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December 9, 2006
Reports of photography enthusiasts being stopped while taking pictures near the British Airways London Eye have prompted management for the famous attraction to outline its stringent rules. A full report appears in this week's AP,…
December 8, 2006
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.
December 8, 2006
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.
December 7, 2006
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…
December 5, 2006
The radioactive substance that killed the former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko is contained in products including an anti-static brush used in photographic darkrooms.
December 4, 2006
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
December 1, 2006
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
November 30, 2006
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.
November 29, 2006
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.
November 28, 2006
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.
November 27, 2006
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’.
