Today Canon has announced the EOS 90D, an impressive update to a popular series. The EOS 90D features a higher resolution for stills and video than its predecessor, the EOS 80D, and it borrows features from highly praised high end cameras, the EOS 7D mark II and EOS 1DX mark II.
The EOS 90D is the latest in a series of cameras that started with the 10D in 2003, in its time the 10D was a very advanced camera boasting a whole six megapixels. Designed for enthusiasts, the series continued to bring excellent imaging performance to Canon users throughout the years. In 2013, the seventh body in the range, the EOS 70D, became a favourite for vlogging as it combined HD video recording with dual-pixel AF for accurate focus tracking while recording.
Released today, the EOS 90D has improved the 10D’s pixel count sevenfold, brings improved high speed shooting up to 10fps and the option of 4K video recording. The series has always been an ideal starting point for photographic enthusiasts, or a step-up after learning with an entry-level DSLR; and the EOS 90D is also a worthy backup body for any professional kit bag.
Headline specs for the EOS 90D
• High Speed continuous shooting: up to 10fps • 32.5 mega pixel APS-C (crop) CMOS sensor • 45 cross type AF points with joystick AF point controller • Intelligent Tracking and Recognition focus system (iTR) • 4K filmmaking and Dual Pixel CMOS AF • Maximum ISO 25,600 – expandable to 51,200 • Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® enabled • 220,000-pixel RGB+IR metering sensor • Variable-Angle touchscreen to shoot from all angles
Pro technology in a smaller body
The EOS 90D contains the latest DIGIC 8 processor that enables 4K video recording and a high-speed stills frame-rate of 10 frames per second in RAW or jpeg. The AF tracking technology uses 45 cross type AF points and an iTR focus system found in Canon’s flagship models, the EOS 1DX mark II and EOS 7D mark II. iTR uses the phase detection focus points and the 220,000 pixel rgb metering sensor to identify subjects and maintain consistent focus tracking. New to the series is a long awaited ergonomic feature, the AF point joystick control. Positioned close to the AF-ON button on the back of the body, it allows the thumb to flick quickly between moving the AF point and locking on to your subject, without taking your eye away from the viewfinder.
Affordable, better reach, compatible with the entire EF & EF-S lens range.
The APS-C sensor size is smaller than a “full frame” 35mm sensor as a result the sensor receives light from the best and sharpest central portion of any full-frame lens. This cropping has the effect of pulling the subject closer, ideal for shooting distant subjects for sport and wildlife photography. It also means the EOS 90D available at a more accessible price than its full frame counterparts. Also more affordable are EF-S lenses, designed specifically for crop-sensor cameras the optics do not have to be as large as lenses made for full-frame camera bodies making the kit smaller and lighter, as well as cheaper.
The EOS 90D body only is £1209.00 including VAT at release, there are also kits with lenses available. Please contact our sales team for the latest prices.
For this week only we have special offers on a wide range of Fujifilm equipment. Get great deals on your next purchase. Only available this week: 19th – 23rd August
Fujifilm has developed an impressive stable of lenses to suit a wide range of shooting situations. Compact primes for lightweight travel, fast wide-angle lenses for weddings and low-light events, telephoto zooms for press and sport, and the GF series for their medium format system. The manufacturer has always kept us keen with road-maps of new releases. This week you can save 10% on selected lenses and take advantage of a host of other offers including 0% finance* on selected items.
