com au ADVANCED COMPACT ILC DMC GH3 Panasonic s DMC GH3 is the third model in a flagship series of interchangeable lens cameras designed for shooting still pictures and video movies The fully diecast magnesium alloy frame and weatherproof sealing make the GH3 the toughest most durable G series model to date The sensor has been upgraded to a new chip with 16 05 megapixels effective which supports high sensitivity recording to ISO 25 600 A new Venus Engine 7 FHD processor provides improved noise reduction using both 3DNR 3D Noise Reduction and MNR Multi process Noise Reduction The contrast based autofocusing system claims a very fast response time of 70 milliseconds with the 12 35mm lens According to Panasonic the camera and lens interchange signals at up to 240 fps to focus as rapidly as possible OLED displays are used in both the viewfinder and monit
58. ecomes important to highlight the key feature of the subject allowing backgrounds to blur out so they don t engage the viewer s eye In portraits of living creatures people included the sharpest focus should be on the eye nearest the camera The lens can be stopped down to keep the rest of the face acceptably sharp provided the background is suitably de focused In macro photography you must make a fine judgment between how much of the subject you want to render sharp and the degree of background blurring Because depth of field is reduced as you move closer to a subject you may need to stop down to f 8 to achieve acceptable sharpness across the subject Image noise may be very fine and have a very high acutance which makes you think sharp In theory a perfect lens should be able to transmit all the light that passes through it and resolve all the black and white line pairs with neither blurring nor a loss of contrast But even the most expensive lenses aren t perfect and most MTF graphs show lines that tend to curve downward as they move left to right as they track resolution from centre to corner of the frame MTF graphs can also be used for evaluating the potential bokeh of lenses ie their ability to produce smooth blurring in out of focus background areas The closer together the sagittal S and meridional M lines are to each other the smoother and more natural the background blurring bokeh becomes INSIDER
59. ed by the lens The latter can appear as polygons starbursts rings or circles in a row across the image Lens manufacturers apply coatings to suppress scattering and internal reflections but even the best coatings are hard pressed to counteract the effects of flare when the lens is pointed towards the sun Flare is less obvious when the light doesn t shine directly into the lens although contrast can often be reduced in backlit shots particularly in lower quality lenses Wide angle lenses are more likely to be flare affected than tele lenses because the lens though usually not much and take up space in a camera bag And while manufacturers may provide them with their more expensive lenses they seldom do so with the cheaper entry level lenses Although this strategy allows them to extract more money from consumers who are knowledgeable enough to want hoods it is essentially penny pinching and environmentally unsound Most lens hoods are made of plastic or at best lightweight aluminium It costs a few dollars to produce them probably about as much as the total cost of packaging them in cardboard and plastic that will be discarded Add to that the cost of freight when shipping the packages and you have a lot of unnecessary expenditure and an environmental cost that would be eliminated if lens hoods were bundled with lenses in the first place When searching for hoods for most consumer lenses you ll find the manufacturers
60. een as photography s printing press moment Until Gutenberg devised movable type around 1439 the only way to reproduce a book was to hire a scribe And while there were paper negative processes around prior to wet plate they were no match for the speed and superb quality of the new medium A few days before sitting down to write this piece read a leading tech guru s wildly enthusiastic account of using Google s soon to be released smart glasses A pair of Google Glass er glasses that weigh no more than a typical pair of sunnies combines image and video capture with voice controlled head up display driven access to various Google services search maps groups and so on Leaving aside the immense privacy implications every person their own panopticon it immediately struck me that should smart glasses become as ubiquitous as smart phones we will see yet another dramatic increase in the already mind boggling torrent of imagery flooding our world As technological change moves image taking closer to ubiquity in an instant your smart glasses can feed images to your online storage and your friends and as image reproduction and distribution costs drop to near zero it s hard to see how earning a living from photography will ever get any easier There may be a growing question mark over the future of photography as a profession but I m very confident that no matter what the impulse to capture share and to make images wil
61. er than plain paper for the paper type setting If you don t match the paper in the driver to the paper you print on the toner won t fuse to the paper correctly and your prints will show white patches like those shown on this page Colours that weren t fused to the paper may carry over to be deposited on subsequent prints ICC Profiles The three printers we tried allowed use of ICC profiles to help you match the print colours to the colours displayed on your monitor screen In the FujiXerox DocuPrint CP205 the following settings worked well for most subjects Adjustment mode recommended Image type photos Image auto correction select Portrait or Landscape from the drop down menu according to the subject type Then click on Profile Settings and select the ICC Profile button You can then set the Monitor profile to the same as your monitor s by clicking Browse and choosing the profile from the drop down menu For Input Image select Same as monitor Initial selection of ICC profiles is even easier in the Canon LBP7200Cdn once you ve navigated to the Quality page in the driver Dutput Coser Coler 5 0 nen We used the following settings Profile photo prints Objective Photos Colour Mode select Colour or Black and White according to the subject type Then click on the Colour Settings button to open the manual settings pages Skip the Colour Adjustment page and select the
62. erb images and instant download for iPad iPhone tablets smartpnones Mac and PC High quality print editions also available TaluBooks com ADVANCED COMPACT FIXED LENS The Pentax MX 1 combines solid build quality and traditional styling with an up to date 12 megapixel 7 6 x 5 mm backside illuminated CMOS sensor Its 4x optical zoom lens covers the equivalent of 28 112mm in 35mm format and it s supported by three stop sensor shift image stabilisation Compared with the average short zoom digicam it s only just jacket pocketable In bright sunlight the screen becomes almost unusable at any angle brightness adjustments notwithstanding This camera REALLY needs a viewfinder The review camera delivered sharp natural looking images and autofocusing was fast for a contrast based system even in relatively dim lighting Imatest showed it met expectations for the sensor s resolution with JPEGs and exceeded them for DNG RAW files Despite lacking a lens hood the lens was moderately flare resistant Lateral chromatic aberration was consistently low Long exposures at night were almost noise free up to ISO 3200 Flash exposures were even across most sensitivity settings and video performance was competent enough for occasional recordings SPECIFICATIONS Image sensor 7 6 x 5 7mm Backlit CMOS sensor with 12 76 million photosites 12 megapixels effective Lens smc Pentax 6 0 24mm f 1 8 2 5 zoom lens 28 112mm in 35mm f
63. ercent spend more than 1000 per year on photographic gear and they spread the spend nu V J 7 Fn ora PI A mJ l I gt lt L 4 J er CSS W as bmi un w ut particularly disastrous for camera companies who specialise in consumer snapshot models DSLRs are at 77 of 2012 levels and mirrorless interchangeables are at 82 of 2012 levels There were 4 3 DSLRs shipped for every one mirrorless interchangeable model The first quarter of 2013 was the worst for mirrorless cameras since CIPA started measuring shipments in Q1 2012 And if the appeal of mirrorless interchangeables is all about small size and light weight Canon s new EOS 100D represents the DSLR fighting back Compared to the highest rated mirrorless model the Olympus EM 5 it s slightly lighter not as wide around the same height and only loses out in being slightly thicker Word from our technical editor Margaret Brown is that the EOS 100D has a lot going for it not least the small form factor Nonetheless Sony seems to be putting most if not all of its eggs in the mirrorless basket Last year it released a series of promotional videos talking up mirrorless cameras by taking D PHOTOREVIE V AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au The Canon 100D the DSLR response to mirrorless interchangeable light weight and small size around among local retailers and offshore businesses Ninety five perce
