Speed Philippines – July 2019

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34 JULY 2019

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PAT CALICA

FULL PERFORMANCE, HALF THE SIZE

Travel Tripod by Peak Design

For four years, photography essential

brand Peak Design has spent designing

from ground up the most portable yet full-

featured tripod yet.

Meet the Travel Tripod, which takes up half

the volume of the traditional travel tripod

and doesn’t have bulky, protruding knobs.

But while it’s now the size and shape of your

regular water bottle, the Travel Tripod offers

the same professional functions and features

as your full-sized tripod—strong, easy-

to-use cam levers, lightning-fast camera

quick-attachment/release, single precision-

engineered adjustment ring, and so much

more. This tripod can support shooters of all

size, from your daily smartphone to a full-

frame DSLR and everything in between.

GOING BIG

Fujifilm GFX100

Fujifilm’s latest flagship large

sensor camera brings huge features

to the table.

The GFX100 comes with a 43.8 x

32.9mm CMOS sensor, which is

1.7 times larger than a 35mm full

frame one. This camera boasts a

whopping 102 million pixel count

and Fujifilm’s fourth-generation

X-Processor 4—a combination that

promises to bring high level image

quality with close-to-reality colors.

Additionally, the GFX100 comes

with an in-body image stabilization,

detachable EVF system that can be

adjusted to various angles, phase

detection AF algorithm, and 4K at

30p video recording capability.

All these are encased inside a

weather-resistant body measuring

56.2mm in width, 163.6mm in

height, and 102.9mm in depth. It’s

also considerably light at 1,400g

for a camera of this type. Budget-

wise, it can put a dent on your

wallet at $9,999.95—and that’s for

the body only.

READY FOR ADVENTURE

Olympus Tough TG-6

When the going gets tough, the Olympus Tough TG-6 gets going.

The compact and rugged Tough TG-6 is an everything-proof camera that you can

take outdoors under the harshest environment. How tough is it, you ask? This

Olympus shooter is waterproof up to 15m, shockproof from 2.4m, crushproof to

100kgf, freezeproof down to -10°C, and dustproof.

Of course, the Tough TG-6 doesn’t skimp on other features.

It boasts a 12MP backside-illuminated CMOS sensor with image stabilization paired

with a 25-100mm equivalent f/2.0-4.9 lens.

At the back is a fixed 3-inch 1.04-million-dot HD LCD. This £449.99 camera also

comes with GPS tracking functionality and 4K at 30p video recording capability.