August 15, 2008
Leica Camera hit by fall in sales
Leica’s global sales fell 38% for the three months to 30 June compared to the same quarter last year. But sales of the M8 camera are ‘holding up’ in the UK.
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August 14, 2008
Chung in China crisis
Award-winning Guardian news photographer Dan Chung was ‘manhandled’ by police as they removed student protesters near the main Olympic site, according to the newspaper’s Beijing diary. Picture credit: Angela Nicholson
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August 14, 2008
Camera prices could fall with ‘bionic’ eye invention
Cameras could become smaller and less expensive using newly developed ‘flexible’ electronic circuitry that enables the use of smaller lenses, one of its US inventors has told Amateur Photographer magazine. Picture courtesy John Rogers
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August 13, 2008
Photography hotspots invaded by killer jellyfish (update)
Durdle Door in Dorset, a favourite location among readers of Amateur Photographer (AP), is one of several coastal beauty spots to be invaded by a poisonous jellyfish-like creature. Picture credit: Peter Soper
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August 13, 2008
Tributes to photographer killed in Georgia conflict
Tributes have been paid to 27-year-old photographer Alexander Klimchuk (pictured) who died during fighting in South Ossetia. Picture credit: Mark Pinder
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August 12, 2008
Capa photography mystery remains unsolved
An investigation that could have solved whether one of Robert Capa's most famous war photographs was staged has found no fresh evidence. Picture: International Center of Photography
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August 11, 2008
Polaroid was photographers’ ‘comfort blanket’
A photographic exhibition to mark the end of the Polaroid film era will take place in London in October.
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August 11, 2008
Photographers to shape Polaroid history
In an historic move, Amateur Photographer readers have been given license to help design a new Polaroid digital camera that will include an on-board printer focused on ‘professional and business users’. Picture: The move comes…
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August 8, 2008
Photographer put on sex offenders register
Indecent photographs of children are less likely to be detected since the move away from film because fewer images are sent to high-street printers, warns Bonusprint.
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August 7, 2008
Nikon P6000 camera boasts GPS and RAW
Nikon has unveiled a new 13.5-million-pixel flagship digital compact called the Coolpix P6000 whose features include a raw format mode and built-in GPS ‘geotagging’ technology.
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August 7, 2008
Nikon adds ‘touchscreen’ to Coolpix line
Nikon has added a 3.5in ‘touchscreen’ to one of six new digital compact cameras announced this morning.
