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MINI-CAMERASRATED LToatsehsibt afr,o Omly mFupjiu, sK otensictea,d 6on in tkrijaelt sin fsriodme £100-£350 6p leoaf stehres bcoemst ppaorcekdet Uthseey o cuorn rteafienr efunlcl es pcearcds sa tnod h veelprd yicotsu obnu y5 tthoep rcigamhte kriat s– 11 £4.99 PRINTEDINTHE UK 2 MEET YOUR 2 TEAM Our promise 4 to our readers 8 Nick Merritt STARTHERE Every month we will show you how to Managing Editor capture and create better pictures, give Nick’s background is technology and clear, independent buying image-editing related. He’s launched, recommendations on the latest kit, managed and built some of the UK’s and deliver two CDs packed with the leading publications in these areas. best PC software. Remember November! 8 Dylan Channon We use boxes, tips, quick fixes, Senior Art Editor quality photography, walkthroughs Dphyolatno gisra ap hkeeer na nadm saittse uonr the advisory H ello, and welcome to the first issue of Digital Camera Magazine. We hope you aimndp rdoivaeg ryaomurs ptoh osthoogwra pyhouic haonwd to board of Somerset College of Art like what we’ve done (and will overlook the odd inevitable issue one rough image-editing skills and Technology. edge!). It’s been a busy few months putting it all together, so do please write in and tell us what you think we’ve got right, what we’ve got wrong and how we can make it We have a cast-iron policy of 8 Roddy Llewellyn even better. editorial independence. All our kit Art Editor is reviewed as-sold. We discourage Roddy studied photography at our journalists from accepting gifts So why us, now? Well, there are several reasons.The first is the obvious chest-beating one – university and is PPA Designer of the from advertisers. we just felt we could do a better mag than those already out there. We want to be the very Year for his work on Create, a magazine for creative professionals. best title on the market, and we’ll be working hard to keep that promise as we develop. We welcome your opinions on the That’s why we’ve gone with two CDs, a big page size, great photography and high-quality magazine, ideas for articles, 8 Tim Daly production values. photography, thoughts and questions. Photographer and writer Send them in today – see below. Tim is one of the UK’s leading digital Another reason why we’re here is because we believe digital cameras are changing how photography experts. He’s written people take and perceive photography, and this process is going to accelerate over the next numerous books on the subject and c his photographs have been exhibited few years. It’s not just that digital cameras are such wonderfully satisfying gadgets, or that across Europe. the images they capture are rapidly closing in on 35mm quality, it’s that they give people a real chance to communicate visually in real-time. It’s possible to share memories and Departments 8 Simon Danaher experiences instantly by transmitting images to other people via the net. We believe we’re Photoshop guru only at the beginning of a very exciting process. Simon is a leading Photoshop expert, We want your letters, ideas, has written books on image editing photography, articles, tips and more! and is a regular contributor to the Then there are the practical advantages – the extra control and precision that digital Write in today to the following areas: world’s leading image-editing title, photography can offer creative photographers or people just starting to explore what a Computer Arts. camera can do. This is the core of what Digital Camera Magazineis about: the process of Issues with your discs [email protected] creating better photos, then printing, sharing and archiving them. 8 Steve Bavister Photographer and editor Your letters Steve is one of the UK’s best-known In the meantime, enjoy the issue and welcome to the club! 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He In issue 2, we test ten of the best cameras on sale for Christmas, and show you how www.digitalcameramagazine.co.uk to take perfect indoor/November party shots. lectures on digital photography around the UK. ;2 ISSUE 2 ON SALE 21 NOV DIGITALCAMERAMAGAZINE 03 Contents DCM#01 What’s hot inside your magazine this November STARTS PAGE 18 Discover how you can improve your people shots.We explain how to avoid common mistakes, take better pictures and tweak them digitally for best-ever results ABOVE:We’ll help you take better people shots Hidden away! Getup&Go Watch out – there may be a digital We capture great autumn camera hidden inside even the most photographs, show you how to unlikely gadget. take firework shots and more! We reveal six of the best PPrroojjeecctt PAGE PAGE 64 Create your own stunning composition. PULL OUT 16 Follow our tutorial on how to make this pic! 