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Digital or film? Digital AND film? CAMERA magazine's focus is to assist readers to choose and use the tools they need to create memorable images, and to enhance the skills that will make them better photographers. No matter what medium, readers are kept up to speed with all the latest rapidly changing film and digital products, news and technologies.

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CAUSE OF THE WILD ROB IRWIN • Only a toddler when his famous father was tragically killed, Rob Irwin has grown up with the same passions for wildlife conservation that he pursues through both his photography and his work at Australia Zoo.

ROB IRWIN’S FIVE TOP TIPS FOR WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY

2021 SONY ALPHA AWARDS • Local talent is on show in the sixth running of the Sony Alpha Awards which is open to photographers, both amateurs and professionals, from Australia and New Zealand.

RAILWAY PORTRAITS FACE TO FACE WITH THE FINAL YEARS OF STEAM • A trusting mother who allowed her two teenage sons to roam the NSW railway system unaccompanied during the 1960s unwittingly enabled the compilation of a unique historic photographic record of the last days of steam. Five books down – and with a sixth in production – the Wheatley brothers are still mining their remarkable archive of railway portraits.

THE DSLR USER’S GUIDE TO BUYING A MIRRORLESS CAMERA • With the development of new DSLRs now all but at an end, the chances are that your next interchangeable lens camera will be mirrorless. Here’s everything you need to know about making the big switchover.

MARKED UP • The first GH5 was a big hit with photographers and video-makers alike, and the much-upgraded model is destined to attract yet more devotees.

MAKING MOVIES

PANASONIC LUMIX DC-GH5 MARK II $2,699

SUPER SAVER • Epson has expanded its refillable ink tank printer range into the photo sector, with the potential for considerable print cost savings over time. However, the EcoTank printers represent a much bigger investment upfront, so do the economics still stack up?

ONE FOR THE ROAD • The external disk drive remains an important tool for photographers and video-makers, and Toshiba’s line-up of Canvio Flex models offer useful capabilities and flexibility.

FRAGMENTS OF LIFE • Paris, transformed by the restrictions imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, provided photojournalist Tony Maniaty with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to recapture the spirit of the golden era of French ‘humanist’ photography and its focus on people “getting through”.

TWO LENSES… ARE BETTER THAN ONE? WHY THE TLR IS STILL A TOP CLASSIC • For quite a while - essentially from the 1920s to the 1950s - the twin lens reflex ruled supreme in the rollfilm camera world, but then along came the SLR and it quickly fell out of favour. Yet the TLR configuration was popular for a lot of very good reasons.

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