Innholdsfortegnelse for 2/27/2024 i Amateur Photographer

Ask skilled street photographers to name a giant on whose shoulders they stand, and Joel Meyerowitz will crop up. We’re honoured to be running a major interview with this hugely influential photographer, who helped define what we mean by ‘street,’ while also being an early colour pioneer. Coming back to the present, read Joshua Waller’s first impressions of the new Fujifilm X100VI, and editor Nigel Atherton’s experience of shooting with the stylish Nikon Z f in Shanghai; plus we explore Super Resolution mode, a great way to get highly detailed images or enhancing existing ones. Meanwhile, Andrew Fusek Peters explains how he got a super-rare image of light refracting through a (not-so-rare) blue tit’s wings, and we check out Sigma’s new 14mm F1.4 DG DN Art lens. Diverse? You said…

To commemorate Fujifilm’s 90th year, there’ll also be a Limited Edition version of the X100VI. It’ll only be made in silver, and will feature the original Fuji logo embossed on the top plate and the front of the lens cap. Each camera will be individually numbered on the hot shoe, with a limited run of only 1,934 available. They’ll come in a special box with an exclusive strap and a soft shutter release button, along with additional commemorative materials, and be priced at £1,934. Worldwide, the limited edition will be available from 28 March. In the UK, it will only be sold direct from The Fujifilm House of Photography in Covent Garden, London, with sales starting from the 6th of April.…

INNOVATIVE Chinese lens maker Laowa is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, and has released its first AF lens on 20 February to mark the milestone. The Laowa AF 10mm f/2.8 Zero-D FF is the widest non-fisheye lens for full-frame cameras. Autofocus is only available for the Nikon Z and Sony FE mounts, however – it’s manual focus only for the Canon RF and L mount versions. ‘Zero D’ in the name stands for Zero Distortion, something which Laowa is claiming even when using the lens wide open. If this is the case, the lens should strongly appeal to landscape photographers, for whom ultra-wideangle lens distortion usually needs fixing at the editing stage. ‘This lens is a game-changer in its class, featuring a remarkable ultra-wide angle of view of 130.4°…

7 daysA week in photography Full disclosure: I have a penchant for quirky, cheap toy cameras. I love the low-fi quality and weird anomalies that cheap plastic lenses produce. I was an early adopter of ‘Lomography’ and have a growing collection of oddball cameras. So I was delighted when the Camp Snap camera appeared on my Instagram feed. Think disposable camera but with a digital sensor instead of a roll of film. It is a delightfully simple camera that I bought for about $60 (£47). The Camp Snap is designed for kids on holiday camps with the idea that they can remain ‘present’ without distraction by screens. So there is no screen. There’s very little to the camera, in fact – a shutter release that doubles as the on-off button…

Cameras Cameras come in three types: DSLRs with optical viewfinders, mirrorless models with electronic viewing, and compact cameras with non-interchangeable lenses Handgrip DSLRs traditionally have relatively large handgrips, while many mirrorless models have much smaller grips to keep the size down. However, some can accept accessory grips to improve handling with larger lenses. Lens mount Each camera brand uses its own lens mount, and mirrorless cameras use different lenses to DSLRs even from the same brand. However, mirrorless models can often use DSLR lenses via a mount adapter. Controls Entry-level cameras tend to have simple, easy-to-understand controls, while more expensive models add lots of buttons and dials to give quick access to settings. Viewfinder The biggest difference between DSLRs and mirrorless cameras is that the latter use electronic, rather than…

JOSHUA WALLER Online Editor Photo kit expert Joshua gets his hands on Fujifilm’s X100VI to bring you a first look JOEL MEYEROWITZ The celebrated photographer is interviewed by AP Acting Features Editor David Clark NIGEL ATHERTON Editor AP’s editor shares his thoughts after using the full-frame mirrorless Nikon Z f in Shanghai JAMES ABBOTT Top pro James looks at in-camera and software-based high-resolution imaging. Which is better? DAMIEN DEMOLDER Former AP editor Damien assesses the Sigma 14mm F1.4 DG DN Art prime lens ANDREW FUSEK PETERS How the wildlife pro shot a unique image of refracted light through a blue tit’s wings…