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It’s the next best thing to holding the EYEWITNESS HELPANDADVICE camera in your hands! Find a specific image in a folder of hundreds 120 Hotshots gallery p06 Photo clinic p70 OPINIONS&SHOPPING Frontline news p12 Your questions p90 Improve your print quality 121 Visit our website, read our reviews, post Hidden gadgets p16 First steps p94 Publish your photos to an online community 122 your own views, see what other readers think, then click straight through to buy the camera! It’s all part of the service YOUR PHOTOS & LETTERS FOLD-OUTSECTIONAFTER PAGE98 2 www.digitalcameramagazine.co.uk Day in the life p56 11 Firework tips Trailblazers p58 Isle of Purbeck photos &maps HOTSHOTS TURNOVER Viewfinder p60 Westonbirt OFFERS BUYERGUIDE Every issue, we print the best digital photography we Mobile phone p98 Cameras p138 can find. Turn over now and see some of the shots that Subscribe! p144 Printers p140 have inspired us this issue… Save money p130 Memory cards p142 Money off Paint Shop Pro 7 p133 Batteries p142 DIGITALCAMERAMAGAZINE 005 SHOT OFTHEMONTH DOWNHILL RACER ROBSCOTT “This was taken with a Nikon D1X with rear curtain- flash sync, battery-powered rear lighting and on- camera flash. I panned with the subject as he spun the bike, which blurred the background.” 02 03 04 02 Orchid Bob Garas “I used the macro setting to capture the orchid, then combined it with a picture of a bee in Photoshop to produce the final picture.” Canon G1 with two White Lightning 1200 Strobes [w]www.geocities.com/bgaras2001 03 Adrian Rayment Rob Scott “I was given an assignment to shoot one of the stars of the forthcoming film sequel, Matrix Reloaded. I shot him performing martial arts, at Brompton Road Cemetery in London.” Nikon D1X with White Balance set to fluorescent [e][email protected] 04 Fashion #01 Walcot Studios Nikon D1X [w]www.thewalcotstudio.co.uk DIGITALCAMERAMAGAZINE 007 The essentials of imaging Those who are happy to let their hearts rule their heads, stop here. Everyone else, read on. Made from durable magnesium, with a textured rubber to its high volume, 64MB buffer memory). grip, there’s no denying the new DiMAGE 7Hi looks (and feels) And in Extra Fine mode, it can produce JPEG images at the business. More important still, it does it. 2.5:1 compression (which not only makes it ideal for shooting Its 2/3 type CCD has an effective resolution of 5.0 million bright skies or shiny objects but also minimises loss in high pixels, delivering A3 prints at 150 dpi. And its spec list reads like frequency areas of the image). a ‘What’s What’ on state-of-the-art digital photography. All this in a digital camera that also boasts a brilliantly To maximise the CCD resolution, it has a premium all designed multifunctional electronic viewfinder (it has a 100% glass optical jewel Minolta GT lens with 7x optical zoom. field of view and 900 tilt mechanism), a real time Histogram And to produce vivid, natural colours, Minolta Cx image display, and Adobe RGB and SRGB selectable colour spaces processing. Even shooting clear, low noise images, with fine built in. detail in shadow areas, is easily achieved with its 12 bit It’s even equipped with a flash sync. terminal that can be A/D conversion system. connected to professional studio systems. What's more, pictures can be shot at dazzling speeds – in Enough to go to your head, isn’t it? fact, at up to 3 fps at full resolution, capturing as many as 5 The new DiMAGE 7Hi RAW, three TIFF or 10 JPEG images in one sequence (thanks Way ahead of the game. www.dimage.minolta.com 05 06 07 05 Laura Jo James Game “Laura Jo is an aspiring model and actress who I photographed for her portfolio.” [w]www.inspiras.com 06 Fashion #02 Walcot Studios “We do a lot of fashion photography at our studio. We’ve just gone digital and the time and cost-savings have been well worth it. We mainly use Photoshop for image retouching rather than for creative effects.” [w]www.thewalcotstudio.co.uk 07 Soldier Grant Lynch “This was taken at a new First World War memorial in London and then manipulated in Photoshop.” Nikon D1X with Photoshop [w]www.specialimages.co.uk DIGITALCAMERAMAGAZINE 009 08 09 10 08 Strawberry Splash Michael Chiu Sony DSC-F707 with Sony F1000 exterior flash [e] [email protected] 09 Melancholy Angel Melanie Kipp ”I took this in a cemetery in the mountains of southern West Virginia.” Minolta Dimage 7 with infra-red filter [w]www.caughtintimephotography.com 10 Serenity Keith Moss “This is a calming shot captured in Deer Hill Reservoir, near Huddersfield, late evening in the winter last year.” Olympus E10 [w]www.finephotoart.net @ NOWSENDYOUR PIC! Email us a 100K JPEG thumbnail of your best shots! The best wins a 128Mb Crucial CompactFlash card each issue. [email protected] 010 DIGITALCAMERAMAGAZINE