Camera Electronic Service Company has a whole raft of new equipment heading to Perth. In the next few months you will be able to enhance your photography with:

Your favourite online newsletter is back again - no not the one from the dodgy political organisation in Canberra - the one from us, the Stirling Street photographic shop. We've got better ideas about how to save the nation and ours are a lot more fun!

The new Profoto D1 250 Air heads are here....air heads? Is this Southern California? Is Adam Same writing this stuff just to see what reaction he'll get? I need a coffee.

You know you want to try these. Stop being stuffy - just sidle over to the LENS BABY cabinet next to the collectibles and ask to try out the new COMPOSER on a NIKON or CANON body. The results are very nearly predictable and wholly charming. The LENS BABY is the nearest thing you can get to a tilt lens for your DSLR without breaking the bank. See their website on the net for a fabulous range of inspired images. And best of all - CESCO has all the different interchangeable optics - single and double glass - pinhole and macro - that let you explore the system.

This was a great success, judging from the comments of customers in the shop this month. Some of the items CESCO showcased seem to have taken off with a vengeance - we sold out of the DICAPAC DSLR waterproof cases and had to get an emergency shipment sent over to cope with the demand.

CESCO has begun to stock the large format printers from EPSON. We have been introduced, in the easiest possible way, to top-notch inkjet printing up to A2 size on the EPSON 3800 and 4880 models. These are truly professional machines but the operation has been simplified to such an extent that we were able to set them up directly from sealed boxes and print perfect A2 from the VERY FIRST print. This is delightful - it means all Perth pro and enthusiast photographers can produce wall-mount prints ( and anything smaller) for themselves with a minimum of fuss.

EPSON also make a delightful adjunct to the DSLR shooter - the EPSON P7000 storage viewer. A portable hard drive and storage case with a camera-quality LCD screen to display the contents of your cards. 160Gb of internal storage for under a grand - also plays all sorts of entertainment media.

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Users of the NIKON D40's, 60's, and 70's will welcome the new AF-S lens designed to work with your cameras. It is a superb f1.8G 35mm lens that will equate on APSC sensors to the old measurement of 50mm on film cameras. In short, it's the new era standard lens - small, light, and fast. The price is a mini - $399.00

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In stock now and the perfect economical solution to calibrating your monitor. Eliminate most of your colour fights before they occur - get all your screens to agree with each other and with your customers'. Saves having to paint all your models light green.... from $170.00. Just had price drop on all units.

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If you are a little unsure about whether your camera, computer, and printing equipment are actually playing on the same field, think about hiring some of our calibration instruments to level things up. We can also send out one of our experts to train you in how to do it.

Ask about our training courses: Office Disorganisation 101, Fire Fighting for IT Personnel, The Creative Storeman, and CESCO Guide to Ice Skating for Elk.

The hire department at CESCO has a very extensive range of NIKON, CANON, PENTAX, and HASSELBLAD gear. In addition, there are a number of lighting sets on offer, including independant battery sets. No need to fret on your next job - hire the extra gear you need.

No need to tell the LEICA enthusiasts out there about the sheer quality of this brand - they know it as the best of the compact digital cameras. But now there is a new addition to the range - the D-LUX 4 in titanium finish. tough, stylish, and the best of Leitz lenses. Together with the titanium-finish automatic flash and case what's not to love?

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What more can we say....the new LOMO and HOLGA stock is in store now and we have wild stuff ranging all the way from the little DIANA F in plain or flavoured versions ( flavour of the month is chrome...if you don't believe us just come in and see ) all the way to the HORIZONT panorama camera and the LUBITEL twin-lens reflex. Emphasis is on fun and experimentation, just like in old days. In old country ....Comrade. Come along down to CESCO and join the party. Is LOMO, is good....

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Okay, when we finally get it....if we finally get it ...CESCO will have a number of in-store specials designed to put a camera in your hand and stimulate the economy. If you are a fan of compacts we can set you up with a state-of-the art package and if you want to try a DSLR there may even be a way to start out as well. More details to follow.

AT LAST! We finally got what you all* needed - the KENKO teleconverters and extension tubes came back into stock. These are good quality items that work well with NIKON, CANON and PENTAX DSLR's, preserving AF and metering options correctly. With the surging interest in macro work the tubes are particularly good value, both optically and financially.

* and that's for all y'all, y'hear? Yee hah.

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Charge on the go - we have a new range of 12volt - powered inverters that can be used to power your camera battery chargers from your car! We have been informed that photographers can refill their camera batteries between jobs with a simple trip from Perth to Fremantle. Only $64.95

This is a manufacturer that believes in making the best of the portable flash systems on our cameras. The new LQ-119 folding softbox attaches to a multiple of flashes with a simple set of velcro pads. All of a sudden you have direct diffused light in the field instead of the harsh results of plain flash. Easier to use than bounce! Great for hot shoe flashes.

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Did you know that it is easy to shop online with CESCO? If you have discovered how to do it email us here and tell us what to do. We still can't find the last lot of invoices from December 1979, never mind finding the stock....

Ummm, yes...Well we do have a lot of papers here. Only now they are called print media, and we have them from HAHNEMUHLE, CANSON, EPSON, ILFORD, INNOVA, and MOAB. All sorts of sizes, all sorts of surfaces.

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Disregard that last headline - it should have read lighting extravaganza. What it really means is we have a lotta lotta lights in store. There are lighting kits in all price brackets - $765...$1295...and up. You can get three-head flash outfits with 160 ws heads, 200 ws outfits with two heads, battery pack units - even constant lighting kits that provide facilities for video as well as still photography.

And while we are on that subject, give some thought to the constant light source for still work. Your DSLR can be set to work brilliantly with this source of light and what a good way to visualise the final effect. You can learn a lot with constant lighting, particularly with the MULTIBLITZ sets and their associated light shapers.

We are clearing all SONY stock! Please see list below of specials.

It is slim - so you can use it on wide-angle lenses without vignetting - and clear so that you can see through it. And multicoated so you can see MORE through it. Best filters in the world.

This is the new manual-focus VOIGTLANDER for NIKON or PENTAX mount. Should be absolutely superb performance at a good price.

Save Your Suds! New Glanz Digital Copier easily transfer your 35mm colour slides and negatives to digital files on your PC. The process is ultra quick and dead easy. At $169.00 it is even cheaper than taking out the old projector and screen!...RRP $189.00

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A good opportunity to get on top of that 35mm slide and negative backlog that hasn't been entered into your digital stocks. At under $500 you get SILVERFAST digital programming to eliminate scratches and dust and to correct lost or strayed colour. There are number of levels of definition available and your scanning can be fast.

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CESCO technician ERNEST CESAR has completed work on a CANON 20D camera that is dedicated to the Infra red spectrum. It works just as easily as the regular DSLR but now the fabulous unseen world of IR is just a click away. Results are really startling - some surfaces and textiles reflect and entirely different tone than their optical appearance, and foliage and landscapes are a new revelation. Ask the hire department.

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