Title: I love posing
Photographer: Vivek Sharma
Camera: Canon 30D
Settings: ISO 100, f4.0, 1/400 sec
Description: Rayn loves the camera and is always looking at pose for a good photo

Title: Pink in the City
Photographer: Stephanie Kuttner
Camera: Canon EOS40D
Settings: Shutter: 1/640, ISO: 125, Aperture 5.6
Description: My daughter Ava takes in Oriental Bay on a Sunday afternoon and savors every mouthful of her ice cream.  She is currently obsessed with pink and Sesame St plasters, so this photo pretty much sums her up at her ripe age of 2.5yrs.

Title: Joe in Spring Grass
Photographer: Stephanie Kuttner
Camera: Canon EOS40D
Settings: Shutter 1/160, ISO: 125, Aperture: 5.6
Description: 7mth old Joe’s Dad is a landscaper and very proud of his lush, green grass.  I love how it frames Joe face and contrasts well with the blue of his suit ...full story

Images from the 2008 Titirangi Festival of Music by American Photojournalist, John Chapman; a master of the use of available light. John will also be showcasing early black and white work featuring artists such as blues legend John Mayall and Ronny Jordan. A short film created by Paul Rogers about the making of 08 festival will screen alongside the exhibition.

Pictures You Can Hear opens Thursday 5 March 2009, 6.00 — 8.00pm until Sunday 29 March 2009, at the TCAC Upstairs Gallery, Lopdell House, 418 Titirangi Road, Titirangi, Auckland West.

Entry is free

Canon New Zealand has announced a replacement to its extremely popular PowerShot A470 digital compact camera.

The new PowerShot A480 boasts a slimmer, more compact design while continuing to pack all the features that consumers have come to expect from an entry-level PowerShot camera, and more!

• 10.0 megapixel CCD sensor
• DiG!C III image processor
• 3.3x optical zoom lens
• 2.5 inch LCD screen
• Face Detection Technology with Red Eye Correction
• Motion Detection Technology

www.canon.co.nz

JVC GR-D73 is not a common brand in New Zealand shops, but there’s no doubting its pedigree. A few years ago it would have been surprising to see another manufacturer on the shelves beside Sony and Panasonic. However, the introduction of brands like JVC has seen choice for consumers greatly expand. A visit to my local Bond and Bond showed a huge range of cameras, many hovering around the JVC price point, so they have some work to do to gain traction within the local market.

As you might expect given the price difference, the JVC offered the best overall performance of the three cameras. The colours were nicely saturated, giving the picture a warm feel that I really liked.

In the side-by-side comparison, the JVC and Sony looked identical in this respect. I filmed some native timber furniture and the ...full story

In addition to the popular range to wired remotes Hahnel have introduced their wireless version of universal remote controls.

Available for Canon, Nikon and Sony Digital SLRs, each is supplied with interchangeable camera connectors which cover practically all models of that brand. Uses 433MHZ technology with a 4 digit code selector giving 16 settings to eliminate interference from other sources and a huge range of up to 80M.

Available at your local photo store.

Jada Products Ltd
www.jadaproducts.co.nz ph 03 3845 172 email sales@jadaproducts.co.nz
Dealer enquiries welcome.

Geoffrey Heath’s signature strain of domestic tragicomedy is still apparent in his latest photographic series.

He presents us with a motley crew of characters, each sporting an outlandish full face of make-up and some curious appendages. Photographed in a candid, documentary style, his sitters are positioned front-on in close up, staring directly into the lens.

Geoffrey Heath graduated with a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communications from Unitec School of Art and Design, Auckland in 2000. He has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions throughout New Zealand since the late 1990s. In 2004, he was the joint winner of the Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award.

North Shore FX is on now at the McNamara Gallery, Wanagnui, until 27 February 2009.

The feeling you get when using this tiny camera is that it is a generation ahead of its rivals.

Sony’s DCRHC20E has eliminated the clutter of buttons by including a touch-screen LCD. This can take some getting used to, especially if you are mentally programmed to keep fingers off any other LCD device in your business. However, once you are familiar with the way the software works, it is quite ingenious. Detractors will point out that you wouldn’t want to be adjusting a setting halfway through a meal of KFC, so I would include a good cleaning cloth in your standard kit. I also think users need to develop a light touch when manually adjusting focus and exposure while filming, as tapping the LCD could easily introduce an annoying sideways movement in your shot.

Sony’s experience in the video market is apparent ...full story