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Beau Newsletter Finding Your Niche in the Age of Digital Imaging Saturday, November 5th, 2016 Anvil Centre, New Westminster Industry Expo 10am - 5pm See the latest in cameras, lighting, printers, paper and more at the Industry Expo. Tickets to the show are included with your speaker tickets, or just come to the expo for $10 at the door. Reps from all the major brands will be on hand to demo equipment and answer your questions. Beau Newsletter - November 2016 Fusion Industry Expo • New in Used • Shooting with a Digital IR Converted Camera Canon Rebates • November 15th - It’s the Fujifilm Photo Walk with the Fuji Guys! Bag of the Month - Lowepro Pro Runner BP 350 AW • New Envy straps • Fujifilm Instax Monochrome is here! • Hasselblad H6D-100c in Rentals • more... FUSION Finding Your Niche in the Age of Digital Imaging Saturday, November 5th, 2016 2016 Anvil Centre, New Westminster, BC Use promo code Fusion 2016 encompasses many aspects of BEAU2016 to get a photography including DSLR video, travel 20% discount on the speaker series! photography, pet photography, portraits, lighting, sports photography, and much more. View the exhibition in the gallery and attend social events. Tickets are available to see individual speakers or a full day of speakers, and for the Industry Expo only. All speaker tickets include a pass to the Industry Expo. Sponsored by: Immerse yourself in photography! Attend a full day speaker series and Industry Expo. Fusion 2016 is held in conjunction with Photographie, attend two events in one! Tickets available online at - www.photographiefestival.ca www.photographiefestival.ca/fusion Industry Expo 10am - 5pm Beau Photo Supplies 1520 W. 6th Ave Vancouver, BC 604 734 7771 www.beauphoto.com @beauphotostore #beaufusion Beau Photo BEAU NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 PRO SALES Hasselblad H6D KEN S. The Hasselblad H6D is the world’s most advanced medium format camera system. It has been redesigned from the Fusion 2016 Industry Expo ground up to incorporate the very latest technologies, FUSION 2016 is just days away and we hope you will be able available in both 50 MP and 100 MP CMOS sensors. to attend. This year we have our biggest lineup of exhibitors The new Hasselblad - X1D ever! Canon, Fujifilm, Nikon and Sony will be bringing an The Hasselblad X1D camera amazing selection of cameras and lenses. As well Sigma and is the world’s first compact, Tamron will be well represented with their newest lenses. mirrorless medium format Hasselblad will have the all new mirrorless medium format camera (50MP CMOS sensor). X1D as well as the H6D100C, and H6D50C. You will also At less than half the weight of be able to see a wide range of tripods, camera accessories, a conventional digital medium format camera, it’s a game printers and media for digital printing. Evan Parker from Moab changer for the world of photography. Small enough to take will be making attendees a free 8.5x11 print at the Moab anywhere, powerful enough to capture anything. booth on any Moab paper of their choice. Just bring a tiff or jpeg on a USB drive. Fusion 2016 Featured Products and Deals See Product Demos Special FUSION 2016 only deals on Cameras, Lenses, In addition to the trade show there will be a demo stage in Tripods, Camera bags, Lighting and more. Many of these the exhibition hall where you can watch a free demonstration specials are only for the day of the show. If that is not on lighting or listen to talks on the newest cameras and enough to get you to come down we have (over) $1000 in camera accessories. Here is what some of the exhibitors will door prizes! Here are a few of the trades that will be there. be talking about …….. Amplis Photo / Hahnemühle Profoto Canada: Toronto based fashion and commercial Hahnemühle is first and foremost a paper company and has photographer Miguel Jacob will be doing a lighting demo been manufacturing high quality papers since 1584. They “Speed Redefined”, explaining the core benefits of the new produce fine art inkjet paper and canvas that is suitable for Profoto D2 and Pro 10. printing museum quality, unique prints. Visit their booth to see print samples on Photo Rag, Rice Paper, Bamboo and Nikon D5: Capture images that defy the odds other fine art papers. See the spectacular innovation in the Nikon D5 that will expand your photographic capabilities as you are guided Hahnemühle has through a tour of Nikon’s finest masterpiece. recently introduced a paper specifically for Selecting the right Nikon for your photographic and alternative and historic cinematic