Canon EOS 1200D, Sony Alpha 6000, two more Olympus micro four thirds lenses

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News    |    Reviews    |    Competitions    |    Galleries    |    Subscribe Tuesday 18 February 2014 In product news, Leica has announced that its M model - first unveiled at Photokina way back in 2012 - is now ‘readily available' from UK retailers after a shortage of the camera forced the firm to step up production. Olympus is to add two more micro four thirds lenses to its M.Zuiko Pro series - a wideangle zoom and a super-telephoto. Sony has unveiled the Alpha 6000, featuring an AF speed of ‘0.06sec' - trumpeted as the ‘world's fastest' for cameras with an APS-C-sized imaging sensor. You can read our first look here and that for the Alpha 500 here. Canon has unveiled its new entry-level EOS 1200D DSLR, which the company boasts has the ‘premium' look and feel of the EOS 700D. Meanwhile, its revamped GX-1 mark II its optical viewfiinder comes shorn of its optical viewfinder. Read our initial thoughts on it here. Elswhere, there's been some very good news in that the Fox Talbot archive - for so long threatened with being bought by an overseas collector - has been saved for the nation. Ok, we're almost done except that at this point I like to say keep you eye out for the final edition of Amateur Photographer Advanced Photography Skills which is out next week. Finally, there's been a bit of a food fracas in France of late. It was reported that top chef Gilles Goujon and Alexandre Gauthier said they would ban diners from photographing their food. Now, Caroline Kenyon, director of the Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year - has urged them to embrace food photography saying that the two chefs are being complimented by their customers, and that a ban was a step too far. What do you think – is it a case of shoot first, hors d'oeurves later?   Nigel Atherton, Editor     Fuji halves imaging business losses Strong sales of the X-E2 and X100S cameras has helped Fujifilm reduce its...       ‘Unseen’ Kate Moss Polaroids revealed Three ‘unseen’ Polaroid photos of supermodel Kate Moss, taken by...       Digital version of Amateur Photographer, 22 February 2014 See what's in the digital version of this week's Amateur Photographer       Amateur Photographer 22 February 2014 News Panasonic releases Lumix DMC-GH4 with 4K video; Olympus CSCs drive down losses; Tamron unveils two full-frame telephoto zooms; Ricoh developing medium-format DSLR; Sigma launches dp...   Subscribe     Buy a digital edition         Hands On Review: Canon EOS 1200D The EOS 1100D has been one of the most successful DSLRs... Read more...     Hands On Review: Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II The arrival of the Canon PowerShot G1 X Mark II comes... Read more...     Sony Alpha 5000 review (preview) The NEX branding may have gone, but what else is new... Read more...   Coming soon APOY 2014. Details of APOY 2014 will be announced in AP dated 1 March 2014 and online shortly. APOY 2014 is in association with Olympus The Amateur Photographer Product Awards 2014 winners The Amateur Photographer Awards 2014 took place on 30 January at One Whitehall Place, London. This was our opportunity to highlight the photographic equipment that excited and impressed us in 2013 Read about the winners View images from the day

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