XF Lenses 10% discount
Fast prime lenses Fujifilm 14mm f2.8 R XF Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 16mm f1.4 R WR XF Lens Fujifilm 23mm f1.4 XF R Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 35mm f1.4 R Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 50mm f2 R WR XF Lens Fujifilm 56mm f1.2 R XF Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 90mm f2 R LM WR XF Lens
Compact primes Fujifilm 18mm f2 R Fujinon Fujifilm 23mm f2 R WR XF Lens Fujifilm 27mm f2.8 XF Lens Fujifilm 35mm f2 R WR Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 60mm f2.4 R Macro Fujinon
Fast Zooms Fujifilm 10-24mm f4 R OIS XF Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 16-55mm f2.8 R LM WR Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 50-140mm f2.8 WR OIS XF Lens Fujifilm 50-140mm f2.8 WR OIS XF Lens kit with 1.4X Teleconverter Fujifilm 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR Fujinon Lens Fujifilm 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR Fujinon Lens kit with 1.4X Teleconverter
GF Lenses 10% discount
Selected lenses from the GF range are reduced this week by 10% and some are available with 0% finance over 24 months* an ideal opportunity to spread the cost if you are adding to your lens range or investing in a new system. The Fujinon lenses for the GFX range are produced to the highest standard capable of resolving superb detail on the most demanding imaging sensors.
Prime lenses Fujifilm GF 23mm f4 R LM WR Lens Fujifilm GF 45mm f2.8 R WR Lens Fujifilm GF 50mm f3.5 R LM WR Lens Fujifilm GF 63mm f2.8 R WR Lens Fujifilm GF 110mm f2 R LM WR Lens Fujifilm GF 120mm f4 R LM OIS WR Macro Lens Fujifilm GF 250mm f4 R LM OIS WR Fujinon Lens
Zoom Lenses Fujifilm GF 32-64mm f4 R LM WR Lens Fujifilm GF 100-200mm f5.6 R LM OIS WR Lens
Savings on Camera Bodies
Trade-in bonus
If you are thinking of switching systems or upgrading your current Fujifilm body to the latest version now is a great time to trade in with an additional £100 trade in bonus on selected bodies available all week**. When a trade in bonus is applied you still receive the full trade in value of your camera plus the extra offered by the manufacturer e.g. when you trade in a camera worth £500 during a £100 trade in bonus offer you could put £600 against your next purchase**
£100 trade in bonus available** when purchasing: Fujifilm X-T2 Digital Camera Body Fujifilm X-T3 Digital Camera kit with XF 18-55mm + XF 55-200mm Lens Fujifilm X-T3 Digital Camera Body Fujifilm X-H1 Digital Camera Body with Vertical Battery Grip Fujifilm X-Pro2 Digital Camera Body
10% off Selected Fujifilm Batteries
The NP-125 battery for the GFX 50R and GFX 50S and the NP-W126s battery compatible with the X-Pro2 and X-T2 and XT-3 bodies are reduced this week by 10% a great time to add some spares to your kit to keep you shooting on long trips and in remote locations.
*Credit is subject to application and status. Barclays Partner Finance act as the lender. Please contact us for full terms & conditions and of our finance.
**Trade-in bonus is applicable when trading in any working DSLR or mirrorless camera when purchasing a new camera listed above. Offer ends 23.08.19. A DSLR or mirrorless camera is defined, for this purpose, as a digital camera comprising of a body utilising separate interchangeable lenses. This excludes cameras with a fi xed or built-in lens
For more than two decades, Louise Murray has been a freelance photojournalist at the forefront of issues around ecology, nature, environmentalism and science. She has traveled from pole to pole, the Arctic to the Antarctic, to shoot critical stories on the natural world, and Fixation has been proud to keep her gear in tip-top shape while she does it.
Louise is also a keen diver – a passion she shares with Fixation’s Mick Edwards whom she helped get his first drysuit – and she brings that love of the underwater world into her photography, where she has thoroughly explored the limits of underwater photography, not to mention her own endurance. We’ve featured some of her amazing stories on the blog before.
As Louise was resting between projects a couple of weeks ago, we managed to find time to chat with her about her career, travels and photography. Join us as we learn all about what it’s like to photograph in minus-40 temperatures, how Louise got deported from Canada, and what it is that keeps her coming back to diving…
Thanks for chatting with us, Louise! What have you been working on lately?
I had a month in the Philippines in March, and there was a whole lot of marine science stuff I was doing, including a piece for The Economist. I was also photographing thresher sharks – they are these very beautiful, quite elusive sharks, and the Philippines are one of the rare places you can reliably see them. I did some travel pieces, one just published that was about macro and macro lighting with lots of close-up photography.
