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Affinity Photo A Low-Cost Photo Editor

Perhaps your first reaction on seeing the title would be – “I am already using Photoshop (or some other editing package) and I am happy. Why should I learn and use another one?”

Samsung Unveils Galaxy Devices

Samsung has introduced a new suite of power devices in its Galaxy Note20 series. The Note20 series comes with an all new S pen, Samsung notes app, Nearby Share, Microsoft’s Your Phone app and advanced gaming features that extend to Galaxy Tab S7 and S7+.

Fujifilm Announces Shoe Mount Flash EF-60

Fujifilm has announced the launch of Shoe Mount Flash EF-60, adding another accessory for the X Series and GFX Series of digital cameras. The EF60 is a compact hot-shoe mount flash, offering the maximum guide number of 60. It can be combined with Fujifilm’s Wireless Commander EF-W1, to enable wireless off-camera flash operation. This allows users to control lighting for creative photographic effects.

Digitising your old films

Having been into photography, since the early 70’s, I have built up a collection of negatives and slides that were filed away and had not seen daylight for decades. Many of these images are memories of friends, family, celebrations and events. Some of them were images that I exhibited in Salons in the 70’s.

Sony Launches Alpha 7S III

Sony has announced the long-awaited addition to its acclaimed Alpha 7S full-frame mirrorless camera series, the Alpha 7S III (model ILCE-7SM3).

Finding New Opportunities in Every Crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it has induced, does not appear to ease any time soon, and its impact on businesses is still far from over. Smart Photography spoke to C. Sukumaran, Director, Consumer System Products and Imaging Communication Products, Canon India, to find out about Canon’s strategies to overcome this crisis.

Unchartered Vistas

Rajiv is an electrical engineer by profession with a passion for photography. He loves to travel and explore the world.

Superior performance for creative professionals

Well-designed technology can simplify life by making it more efficient. As photography enthusiasts, you would agree that the right equipment brings composition, angle and lighting to life. An ideal camera adds soul to your images by working efficiently with your creative thought.

A Flash of Brilliance

Canon announced the EOS 90D, a replacement to the 80D, with a new and more powerful DIGIC 8 processor worldwide, by mid-2019. However, the roads to the Indian test benches seem to be a challenging one for some devices to traverse. We are glad to finally be able to get our hands on this important upgrade from Canon. Here are our observations.

A compact, lightweight, travel lens!

Nikkor Z 24-200 mm f/4-6.3 Zoom Lens

Lenovo Announces Yoga Slim 7i

Lenovo has announced the launch of the Yoga Slim 7i laptop in India. This new premium laptop is designed with time-saving and AI-enabled attention-sensing features, enabling users to complete simple tasks with minimal effort.

Samsung Unveils Galaxy Devices

Samsung has introduced a new suite of power devices in its Galaxy Note20 series.

Postcards from Vasai Fort

Mumbai’s northern suburb of Vasai is a quaint amalgam of old-world charm and modernity.

Finding New Opportunities in Every Crisis

The Covid-19 pandemic and the lockdown it has induced, does not appear to ease any time soon, and its impact on businesses is still far from over. Smart Photography spoke to C. Sukumaran, Director, Consumer System Products and Imaging Communication Products, Canon India, to find out about Canon’s strategies to overcome this crisis.

Fujifilm Announces Shoe Mount Flash EF-60

Fujifilm has announced the launch of Shoe Mount Flash EF-60, adding another accessory for the X Series and GFX Series of digital cameras.

Unchartered Vistas

Sweta Baruah

Sony Launches Alpha 7S III

Sony has announced the long-awaited addition to its acclaimed Alpha 7S fullframe mirrorless camera series, the Alpha 7S III (model ILCE-7SM3).

Olympus Announces 100-400 mm f/5-6.3 IS Lens

Olympus has announced the M.Zuiko Digital ED 100-400 mm f/5.0-6.3 IS lens, a compact, lightweight super-telephoto zoom lens that covers a telephoto focal length of 200-800 mm equivalent and is compliant with the Micro Four Thirds System standard.

EISA Photo Maestro 2020 Winners

The Expert Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) has announced the winners of Photo Maestro 2020. The contest was started with a view to encourage both amateur and semi-professional photographers creating series of pictures who are connected to each other.

Affinity Photo A Low-Cost Photo Editor

Ashok Kandimalla has been in the photographic field for over three decades and has extensive experience in both film and digital photography. Being an electronics engineer by profession and a photographer, he possesses a unique and deep insight into the technical aspects of digital photography and equipment. He has published more than a 100 articles on photography and some of his writings have also been published in the wellknown international magazine Popular Photography.An avid collector of photographic books and vintage cameras, Ashok has a keen interest in the history of photography and a passion for sharing his knowledge on photography through teaching and writing. He is the only Indian photographer to be featured on the Nikon Centenary website. He is presently working as a Management and Engineering consutant. He can be reached at kashokk@gmail.com.

Sony Launches 12-24mm G Master

Sony has announced a new addition to its full-frame lens line-up with the introduction of the FE 12-24mm f/2.8 GM (model SEL1224GM) large-aperture ultrawide zoom lens. The introduction of the zoom lens extends the f/2.8 range of Sony’s G Master series zoom lenses, all the way from 12mm to 200mm.

Panasonic Launches Lumix G100 Camera

Panasonic has launched the Lumix G100, a new digital single lens mirrorless camera designed and developed for content creators.

Optical Engineering Marvel

AF-S Nikkor 120-300MM f/2.8E FL ED SR VR ₹8,06,995

Family Photography post Covid-19

These past few months have been a haze, with the world in the grip of a deadly virus, and a cloud of uncertainty prevailing all over. Entrepreneurs and small business owners suddenly found their business take a turn for the worse, as safety and social-distancing became the need of the hour. Photography is often pegged under the “non-essential services” bucket. Paradoxically, it is creativity and passion of all forms that has kept many of us in high spirits during these deflating times.

With an Eagle Eye

Vineeth was always interested in photography, but it became a serious passion when he started doing bird photography about three years ago. Before that, he did Landscapes and night skies, occasionally. He started photography with a Nikon Coolpix P90 compact camera.

Vivo Launches X50 Series

Vivo has unveiled the X50 and X50 Pro in its new X50 series of flagship smartphones for professional photography.

Leica Introduces M10-R Camera

Leica has introduced a new high-resolution version of the company’s rangefinder camera. With a 40 megapixel colour sensor, the new flagship expands the M10 family, which includes the M10, M10-P, M10-D and M10 Monochrome.

Live Streaming with Your ILC

We are living in a locked-down world where many activities that once needed personal interaction, from schooling to corporate board meetings, are being replaced by their equivalent virtual counterparts. The enabler for all this is streaming. Let us start by understating what streaming means in this context.

Dell Launches XPS 13 and XPS 15

Dell has launched its long awaited XPS series with the XPS 13 9300 and XPS 15 9500. While these new additions to the XPS series boast of beautiful new designs and latest premium computing innovations, Dell claims, that there is much more to XPS than meets the eye.

Canon Launches EOS R5 and R6

Canon has unveiled its much-anticipated full-frame mirrorless cameras, the EOS R5 and EOS R6.