August 3, 2005
Picture agency targets amateur photojournalists
A new picture agency aims to help the general public sell ‘newsworthy’ snaps caught on mobile phones and digital cameras to newspapers, magazines and other media.
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August 2, 2005
New film-based SLRs buck digital trend
Bucking the trend for digital cameras are two new manual film-based SLRs which have just landed in the UK from the Far East.
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August 1, 2005
Appeal for help after £13,000 camera theft
Surfing photographers in Devon are appealing for help in tracing £13,000 worth of camera gear stolen from a car parked outside a house in Barnstaple. Picture credit: Matt Samuel/extremeboardshots.com
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July 29, 2005
AP reader celebrates awards double
Dorset-based AP reader Richard Austin has won the sports and news photographer of the year titles in an annual competition for photographers from regional newspapers. Picture credit: Richard Austin
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July 28, 2005
Fuji launches nine-million-pixel ‘bridge’ camera
Fuji has unwrapped a nine-million-pixel digital camera called the FinePix S9500 Zoom, which boasts a 28-300mm lens (in 35mm viewing angle terms).
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July 27, 2005
Travel comp bans ‘manipulated’ images
This year’s Wanderlust travel photography competition is now open for entries but – in a change from previous years – organisers have banned digitally manipulated images. The picture (right) was captured on slide film by…
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July 26, 2005
Internet exposure for historic treasure trove
The public will get free internet access to some of the world’s most famous photographs as a result of a tie-up between two of America’s largest photographic houses.
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July 25, 2005
BBC News launches digital photo contest
The BBC News website is searching for ‘compelling’ digital images in its quest to find its Photographer of the Year 2005. Picture Credit: Veronica Carter
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July 22, 2005
UK debut for Sigma’s 28-300mm zoom lens
Independent lens maker Sigma has released a 28-300mm ‘DG’ lens designed for both film and digital SLRs.
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July 21, 2005
Police appeal for photographs after today’s London explosions
Police are appealing for anyone with photographs or mobile phone images taken at the scenes of today’s minor explosions in London to send them to www.police.uk
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July 21, 2005
Thousands more jobs axed at Kodak
Kodak is to slash up to 10,000 more jobs worldwide as a result of a faster than expected decline in sales of traditional products such as film.
