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3 Legged Thing Punk 2.0 tripods collection The British brand has just updated its entrylevel tripods offering. Brian, Billy, Corey and Travis get chunkier leg locks and a redesigned tri-mount top plate. www.3leggedthing.comfrom £199/$239

London 1977-1987 by Berris Conolly Part of a series dedicated to rediscovering the best photographs of Britain in the 20th century, this book shows parts of London that many may never have seen before. hoxtonminipress.com£17.95/$TBC

Sigma announces 18-50mm f/2.8 DC DN The brand’s first zoom lens for crop-sensor mirrorless cameras will come in L-Mount and Sony E mount. Ideal for both stills and video, this new constant-aperture zoom weighs just 290g. www.sigma-imaging-uk. com; £429/$549

Nikon Z 9 & 3 new Z optics

With a 45.7MP full-frame sensor and blistering 120fps burst mode, this flagship mirrorless targets news and sports professionals, and goes on sale in November

The Big N fully revealed the Z 9 in October, so now we have the full specs to go with what we already knew – that it would pack a full-frame stacked CMOS sensor and have 8K video capability. With the ability to shoot 120fps bursts, the Z 9 has more firepower than the Canon R3 and the Sony A1, which both top out at 30fps, although when shooting at this frame rate, the Z 9 can only capture cropped images at 11MP. Other headline specs include a native ISO range of 64-25,600 (expandable to 32-102,400), Deep Learning AF, an electronic shutter, 16-bit raw images and 8K video at up to 60p. Nikon also announced three new lenses for its mirrorless

Z mount: the Z 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 VR S, the Z 400mm f/2.8 TC VR S and the Z 24-120mm f/4 S. The first native Z-mount super-telephotos, the Z 100-400mm and the Z 400mm will no doubt please the pro shooters being targeted by the Z 9, while the Z 24-120mm could be the perfect travel zoom for owners of smaller full-frame Z cameras. Also announced was the Mount Adapter FTZ II, a purely ergonomical upgrade on the original version, which allows Nikon Z owners to use Nikon F-mount glass.