Digital Camera World - 10 Okt 2025
LANDSCAPES
FREE! WITH THIS ISSUE
LUMIX S9 • SIGMA 300-600MM F4 SPORTS • VILTROX AF 50MM
23 SOFTWARE EXTRAS FOR PHOTOSHOP & LIGHTROOM
Interview
MEGA GIVEAWAY PRIZES WORTH £3000!
Camera Clinic
The Apprentice
PHOTO ACTIVE HOTSHOTS CAMERA CLINIC
Welcome
This issue’s bonus gifts Find out more on pages 6 and 90
HOW TO SHOOT BETTER LANDSCAPES
Lumix S9
Digital Darkroom Learn essential skills for editing in Photoshop, Lightroom and Affinity Photo
Hotshots Highlights from the winning entries of Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2025
Sigma 300-600mm F4 DG OS Sports
The Apprentice
The Art of Seeing
Shoot stunning scenics
Camera Clinic
Photo Active
DJI Mini 5 Pro
Hotshots
Viltrox AF 50mm F2 Air
Interview
In Focus
Shot of the Month
Digital Darkroom
Reader Gallery
Ask Matthew
Readers’ letters
The Apprentice _ This month, we’re at the Wildlife Dreams nature hide in southern Estonia, where one lucky DigitalCamera reader gets a one-to-one bird photography workshop with professional photographer Paul Browning
Photo Active _ 10 things to shoot and create this month – follow the pathway to success when photographing arboretums in autumn, learn how to take still-life shots of conkers and get revved up for capturing classic motorbikes
Camera Clinic _ Learning to solve the problems of shooting in low light is a fundamental skill of photography, says Will Cheung, so follow his expert advice and you might find yourself preferring working in low light over full sunlight
Paul Browning
Will Cheung
Andrew James
Wes Kristopher
Margot Raggett
Jon Devo
NEW SERIES!
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It’s a great place to hide
It’s a great place to hide
The Pro
The Apprentice
SUPER SHOT #1
SUPER SHOT #1
Special thanks to Wildlife Dreams, Visit Estonia and Baltic Tours
SUPER SHOT #2
SUPER SHOT #2
Wildlife hide photos 101
Our pro’s kit Sony A1 II
SUPER SHOT #3
Pro kit Camera supports
Technique assessment
Expert insight
Use camera smarts
Pro portfolio
BE OUR NEXT APPRENTICE!
Make people disappear
Make people disappear
The essential tools for long exposures
Attach an ND filter
Get into a tug-of-war
Technique ideas
Lens choice
Let’s play conkers
Lighting
Make like Hollywood
The editing process
A walk in the woods
A walk in the woods
Forestry England’s Westonbirt, The National Arboretum
Five ways to capture the beauty of an arboretum
Kit checklist
Five ways to capture the beauty of an arboretum
Setting the white balance
Use white balance creatively
Custom white balance – cool
Custom white balance
Custom white balance – warm
Go fox hunting
2 Use a long lens
1 Be flexible
Go fox hunting
5 Know your subject
3 In-camera cropping
4 Have patience
Big up your foregrounds
Five steps for shooting better landscapes
Optional kit
Rev it up
Rev it up
Lighting the scene
The winner of the ‘Sports’ challenge is… Malcolm Boyd
Cityscapes challenge
The art of seeing
Benedict Brain
WINNER: Our Moon
RUNNER-UP: Our Moon
WINNER: Our Sun
OVERALL WINNER and WINNER: Galaxies
WINNER: Planets, Comets and Asteroids
WINNER: People and Space
WINNER: People and Space
WINNER: The Sir Patrick Moore Prize for Best Newcomer
RUNNER-UP: Our Sun ‘A Sun Yawn’ Zhang Yanguang (China)
BETTER LANDSCAPES
BETTER LANDSCAPES
PART 1 Choosing lenses for landscapes
PART 2 Creating composition with impact
PART 3 Revamp your raw files with masks
The rule of thirds
Focal point
Foreground interest
Light
Tonal range and contrast
Movement
CHOOSING LENSES FOR LANDSCAPES
STANDARD LENS: 35-70MM
WIDE-ANGLE LENS: 14-24MM
TOP TIP
CHOOSING LENSES FOR LANDSCAPES
TELEPHOTO LENS: 70MM UPWARDS
TOP TIP
CREATING COMPOSITION WITH IMPACT
RULE OF THIRDS
TOP TIP
CREATING COMPOSITION WITH IMPACT
FOCAL POINT
FOREGROUND INTEREST
TOP TIP
LIGHT
MOVEMENT
TOP TIP
LIGHT
TONAL RANGE AND CONTRAST
TOP TIP
PART 3
REVAMP YOUR RAW FILES WITH MASKS
USING LANDSCAPE MASKS
PART 3
REVAMP YOUR RAW FILES WITH MASKS
USING LANDSCAPE MASKS
TOP TIP
This month: Low light
Pack your bag
The need for speed
Get the knowledge
Perfect examples of shooting in low light
Nine low-light situations and how to successfully deal with them
Enhance the joys of working in low light
Pros and cons
Shoot your best-ever low-light photos
Camera know-how Wide-aperture lenses explained
Pros and cons
Shoot your best-ever low-light photos
Camera tech In-body noise reduction
Camera skills Image stabilisers
Deer oh deer
Expect the unexpected
Sharp and noisy versus blurred and clean
Shoot photos like a pro
Pro tip Getting to grip with image stabilisers
Focus with care
Balance it out
A flair for flare
Mind the light
Reader gallery
Reader gallery
SEND US YOUR IMAGES!