I was also shooting fluorescence in marine life. You shoot it at night stimulating hidden pigments in the corals with blue light – I’ve been trying to get wide-angle shots for a couple of years now and finally succeeded. I think the Nikon D850 really made a difference, and the more powerful lights – it’s been a long time coming! I shot a funny little timelapse of the three of us trying to work together in pitch blackness with blue lights, trying to make the shot.
It’s very difficult. You start off on land, in daylight. You need expert divers with you who understand what you’re trying to do, and you have to have a full-on briefing before you even start. Often the local guide who’s with you has never experienced this and he doesn’t know what to expect, so you have to cover all this in your briefing. And then still it ends up being a bit of a nightmare as everybody works out how to work together in the dark without getting nailed by spiny, stingy urchins that come out at night.
Of course, you’ve done lots of marine work if I remember correctly?
Loads of marine stuff, loads of Arctic stuff, loads of Antarctic stuff. I’ve also been doing a lot of work with robots over the last two years, and they’re always challenging. Photographing them for stories about robotics – so whether that’s autonomous vehicles, or robots in horticulture, or robots in forensic science conducting autopsies. I went to Switzerland for that one. It’s a huge variety of different things, most of which are not on my website because I’m too lazy to update it!
I think this fluorescent stuff recently. I love diving, so I’ll take any excuse to do it. It looks like I’ve got another couple of big underwater projects coming up – for most of October I’ll be back in the Philippines, which will be great fun. Then back to Baja Mexico in November.
Sounds awesome! Are you hunting for anything in particular?
I’m doing an environmental story on the world’s biggest fish in the Philippines, then freediving with hunting Striped marlin in Mexico.
A lot of what you have covered in the past concerns ecology and climate change.
It’s been a while since I’ve written about climate change, but yes. I had a picture on the front page of the Guardian illustrating climate change. It’s a shot you can only get at a certain time of year; when the sea ice is melting, it melts during the day then refreezes at night. You get protruding blocks of ice forming where it has broken up and refrozen, and in early May those start to melt and drip during the day in earnest. If you get there at the right time and then shoot into the sun, you produce an image with a concept of sun, heat, and melting ice that encapsulates what is happening with the climate emergency in the Arctic. That’s why those particular sets of pictures do very well.
Are there other aspects of the climate emergency you would like to cover?
I would kill just to be back up in the Arctic, but I got deported from Canada. You have to try very hard to do that. I would very much like to be able to go back up to Nunavut, where I used to lead expeditions helping film crews make feature-length movies about wildlife up there. I was working illegally without a work permit. So I rocked up a year or two later thinking, “Well that’s all done and dusted, and now I’m here with several thousand pounds of commissions.” But the immigration officer didn’t see it that way, and they held me in immigration and sent me back on the next plane, which wasn’t very pleasant. Haven’t been back to Canada since.
So where else might you head instead?
I had to turn it down this year, but the Siberian Ice Marathon, where people run across the frozen surface of Lake Baikal. It clashed with the Philippines this year, but I’ll be going back next year. It’s great fun.
Once you’ve got the right clothes. It’s down to having the right gloves and the right boots. I’ve worked in minus-40 with the Danish military – that was an amazing job. In Eastern Greenland they have a unit called the Sirius Patrol – pairs of guys patrol with dog sleds over that uninhabited part of Greenland, right up to the extreme north to protect Denmark’s sovereignty over the land. That was an amazing cold shoot – quite painful, but not impossible.
I can’t even imagine how you’d take photos in those conditions.
You have to have a lot of batteries inside your coat. That’s the key thing. When we used film it used to freeze, but with digital, it’s the batteries. You can practically see the battery gauge going down.
I suppose digital has unlocked a few interesting possibilities in your line of work.
