March 3, 2011
Photography contest boasts South Africa prize
A seven-night holiday to South Africa is up for grabs to the winner of a photography competition organised by Great Hotels of the World, in association with Amateur Photographer magazine.
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March 2, 2011
Photographer injured in bomb blast remains in UK hospital
Giles Duley, the photographer severely injured by a makeshift bomb in Afghanistan last month, continues to receive treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
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March 2, 2011
British and French photography inventors go head to head
The intense rivalry between the inventors of modern photography is explored in a new exhibition which opens next month at the National Media Museum.
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March 1, 2011
Fujifilm debuts wideangle GF670W film camera
Fujifilm’s GF670W Professional wideangle medium format rangefinder camera is due to go on sale in Japan this month.
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March 1, 2011
Compact system camera success story continues
Compact system cameras (CSCs) made up almost a quarter of all interchangeable lens cameras sold in the UK during January, according to new figures.
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February 28, 2011
London photography store to shut down
Kingsley Photographic Ltd, a family-run camera business which opened its first shop in London 50 years ago, will close this week as 'spiralling rent' and cheaper online competition takes its toll.
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February 28, 2011
Corbis denies plan to destroy millions of photos
Picture library giant Corbis has dismissed as ‘speculation’ reports that millions of photographs from its Sygma archive are set to be destroyed.
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February 28, 2011
Photographers gear up for Focus on Imaging
Tens of thousands of amateur and professional photographers are set to converge on Birmingham for Focus on Imaging, the UK's largest consumer photographic show, which opens on Sunday.
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February 25, 2011
Space Shuttle photo search mission underway (update 9pm)
A frantic search is underway to recover photos and video footage showing Space Shuttle Discovery as it blasted into space, after a bunch of students attempted to document its launch using a camera-equipped helium balloon.
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February 24, 2011
Official: Sony axes NEX-3 camera in Japan
Sony has stopped making its NEX-3 compact system camera for the Japanese market, leading to speculation it has axed the model altogether. The NEX-3 went on sale in the UK just eight months ago.
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February 24, 2011
Leica: No plan for new ‘compact’ camera system
Leica has today said it has no plans to launch a new camera system based on a Panasonic Micro Four Thirds model.
