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Last Breaths
It’s the photographs of children that get you. Premature babies packed together in intensive care. A shrouded toddler in a morgue mourned by her brother. A child suffering from shrapnel cuts on a filthy bench clutching a packet of candy. A four-year-
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Tony Kemplen on the … Zeiss Ikon Contax IIa
In Europe, quality 35mm camera manufacture in the middle of the last century was dominated by two German giants, Leitz and Zeiss Ikon. Leitz made the Leica, while Zeiss made the Contax. Both were high-end rangefinders with interchangeable lenses. App
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Picture Perfect: A Century of Fashion Photography from the National Portrait Gallery
Until 20 April, Gainsborough’s House, Sudbury, Suffolk See gainsborough.org for opening times As a collection of ‘fashion greats’, this a superb exhibition. Including 29 photographs which span across ten dacades, some of the big names include Cecil B
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More Sigma RF Mount Lenses
SIGMA has announced UK pricing and availability for the 16mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary and 23mm F1.4 DC DN | Contemporary prime lenses for Canon RF mount. These are for APS-C cameras, so there is still no sign of Canon allowing third parties to make
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Leica SL3-S Lands, With Many New Features
LEICA has announced the SL3-S as the latest addition to its SL System, which combines high-end photography and video features. The SL3-S features a new BSI CMOS full-frame sensor with 24MP native resolution, 48MP and 96MP multishot modes, and a new A
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Final Analysis
‘I seem to have difficulty with reality – to understand things. But photography helps me deal with it.’ I was looking at the work of Wedgwood Stevenson who came to a workshop with renowned photographic artist Mari Mahr at my Photographers Place in 19
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This Week We Asked...
Jay Murfitt Get back on race tracks and enjoy life again. Richard Krawiec @KrawiecRichard Try harder to drop the addiction of over-post processing… Tina Prior Take more photos. Upgrade my camera. Practice. Practice. Practice. Enjoy. Caroline Benne
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The Art Of Colour
What influences us? Which books and images and movies become part of our visual psyche? I worked with photographer Pete Turner in his Carnegie Hall Tower studio for 18 months, starting in late 1968. Photographer Art Kane had a studio on the opposite
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This Week’s Contributors
Hollie finds out more about top US colour master Eric Meola’s work Amy speaks to one of the authors of a new book celebrating the work of Weegee The AP regular writes about Palestinian photojournalism prizewinner Samar Abu Elouf Our chief reviewer te
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Sony Alpha A1 II
When Sony launched its original Alpha 1 at the start of 2021, it offered an unprecedented combination of resolution and speed. This was a camera that could shoot 50MP images at 30 frames per second and record 8K 30p video. Now the firm has transplant
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Email ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk Editorial Group Editor Nigel Atherton Deputy Editor Geoff Harris Technical Editor Andy Westlake Features Editor Amy Davies Technique Editor Hollie Latham HuckerOnline Editor Joshua WallerDeputy Online Editor Jessica MillerOn
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Remembering An Olympus Stalwart
WE ARE sad to report the death of Barry Taylor, a former managing director of Olympus UK. Barry died on 2 January at the age of 86, having retired from Olympus in 1998. ‘He inherited the role from importer David Williams, and Olympus became the first
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Making A Good Impression
THIS gorgeous image appears in Impressionism - From Photography To Painting, a new book by Vietnam-based photographer, Réhahn. The book pays tribute to the revolutionary Impressionist painters who inspired the French-born photographer, and reveals hi
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PNY RP60 Portable SSD
● £91 (1TB), £233 (2TB) ● pny.com The PNY RP60 is a rugged portable solid-state drive (SSD) designed for photographers and videographers on the go. It employs a USB-C connector for use with computers, smartphones, tablets and other devices, promising
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Rotolight Reborn
BACK in September, photography and video lighting specialist Rotolight went into administration. The brand is now back, but run by a different company – headed up by former Tiffen executive Daniel Waite. ‘I am no stranger to Rotolight as my other com
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SECOND-HAND CLASSIC Canon EOS 6D Mark II
The Canon EOS 6D Mark II arrived in 2017, five years after the original 6D. At the time it was one of Canon’s more affordable full-frame cameras and presented an appealing set of features to enthusiasts who fancied the traditional styling and chunky
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Inbox
I was a professional film photographer from 1976-2007. I used an early digital camera for some low-res stuff near the end of that period. Last year I became obsessed with getting a new camera. Finally I decided that I would first give some of my exis
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Best Buys
IN ASSOCIATION WITH ● £499 ● explore.omsystem.com This latest model in a long line of class-leading rugged cameras is waterproof to 15m, shockproof against a 2.1m drop, crushproof and freezeproof. The 25-100mm equivalent lens is paired with a 12MP se
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Budget Android Phones With Decent Camera Specs
IT’S BEEN a busy week for new smartphones, with a series of reasonably priced Android handsets coming out from various Xiaomi sub-brands. Top of the range is the Redmi Note 14 Pro and Pro+, which both feature a 200MP main camera with image stabilisat
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It's Good To Share
The AP Pic of the Week winner will receive a beautifully framed print of their winning image worth up to £100. If you Love it, Frame it! ThisPicture.com is an experienced, high-quality framing company with a unique, easy-to-use website. Build single
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Spectacularly Absurd
Born Ascher Fellig in what is now Ukraine, Weegee ‘the Famous’, is one of the best known Magnum photographers, primarily producing work in the USA in the middle of the 20th century. Weegee moved to New York in 1909 with his family, starting work as a
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Join the Club
When was the club founded? Midlothian Camera Club was founded in 1972, and was originally known as Esk Valley Camera Club. It is one of the few clubs in Scotland which owns its own premises, two merged mill workers’ cottages in Lasswade. What does t
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Photoshop Gets More Collaborative
ADOBE has announced the latest updates to Photoshop, with a new feature called Live Co-Editing enabling users to work more collaboratively – multiple designers can edit a single Photoshop document across different computers, for example. Live Co-Edit
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Welcome
Most cameras shoot colour by default these days, yet for most of us the fact that our photos contain colours is incidental. But colour can be used as a compositional building block just as lines and shapes can be. When we compose our images around th
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The American dream
Chris Porsz, a former paramedic, has published no fewer than ten volumes of his photography, with titles that include Barking!, Reunions and Just be Kind. He has an eye for the absurd and a love for the genre, so it’s always a treat to flick through
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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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Reader Portfolio
You can see more of Nejc’s work at ilenic.photos, or on Instagram @nejc.ilenic How did you get into photography? I first became interested in photography in high school when I got access to an entry-level Sony DSLR. There was a long pause during my
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Email ap.ed@kelsey.co.uk Editorial Group Editor Nigel AthertonDeputy Editor Geoff HarrisTechnical Editor Andy WestlakeFeatures Editor Amy DaviesTechnique Editor Hollie Latham Hucker Online Editor Joshua Waller Deputy Online Editor Jessica Miller Onl
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Get Perfect Portraits With Skylum Aperty
One of the best new photo-editing tools for portraits is Aperty, from AI-editing pioneers Skylum. Aperty has been designed in close collaboration with top portrait photographer Julia Trotti, and is a real time-saver for anyone who takes people shots.
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This Issue’s Contributors
Editing expert Rod compares Adobe’s AI denoising process against DxO and Topaz Labs Will Cheung checks out the latest moves in Luminar Neo, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom Improve your phone pictures, using free, inbuilt AI editing tools. Amy is your g
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