Photography Information: DJI Mavic 3 Basic, Crazy SanDisk SSD Drive Sale

The bushes within the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere have nearly misplaced their leaves. Thus a serious season for panorama photographers is slowly coming to an finish. What about wildlife photographers? Within the northern hemisphere, it has change into a bit poorer by way of species richness; a number of species have fled south for the winter or hibernated. We’re left with persistent, hardy animal residents – though maybe with some lovely snow round them for pictures.

And what about you, tropical colleagues? For you, the photographic harvest by no means ends. Maybe now’s the most effective time to {photograph} Spectacled Bears in Ecuador. Now in November, it can save you some huge cash on an African safari, plus you’ll get some fantastically dramatic clouds into your photos. And what about Antarctica, the place the season is simply starting? It appears the climate there proper now’s a balmy -40°, and progressively getting hotter. Good day to any of our Antarctic readers!

Irrespective of the place you reside, I hope you may have good pictures plans for November and past.

Current Bulletins

Canon Speedlite EL-5: A brand new, cheaper different to the EL-1 flash, particularly designed for the EOS R system. For the price of $399 you get a modeling lamp and lithium-ion rechargeable battery permitting recharge time of 0.1 to 1.2 seconds and 350 to 2450 flashes (relying on flash energy). Mud and moisture resistance equal to the EOS R5. The max information quantity is round 60m/169.9ft @200mm (at approx. ISO 100).

Fujifilm XF 30mm f/2.8 R LM WR Macro Lens: Considerably overshadowed by the newly launched X-T5, but an attention-grabbing lens offering 1:1 magnification, weather-sealed design and compact weight and dimensions (60 x 69.5 mm; 195 g). Price $599.

AstrHori 28mm F13 2X Macro Probe Lens: The beforehand rumored lens is lastly introduced. It can provide a two-piece design for higher transport, 2x magnification, minimal working distance from the entrance lens of 8mm, its personal LED gentle supply, and the power to shoot underwater macro (solely the entrance tube is allowed to submerge about 25cm). The principle factor it affords over the Laowa probe lens is a lower cost by about half. For commonest mounts, it’s priced at $739.

DJI Mavic 3 Classic: The third drone of DJI’s Mavic 3 sequence. The most important variations in comparison with the common Mavic 3 are the shortage of a telephoto lens and the lower cost ($1600 vs $2050 together with a distant). This may make the “Basic” an important selection for a lot of photographers, when you didn’t want the small-sensor, 12-megapixel telephoto camera on the usual Mavic 3. Price $1,599 for the drone with the RC-N1 Distant.

The Rumor Mill

Xiaomi 12S Extremely idea: An attention-grabbing imaginative and prescient of Leica and Xiaomi partnership

Leica lenses as a part of a smartphone? When you heard that, you would possibly suppose that Leica was designing a smartphone lens – not {that a} smartphone might connect Leica M lenses. However on this case, it’s the latter! The Chinese language smartphone producer Xiaomi entered right into a partnership with Leica a while in the past. The most recent fruit of their collaboration appears to be like very unconventional certainly. Along with its personal, built-in lenses, this idea smartphone would permit you to mount M-series lenses to the cellphone through an adapter. A 1″-type sensor dominates the again of the cellphone. Will this idea ever see real-world manufacturing? In that case, “I simply took it on my cellphone” might imply much more than it does now.

By way of Leica Rumors

New options in Seize One 23 to be revealed quickly

When you look intently on the BH Photo link that permits you to buy Seize One 22, you’ll see that the successor, serial quantity 23, is already knocking on the door. When ought to it arrive? As early as round November eighth. What new options the brand new launch will carry are nonetheless shrouded in thriller, however I imagine I’ll have the ability to reveal all within the subsequent Photography Information.

Photograph Contest Nook

Portrait: Self and Others

• Subject: Portrait or self-portrait
• Charges: $39 for five photos, $6 every further.
• Prize: 35 photos shall be chosen for the gallery exhibition and 40 for the net gallery.
• Deadline: November 14

AAP Magazine #28 Streets

• Subject: Road
• Charges: $30 for the 3 first photos, $5 for every further picture
• Prize: Winners will obtain $500 (1st), $300 (2nd) and $200 (third) in money prizes and their images shall be revealed in AAP Journal.
• Deadline: November 15

Single Photo Call 2022: THE YEAR IN PHOTOS

• Subject: Your finest images capturing the occasions of 2022. Pictures shall be used for the calendar.
• Charges: Free
• Prize: 13 winners, $40 every
• Deadline: November 18

Good Offers and New Gross sales

B&H Photograph is launching its Vacation Head Begin particular with the subtitle “Beat the Rush.” As a part of the promotion, they’ve prolonged all returns on B&H by February 1st, plus applied numerous gross sales. Among the many offers to this point, essentially the most wonderful I’ve seen to this point is the massive sale on SanDisk excessive transportable SSD exhausting drives, making them lower than half the standard value. Those deals are found here. A 2TB transportable SSD for $150 is loopy, and it was once $450.

For some photographers, even full body is small. If that’s true for you, right here’s an attention-grabbing low cost: The Pentax 645Z body and 75mm lens set may be purchased with a $2,700 low cost, for a present value of $4,997. When you want a good longer lens, particularly the Pentax smc FA 645 300mm f/4 ED (IF), which is equal to a 200mm focal size on full-frame, it can value you a mere $997 (was $4,797 – and no, I haven’t made a typo with these costs). A 35mm equal is the Pentax smc FA 45mm f/2.8 lens for $1,095 (was $1,297). Good set, don’t you suppose? You could have already missed the autumn foliage, however winter on medium format may be magical too.

Now I’ve a suggestion from the alternative finish of the photographic world – a camera for a very completely different goal, with a a lot smaller sensor. The Insta360 ONE R 1″ Edition motion camera, a GoPro different, is now out there at a reduced value of $220 from $330.

Different Pages of Curiosity

Earlier than the celebrated Nature magazine publishes the year’s best science photographs this December, check out those that caught the editors’ eye in 2021. You’ll see that scientific pictures, slightly than being a dry description of actuality, can have a substantial amount of aesthetic enchantment.

Within the Good Offers and New Gross sales part, I discussed the Insta360 ONE. When you’re undecided what such a camera could be good for, maybe the next video will present some inspiration. On this case, the camera is mounted neither on the selfie stick of a good looking woman nor on the helmet of a motorbike racer, however on the again of an eagle. The eagle flies past the castle in Hohenschwangau, Germany, which was the inspiration for Disney Cinderella Citadel.

Lastly, let’s take to the skies as soon as extra. A while in the past, Peter Juracka – a scientific photographer, hydrologist, mountaineer, and avid drone pilot – determined to mix two of his passions collectively. A ardour for mountains and a ardour for drones. And since Juracka is a madman (sorry, Peter, for saying it right here in public), he took his DJI Phantom 3 Superior with him to one of many highest mountains on the planet, K2. Out of this journey got here a world record in high-altitude drone flying. Though this video shouldn’t be new, it’s positively value watching.

Have an excellent week and good gentle.