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EXECUTECH<br />
By JANKO ROETTGERS<br />
Capture the Colors of Autumn<br />
Fall is one of the best times to embrace your inner photographer and capture nature’s beauty.<br />
It’s also a great excuse to stock up on new gear before the holiday season<br />
Olympus<br />
Air A01<br />
Newegg.com | Starting at $300<br />
GorillaPod<br />
Joby.com | Starting at $15<br />
Why use a selfie stick when the world<br />
can be a tripod? GorillaPod has made<br />
flexible and portable mini tripods for<br />
years, over time adding models that<br />
work with most phones, action cams and<br />
photo cameras. The flexible legs make it<br />
possible to attach a GorillaPod to almost<br />
everything, and models with magnetic<br />
feet are great for anyone looking to use<br />
a car hood, lamp post or anything else<br />
made out of metal as a steady surface.<br />
This is one of the best accessories an<br />
aspiring hobby photographer can buy.<br />
Combining the professional quality of<br />
an SLR camera with the convenience<br />
of shooting photos with your phone,<br />
the Olympus Air comes with a<br />
dedicated 16 Megapixel sensor —<br />
and, thanks to its Micro Four Thirds<br />
Lens system, it can even make use<br />
of a wide array of lenses, like a<br />
full-fledged SLR. But this beauty<br />
ditches the bulky body, instead<br />
using an iPhone or Android for<br />
control and display. The Air even<br />
features its own memory cards,<br />
so those big, beautiful pictures<br />
won’t count against the storage<br />
on your phone.<br />
Nopo Pinhole Camera<br />
Kickstarter.com | Starting at $70<br />
Olloclip 4-in-1<br />
iPhone Lens<br />
Olloclip.com | $80<br />
Apple’s iPhone has always taken great<br />
pictures, and the new iPhone 6s is no<br />
exception. Now, iPhone users can<br />
improve on a great thing by temporarily<br />
attaching a telezoom or a wide-angle<br />
lens to either the front- or back-facing<br />
camera of the iPhone. The 4-in-1 is great<br />
for nature shorts or for group selfies when<br />
everyone doesn’t seem to fit in the picture.<br />
Lenses simply clip onto the phone,<br />
which makes it easy to swap them and use<br />
them with multiple devices. Android users<br />
aren’t left out: The company also makes<br />
lenses for some Samsung handsets.<br />
GoPro Hero 4<br />
GoPro.com | $300<br />
GoPro’s latest action camera is just a<br />
little bigger than an ice cube, but it packs<br />
some serious punch: The tiny camcorde<br />
can shoot 1080p HD video at up to 60<br />
frames per second, perfect for those action-filled<br />
moments when you don’t wa<br />
to skip a beat. It sadly doesn’t support<br />
4K video, but does double as a still-shot<br />
camera capable of recording 8 megapix<br />
pictures. And like most GoPro’s, it come<br />
with built-in Wi-Fi to directly connect to<br />
mobile devices for control and editing.<br />
The Nopo Pinhole proves there’s still a<br />
place for analog photography in the age<br />
of Snapchat and Instagram. The device<br />
uses pinhole technology — common before<br />
cameras were equipped with lenses<br />
— to capture photos with a magic that<br />
can’t be simulated with any Instagram<br />
filter. And they’re made of beautiful<br />
cherry, birch and walnut wood, making<br />
each camera a piece of art. Nopo is running<br />
a campaign on Kickstarter, and aims<br />
to ship the first cameras by December.<br />
OLYMPUS AIR A01: BRUCE KITE/OLYMPUS AMERICA INC.; GOPRO: ANGELA J. PAYNE; GOPRO HERO4 BLACK: CARTER DOW<br />
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