64. ers in the printers we tried often defaulted back to settings for printing AR T 5 TR aQ PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au hi TIPS OUTPUT A print made on coated paper with the printer driver set for plain paper Note the streaks resulting from paper incompatibility Paper E Dee AS E mm 2503297 mm Vichi Conficting Screerc Detailed Balance ICM Setting Perceptual Intent Quality Est Comete Scmeer Enhanced Balance Def ruht Settings Quality Hornel The driver in the Samsung CLP 680DW is more complex than the drivers in the other printers we tested which may account for our difficulties in applying ICC profiles when printing uanbty 1 nl Fl Colated Paper Summary PA Manual Feeder Flair Paper Size Ad 215 Ten Selecting the paper type from a drop down menu circled in the driver of the FujiXerox DocuPrint CP205 printer documents on plain paper so you need to keep checking all the settings each time you make a print particularly when swapping between image files The first step is to select photos for the output quality and ensure the resolution is as high as the printer supports Then match the paper type in the driver to the stock you re printing on The drivers in the printers we tried all provided suitable settings for heavier weight coated paper If in doubt select Lightweight card stock or Coated paper rath
65. ers whose work we publish in the magazine will be contacted for the high resolution version of their pictures 6 Please put your caption s in the File Info metadata area of your image s or with the accompanying message When saving your images please change the file name so that it incorporates your first initial and last name and the challenge you re entering eg jsmith_chall56 jpg 7 All photographers maintain copyright to their submitted image s Photo Review retains the right to publish submitted image s in the magazine and on www photoreview com au www pentax com au so SR A CLASSIC REBORN A LEGENDARY PENTAX CLASSIC NOW RE CREATED AS AN ADVANCED DIGITAL CAMERA PENTAX MX1 POWERFUL PROCESSOR BRILLIANT LENS PURE PENTAX JUST TILLLELAA ITS ANCESTOR WAS ONCE CALLED W the finest camera ever developed New Pentax MX 1 retains the handsome appearance and handle ability of the classic MX But now in its digital re incarnation it boasts a new advanced CMOS and superb optics 4x zoom from wide 28mm to 112mm film equivalent Fast 1 8 _ ma lens for low light shots and as creative focus effects Flip up 3 LCD display 12 7 megapixels It looks like a classic camera Because it is PENTAX 1 facebook com PentaxSnaps y twitter com pentaxaustralia reddot design award winner 2013 m 3 pe Clarke Street Hill End 1872 L w k A
66. files and 1 15 seconds for each RAW JPEG pair A burst of 10 Large Extra Fine JPEG frames was recorded in 3 7 seconds which is slower than the 5 fps specified This burst took 14 seconds to process Full review at www photoreview com au NEW NIKON D7100 WITH BONUS WiFi ADAPTER VALUE 100 Melbourne 235 Elizabeth Street Ph 9602 3733 Camberwell 843 Burke Road Ph 9861 9100 Chadstone Shopping Centre Ph 9568 7800 Near David Jones Doncaster Westfield Ph 9648 3832 New Near Sateway Eastland Shopping Centre Ph 98 0 9500 Near Coles Fountain Gate Westfield Ph 9705 4000 Near Kmart Greensborough Plaza Ph 9434 3460 Near Kmart Frankston 54 58 Wells Street Ph 9783 8160 Knox City Shopping Centre Ph 9800 1677 Near Fruit Market Northland Shopping Centre Ph 9478 7026 Near JBHiFi Highpoint Shopping Centre Ph 9317 4477 New Near Rebel Sport Southland Westfield Ph 9583 5433 Near Myer Werribee Plaza Shopping Centre Ph 9 48 4333 Helping you capture life D7 100 D7100 DSLR Super Kit with AFS 18 105mm VR Zoom This enthusiast camera is a serious upgrade of the much loved D7000 featuring a 24 Megapixel sensor with no OLED filfer This allows for a much sharper resolution than your average camera at this level Nikon have also included 51 Auto Focus points this lets you pinpoint your focus to more areas of the frame than ever before Videographers will delight in the D7100 s improved 180p30 shoo
67. finity It s attention to detail like this that really makes the picture It is quite a still picture not that that s a bad thing and therefore rather quiet If the photographer wanted to punch things up revisiting the scene on a rainy evening might be interesting Or getting someone to stand in the lighted spot created by the more distant of the two footpath light poles Holman Street Park by James Fitzroy This one is one of my my personal favourites taken last year of a road trip around Australia try to concentrate on landscape photography but now l am starting to branch out to other styles It was taken in Brisbane near the Holman street pier at night Canon 7D 17 40mm lens f 16 at 25s monochrome IMAGE REVIEW N Don s Review There s so much to like about this picture not least of which is the splash of bright colour on the middle child s face After my eye was drawn the striking colour though I discovered the real beauty of the image the contrasting expressions Street portraiture is always a challenge People typically put on their photo face if you try to shoot straight on in this way But here the photographer has been rewarded with direct expressions and the prize of prizes that beautiful tentative expression of the boy on the left The photographer makes good use of the magic hour light too The warm late afternoon light models the faces very nicely and the auto exposure is right
68. g paper 80 100 gsm rather than covering a wider paper range Colour brightness and saturation adjustments are available but may not be accessible in Photo mode Some defaults can t be over ridden in the photo printing mode de T 3 HET MEAP LOE TU U imi i y h Paper Choices A wider choice of papers is available for laser printing than for inkjet printers Laser papers also tend to be cheaper than inkjet papers and come in larger packs although not necessarily a wider range of sizes You can t use inkjet papers because their surfaces are coated to receive sprayed on inks whereas the surfaces of laser papers are coated to attract dry powder Inkjet photo papers can t take the high heat used in a laser printer to fuse the toners to the paper Inkjet printers also have a simpler paper feeding system that allows them to print on thicker papers than laser printers Normal 80 90 or 100gsm bond papers can be printed on both laser and inkjet printers If you want good looking prints you must be discerning when choosing papers Avoid plain office paper The best results will come from coated papers with smooth surfaces and these can come in matte low gloss and glossy finishes The weight of the paper determines how the prints feel when handled We recommend a minimum weight of 130 grams square metre gsm for photo books and calendars Some printers can t handle papers of 170 gsm or more Setting Up The driv
69. ghts were not completely circular and some coloured fringing could be seen along their edges Full review at www photoreview com au SPECIFICATIONS Lens construction elements in 6 groups with one aspherical lens element Lens mounts Nikon F mount Minimum focus 45 cm Dimensions Diameter x L 2 x 52 5 mm distance from camera lens mount flange Weight Approximately 185 grams AT A GLANCE An affordable moderately fast standard prime lens for Nikon s FX and DX cameras which is also usable on Nikon 1 bodies via an adaptor RATING out of 10 Build 8 8 Autofocusing 8 0 gt Handling 8 8 gt Versatility 8 5 ASP 289 Distributor Nikon Australia 1300 366 499 WWW nikon com au gt Image quality 8 8 on D5200 7 8 on Nikon 1 V2 gt Overall 8 8 DX LENS AF S NIKKOR 18 300mm f 3 5 5 6G ED VR Nikon s widest range zoom lens the AF S DX Nikkor 18 300mm f 3 5 5 6G ED VR was designed for photographers who want an all in one lens for travel and general photography Suitable for DX cameras only it covers a huge 16 7x zoom ratio Equipped with second generation VR stabilisation technology it boasts camera shake compensation of approximately four f stops Being a large and relatively heavy lens it s a bit unbalanced on lighter camera bodies like the D5200 used for our tests Build quality was above average for a consumer lens Autofocusing was fast and accurate under
