PHOTON

April 1996


Cover Photographer Martin Abela

Portfolio - Trevor Yerbury
A new Website edition folio from Photon - introduced mid-March. Brilliant nude/figure work
April News Update
All the news that's fit to print...
Chinon ES-3000 Digital Zoom Camera
The first affordable PCMCIA-storage screen resolution digital camera
6 x9 cm building progress photography
If this article translates internationally, we'll be surprised. But this is how a good many British professionals earn their bread - monthly progress records of building works gained by competitive tender, required by architects and quantity surveyors for client negotiations and meetings
Contax AX SLR preview
Before this edition went to WWW, we had already been hauled over the coals by a Contax salesman for what he considered to be a damning and ill-informed early review. Make your own mind up
Top multi-grade paper developers tested
Les McLean presents a nightmare in print - 48 individual prints to scan. Sorry, folks, but WWW readers get a single screenshot instead. Buy the printed version for the pukkah item
The Fuji FV-10
A video quality scanner for negatives tested on computer S-VHS input
Snoot versus honeycomb
Jon Tarrant shows how light distribution is affected by accessory choice for studio flash
Multiblitz Profilite 400
Subminiature German studio flash which packs a punch and packs into a small executive style case - Jon Tarrant reports.