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Round-Up: EISA Awards 2016

The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA) recently announced the winners of their 2016- 17 European Awards. To provide a background about EISA, it is an association of 45 leading specialist magazines across 23 European countries. The categories include Audio and Home Theatre, In-Car Electronics, Photo, Video and Mobile Devices. The products go through intensive tests at the test facilities of EISA member magazines and out of these, the best products go through a democratic voting process … Continue Reading

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REVIEWS

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A Joy To Use – Pentax K1

The K1 is the first full-frame D-SLR from Pentax. Looking at its easy-to-use user interface, it seems to me that Pentax engineers have really put their heart and soul in designing this model. Most features, which are generally found deep under … Continue Reading

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Retouch like a Pro – Portrait Professional 15

We often see celebrity photographs with soft an  ‘perfect’ skin and wonder how they manage to get such dreamy complexion. But most often than not, behind every celebrity, there is a skilful retoucher who carefully fills the pores and masks the flaws o … Continue Reading

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Expand your iPhone memory – Sandisk iXpand

Till recently iPhone and iPad have remained aloof from portable storage because of proprietary lightning connector. Sandisk found a solution with their iXpand flash drives,and the latest version packs more features. Sandisk iXpand flash drives … Continue Reading

TUTORIALS

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Ask Uncle Ronnie – August 2016

Confused Some months ago, when I visited your office, I showed you a photo, which you said was nice, but my friend, who is also a good photographer, said it was not nice. Now I am confused. Vishnu S. G. via email Friends usually do not give their … Continue Reading

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Late Evening

Our Imaging Expert No one can take a picture that everyone likes. But, almost every picture can have scope of improvement. Often, we are not our best critics, while others can immediately point out the faults. In If I were you, our expert comments on … Continue Reading

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Bruce Craig’s Monsoon Rig

In response to the June 2016 issue of Smart Photography (page 43, A Monsoon Query), SP reader Bruce Craig has sent us details about the rig he has made to photograph in the rains. We thought that some DIY SP readers might want to make one for … Continue Reading