needs. With a broad range from entry-level to process photographers. hobbyist to professional Nikon systems, there’s a Nikon Hahnemühle Platinum D-SLR that’s right for you. Learn what you need to know to Rag is an acid free, 100% make the choice an easy one. cotton, 300gsm paper perfectly sized and manufactured for Andrew Patrick from Epson Canada is talking about museum use with platinum, cyanotype, salted paper, gum bichromate, quality digital printing for photographers. Van Dyke and other printing processes. It is easy to coat BEAU PHOTO SUPPLIES • 1520 WEST 6TH AVE. VANCOUVER, BC • www.beauphoto.com • beauphoto.blogspot.ca BEAU NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 and stands up well to prolonged processing and washing. The Hahnemühle rep will be on hand to answer any questions and sample packs of 5 sheets will be available for sale at the Beau Photo booth. The Canon booth will have the latest and greatest Canon gear for you to try out. Here are just a few items that will be featured: The Canon EOS 5D MK IV, which just won the DP review gold award. DP review said “the 5D Mark IV is the most refined 5D yet”. This is a camera that will stand up to years of abuse and churn out images with appreciably better quality (and at a faster rate) than its predecessor. The touch screen and dual pixel AF offer users more shooting options, and the built-in Wi-Fi and NFC will be an important addition to those working in the field. Canon Printers Come by Beau Photo, see the New Canon Pro printer The new EF 16-35 2.8MK II has just arrived and Canon will display and arrange for a demo or a free print! have it at the show . One of the recent reviews states that The new display showcases the Canon Pro 1000 which was this lens is arguably the best ever. The 16-35 L III is the new the TIPA award winner for the 2016 best printer of the year. standard wide angle zoom lens for professional and serious From Nov 5th to Nov 10th only, we will have show specials amateur wedding and event photographers, photojournalists, on the 17” wide Pro 1000 and the 13” Pro 100 printers that sports photographers, street photographers and many others. will be the LOWEST PRICES OF THE YEAR. Lower than The Canon Booth will also have the new EOS M5 mirrorless Back Friday and Boxing Week prices. Call us or come by the camera; the compact M5 is loaded with features and new Beau Photo or Canon booth for the show special pricing touchscreen technology that not only lets you use the rear touchscreen to position focus, it also allows its use as a New in Used touchpad to move the focus point when you’re shooting Used Hasselbald H Series Lenses through the viewfinder. This, combined with decisive autofocus, should be really significant for both stills and video HC 35mm f/3.5 - $2650 HC 150mm f/3.5 - $2300 shooting. Come by the booth for a touch and try HC 35mm f/3.5 - $3050 HC 50-110mm f/3.5-4.5 - $3460 HC 50mm f/3.5 - $2200 HC 50-110mm f/3.5-4.5 - $2750 HC 50mm f/3.5 - $2050 HC 150mm f/3.5 - $2300 BEAU PHOTO SUPPLIES • 1520 WEST 6TH AVE. VANCOUVER, BC • www.beauphoto.com • beauphoto.blogspot.ca BEAU NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 Used Phase One Digital lenses focus tracking system with improved algorithm combined Phase One 28mm f/4.5 AF lens - $5200 with 10 fps continuous shooting. It has an APS-H sized 16.1 Phase One 45mm f/2.8 AF lens - $1845 Megapixel CMOS Sensor, Dual DIGIC 4 Image Processors, Phase One 75-150mm f/4.5 Zoom AF lens - $3800 and an ISO range of 100 - 12800 (up to 102400 in H3 Phase One 80mm f/2.8 AF lens - $900 mode) with an advanced noise reduction. Phase One 150mm f/2.8 AF lens - $3300 Hasselblad H3D-39 with HC 80mm f/2.8 lens and HM 16 film back - $5800 The Hasselblad H3D-39 uses a near full-frame 39mp CCD sensor (1.1x crop on 645) in its digital back. With its true 16bit per channel raw file the Hasselblad H3D-39 delivers superb tonality and accurate colour rendering. Used Lighting - Big and Small Big and Bold Digital Cameras The Rental department at Beau photo is selling off some of their older Profoto packs. All used packs come with a 30 day Used Nikon D4 - $4400 warranty. Selection is limited so come in soon. This Nikon D4 is freshly received Profoto 6a 2400 Pack - $1600 3 available from our rental department. Profoto 7a 2400 Pack - $1899 1 available Gently used and in great condition Profoto 7b 1200 Pack with 3 batteries - $1700 1 available the Nikon D4 is a FX-format, 16.2 megapixel camera that uses Lighting for Video on the go! Nikon’s fast EXPEED3 processor allowing it to capture up to 10 fps.
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