CANON GETS ITS SKATES ON

The manufacturer’s recent PowerShot V10 vlogging camera (right) has been put to good use, alongside its EOS C500 Mark II cinema camera and XF605 video camera (below), in capturing the temporary transformation of London’s Natural History Museum into a skatepark last month. As part of a team up between Canon and Red Bull, skaters were handed the keys and allowed to skate among the venue’s 80 million artefacts, their once-in-a-lifetime antics captured on Canon cameras to form a promotional video, which can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7ZXKHC13cg

One of the set pieces at the museum involved a rig of 64 Canon DSLRS to enable a ‘bullet time’ sequence where Red Bull skate athlete Leticia Bufoni kick-flipped over a skeleton of a Velociraptor (not a sentence I thought I’d ever type – Ed)

The Canon EOS R5 was also utilised once the sun had gone down, with its lowlight capability enabling the team to capture atmospheric shots of the skaters at the museum after hours. www.canon.co.uk

Direct your photographer customers who have a love of the great outdoors to the Lowepro PhotoSport X backpack, claimed to have been purpose built for the adventurous image-makers amongst us.

Features of the ruggedly built pack include at-the-ready camera access plus an adaptable camera carry system. With a construction claimed to include up to 86% of recycled fabric, the PhotoSport X is also said to be part of its manufacturer’s commitment to reducing environmental impact. It offers users something of a modular system too, in being compatible with Lowepro’s lineup of GearUp PRO products that allows for almost endless gear combinations. The pack is available in either 35L or 45L sizes, with SRP’s starting at £260.95. www.lowepro.com

The promise of a more flexible workflow is at heart of new firmware update Ver2.3 for the GH6 hybrid mirrorless camera. Available now, the manufacturer tells us that newly added is support for 4K 120P/100P HDMI output as well as Raw video recording to a Blackmagic Design external recorder.

The firmware can be downloaded free of charge from the below URL: www.panasonic.jp/support/global/cs/dsc/