70. he retired he promoted and sold Holtermann s Life Preserving Drops which cured everything from toothache to dysentery His Life Preserving Drops may have been popular but their efficacy was another matter entirely In the end Holtermann died on his 47th birthday in 1885 after 18 months illness His doctor recorded the causes of death as cancer of the stomach cirrhosis of the liver and dropsy Digital order no a2822708 k a Tu XE s TFLPLET E E Le 1 7 E 7 N slaballalad IWF m A s cm LE B i 24 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au How sharp In 2009 the State Library began a two year project to scan every one of the 3500 images in the Holtermann Collection The smaller plates were scanned at a resolution of 10 000 pixels on the longest side whilst the larger plates were captured with a 50 megapixel medium format back For the very largest plates multiple 50 megapixel images were stitched together to create extremely high resolution digital copies Although the products of a laborious and inherently variable process wet plate images are essentially grainless When it comes to image resolution the limiting factor is the quality of the lens And thanks to Holtermann s deep pockets Merlin and Bayliss were equipped with the finest German optics of the day When the Library acquired the collection in 1952 they understandably used modern film and printi
71. ia but to qualify for this challenge all animals must be photographed outside any form of captivity The prize for this challenge is a Kata Revolver 8PL Backpack RRP 295 designed to provide easy one point access to a large range of lenses stored in a revolving internal magazine It fits a DSLR with grip and standard lens attached plus 4 5 lenses and accessories as well as a laptop up to 15 4 inches and personal gear N Please review the rules below and email your entries to photochallenge photoreview com au Deadline for entries is Sept 26 2013 and the winning pictures will be published in our Dec Feb 2014 edition I PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au To enter the challenge all you have to do is send us your best image we ll consider up to three images per photographer 1 Competition is open to Australian residents only 2 Entries should only be new images that have been taken in response to the set challenge 3 This isn t a photo manipulation contest so minimal post capture processing is a given Sharpening colour correction and so forth are fine but adding extra layers isn t 4 Please supply images as jpegs at 800 pixels on the longest side 5 Please submit all images to photochallenge photoreview com au or preferably to the gallery at www photoreview com au and be sure to enter photochallenge in the tags field Any questions please email us at edmail photoreview com au Photograph
72. ics of great travel photos 5 chapters 58 images 2 Digital SLR 3rd Edition fully revised amp updated Easy to follow guide to superb digital SLR photography 10 chapters 109 images 0 TALUBOOKS The eBook People 2 Luminous Landscapes The landscape re imagined by eight Australian artists 10 chapters 42 images 2 Ken Duncan Inspirational Love 23 stunning panoramic images inspirational quotes and related stories Instant download at www talubooks com UREVIEWE MEDOA PUBLISHING IMAGE REVIEW Image Review N Don s Review This is a strong image both in terms of its composition and the technical execution It s tack sharp and the exposure is faultless Whilst the darkest shadow areas eg the trees left are necessarily featureless the photographer has ensured that they are unobtrusively small Midtone balance is spot on and everything is in focus from the handrail bottom right to I Md x AN go 8 I Ron lt A aaa oe ne Mamme E I m met 9 m Sal ene m lt CREDO mm gt 4 ae d a 7 e BENT t Tos ZA LEM AT a t amate Lj A EI e 1 MEA o dii NN EAS Ru M La A V Ts i n m me i u In 1 a n gee w c lt 2 i w gr pre ane Nn P V ELLA i m a J a mr te ae E Amo eee pathy ue d Ml T m gmi ef a l
73. ies 445 grams with battery and card AT A GLANCE An update to the X100 with higher resolution faster autofocusing and a new hybrid viewfinder that combines optical and electronic systems RATING out of 10 Build 9 0 Ease of use 3 5 gt Autofocusing 8 5 gt Image quality JPEG 9 0 RAW 9 0 Video quality 8 3 gt OVERALL 8 8 RRP 1449 Distributor Fujifilm Australia 1800 226 355 www fujifilm com au BUYERS GUIDE ADVANCED COMPACT FIXED LENS Fujifilm X100S While the body of Fujifilm s X100S is almost identical to the X100 it features a new 16 3 megapixel APS C X Trans CMOS II sensor up from 12 megapixels and an improved Hybrid Viewfinder system with a 2 35 million dot display The 23mm f 2 Fujinon lens is unchanged and most external controls are the same as the X100 s An in lens leaf shutter supports high speed flash synchronisation and makes the camera relatively quiet to operate The new sensor eliminates need for an optical low pass filter and delivers higher resolution images with lower noise Phase detection pixels embedded in the sensor improve autofocusing lock on speeds to a claimed 0 07 second According to Fujifilm these pixels are distributed on nearly 4096 of the total area of X Trans CMOS II Sensor and the centre of its screen A new EXR Processor Il improves camera response times and lens performance However although the sensitivity range has been extended you
74. impression it would be a certain way but thought better go and find out for myself went to the Doomben and Eagle Farm racecourses and became captivated by the older punters Initially held a strong bias against gambling and bookmaking and there are negatives to it Upon arriving though was astounded by the beauty of watching these old punters come every week and the thought they put into it For a lot of them it s additional income to their pension and there s a real sense of community to the place It s a very quiet space punctuated by the loud cheers and a heated feeling when a race is on also went trackside where the younger generations see it more as a party than a sporting institution or historical tradition approached photographing the races more like street photography spoke to people but didn t seek to tell individual stories wanted to capture an overall snapshot of the culture that exists I think the Sport of Kings shots are superbly constructed and timed with great use of natural light spent a lot of time watching the light change and going back repeatedly There are many buildings creating lines angles and shadows which are certainly a photographer s friend What other assignments did you do It s a long list thinking back A couple of other highlights are when went out to Whyte Island where the Queensland Fire and Rescue Service does its rigorous training drills and to the
75. ing Digital Post Capture Mastering Digital Photos is POCKET GUIDE Photography POCKET GUIDE How to edt share and display your best photos ov ten are TATA Creata your own high quality low coat prints MEDA Guides Mastering Digital Digital SLR Photography Post capture Printing Digital Photos For details on Photo Review Pocket Guides see www photoreview com au Complete the form below or call 02 9948 8600 or subscribe online at www photoreview com au Subscriber Name Address Phone 2 year 8 issues 70 39 1 year 4 issues Email Address J 10 per single issue order OR 45 for 6 issues OR J 95 for 12 issues Please make cheques payable to Media Publishing ABN 86 099 172 577 or fill out your credit card details below lJ 200 for 30 issues Credit Card 4 Please select back issues for details on each back issue go to www bit ly phr back issues OOOO OOU OULILI O Isue1 Issue9 O Issue 17 Issue 25 CI Issue 33 O Issue41 O Issue 49 O Issue2 Issue 10 U Issue 18 O Issue 26 O Issue 34 U Issue 42 U Issue 50 O Issue3 Issue 11 Issue 19 Issue 27 Issue 35 O Issue 43 Issue 51 Nameoncard O Issue4 Issue 12 O Issue 20 O Issue 28 U Issue 36 U Issue 44 O Issue 52 O Issue5 Issue 13 O Issue 21 LI Issue 29 LI Issue 37 LI Issue 45 Issue 53 Expiry Type of card cov O Issue6 Issue 14 O Issue 22 Issue 30 Iss
76. ket between them and the latest rumour is that it will not be continuing with its pellicle mirror DSLR technology or possibly even APS C sized DSLRs Keith Shipton www photocounter com au a i r iu w E T m fimm ET CEED YOUR VISION Epson Artisan 1430 A3 Epson Photo Printers leaving nothing to be desired Advanced simple media handling Unsurpassed quality WWW 6DSONn COlM au WWNW OCDSOrn co rz think of the boy was who after his bedroom light was turned out would shine his torch on feathers he found that day No post capture processing was done took a photo of a feather lit by an ordinary torch and printed an A4 copy Then placed the same feather in the foreground of the photo changed the ISO set the focus on Flexible Spot on the foreground feather and took a second shot No computer manipulation was used My camera is a Sony DSC RX1 I have just recently taken up photography and am loving it The My Nightworld challenge was inspired by Mark Kimber s moody night locales drawn from his Adelaide childhood Featured in issue 54 Mark s photographs inspired us to set a challenge that we hoped would encourage participating photographers to produce their own nocturnal studies And encouraged they were Indeed such was the uniformly high standard of our entries that we ve dedicated extra space to the Challenge this issue The winner by a short h