The marine stuff is much easier to do now than it ever used to be, because we used to go down with a tank of air and one roll of film, which was 36 or 37 frames if you were lucky. To change the film, you had to come back up, open up the housing, open up the camera, change it, and then go back down. And this is dangerous, because you don’t want to be popping up and down when you’re diving. You can’t do it repeatedly – it isn’t safe. So it’s marvellous to have high-capacity cards and be only limited by however long your air lasts. And the poor bastards who have to dive with me tend to find out just how long I can make a tank last!
What is it that keeps you coming back to diving and underwater shooting?
Well, it’s very calm down there. And no matter where you dive, even if you’ve dived somewhere a thousand times, it is still quite possible to go down and see something that you’ve never seen before. It still happens to me, after all these years working underwater – I can still go on a dive and see a behaviour or a creature that is entirely new to me, though not new to science. Although when we go to Indonesia in October, it’s possible that we’ll see stuff that is new to science!
We look forward to finding out!
Louise was talking to Jon Stapley. See more from Louise at her website: louisemurray.com
For this week only we have special offers on a wide range of Canon equipment. Get great deals on your next purchase. Only available this week 29th July – 2nd August
While you are with us, take advantage of our half price Sensor cleaning offer for Canon crop sensor, full-frame and mirrorless cameras. Running throughout Canon Week in London and Manchester our technicians will save you hours of retouching time. For more information visit our Sensor Cleaning page.
EF Lenses
L Series lenses from Canon are at the heart of the Canon brand. Offering fast autofocus, incredible sharpness and some of the fastest apertures in the industry, their zoom, prime and super telephoto lenses are the go-to tools for professional photographers around the world. The EF mount has one of the widest ranges of focal lengths available including specialist optics for macro and perspective control There are discounts on a lot of L series lenses, here are some of our Canon Week highlights…
Tilt & Shift Lenses 10% discount
Canon TS-E lenses give you precise control over converging lines and depth of field via movements similar to those seen in technical cameras. The workhorse of the architecture and interiors photographer they are also used by time-lapse producers and videographers for their depth of field effects. TS-E lenses are Manual focus lenses the E in TS-E stands for electronic aperture as the lens is wide open while composing and stops down automatically when the shutter is released.
Macro Lenses 10% Discount
There are two stand out lenses in the Canon Macro range the EF 100mm ƒ2.8L IS USM is phenomenally sharp, a mainstay of product and beauty photographers alike for it’s fantastic rendition of detail. Second up is a real curiosity: The MP-E 65mm ƒ2.8 1-5x Macro is more microscope than traditional lens. Starting at a 1:1 reproduction ratio the lens can focus so close to your subject it can produce images at 1:5 to reveal details almost imperceptible to the human eye.
Super Telephoto 10% discount
Canon are so well established in sport and wildlife because of their high speed bodies and lenses that are fast enough to match. Pioneers of high speed lens technology Canon keep making their super tele lenses faster and to the relief of users lighter with each new version. Available for Canon week with 10% discount are the primes: EF 300mm ƒ2.8 L IS II USM EF 400mm ƒ2.8 L IS III USM EF 400mm ƒ4.0 DO IS II USM EF 500mm ƒ4.0 L IS II USM EF 600mm ƒ4.0 L IS III USM
And Zoom lenses: EF 70-200mm ƒ2.8 L IS III USM EF 70-300mm ƒ4-5.6 L IS USM EF 100-400mm ƒ4.5-5.6 L IS II USM
Sony introduces high-resolution Alpha 7R IV Camera with world’s first 61.0 MP back-illuminated full-frame image sensor
The Sony A7R IV mirrorless camera features an impressive 61MP full-frame sensor, making it the highest resolution camera in its class on release. The newly developed sensor is back-illuminated and offers up to 15-stops of dynamic range. The A7R IV also features the same pixel-shift multi-shooting mode as found in the A7 III, creating stunning 240MP images. Main Features
A brand new back-illuminated 35mm full-frame 61MP image sensor – a world’s first
15-stop of enhanced dynamic range
5-axis Optical In-Body Image Stabilisation
Superior AF performance: 567 phase-detection points, covering 74% of the frame
Real-time tracking iAF for both humans and animals
Built for video: Full sensor width capture, oversampled 6K for 4K capture, touch tracking.