Shot of the month
Highlight your subject using Lightroom’s useful Lens Blur tool
MEET YOUR TRAINERS
Digital Darkroom
Use colour tables to give your images a new look and save them for later
Recreate your own 1950s-style pulp fiction comic book covers
Discover AI-assisted editing for beautiful mono conversions
Boost clarity and detail in your images with these four techniques
AI-assisted Adaptive Monochrome magic
Use our free monochrome profiles, or make your own
AI-assisted Adaptive Monochrome magic
Use Lens Blur for extra focus
Refine, refine and refine again
Use Lens Blur for extra focus
Give your shots a clarity boost
Give your shots a clarity boost
Create pulp fiction with Affinity Photo 2
Text options
Create LUTs in Photoshop
Change the grass
Save the LUT
Colour changes
Find a suitable image
How to use your LUTs
23 Actions, presets, profiles and LUTs
10 B&W PROFILES
FOUR CLARITY ACTIONS
FOUR RED DAZE LUTs
FOUR COMIC BOOK LUTs
LENS BLUR PROFILE
How to use your software extras
Ask Matthew...
Second-hand superstar
A trio of new Sigma lenses
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Nikon | Red ZR
Radiant Photo 2.1
Canon RF 85mm F1.4L VCM
Excire Search 2026
PRIZE 1 Three-day photo holiday in Estonia with Wildlife Dreams
PRIZE 3 Sigma 16-300mm F3.5-6.7 DC OS Contemporary
PRIZE 2 Leica SOFORT 2 100 YEARS OF LEICA instant camera
PRIZE 5 NiSi JetMag Pro Landscape ND kit
PRIZE 4 Benro, Shimoda and Tenba photo accessories
PRIZE 6 amaran Ace 25c LED light kit
PRIZE 7 CEWE PHOTOBOOK voucher
Guru Shots
Enter GuruShots contests
Honourable mentions
GURU’S TOP PICK
TOP PHOTO
More honourable mentions
Scanning ahead…
Kit Zone
DJI Mini 5 Pro _ Pro camera drone specs in the sub-250g category
Sigma 300-600mm F4 DG OS Sports _ Super-telephoto for sports and wildlife
Lumix S9 _ New full-frame mirrorless targeting the needs of creators
Viltrox AF 50mm F2 Air_ Compact prime for Nikon Z and Sony E mount cameras
250-page gear Buyer’s Guide
Lumix S9 £999/$1,498 (body only)
Specifications
Lumix S9 £999/$1,498 (body only)
Rival cameras
Digital Camera verdict
Dynamic range (EV)
Signal to noise ratio (decibels)
Resolution (line widths/picture height)
DJI Mini 5 Pro £689/$TBC
Specifications
Digital Camera verdict
Sigma 300-600mm F4 DG OS Sports £5,899/$6,599
Super-telephoto
Viltrox AF 50mm F2 Air £190/$199
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Prime lens
Margot Raggett
Margot Raggett
Margot Raggett
Readers’ letters
Insert coin
Watch your feet
Multiple exposures
What the f-stop?
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