77. l be around for as long as humanity itself Happy shooting Don Norris Editor EDITORIAL Photo Review editor Don Norris is reasonably certain that he took his first photograph with a well worn Leica lllc at age 14 Every picture from that camera had a sort of soft hazy look because the original screwmount lens was heavily scratched from years in the field with Don s geologist father Robert M Norris But using the little camera ignited a passion for picture taking that is now into its fourth decade Convert those 40 years into the cameras he s used most intensively and the sequence reads Leica Illc Miranda SLR Nikkormat SLR Nikon FM Nikonos III Bolex H16 Mamiya C 33 Wista 4x5 Olympus E10 Nikon D70s Nikon D90 and Nikon D7000 A few years after taking up photography Don discovered the second great passion in his life after his family of course when a summer job in Hawaii coincided with buying his first surfboard In 1984 he migrated from his native California to Australia and these days he lives on Sydney s northern beaches from which he not only edits this magazine but also runs Australia s most popular surfing community website www realsurf com FOR THE VERY LATEST PHOTO NEWS AND REVIEWS http bit ly prnewsletter http twitter com photoreview http twitter com mr_realsurf http bit ly pr rss http bit ly phrfacebook PHOTOREV EW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au With the dust
78. lor of Photography Photojournalism and Documentary Practice with first class Honours Did you hit the ground running or gradually become more enthused in your studies I m a visual sort of person and like the way photography combines the visual creative side with the technical l ve always been very technically minded from playing with Lego at a 00 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au young age to doing woodwork on the farm with my dad to studying maths science and physics at school to briefly being a cycle mechanic was always keen at uni but didn t know where wanted to be as a photographer for the first year It was a university field trip to Cambodia and Vietnam at the beginning of my second year that cemented my passion for the documentary side of things It was my first time in Asia and working with non government organisations opened my eyes to extreme poverty and how the majority of our world lives Since then I ve mingled my studies with working freelance combining commercial work with documentary photojournalism As is well known it s challenging to make a living solely from documentary photography Indigenous Elders lead a procession to officially open the 2011 2012 Woodford Folk Festival which is held annually in southeast Queensland Who and what have been the main influences on your photography I m a product of my surroundings as well as my influences Clear infl
79. med American amp Australasian Photographic Company the self imposed remit of which was to create a photographic library of street views of towns all across the colonies of NSW and Victoria It was arguably the world s first image bank In an advertisement from 1870 by which time they d photographed Albury Yass Braidwood PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au Il INSPIRATION Although the products of a laborious and inherently variable process wet plate images are essentially grainless Queanbeyan and Goulburn along with 800 houses in Parramatta they wrote The A and A Photographic Company desire further to remind the public that these negatives are not taken for the mere immediate objective of sale but that being registered copies can at all times be had by or of those parties residing in any part of the colonies wherever the company s operations have extended thus forming a novel means of social and commercial intercourse What an astonishing thing to say Alan exclaimed We re not here taking photographs for the cash we re here for people to learn about other parts of the colony In fact what they d done is establish this photographic library so if you were a businessman and you wanted to set up a new branch in Goulburn say you didn t have to drive all the way there in a horse and buggy you could go to their studio pay a shilling and look at every building in Goulbu
80. n installed provides very limited profile support along with some potentially useful image adjustments Unfortunately there s no link to the profiles in your computer which makes it difficult to use monitor profiles in the photo printing mode Colour Adjustments While all the printer drivers we looked at include adjustments for brightness contrast and the various colour levels we would caution users about making adjustments in the printer driver The adjustments made by the FujiXerox and Canon drivers are simply too great The Samsung driver supports finer tuning but none of the drivers lets you preview the results of the changes you make before committing to a print Images that require small adjustments to brightness and or colour values should always be adjusted in an image editor Save the adjusted image as a copy to ensure it is quicker to print again Adjustment Original Color Balance Cyan Red Magenta Green Yellow Blue EIZO m L ug n n n EIZO patented 16bit chip accurate skin tone reproduction ColorEdge 3D LUT accurate shadow midtone and highlight detail MWide colour gamut faithful colour reproduction Temperature sensor subtle details remain stable all day long Factory set gamma values smooth colour qradations for detail accuracy and stability over years of use Now with built in sensor CS230 CX240 CX270 CG246 CG276 WWW ei
81. n t any detectable pattern to the subject matter apart from the fact that the photographs are uniformly striking in their combination of technical execution composition and subject matter FOUND Take your Googles gt bit ly prb6ne4 It doesn t look as though search giant Google will fade away anytime soon However it s good to know that you can always download all your Google bits and pieces via the little known Google Takeaway page Jump to the link to back up your contacts drive data Picasa pictures and more SSS i I Google GY kd nama eee er e Croci d OF ph Bt Fire EB 14 E Buzz se Contacts Drive amp Googe Cerles Googlet Sonam Ed Pages C Picasa Web Albums Crowdsorcery gt bit ly prb6ne2 Look out photo stock libraries the crowd sourcing movement has you in its sights ImageBrief s concept is simple Take briefs from ad agencies and the like looking for stock photography then toss them out to a crowd of photographers who scour their brains and then their hard drives for possible images The wrinkle is that the agencies get to use natural language searches eg photographer using piece of fruit as a camera Photographers get 1 096 of sales ImaeeBrief ter cu sn Extreme Ice project gt bit ly pr56ne5 We all know that climate change is transforming our planet but it s often difficult to visualise the vast extent of those changes In 2007
82. ng materials to create copies from the original negatives Unfortunately wet plate negatives are extremely contrasty and the image density can be quite variable Printing these negatives on a mid 20th Century paper results in images that are significantly compromised in terms of image quality and information High resolution scanning and modern digital printing technology allow us to see detail that has effectively been lost for 140 years As part of the State Library s The Greatest Wonder of the World exhibition of the Holtermann Collection earlier this year a number of the images were projected on wall sized surfaces Even when inspected closely there was no trace of photographic grain An astonishing level of detail became apparent as you moved closer to the image In a photograph of a shopfront taken from across a street details as fine as the labels on bottles in the shop window can be made out In a picture of a French man o war in drydock the amount of intricate detail would keep a marine historian entranced for hours gt Every one of the 3500 images in the Holtermann Collection may be viewed online by going to the State Library s website at www sl nsw gov au and searching for American amp Australasian Photographic Company Images with sufficient resolution for school projects may be downloaded directly and a number of the more striking photographs are also available as prints from the Library s shop n
