December 8, 2006
Scoopt widens citizen snap net
Self-styled ‘citizen journalism’ picture agency Scoopt has teamed up with image sharing website Flickr in a bid to make more of the public’s images available to potential buyers.
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December 8, 2006
UK digital SLR sales climb 63%
Around 140,000 more digital SLRs will have been sold in the UK in 2006 - 63% more than 2005, according to estimates released to AP by the Photo Marketing Association.
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December 7, 2006
‘Hardware problem’ delays Sigma SD14
Sigma has put back the sale of its SD14 digital SLR until March blaming an ‘unexpected hardware problem’ that arose prior to production. Originally due on sale in November the ‘14-million-pixel’ model uses a X3…
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December 5, 2006
Polonium-210 present in darkroom gadget
The radioactive substance that killed the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is contained in products including an anti-static brush used in photographic darkrooms.
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December 4, 2006
Armed Forces photo results
A photographer's ‘dramatic’ b&w image of a Sea Harrier aircraft has won a photography competition jointly organised by The Army, Royal Navy and RAF. Picture credit: Crown Copyright
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December 1, 2006
Britons ‘dominate’ TPOTY results
A UK photographer has triumphed in this year’s Travel Photographer of the Year award – a contest ‘dominated’ by Britons ‘after several years in the shadows’, say organisers. Picture credit: Julian Love
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November 30, 2006
DSLR sales rise but value of scanners and compacts falls, reports Jessops
A 60% rise in digital SLR sales was the main factor driving a 6.9% growth in turnover at high-street chain Jessops in its preliminary results for the year ended 30 September 2006.
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November 29, 2006
Iconic pic sparks Hollywood movie
One of the most famous and hotly debated photographs of the Second World War has inspired a Hollywood film called Flags of Our Fathers, which is due to open in the UK on 22 December.
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November 28, 2006
Photo comp boasts holiday prize
A holiday in Austria is up for grabs in a photo competition for enthusiasts and professionals, organised by the publisher of a magazine called Small World.
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November 27, 2006
National photography museum in big shake-up
The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television has this morning pledged to ‘strengthen its photography’ despite changing its name to the ‘National Media Museum’.
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November 24, 2006
Vodka shots to leave snappers shaken and stirred… absolutely
Lomo has joined forces with Swedish vodka brand Absolut to launch a contest challenging Lomo photographers to document what they consider to be ‘Absolut’.
