photo - Ken Gilbert
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The Arca-<br />
Swiss p0 tripod<br />
head has a<br />
minimalist<br />
design allowing<br />
easy and<br />
precise control.<br />
At $300, it's a<br />
relative<br />
bargain.<br />
speed two ways<br />
A super-fast card and a reader that shows it off<br />
SPeedy memory cards are<br />
fantastic, but, as we often warn,<br />
you'll only enjoy as much speed<br />
as your camera and card reader<br />
can handle. Lexar guarantees<br />
that its new Professional<br />
600X CompactFlash card<br />
reads and writes at<br />
a minimum of<br />
90MB/s.<br />
16 PoPular PhotograPhy January 2010<br />
Owners of the latest higher-end<br />
DSLRs will likely notice it when<br />
shooting in burst mode.<br />
On the road? Offload at robust<br />
speeds with the new Express-<br />
Card CF reader, shown here. It<br />
tucks right into your laptop’s<br />
ExpressCard slot, and can,<br />
says Lexar, transfer files<br />
at up to 133MB/s.<br />
A bonus: All of<br />
Lexar’s Pro memory cards<br />
come with the latest version of<br />
its Image Rescue software.<br />
tilt master<br />
A knobless ballhead<br />
makes adjustments easy<br />
arca-Swiss p0 ballhead<br />
$300, street<br />
lexar expressCard reader and Cf card<br />
$45, list, for reader; $500, 32gB card<br />
www.lexar.com<br />
www.precisioncameraworks.com<br />
news<br />
feed<br />
>Lensbaby<br />
lovers take<br />
note: The<br />
lens company<br />
has two<br />
new optics.<br />
Swap in the<br />
Fisheye Optic<br />
and shoot at<br />
12mm for a<br />
160-degree<br />
angle of view,<br />
or try the Soft<br />
Focus Optic<br />
for all-over<br />
dreaminess.<br />
Both will<br />
work wth<br />
your Creative<br />
Effects SLR<br />
lenses.<br />
www.storemags.com & www.fantamag.com<br />
Plenty of <strong>photo</strong>graphers rely<br />
on ballheads to change camera<br />
angles quickly, but it can get<br />
truly frustrating when you want<br />
to tilt fast but can’t get at the<br />
locking knob.<br />
The Arca-Swiss p0 ballhead<br />
solves this—it has no knob. To<br />
move your camera, you loosen<br />
the ball by turning the knurled<br />
ring near the release plate, and<br />
tighten it by turning again.<br />
Because the camera rests<br />
directly on the ball and not on<br />
its neck, movement should be<br />
smoother. This also makes it<br />
possible to pan the camera 360<br />
degrees around the vertical axis.<br />
The new head, a relatively<br />
light (9.9 oz) younger sibling of<br />
the Arca-Swiss p1, is meant for<br />
average-sized DSLRs with midsized<br />
lenses, rather than view<br />
cameras or super teles.<br />
inSidE tECh<br />
Fast Card<br />
Lexar guarantees<br />
that each one of its<br />
Professional 600X<br />
CompactFlash cards<br />
reaches a minimum<br />
write speed of 90MB<br />
per sec. Each flash chip<br />
cut from a given silicon<br />
wafer will produce a<br />
CF card of a different<br />
speed. So after the<br />
cards are assembled,<br />
Lexar uses a bus analyzer<br />
to individually<br />
clock each one.
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