83. nt buy gear at photo specialist retailers 8396 online from local businesses and 74 from offshore online businesses The local photo industry clearly has a challenge in reducing that high offshore online figure by bringing local pricing in line with what s available in the US and Hong Kong and expanding the local range There are simply a lot of products especially accessories unavailable or too hard to track down locally With 58 planning to buy a new DSLR in the next two years a whopping 86 planning to buy a new lens and 42 planning to buy a new printer the advertising media buyers for the camera lens and photo printer companies will presumably be beating a path to the Photo Review ad manager s door after seeing these results the mickey out of DSLR users It s just followed up with a couple more of these DSLR gear No Idea ads featuring gormless fellows making prats of themselves with their DSLRs until their technical ineptitude and social inadequacy are resolved by a Sony NEX camera Given that Sony is also in the DSLR market this is a bit like Holden running ads mocking Commodore drivers as petrol heads who can t reverse park with the Cruze being the answer to their problems Or maybe Sony s light hearted mocking of enthusiasts is a sign that it has lost interest in DSLRs After five or so years it certainly hasn t made any great inroads into the DSLR supremacy of Canon and Nikon with around 9096 of the mar
84. ohn s bill of fare would have been despised by these men Digital order no a2822261 INSPIRATION T Adelaide Montgomery c1872 A amp A PHOTOGRAPHIC CO WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE ON 4 BOX 17 NO 1064 Adelaide Montgomery and her fluffy dog were photographed in the Hill End studio of the American and Australasian Photographic Company Her father died when she was three and she and her brother were raised by their mother Grace who was a dressmaker Adelaide met an unfortunate end in 1892 from an untreated illness as she belonged to a sect that forbad medical intervention Her mother omitted to report her daughter s death tothe police declaring that she was only sleeping till the Lord should awaken her s Digital order no 42823342 MAAS T PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au INSPIRATION Zooming in In this detail from the picture below advertisements in the shop window behind Bernhardt Holtermann are clearly legible as indeed are minutiae such as his watch fob Hill End Dispensary 1872 BEAUFOY MERLIN WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE ON 4 BOX 8 NO 18820 Landlord Bernhardt Holtermann and tenant William A Bray stand outside the new brick Hill End Dispensary Holtermann had a particular fascination with patent medicines and was proud that he had cured fellow passengers of life threatening illnesses on his voyage to Australia in 1858 using medicine he had on board When
85. on the money Focus too is very good although if could change anything on that front it would be to make the tentative boy s right eye the point of optimal sharpness Composition works very well but if the photographer hasn t already done so it might be fun to see how things look if the image was cropped in from the bottom right corner This might balance things up a bit as the weight of the composition is on the left World Refugee Day 2009 by Stephen Barnett I took this image in Darwin on World Refugee Day June 20 2009 Canon EOS 400D EF S 60mm f 2 8 Macro USM lens f 4 at O06s Submit your image for review Send to edmail photoreview com au e JPEG format maxinum 6MB image caption title camera lens used e image description comments Note All photographers retain copyright to their submitted image Photo Review retains the right to publish submitted image in the magazine mag app and on www photoreview com au PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue bb www photoreview com au 00 NET EFFECT Your editor shares six of his favourite recent photographic website finds NatGeo random style gt bit ly 10KW9W2 Showing that they re just as hip as any hip kid with a smartphone and a tablet National Geographic has created its very own Tumblr page Taking minimalism to the logical extreme this is really just a long scrollable sequence of images pulled from National Geographic s massive archive There is
86. or The 16 9 aspect Wide Screen LVF boasts a resolution of 1 744 000 dots and covers 100 of the sensor s field of view It has an eyepoint of approximately 21mm and magnification of 0 6 7x 35mm camera equivalent The 3 inch static touch screen monitor has a resolution of 614 000 dots and a 3 2 aspect ratio It rotates 180 degrees to the side and tilts 270 degrees up and down and has a wide viewing angle The GH3 can support continuous shooting at 6 frames second fps with full resolution for up to 18 consecutive RAW JPEG shots It also offers a high speed mode that records at 20 fps at 4 megapixel resolution for up to 80 consecutive JPEGs using an electronic shutter Five programmable Function Fn buttons up from three in the GH2 plus three dial controls are provided for adjusting exposure white balance and ISO settings Built in Wi Fi IEEE 802 11 b g n enables images and movie clips to be transferred wirelessly to a smart phone or tablet The screens on these devices will display the view captured by the camera s sensor and allow remote control over functions like focus settings exposure compensation ISO white balance and Photo Style adjustments and the shutter release can be triggered remotely via live view using Wi Fi Battery capacity has increased from 330 to 500 shots charge The optional battery grip roughly doubles this capacity and makes it easier to shoot in portrait orientation bb PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56
87. ormat Zoom ratio 4x optical up to 1 95x digital at full resolution or 7 8x at 3M Dimensions wxhxd 122 5 x 60 x 51 5mm Weight 363 grams without battery and memory card AT A GLANCE A compact digicam with traditional film camera styling and controls plus a slightly larger than average image sensor and a 4x optical zoom lens RATING out of 10 Ease of use 8 0 gt Image quality 9 0 gt OVERALL 8 5 gt Build 8 5 Autofocusing 8 5 gt Video quality 8 0 RRP 499 Distributor CR Kennedy amp Company 03 9823 1555 www crkennedy com au ill PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au ADVANCED COMPACT FIXED LENS Fujifilm s X20 comes in black or silver and black and has the same rangefinder styling as most competitors With its metal body and smart leatherette finish it looks classy and feels nice to hold and operate A new X Trans CMOS II sensor without optical low pass filters improves resolution and a new EXR Processor Il reduces noise and improves operating speeds The viewfinder has a new Digital Trans Panel that allows shooting data to be overlaid on the scene and an eye sensor switches between monitor and viewfinder automatically Continuous shooting speeds increase to 12 fps at maximum resolution Phase detection and face detection AF are supported Imatest testing showed an improvement in imaging performance with resolution slightly above expectations for both ARW R
88. photography and the focusing limit of 20cm is unsuitable for close ups But the RX1 is small enough to be inconspicuous for street photography and the manual controls are easy to adjust on the fly Superior low light performance allows high ISO settings to be used in poorly lit situations but the lack of stabilisation may present problems The solid metal body and accessible manual controls leave no room for complaint in both areas hence our 9 0 rating Sadly no viewfinder is provided although optical and electronic finders are available at 599 and 499 respectively The RX1 provides three user programmable memories on its mode dial and 25 functions can be assigned to the rear panel buttons But you ll have to remember which function you ve assigned to which button as the camera provides no assistance The supplied user manual is almost totally useless and poorly indexed The battery and memory card share a compartment in the base of the camera And it is here we have our first beef with the RX1 the battery must be charged in the camera making the camera unusable for several hours 0 PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au You can buy a travel charger BC TRX for 69 and spare batteries cost 69 each But we feel it should have been included with the camera Performance Pictures taken with the review camera were sharp and colourful and both the AF system and exposure system handled a wide range
