The European Imaging and Sound Association (EISA), which includes 50 photographic, video, hi-fi and home entertainment magazines, has announced the winners of its annual awards for the best products released in the year to 30 June, 2007.
2006 TIPA Awards Announced
The Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) has announced its annual awards for the best imaging products released in Europe in the last 12 months.
13.9x Zoom Lens for DSLR Cameras
Tamron has released details of a new 18-250mm zoom lens designed exclusively for DSLR cameras with APS-C sized imagers, which boasts a world-leading 13.9x zoom magnification.
1GB xD Picture Card Coming
Olympus Imaging Australia will release an xD-Picture Card with a capacity of 1GB early in 2005.
Photo retailers rally for bushfire victims
Around 2000 Victorian families who lost their homes and possessions in the Victorian bushfires are being given free care packages to help them rebuild their photo albums and other photographic memories.
100 Million Digital Cameras by 2007
Global sales of digital cameras will reach 80-90 million units this year and rise to 100 million in 2007 due to fast growing demand in new markets, according to leading digital camera makers in Taiwan.
New photo industry website launches this week
Media Publishing, publisher of this website and enthusiast magazine Photo Review Australia, is this week launching a new insiders’ website for the imaging industry called Photo Counter – www.photocounter.com.au.
He’s got to be Rankin!
If you happen to be in London this Friday (July 31), why not call in at the Old Truman brewery, where for the modest sum of 10 pounds (around $20) you will be granted entrance to Shoot Me Rankin, ‘a live and interactive photo-shoot experience in which previously selected members of the public will be shot by Rankin and their images immediately added to the exhibition.’
Harvard laurels for Australian photojournalist
Photojournalist Stephen Dupont is the first Australian to be awarded the prestigious Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
York Society Photographic Awards
Residents of Western Australia are invited to submit photographs to the annual York Photographic Awards, which offers cash prizes to winners.
