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The world’s smallest
CSC with a built-in EVF
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Passionate about photography since 1884
Essential
that you should own, and how to use them
Once
upon a
time
in America
Amazing colour photos of
the US in the 19th century
René
Burri
Tribute to the late, great
Magnum
photojournalist
PLUS
Victoria Grech
This week’s video masterclass looks at the world of audio recording
7days
COVER PICTURES © JEREMY WALKER, COLLECTION MARC WALTER/COURTESY TASCHEN, RENÉ BURRI/MAGNUM PHOTOS
A week in photography
HOW WOULD you like to
own a signed print by one
of the photographic greats?
It sounds expensive, and
usually it would be, but we’ve
persuaded some of the biggest
names in the business to donate prints of their
most stunning images to give away to AP
readers. To be in with a chance of winning one,
we would like you to make a donation to the
NSPCC, then fill in the form on our website. For
as little as a fiver you could own an original
print by Rankin, Art Wolfe, Charlie Waite, or
many others, some of which are worth hundreds
of pounds. How about Barry Lategan’s classic
portrait of Twiggy, or an iconic David Hurn
picture of The Beatles?
This really is an opportunity not to be
missed, so do visit our website at www.
amateurphotographer.co.uk/130prints to
see what’s up for grabs, donate and enter.
Good luck!
Nigel Atherton, Editor
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In this issue
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Three filters you
can’t live without
Jeremy Walker on the
filters that demand a
place in his kit bag
22
A journey
through time
A rediscovered archive of
colour photos bring to life
America at the dawn of the
20th century
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Video
masterclass
In part four, Victoria Grech
explains how audio is key
to a successful video
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A place in history
We pay tribute to
the iconic images of
Magnum’s René Burri
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Appraisal
Damien Demolder
examines your images
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Panasonic Lumix
DMC-GM5
This 16-million-pixel CSC
packs a lot of punch into
a small package
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Sony Carl Zeiss
Vario-Tessar T*
FE 16-35mm f/4
ZA OSS lens
The newest zoom in Sony’s
FE lens range for CSCs
51
Canon PowerShot
SX60 HS
Raw recording and a
staggering 21-1,365mm
zoom range feature in this
Canon bridge model
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ONLINE PICTURE OF THE WEEK
Silo
by Dave Horton
Canon EOS 6D, 24-70mm,
1/50sec at f/11, ISO 100
THIS photograph by Dave Horton
was taken in the Wynyard Quarter
of Auckland, New Zealand. ‘Until
a few years ago, Auckland’s
Wynyard Quarter was land used
as a bulk-storage facility by the
Ports of Auckland,’ says Dave. ‘It is
now being gradually redeveloped
with a mix of office and residential
buildings, plus restaurants and
bars in a waterfront precinct.
‘I went there with the intention
of photographing some of the new
buildings, but the group of tall
concrete silos – relics of the
area’s past – really grabbed my
attention. The whole structure
was interesting, but it was the
smaller-scale details that I
particularly liked and chose to
isolate - the blue-painted ladder
contrasted against the warm tone
of the concrete, and the shadows
cast on the curved wall of the silo.
© DAVE HORTON
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Inbox
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Accessories
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Technical
Support
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Final Analysis
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Each week
choose our favourite
picture posted on the
AP Facebook and Flickr
communities and the AP forum. The
winner will receive a year’s digital
subscription to AP worth £79.99.
If you’d like to see your work published in
Amateur Photographer,
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NEWS ROUND-UP
The week in brief, edited by Chris Cheesman
Pentax 16-85mm lens
Ricoh Imaging has unveiled the HD
Pentax-DA 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6ED DC
WR K-mount lens, which delivers the
35mm equivalent of a 24.5-130mm
focal range. The ‘weather-resistant’
16-elements-in-12-groups optic
features one ED and three aspherical
elements to help minimise distortion.
A Quick-Shift Focus system allows
the user to instantly switch to
manual focus. The lens is due this
month, priced £599.99.
Jazzman dies
aged 78
Jazz photographer David
Redfern has died at the age
of 78. Redfern, who was
described by drummer Buddy
Rich as ‘the greatest jazz
photographer in the world’,
had been battling pancreatic
cancer. Redfern photographed
stars such as Frank Sinatra
and Jimi Hendrix, and founded
picture library Redferns.
© HOWARD DENNER/RETNA/GETTY IMAGES
Maier DVD
If you missed
Finding Vivian
Maier
in the cinema this summer,
the DVD is due out on 10
November. The 84min film is
about the ‘mysterious nanny’
turned photographer Vivian
Maier, who secretly took more
than 100,000 photographs that
were discovered by chance, in
storage lockers, decades later.
The DVD costs £17.99. Visit www.
sodapictures.squarespace.com.
YouTube hit
An online video showing how
Fujifilm makes its XF lenses has
proved a hit on YouTube. Running
for less than 3mins, it shows
technicians coating lenses,
lens-barrel processing, surface
finishing, polishing, assembly,
engraving and final packaging.
© GOKHAN SAHIN / GETTY IMAGES
WEEKEND PROJECT
Student help
High-street chain Calumet is
offering discounts for students
who take part in a £25-a-year
membership scheme. Benefits
include a £50 rental voucher and
20% off inkjet paper, plus gifts
including an 8GB USB stick. Visit
www.calphoto.co.uk/student.
© TOM CARLTON
Letter montage
If you fancy a change from shooting the
same old landscapes and portraits, why
not try this rather unusual, but very
creative, photo project. The idea is to
take individual images of letters and
shapes taken from a variety of everyday
street signs, billboards and the like, then
merge them together in Photoshop to
spell out your name. It is deceptively
challenging, as you must scout out and
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A devastating image
from the Turkey-Syria
border by Gokhan Sahin
This astonishing image from
Getty photographer Gokhan
Sahin shows an explosion rocking
the Syrian city of Kobani during a
reported suicide car-bomb attack
by the militants of Islamic State
(ISIS) group on a People’s
Protection Unit (YPG) position in
the city centre of Kobani. Sahin
was positioned on the outskirts of
Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border,
in the Sanliurfa district of Turkey.
According to Minister of Foreign
Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey
will reportedly allow Iraqi Kurdish
fighters to cross the Syrian border
to fight Islamic State (IS) militants
in the Syrian city of Kobani. In
addition, the United States has
sent planes to drop weapons,
ammunition and medical
supplies to Syrian Kurdish
fighters around Kobani.
BIG
Words & numbers
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record each of the letters you’ll need
from your local area. In turn, it will
change the way you view your
surroundings. Once you get started,
you’ll look at every street sign and
advertisement board in an entirely new
light, as you start to piece together the
letters needed to create your name.
Although it’s tempting, don’t
just stick to shooting letters
on street signs. Try to be a
little more creative in your approach
and look for shapes in your
surrounds that could make up the
letters – like the bicycle wheel ‘O’
in our shot.
You don’t have to spell
your first name using this
technique. If you fancy doing
something a little different, why not
try spelling out the name of your
home town, or even your family’s
last name instead?
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Like the
people you
shoot and
let them
know it
Robert Capa
War photographer and
photojournalist
In order to capture the
most detail in your letters
and to crop out any other
distractions, you may have to shoot
close-up, which will require a lens
that has a relatively good minimum
focusing distance.
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Once you’ve constructed
your final montage, why not
see about getting it printed
via a professional printing service?
The resulting image would make an
eye-catching piece of art when
placed on the wall in your home.
£5,906
Amount raised to convert a
Leica M3 film camera to digital
through the crowdfunding
website Kickstarter.
Visit www.kickstarter.com
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