89. pictures By December 1872 now underwritten by Holtermann Merlin was engaged in an ambitious project to gather images as well as mineral samples natural produce zoological specimens and models of machinery for what they hoped would become a great International Travelling Exposition that would extol the Australian colonies to the world Sadly Merlin would die from pneumonia in September of 1873 and whilst Bayliss continued producing photographs including the massive plates taken from the tower of Holtermann s St Leonard s mansion the Travelling Exhibition never eventuated Although their ambitions weren t fully realised thanks to Holtermann Merlin and Bayliss this great collection s unparalleled window into 19th Century Australian colonial life is as enduring a monument as any they might have wished for 18 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au August Gondolf 1873 A amp A PHOTOGRAPHIC CO WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE ON 4 BOX 22 NO 663 Five year old August Gondolf poses on his horse tricycle in the studio of the American and Australasian Photographic Company Hill End in 1873 The image is reminiscent of Claude Monet s 1872 painting of his son Jean on a similar expensive machine in Argenteuil a suburb of Paris Young August was son of miner Peter Gondolf a partner in the Oxon and Gondolf mine which was situated on the ridge of Hawkins Hill just outside the Golden Quarter Mile His fashionabl
90. printing expertise The secrets of success lie in understanding the printer s limitations setting up the printer correctly and using the right printing paper We ll cover these factors in this feature Image Choices You can print both colour and monochrome images covering subjects as different as landscapes portraits and interiors However some image types produce better results than others We obtained the best looking prints from images with plenty of detail and bright vibrant colours Images with subtle tonal nuances are more difficult to print well partly because laser printers tend to boost contrast but also because it is more difficult to reproduce subtle transitions in pastel hues with a four colour printer Monochrome prints made with the B amp W setting were free of colour casts but different printers reproduced our original with different densities One printer the Canon lightened the image by approximately 1096 while another the Samsung darkened it by roughly the same amount Monochrome prints made with the colour setting always had colour casts Some were slight enough to overlook but others were quite obvious Laser Printers Limitations Conventional consumer colour laser printers transfer powdered toner to receiving paper using an electrostatic process Heat bonds the toner to the paper The resolution of the resulting print is decided by how finely the powdered colours have been ground and the settings
91. reaking the speed limit Extreme Resolution Ultimate Clarity Classic Design amp the World s fastest 4 3 Auto Focus of 0 08sec FUJIFILM www fujifilm x com
92. rn You knew exactly where it was on the street if it was well sited or on some back street tucked away If you had your business photographed they d publish it in 25 places around town hotels and so on so that it was advertising for you as well think to be honest they were a little bit ahead of their time Unfortunately the public response appears not to have been quite proportional to the A and A Photographic Company s ambitions So in early 1872 Merlin sold off his Sydney studio and moved to Hill End where thanks to the discovery of substantial gold deposits in 1851 the economic prospects looked more attractive Merlin arrived at Hill End in March and by April had already captured nearly 100 photographs of the goldfields These attracted some favourable publicity and with Bayliss s help Merlin expanded operations to the alluvial goldfields at places such as Canadian Lead and Home Rule On October 19 1872 the 286 kg Holtermann s Nugget was unearthed and Merlin and Bayliss were on hand to record Bernhardt Holtermann striking a nonchalant pose next to the 1 5 metre tall chunk of reef gold The photographers struck gold too Holtermann said Alan Davies was the benefactor everyone dreams of The man with very deep pockets who goes along with your ideas and actually comes up with his own ideas He wants to show Australia off overseas look l Il give you a bigger camera so you can get bigger
93. rp masking and most other sharpening tools work globally across the entire image area For times when you don t want everything to be sharpened a sharpening brush allows you to apply sharpening to small areas of the image It also works by increasing local contrast differences Some other adjustments can be used to make images appear sharper Increasing contrast will often enhance the viewer s perception of sharpness particularly when much of the image is unsharp Increasing saturation may cause bright pure colours to appear sharper than adjacent monochrome detail PHOTOREVIEVV AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au J TIPS EDITING Correcting Images Curves Adjustmen Margaret Brown Using the Curves tool in your image editor to adjust image tones and contrast Whereas the Levels adjustment tool in image editors is a global adjustment that acts across the entire image when you need to tweak tonality in one sector of an image the Curves tool is the one to use It lets you adjust points within an image s tonal range To apply a Curves adjustment do one of the following e Click on Curves in the Image gt Adjustments panel e Choose Layer gt New Adjustment Layer gt Curves Click OK in the New Layer dialog box The adjustment process is based upon a graph in which the horizontal axis represents the input levels original image values while the vertical axis represents the output levels new adjusted values
94. s If space is tight in your camera bag packing the lens with the hood reversed makes good sense But don t forget to fit the hood properly before shooting It s amazing how many people shoot with their lens hood in this reversed position where it has no beneficial effects If you carry your camera with lens attached in a top loading bag or backpack it s safe to leave the lens hood in place to enable you to grab shots quickly You can even leave the lens cap off provided the interior of the bag is dust and grit free Petal shaped and rectangular lens hoods shouldn t be used with zoom lenses whose front elements rotate as the focal Manufacturers covered include Canon Nikon Pentax Sigma Tamron and Tokina Olympus is listed but only the Zuiko 4 3 system lenses are covered Micro 4 3 lenses don t get a look in nor do lenses for Fujifilm s X series cameras Don t expect the recently TIPS BUYING length is changed because they will block part of the image when the lens is adjusted Cylindrical and conical hoods work best with these lenses Hoods and other attachments should be fitted finger tight Screw in hoods should fit securely but still be easy to remove Hoods that have been screwed on too tightly may need to be removed by a camera service technician which is costly If the fit tends to be too tight run your finger across your nose or forehead and use the body oil picked up to lubricate the
95. some close ups Explore the limitations of your lens by taking shots at each end of the zoom range At the wide end experiment to see how close the lens will focus Try some shots of buildings to see how much it distorts vertical and horizontal lines some cameras provide in camera corrections for distortion to overcome such problems Look at how perspective changes when you look up at a subject and when you look down Use the tele end for portraits both formal and candid And use the position of your subject and the lighting to their best advantage If you don t have studio lights for formal portraits natural daylight shining through a window is a tried and proven lighting technique It s easy to brighten the shadowed side of the subject s face with a reflector made from a sheet of white card For candid shots it s best to shoot quickly and capture the moment rather than fussing about the lighting Smaller interchangeable lens cameras with touch screens are great tools for candid and street photography because they re inconspicuous and the touch shutter control lets you shoot from the hip and avoid attracting attention PHOTOREVIE V AUSTRALIA Issue 56 www photoreview com au Telephoto lenses create an impression of compressed perspective Find out how much your lens compresses by photographing a fence or line of trees Check out the lens s bokeh by shooting a portrait or close up with the widest aperture setting Tr
