March 26, 2008
Jessops photography sales down as cost-cuts pledged
The closure of 81 Jessops stores caused total sales to fall by 24.6% in the 25 weeks to 22 March, the high street chain announced today.
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March 25, 2008
Olympus warns of UK price rises
Olympus is set to increase the price of digital SLR lenses and accessories by around 15%, blaming the falling value of the pound.
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March 25, 2008
Photography protest looms at Scotland Yard
The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) is to stage a protest outside New Scotland Yard in a fight for photographers’ rights, sparked by the police’s recent anti-terror publicity.
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March 20, 2008
Win chance to shoot at music festival
A pair of tickets and access to the press photographers' pit is up for grabs at Fairport Convention’s festival in Cropredy, Oxfordshire which takes place from 7-9 August.
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March 20, 2008
Police pledge to act on photography fears
Police have vowed to act on concerns expressed by photographers who fear officers will unfairly target them when taking pictures in public following recent anti-terrorism publicity.
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March 19, 2008
Death of war photography legend an ‘enormous loss’
Photojournalist Philip Jones Griffiths has died, the president of Magnum Photos has confirmed. Picture: © John GIANNINI
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March 19, 2008
Pentax halts 645 Digital camera plan
Pentax appears to have finally scrapped development of its long-awaited 645 Digital medium-format camera almost exactly three years after the plans were first unveiled.
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March 19, 2008
Photographers shown Mamiya / Phase One camera in Japan
A new medium format digital camera system has today been unveiled by Mamiya and Phase One in a joint venture first announced last year.
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March 18, 2008
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX500: Full UK spec
Full specification as supplied by Panasonic UK:
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March 18, 2008
Panasonic announces Lumix DMC-FX500 ‘flagship’ camera
Panasonic has this evening announced a new 'flagship' digital camera in the shape of the 10.1-million-pixel DMC-FX500 which sports a '25mm' ultra-wide zoom lens and a 3in LCD 'touch-screen'.
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March 18, 2008
Photographers struck by Adobe Photoshop ‘bugs’
Imaging software giant Adobe has been forced to remove downloadable Photoshop imaging software updates from its website after identifying ‘several bugs’.
