June 9, 2006
Photo model in lucky escape
A photographic model accidentally fell from a moving bus when she mistook the exit door for a door to the vehicle’s bathroom, reports the Bureau of Freelance Photographers (BFP).
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June 8, 2006
£3k travel assignment up for grabs
A photo commission worth £3,000 will go to the winner of this year’s travel photography competition hosted by the publisher of Insight Guides.
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June 7, 2006
NEWSFLASH: Arnold Newman dies aged 88
Arnold Newman - considered to be one of the great masters of portrait photography - has died aged 88, his agency Getty Images confirmed this afternoon.
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June 7, 2006
Collector’s Leica kit in giant sell-off
One of the most extensive collections of Leica cameras to ever appear at auction – said to span the entire history of Leica – is to go on sale at Christie’s in London next month.…
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June 6, 2006
Sony unveils sub-£600 digital SLR
Sony has unveiled its first digital SLR, a 10.2 million pixel model called the a (alpha) 100 which will be compatible with Konica Minolta A-type bayonet mount lenses.
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June 5, 2006
Canon to stay in film cameras ‘as long as market needs exist’
Canon has issued a statement saying that it will remain in the film camera business ‘as long as market needs exist’.
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May 26, 2006
Nikon D200 grabs Grand Prix glory
Nikon is celebrating after its D200 digital SLR beat 149 other cameras to win Japan’s Camera Grand Prix award 2006.
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May 25, 2006
Photography lecturer scoops <i>Independent on Sunday</i> honours
A photography lecturer from Sunderland has walked away with the top prize in a national digital photo competition organised by the Independent on Sunday and ICI. Picture credit: Graham Stouph
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May 24, 2006
Wombell finds home in Hereford
Paul Wombell, a former director of The Photographers’ Gallery in London, has been appointed the first full-time director of the Hereford Photography Festival. Picture credit: UPPA/Photoshot
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May 23, 2006
Pentax reveals two digital SLRs
Pentax has today unveiled two new 6.1-million-pixel digital SLRs one of which features a Pentax-developed CCD-shift Shake Reduction (SR) system.
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May 22, 2006
Kodak chief sounds warning on digital storage
The photographic industry has not yet developed a method for helping consumers archive the ‘mounting number of digital images stranded on household PCs’, warns Kodak’s CEO Antonio M Perez.