96. sor features a 35mm f 2 lens in a compact classically styled camera body RATING out of 10 gt Build 9 0 Ease of use 9 0 Autofocusing 8 5 gt Still image quality JPEG 8 5 RAW 9 0 gt Video quality 8 0 gt OVERALL 8 5 RRP 2999 Distributor Sony Australia 1300 720 071 WWW SOny com au ADVANCED COMPACT FIXED LENS Sony Cyber shot DSC RX1 Sony s Cyber shot DSC RX1 is the first compact camera with a 24 megapixel full frame sensor At 113 3mm wide 65 4mm high and 69 6mm thick it weighs just under half a kilogram with battery and memory card installed An aperture ring on the barrel of the Sonnar 35mm lens requires you to use the camera with two hands Manual focusing is achieved by turning the ring on the lens but there s no auto setting so the ring is disabled in the S and Auto modes While the ring turns smoothly it s not coupled to the lens optics so there s not much tactile feedback A distance scale is displayed on the monitor for stills shooting but not in movie mode The MF Assist setting magnifies the centres of the frame in MF mode or zooms in on the selected AF point in DMF mode Landscape photographers may find the lens angle of view too narrow although it s almost ideal for shooting vertical panoramas Portrait photographers will find it wide enough for environmental portraits but too short for head and shoulders shots It s too short for wildlife sports and action
97. taking photographs without consent after an individual objected to the photographer who also happened to be a photography teacher taking photographs of his friend without permission The photographs were taken on an iPhone in a public space and the photographer according to a friendly witness did not engage in any furtive or dodgy behaviour CCTV footage tendered to the court merely showed him sitting and snapping away from time to time The young man objecting to the photography was somewhat drunk and belligerent and snatched the iPhone from the photographer and handed it over to a policeman The policeman according to the prosecution took the photographer into custody for his own protection and he was charged with disorderly behaviour The magistrate noted on reviewing the CCTV footage that there were many more disorderly people present than the photographer He confirmed that under pa a E y md Gal e ies m a d Iul Australian law and given the circumstances the photographer did not have to seek the permission of the subject who could not reasonably expect not to be photographed Nonetheless he was guilty of disorderly behaviour because members of the public did object to him taking photos without permission As a result his behaviour caused offence and so could be considered disorderly Guilty as charged As Julian Tennant a friend of the guilty party
98. ter and TV screens can typically only handle 72 to 100 lines per inch corresponding to pixel resolutions of 72 to 100 ppi Both will down sample higher resolution images How Sharp Can an image contain too much perceived detail Most definitely Some subjects need to be reproduced with lots of detail landscapes being a prime example They are usually photographed with wide angle lenses and MTF and Sharpness As we explained in the previous article MTF modulation transfer function is a measurement of the relationship between resolution and contrast The closer the 10 lines mm curve is to 1 the higher the contrast and the better the ability of the lens to separate the line pairs The closer the 30 lines mm curve is to 1 the better the resolving power and sharpness of the lens If the MTF graph for a lens shows the 10 line mm curve to be greater than O 6 it s considered a satisfactory performer Lenses for which the 10 line mm curve is greater than O 8 deliver excellent image quality Increasing contrast can create an impression of amp reater sharpness here we can apply a simple rule of thumb the wider the angle of view the more detail is required in the picture Don t be afraid to close the lens aperture down to the point at which diffraction begins to reduce resolution usually somewhere between f 8 and f 16 when shooting with a wide angle lens For portraits and close ups the situation changes and it b
99. ter x L 67 4 x 99 9mm Weight 360 grams AT A GLANCE The smallest and lightest full range f 2 8 telephoto zoom lens with dust and splash proof construction for M4 3 cameras RATING out of 10 Build 9 0 gt Image quality 8 8 gt OVERALL 8 5 RRP 1699 Distributor Panasonic Australia 132 600 WWW panasonic com au gt Handling 9 0 Versatility 8 8 BUYERS GUIDE FX LENS Canon EF 24 70mm f 4L IS USM Canon s EF 24 70mm f 4L IS USM zoom lens provides a lighter more affordable alternative to the EF 24 Omm f 2 8L USM lens While it s a stop slower than its sibling the f 4 lens is roughly 200 grams lighter and stabilised with a claimed compensation of up to four f stops for normal shooting It also includes a macro setting that focuses down to a couple of centimetres with 2 5 f stops of shake correction Constructed on a metal foundation with a solid chromed mounting plate and high quality polycarbonate cladding the review lens met professional quality standards It is dust and moisture resistant with internal focusing The ultrasonic motors ensure fast quiet autofocusing with FTM full time manual over ride The review lens turned in a sterling performance in our Imatest tests and the image stabilisation system worked as well as expected Edge softening was detectable at all focal lengths up to about f 5 6 Lateral chromatic aberration was consistently negligible Bokeh was fairly
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101. to 600 x 600 dpi 2400 x 600 dpi quality The three printers we tested from left FujiXerox DocuPrint CP205 Samsung CLP 680DW Canon LBP7200Cadn 4 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au table books that sell for 50 or more However that said there are some common faults that can appear in prints from laser printers 1 Track marks on the surface of the paper caused by the paper feed system You can t do much to prevent them although their visibility can be reduced by laminating the prints 2 Gloss differential where different tones have different shininess when the print is viewed from a shallow angle This can also occur with inkjet printing and is reduced by laminating the prints 3 Metamerism in which colours look different under different types of lighting Almost all laser prints will appear warmer in tone under incandescent lighting but take on a greenish colour cast under fluorescent lights You can t do anything to prevent this 4 Each printer will reproduce colour balance brightness and contrast in slightly different ways which can influence the end result 5 Colour and brightness banding can be visible in some prints It s usually quite subtle but indicates variation in the density with which the toner has been applied All laser printers leave the factory calibrated for document printing not photo printing Default settings are based on standard office printin
102. tremely rare Sixty years ago these huge plates along with thousands of others were stored not in the safety of the State Library s archive room but in a garden shed in the Sydney suburb of Chatswood The massive negatives are part of an extraordinary 3500 image collection and they had been sitting in Mary Holtermann s garden shed for almost 80 years by the time they were T IN WU SN CS East Circular Quay 1873 BEAUFOY MERLIN WET PLATE GLASS NEGATIVE ON 4 BOX 60 NO 359 This photograph of waterfront clutter at East Circular Quay in September INSPIRATION ah 1873 is one of the last photographs taken by Beaufoy Merlin In the foreground delivery carts queue to board the Milsons Point paddle steamer The two storey shed in the centre of the image is the Sydney Rowing Club built in August 1870 and the tower to the right is Fort Macquarie demolished in 1901 for the electric tram sheds which were demolished for the Sydney Opera House in 1958 Barely visible in the right background is HMS Clio which left Sydney in October 1873 Merlin died of pneumonia following influenza at his home in Leichhardt Sydney on 27 September 1873 4 Digital order no a2825071 r 4 n 7 re discovered in the early 5Os Happily for us the delicate negatives were stored in cedar and tin boxes which protected them from the vagaries of Sydney s climate Credit for the re discovery of the historical photographi
103. tuations the photographer will normally use a shallow depth of field to focus the viewer s attention on the subject by blurring the background In most cases this is achieved with a wide lens aperture which creates a relatively shallow plane of focus Background regions become out of focus as a result The appearance of the background blurring can affect viewers perceptions of the attractiveness of a photograph The lens plays a vital role in determining how smoothly background tonality is rendered Differences in aperture shapes and lens aberrations can cause some lenses to blur out of focus areas in a way that pleases the eye while others will produce blurring that is distracting or unattractive The image format lens focal length selected aperture camera to subject distance position of the subject within the scene and shapes and patterns within the subject can also influence bokeh quality So can tonal relationships with respect to foreground and background 04 PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au brightness and colours within the subject Backgrounds containing patches of brightness and darkness or strongly contrasting colours can become busy looking even with lenses that normally produce attractive bokeh Similarly a lens with relatively indifferent bokeh can produce attractive looking pictures when the background to the subject is evenly lit with soft and harmonious tones In principle the