7 daysA week in photography VANGUARD has announced the Alta Pro 3VRL tripod range, featuring a removable levelling system. A lockable handle on the base enables you to find ‘level’ quickly, while the new tripods also feature the Alta Pro 3VRL Platform 30 that allows you to take over 300g off the weight of the tripod, and change to a completely different tripod set-up, without needing to remove and reattach a head. The base is a 3-section tripod with 30mm diameter legs designed for a stable platform, extending up to 1.8m without using a central column, and delivering a maximum load capacity of up to 25kg. The range will be available in March, with the carbon fibre model costing £399.99. See www.vanguardworld.co.uk…

Until 2 June at MK Gallery, 900 Midsummer Boulevard, Milton Keynes MK9 3QA. Open Tue-Sun, 10am-5pm. This exhibition’s title comes from a quote by Saul Leiter himself: ‘Photographs are often treated as important moments, but really they are fragments and souvenirs of an unfinished world.’ Leiter (1923-2013) spent much of his time capturing those ‘fragments and souvenirs’ and photographed every day for around 60 years. He worked in the same streets in East Village, Manhattan, but always found something new to capture. Born in Pittsburgh, at the age of 23 Leiter famously left his family home and the future his Orthodox rabbi father had planned for him and started a new life in New York. He initially aimed to become a painter, but by the late 1940s was experimenting with…

7 daysA week in photography AP picture of the week Sunday Stroll at the Queen’s House by Charles Chohra Nikon D7500, Sigma 10-20mm, 1/10sec at f/3.5, ISO 100 ‘The Queen’s House is a former royal residence in Greenwich built in the 1600’s. This picture was shot whilst lying on the ground using an ultra-wideangle lens – capturing a moment in time with a fellow visitor having a Sunday afternoon wander down the Queen’s House staircase.’ Instagram: @cityboy_photography Dorset House by Andy Nelson Canon EOS R5, Canon 24-70mm f/2.8L IS USM, 1/100sec at f/5, ISO 125 ‘Dorset House in Marylebone is a photogenic Art Deco wonder. I always enjoy standing here on my commute and waiting for a nice moment. The weather on that day was perfect and the traditional London…

What was your bedroom like as a child? Did your parents oppose the tack, tape and drawing pin or were you able to express yourself from floor to ceiling and across the ceiling? I didn’t have many posters on my wall through choice, fearful of being judged by bedroom visitors. A few made it through the strict selection process. Sting (Gordon Sumner), frontman, songwriter and bassist for new wave band the Police, and David Gower, the elegant, left-handed blond-curly-locked opening batsman for the England cricket team. I’d lie in bed reciting the lyrics of Roxanne, Every Breath You Take, Message in a Bottle and visualise Gower’s caressed top-handed cover drives. Awkward encounter In the mid-noughties I was photographing on assignment for Tatler magazine and found myself in the lavatory at…

HAVE you got nearly $4 million burning a hole in your pocket? The luxury home and studio of legendary photographer Elliott Erwitt in Long Island, New York, is up for sale. Erwitt had continued to work in the studio until his death last November, and the place reflects his puckish character – outside are two Japanese police mannequins designed to scare drivers into slowing down. ‘Elliott always had quirky things like this in and around his house,’ Erwitt’s son-in-law Rick Smolan told the New York Post. For full details see bit.ly/erwitthouse…

Tech Talk Over the past few years, the variety of focus motor systems, all with impressive and sometimes even poetic branding, has burgeoned. So, if you have difficulties differentiating between a Silky-Smooth Voice coil Motor and a Rapid eXtra-silent stepping Drive and you’d like to know how they work, then this article should be of interest to you. The first three autofocus SLRs, the Pentax ME-F(1981), the Nikon F3AF (1983), and the Canon T80 (1985), all had focus motors built into the lens. This made the lenses bulky and unwieldy, and none of them caught on. Alone amongst the manufacturers, Canon persisted with the in-lens motor. The design problems here are to do with torque. Driving torque is how much twisting force a motor can apply, while holding torque is…

In the first instalment of this series on Affinity Publisher, we created a basic but effective business card design, explaining along the way how to add graphics and text frames to your Publisher documents and how to resize and export your work for use at a print bureau. But business cards are only one kind of business stationery, of course. There are other items you might need like letterheads and compliments slips. And, if you have a website, you’ll need a custom graphic for your website banner too. Almost all website designs, themes and templates use a horizontal header at the top, so can you adapt your paper-based branding for this too? Indeed you can. The obvious difference is that here you will be working with pixels not points, but…