Real-time iAF tracking for video – a first for Sony
Digital audio interface in camera – another first for Sony
A reliable professional tool: Dual UHS-II slots, refined focus control, 2.4+5GHz WiFi,
5.76 million dot UXGA OLED viewfinder
USB-C connecton
Sony releases long-awaited FE 35mm F1.8 lens
The lightweight 35mm prime lens for full-frame cameras is a versatile choice for everything from table-top photography to the great outdoors. Fast, quiet AF operation and reliable AF tracking make it suitable for shooting videos as well as stills
Main Features
Standard prime lens with fast F1.8 aperture
Quiet, reliable AF tracking for movies as well as stills
9-blade circular aperture for smooth bokeh
An aspherical element for high corner-to-corner resolution
Dust and moisture resistant design
Sigma has launched a newly developed, high-performance lens series for full-frame mirrorless cameras
The Sigma 45mm F2.8 DG DN “Contemporary” is compact in size while maintaining high image quality and is compatible with full-frame mirrorless cameras.
Main Features
Mount with dust- and splash-proof structure
Full-time manual mode
Available Mount Conversion Service
Designed to minimize flare and ghosting
Evaluation with SIGMA’s own MTF measuring system: A1
7-blade rounded diaphragm
High-precision, rugged brass bayonet mount
The Sigma 35mm F1.2 DG DN “Art” enables a creation of artwork with astounding resolution and large bokeh effects, such as portraits that make use of a shallow depth of field.
Main Features
Full-time manual mode
Hood with lock
Available Mount Conversion Service
Designed to minimize flare and ghosting
Evaluation with SIGMA’s own MTF measuring system: A1
11-blade rounded diaphragm
High-precision, rugged brass bayonet mount
The Sigma 14-24mm F2.8 DG DN “Art” is a large-diameter, ultra-wide-angle zoom lens for full-frame mirrorless cameras. While pursuing the ultimate image quality of the Art line, the size is reduced thanks to the exclusive design for mirrorless cameras.
Main Features
Full-time manual mode
Available Mount Conversion Service
Designed to minimize flare and ghosting
Evaluation with SIGMA’s own MTF measuring system: A1
11-blade rounded diaphragm
High-precision, rugged brass bayonet mount
The new Canon RF 24-240mm f4-6.3 IS USM Lens is the perfect travel companion with its portable, versatile 10x zoom lens for the EOS R system that’s ideal for everything from wide-angle landscapes to frame-filling portraits, and even close-up sport and wildlife. This lens represents a new standard in full-frame image quality, especially at this focal range.
Near-silent Nano USM focusing: Fast for stills; smooth for video
Five-stop Image Stabilizer: Protects against blur from camera shake
Weighs just 750g: Portable lightweight design
Circular, seven-bladed aperture: For smooth, natural bokeh
Large lockable zoom ring: Turns through 100°
Clickless 1/8-stop aperture control: When shooting movies
Customisable control ring: Adaptable to the way you work
Full-time manual focusing: Take control at any time
Built for the EOS R system: Maximise the performance of your EOS R
FUJIFILM has launched their latest addition to the X Series lens lineup.
The FUJINON XF16-80mmF4 R OIS WR is a compact 5x zoom lens that covers a range of focal lengths from wide angle to mid-telephoto with a constant F4 aperture
Main Features
Advanced image quality
Compact, lightweight and stylish design for superior operability
Powerful OIS
Fast and silent autofocus
The lens barrel is sealed at 10 locations making the lens dust and weather resistant and capable of operating at temperatures as low as -10°C
FUJIFILM launchesits their smallest GF lens yet for the GFX Large Format System, the FUJINON GF50mmF3.5 R LM WR which is the tenth lens for GFX large format system
Main Features
Outstanding image quality
Compact 84x48mm and weighing only 335g.
High performance, fast and silent.
Durable, sealed in ten places, making it dust and weather resistant
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