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100 GREATEST GADGETS OF 2017

S T U F F
F O R
E D I T I N G STREAM
LIVE-
IN 4K
DJI SP ARK

This palm-sized drone
comes equipped with
all kinds of shooting
modes to churn out
set pieces that make
Hollywood look
like child’s play.
ActiveTrack, for
example, will capture
stellar tracking shots
(using sensors to avoid
MA CBOOK L OGITECH MX tree collisions), while
PRO 13IN ANYWHERE 2S Helix QuickShot will
( T OUCH B AR ) put you straight into
that overhead scene
Some poor souls from The Shawshank
Now packing Intel’s manage to struggle Redemption.
latest Kaby Lake through life using only £519 / dji.com
processors, Apple’s one or two computers
13in MacBook Pro has at a time; but for
enough screen space those of us who insist SAMSUNG
for most of your editing on three, Logitech GARMIN VIRB 360 GALAXY
needs – especially has created the MX S8 PLUS
once you’ve learnt its Anywhere 2S. Paired
Touch Bar shortcuts for with Logitech’s free Put your selfie stick away – proper livestreaming
tweaking hues, hitting Flow software, it can means going full spherical. Thing is, it’s only worth When smartphones
shortcuts and generally control three PCs at doing 360° if it doesn’t look like a pixel patchwork. were first fitted with
Getting Stuff Done once – with the ability The Garmin Virb is capable of firing out unstitched cameras, the compact
across a whole host to copy and paste footage at 5.7K, but it’s the ability to spit out 4K market might well have
of software including content from one to video at 30fps in real time that makes it a doozy. seen its future demise
Photoshop and Office. the other to the other. £650 / garmin.com looming. With the
from £1749 / apple.com £80 / logitech.com Galaxy S8 Plus, though,
it’s DSLRs that should
be worried. Samsung’s
software boffins have
worked their pixel
magic on the 12MP
HARDER f/1.7 sensor to deliver
THAN fantastic multi-frame
HARD image processing.
£779 / samsung.com

LA CIE SSD MICROSOFT L OMO’ OLYMPUS LIVES TREAM
RUGGED SURFA CE INS T ANT T OUGH T G-5 MEV O
THUNDER - S TUDIO A UT OMAT
BOLT USB-C
Long have butter- Want to stream your
We waited an eternity Can a film camera be fingered photographers band’s first gig with
Media moguls devour for Microsoft’s deluxe truly ‘hipster’ unless ogled the high-end a hint of Glastonbury
drive space like desktop to arrive in the it’s retro-stylish and gear of their steady magic? You could rope
wrestling fans chomp UK, but by goodness painfully self-aware? rivals, ruing their in a troupe of your
up merch. But while was it worth it. A true The Automat is neither own inability to hold pals, stick an array
2TB hard drives are alternative to Apple’s of those things yet it a camera without some of smartphones in
now affordable, they’re iMacs, its gorgeous still tops the Shoreditch calamity. Mercifully, their hands and hire
rarely robust enough 28in PixelSense display, shelves with its the Tough TG-5 is here someone to mix it all
to survive an accidental supercharged innards detailed build, bundled to bring them into the together. Or you could
suplex. LaCie’s SSD lays and delightful Surface lenses (for £30 more) big league: shockproof, use the Livestream
the smackdown with Dial accessory – not and generally excellent crushproof and Mevo, which crops
rugged credentials, to mention the folding snapping experience. waterproof, it’s fitted in frame to give the
USB-C/Thunderbolt hinge – all combine into It even spits out decent with an identical image impression of a multi-
connectivity and one killer package for instant pictures. processor to the OM-D cam setup. You decide.
510MB/sec transfers. design nerds. from £139 / E-M1 Mark II. US$400 /
from £330 / lacie.com £3069 / microsoft.com lomography.com £400 / olympus.co.uk getmevo.com

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