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July 2, 2009
UK consumers snapped up 14.5% fewer compact cameras in May than in the same month the year before, according to official figures seen by Amateur Photographer. However, DSLR sales continue to ride out the effects…
July 1, 2009
Jewellery stolen during a photoshoot featuring the American actress Lindsay Lohan is now believed to be worth '£24,000', and not £250,000 as previously stated by London's Metropolitan Police.
July 1, 2009
Canon has issued a statement in response to press reports that it is to slash 700 jobs at a Japanese factory that makes equipment used to manufacture semiconductors.
July 1, 2009
Photographer Kevin Mazur has spoken about the last images of Michael Jackson, captured during rehearsals shortly before the music legend died last week.
July 1, 2009
Artist Leonardo da Vinci faked the Turin Shroud using a camera obscura to create an image of his own face on cloth, a TV documentary will claim tonight. Picture, courtesy Channel Five
June 30, 2009
An amateur photographer has beaten professionals to win a travel competition, with a photo he captured shortly after being made redundant. Picture credit: Frame Muller
June 30, 2009
The public will never know how many photographers have been stopped by the Metropolitan Police under anti-terrorism laws because, admits the force, it does not record the information on a computer database.
June 29, 2009
Photographers desperate to get their hands on the last rolls of Kodachrome film are stockpiling the discontinued emulsion before it disappears from stores.
June 29, 2009
Photographers hoping to take pictures of the Olympic construction site in East London have been warned they will be questioned if suspected of photographing 'security operations'. Picture credit: Dr Patrick Green
June 26, 2009
In an rather off-message slip at Olympus’s EP-1 launch at Jessops’ New Oxford Street, London branch on 25 June, David Bailey said he still prefers 10x8 photography.
June 25, 2009
A signed print of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue has sold for the equivalent of around £45,000 to collector David Waxman at auction
