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Nokia 6500 Camera Phone

I never really hold much to the photographic technology of a mobile phone. In my experience most mobile phones struggle to work as a phone when they have a fancy camera built in or an MP3 player. And the image quality is never that good.
Well I try to keep open minded and tested out the [...]

Nikon upgrades the D3!

Nikon have only had the latest flagship camera out a few months and they’ve already upgraded it!
The D3 now has an upgraded memory, this will increase the speed of the shooting buffer from 16 to a continuous 36 shots for 14-bit lossless NEF raw files. In most files like TIFF or JPEG permutations, shooting buffer [...]

Camera Phones

Camera phones were once a novel feature only available on the latest models they were grainy and unclear and often resembled a magic eye picture when blown up to anything bigger than a 5cm x 5cm screen. As technology has developed so have camera phones and they have quickly caught up to the digital cameras [...]

Samsung reveals new camera

Yesterday Samsung let it slip thatthey are releasing a new 14.7-million-pixel camera called the NV100HD, featuring a ‘28mm’ Schneider Kreuznach lens.
This new smasung camera has started rumours that Samsung will launch a new digital SLR in the autumn to compete against the likes of Canon and Nikon. The belief is that with all the [...]

Photography Awards Offer total of £13,000 in Prizes

The British Journal of Photography is holding its 4th International Photography Awards,and year they’ve upped the prizes totalling £13,000.
They have also re shaped the competition to get more entries, previously photographers had to showcase a whole portfolio of workfor the competition, but this year they have added a new category for a single image and [...]

The Polaroid Is Back

The Polaroid Camera used to be the much loved solution to quick snaps but as the digital revolution has improved over the years Polaroid camera’s have become somewhat obsolete.  Polaroid could have accepted defeat, sold up and moved to the south of Spain… but no! Polaroid are back!
Technology has made it easy to use a [...]

DIY Still Life Photography

In the credit crunch everyone is counting the pennies, and the amateur photographer has a tough challenge ahead. A studio set up can cost a lot of money and still life is no exception.If you are serious about your photography and don’t have a lot of money then you should try a homemade studio!
For small [...]

Pin Hole Photography

Pinhole photography is a very old and very fun way of taking pictures, without using a lens a tiny hole is used instead of the lens. The light passes through the tiny hole then the image is formed in the camera.
Pinhole cameras can be both large or small simple or intricate. Pin hole cameras have [...]

Nikon D700!!

Not so long ago Nikon released the D3 and we all thought this was the best think since sliced best, but Nikon did what Nikon does best and brought out an encore! The Nikon D700 smarter, better, faster, cheaper!
The D700 has the same features as Nikons flagship D3 but is smaller lighter and cheaper, by [...]

Pentax K20D

2006 saw the introduction of the Pentax K10D but 2 years later to the delight of serious amateur and professional photographers Pentax brought out the K20D!
The K10D saw more features than any other Pentax SLR before it but now Pentax have released this little beauty! The Pentax K20D, is a stabilized 14.6 megapixel Camera with [...]