104. ue 38 O Issue 46 U Issue 54 O Issue7 Issue 15 O Issue 23 O Issue 31 Issue 39 Issue 47 U Issue 55 Signature O Issue8 Issue 16 CI Issue 24 Issue 32 Issue 40 U Issue 48 AII prices include 10 GST and delivery within Australia J Digital SLR rd Edition 29 95 J Mastering Digital Photography 3rd Edition 19 95 J Printing Digital Photos 6th Edition 19 95 Post Capture 19 95 International please add 15 per delivery outside Australia Total order ___ Gift from LJ Extend existing subscription Phone If you d like to receive the Photo Review Free Email Newsletter please tick here If you d like to occasionally receive photography related product information please tick here Please send completed form to Media Publishing Reply Paid 78202 CLONTARF NSW 2093 No postage stamp required if mailed within Australia INSIDER sharpness Acutance and Resolution Margaret Brown How these important parameters affect the appearance of your photos This Insider is a follow up to one we published in Issue 46 about reading lens manufacturers Modulation Transfer Function MTF graphs We felt many readers would welcome a more detailed explanation of how these key parameters work and interact to influence our perception of image sharpness whether it be in a printed photograph or an image displayed on a monitor screen First some definitions Sharpness is
105. uences have been my lecturers teachers and fellow students and l ve done a lot of reading and looking at the work of Australian and international photographers It s a long list but more recently Eugene Richards has been a big influence He s covered a lot of lesser talked about issues in the United States since the 1960s In particular his most recent project War is Personal looking at the ongoing effects of the Iraq War on US veterans and their families has had an impact on me In my honours year started doing something similar about Australian war vets and their families and I m continuing with that There are a lot of historical references use but try to combine that with more contemporary influences Ed Kashi Ed Ou Ben Lowy Dominic Nahr Jonas Bendiksen l ve been following the World Press Photo contest for a few years It s a good way to be exposed to work by the big names and some unknowns who make the ranks Did the degree teach you how to approach documentary photography in a philosophical sense The course is split into three distinct streams art commercial and photojournalism documentary In the latter we did news INSPIRATION soon discovered visual storytelling and developed a social conscience PHOTOREVIE AUSTRALIA Issue 5b www photoreview com au 00 INSPIRATION e pia K tA C MN SREY in Mes Qian isk i Lo Co m
106. used in the printer driver Powder toners have a couple of advantages they don t dry out if the printer isn t used for a while and they also produce very sharp printed text and deep rich blacks Toners come in generous packs which means you don t need to keep changing cartridges as you do with a Test Printers Our initial tests were carried out on three typical entry level A4 business printers the FujiXerox DocuPrint CP205 which is priced at around 250 RRP This printer claims a resolution of 1200 x 2400 dpi consumer inkjet Laser printers are faster than inkjets and also cheaper to run However they only use four toner colours cyan magenta yellow and black These are the traditional CMYK colours of commercial printing and their tonal gamut is less than that of modern inkjets with six or more colours It s not really fair to compare the output colours of a laser printer with the colours and tonal subtlety produced by a six or eight colour inkjet A fairer comparison is with printed books which are also reproduced through four colour printing In our experience an entry level laser printer can match and often exceed the print quality of many commercially distributed coffee We also tested a Samsung CLP 680DW which is priced at around 550 and claims to output at 9600 x 600 dpi 600 x 600 x 4 bit The third printer we tried was a Canon LBP7200Cdn RRP 599 which lists its print resolution as up
107. uying habits and technological preferences of what could be seen as the top end of the market More than 50 of the 357 survey respondents classified themselves as advanced or pro semi pro with a further 36 percent the modest ones regarding themselves as mid level Three quarters of these photographers regularly shoot RAW files to achieve best possible image quality despite the extra steps required in the conversion process That alone defines them as seriously fair dinkum digital photographers About the same number edit their photos regularly Sixty percent take more than 2000 photos per year and an extraordinary 9396 take more than 500 photos per year Gear of choice is a high end or mid level DSLR with only 22 using an entry level DSLR Just 26 use a mirrorless interchangeable model It seems that the SCS CPI FYI Ar C LENT I CXS i ACE C 018 el K el r It s interesting to note the relative lack of interest in mirrorless interchangeable models among Photo Review readers though while only 26 regularly use one 82 want to see them reviewed in the magazine Latest figures from Japanese camera manufacturers association CIPA show a dipping global market for mirrorless cameras This may be a temporary lull or an indication that they just haven t managed to cross the chasm after attracting an early adoptor following The next six months should make the position clearer CIPA predicted in January
108. y a few different angles and you ll soon learn how the lens handles highlights and how to avoid choppy looking backgrounds Finally explore the focal lengths between these extremes See which focal lengths work best with different types of subjects Try walking towards a subject with the lens set mid way in the zoom range instead of just zooming in You might be surprised at how the perspective in the shot is changed by the focal length setting Once you have explored the potential of your lens you will also understand its limitations And your photography will improve as you master each focal length Many photographers keep using their first kit lens for the life of the camera body For some one or two kit lenses will cover all the shooting situations they encounter The only reason to consider other lenses is when you need different focal lengths or larger maximum apertures ALGA Margaret Brown Y Why you shoulc We re big fans of lens hoods because they ensure the imaging light that reaches the camera s sensor is not contaminated by scattering and internal reflections both of which produce lens flare Flare only occurs when light from a very bright source such as the sun strikes the front element of the lens It is never seen in photographs taken with the light source behind the photographer or well away from the lens axis So there will be some situations and lenses for which
109. zo com au info eizo com au rT PHOTOREVIEW AUSTRALIA Issue www photoreview com au Ap k P d 3 Focallength 200mm Exposure 1 10 180 sec 501000 Picture Perfect Telephoto That Delivers SP 70 200mm F 2 8 Di VC USD aos 100 Performance 100 Resolution JEW A fraction of the cost Di Seres _ Tamron s long awaited new SP Super Performance lens has arrived Years in the making Tamron have now engineered their award winning proprietary VC Vibration Compensation technology into the class leading 70 200mm f 2 8 lens This compact full size telephoto zoom lens offers serious photographers the power to capture any moment from afar while preserving it in high fidelity Model A009 Di Digitally Integrated lens designed for digital APS C and full size SLR camera sensors Compatible mounts Canon Nikon Sony The Sony mount does not include VC as Sony digital SLR bodies already include image stabilization functionality TAM find out more at wwWw tamron com au 1 l RC on n New eyes for industry LENSES Making the Most of Standard Zoom Lenses Margaret Brown We begin a new series of articles on different lens types by looking at standard kit zooms Most people buying an interchangeable lens camera for the first time will opt for the kit lens bundled with the camera When you re buying an entry or mid level camera it s a convenient w

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