August 9, 2005
BBC defends use of unpaid amateur images
BBC News has defended the free use of amateur photographs on its website insisting that most contributors have no interest in making money from the pictures.
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August 8, 2005
Dixons ditches 35mm film cameras
Dixons is to axe sales of 35mm film cameras from its high-street shops claiming there is now ‘no real difference’ in quality between film and digital.
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August 5, 2005
Casio quartet bolsters Exilim line-up
Casio has bolstered its Exilim family of digital compacts with four new cameras including a 7.2-million-pixel model - all due out next month.
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August 4, 2005
Kodak compact aims to challenge SLRs
Kodak hopes to challenge consumer digital SLRs with a new 8-million-pixel digital compact called the EasyShare P880 which it hails as a cheaper, less bulky alternative.
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August 3, 2005
Picture agency targets amateur photojournalists
A new picture agency aims to help the general public sell ‘newsworthy’ snaps caught on mobile phones and digital cameras to newspapers, magazines and other media.
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August 2, 2005
New film-based SLRs buck digital trend
Bucking the trend for digital cameras are two new manual film-based SLRs which have just landed in the UK from the Far East.
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August 1, 2005
Appeal for help after £13,000 camera theft
Surfing photographers in Devon are appealing for help in tracing £13,000 worth of camera gear stolen from a car parked outside a house in Barnstaple. Picture credit: Matt Samuel/extremeboardshots.com
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July 29, 2005
AP reader celebrates awards double
Dorset-based AP reader Richard Austin has won the sports and news photographer of the year titles in an annual competition for photographers from regional newspapers. Picture credit: Richard Austin
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July 28, 2005
Fuji launches nine-million-pixel ‘bridge’ camera
Fuji has unwrapped a nine-million-pixel digital camera called the FinePix S9500 Zoom, which boasts a 28-300mm lens (in 35mm viewing angle terms).
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July 27, 2005
Travel comp bans ‘manipulated’ images
This year’s Wanderlust travel photography competition is now open for entries but – in a change from previous years – organisers have banned digitally manipulated images. The picture (right) was captured on slide film by…
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July 26, 2005
Internet exposure for historic treasure trove
The public will get free internet access to some of the world’s most famous photographs as a result of a tie-up between two of America’s largest photographic houses.
