5/28/24

Amateur Photographer

Amateur Photographer is the world's oldest weekly magazine for photography enthusiasts

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This Week’s Contributors
Technical Editor AP’s chief reviewer gets his hands on Panasonic’s Lumix S9 and shares his first impressions Deputy Editor Geoff conducts two big interviews this issue: with Francesco Gola and Brian Aris Top pro Emily Endean field tests the new Fujif
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Welcome
Everyone loves a seascape but not everyone agrees on how the restless motion of the sea should be recorded. For me it’s like any other moving subject, like cars and bikes – if you want to convey motion in a still image then you need to use a slow shu
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Panasonic Lumix S9
There’s a dedicated button for using LUTs to apply different colour looks to your images and videos. A new Lumix Lab smartphone app is designed for quick and easy editing and sharing of videos. The rear touchscreen can be positioned at almost any ang
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Manual-focus Pancake Prime
For those who want to make the smallest package with the S9, Panasonic has announced a new slimline pancake lens. The Lumix S 26mm F8 is by far and away the firm’s thinnest full-frame optic, at 18.1mm long, 67.1mm in diameter, and a featherweight 58g
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Compact Kit Zoom Coming
Panasonic has announced the development of its smallest full-frame zoom to date, the Lumix S 18-40mm F4.5-6.3. With an ultra-compact retractable design, it’s clearly designed to be the S9’s primary kit zoom, so it’s a real shame that it won’t be imme
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Canon EOS R1 On The Way
CANON is developing the EOS R1 – a flagship mirrorless EOS R system camera for professional sports photographers. The firm is not giving away many concrete details at this point – for example, we don’t even know the sensor resolution yet. But what we
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Come Closer
THE search is on for the next Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY), in association with Affinity Photo. You have until 14 July to enter the sixth edition of the competition, jointly set up by regular AP contributor Tracy Calder, and be in with
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Royal Mugs
ICONIC royal photographs spanning a century are being shown at the King’s Gallery near Buckingham Palace until 6 October. Highlights include Snowdon’s never-before-seen image of the late Queen; Princess Margaret, Princess Alexandra and the Duchess of
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Botanical Bliss
IF YOU are into garden and plant photography, don’t miss the RHS Botanical Art and Photography Show, taking place from 14 June to 7 July at the Saatchi Gallery, London. It will showcase the work of 23 botanical artists and 18 photographers, represent
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Kodak’s instant Smile
KODAK has released the Smile+ digital instant print camera, which enables you to switch between natural, retro or a star filter by twisting a dial in front of the lens. It features a wideangle f/2.8 lens, a built-in flash and a viewfinder. Like other
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Canon’s First-ever Golf Camera
CANON has announced the PowerShot Golf, a compact action camera designed to help golfers up their game as well as document it. The PowerShot Golf is essentially a laser golf rangefinder with a camera function, enabling golfers to take accurate readin
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Win Big With TECNO
TOP Chinese smartphone maker TECNO has launched its first-ever global photography contest, Shot On CAMON, in partnership with AP. The competition is open until 30 September – you can enter both still images and video – and the prize purse includes ov
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The Life of Brian
‘Seasoned’ is an adjective that’s carelessly applied to a lot of photographers, but with Brian Aris, it’s le mot juste. Over a 60-plus-year career, Brian has gone from being a school leaver in a darkroom, to a top press and NGO photographer in major
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Fit For A King
It’s hard to refuse a request from Annie Leibovitz. In 1978 she persuaded Patti Smith to pose with a fire raging behind her for Rolling Stone (Smith ended up with a scorched back); in 1991 she shot Demi Moore, heavily pregnant and wearing nothing but
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Sigma 50mm F1.2 DG DN Art
There are a couple of points regarding the Sigma 50mm F1.2 DG DN Art lens that immediately got my attention. The first is that it has an exceptionally wide maximum aperture, and the second is that costs about £1,000 less than similar lenses offered b
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Six Is The Best
● 40.2MP APS-C X-Trans CMOS 5 HR sensor ● 35mm-equivalent f/2 lens ● In-Body Image Stabilisation – 6 stops (5-axis) ● Hybrid optical/electronic viewfinder ● Two-way tilting touchscreen ● 6.2K 30p, 4K 60p, and 1080 240p video ● Available in silver or
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NiSi X100 Series NC UV Filter, Metal Lens Hood and Lens Cap
● £79 ● nisioptics.co.uk Without doubt, Fujifilm’s X100VI has been the biggest hit camera of 2024. But one quirk of the X100 design has always been that, in order to keep the camera as slim as possible, the lens doesn’t have a filter thread. Instead,
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Tony Kemplen on the … Olympus Centurion
The Olympus Centurion is one of a handful of SLRs that were made for APS film. It has the characteristics of a bridge camera, and could pass for a digital model from the turn of the century. The specs are pretty similar too, a 4x zoom lens with a cho
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Email ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk Editorial Group Editor Nigel AthertonDeputy Editor Geoff HarrisTechnical Editor Andy WestlakeFeatures Editor Amy DaviesActing Features Editor Ailsa McWhinnieActing Features Editor David ClarkTechnique Editor Hollie Latham H
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Shine A Light
A former engineer and self-taught photographer, Francesco now focuses on long-exposure landscapes, often including lighthouses. As well as running regular courses all over Europe, he is an ambassador for Zeiss, BenQ and NiSi filters. See francescogol
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Inbox
I enjoyed reading the article by David Clark on the work of Peter Mitchell. It highlighted an aspect of documentary photography that to me gets forgotten. How many times have we visited somewhere we used to live or an area where we now live and haven
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It's Good To Share
Canon EOS R5, 70-200mm, 1/20sec at f/10, ISO 200 ‘At sunset, the sun shone straight through the trees creating long shadows; I loved the way everything converged in the middle. I used focus stacking to ensure sharpness throughout and then added my si
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Join the Club
When was the club founded? 1974. What does your club offer to new members? We offer a warm welcome to potential new members and offer up to three meetings on a trial guest basis before they decide whether to join us. We also run basic training on
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Buying Guide
Interchangeable lenses come in a huge array of types for shooting different kinds of subjects IN GENERAL, the easiest way to expand the kinds of pictures you can take is by buying different types of lenses. For example, telephoto lenses let you zoom
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Final Analysis
I recently curated an article for AP on social documentary photographer and photojournalist Sebastião Salgado. In the article, nine experts from different parts of the photographic industry were invited to comment on what makes the Brazilian’s work s

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