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The weekly round-up

This was the week when Nikon released ten new compact cameras, Panasonic put a few more out there, Sony unveiled another three, and Pentax sent another EVIL camera out to play in the devil's sandpit. Haje also went to war with PayPal and I was left wondering if Yahoo! doesn't have something fishy going on with Flickr. We also announced our January photo competition winner and asked you to get [...]

2 days ago

A photo competition for February!

In honour of the grand and crazy trip that I'm currently enjoying, we thought that a suitable theme for February's competition would be flight. Whether you choose to submit a picture of a seagull, a 747, a bumble bee, or a kite, it doesn't matter: your subject just needs to be airborn with intent. If you submit the winning entry, you'll win yourself a 12" Fracture courtesy of the wonderful guys at [...]

2 days ago

Design-led? Actually, I think the Pentax K-01 means business

Pentax launched a new mirror-less interchangeable lens camera today: the K-01. It's bigger than we're accustomed to in this breed of camera - in size it's definitely no match for the cute and quirky Pentax Q, a camera that certainly had its stumbling points, but isn't being replaced by the K-01 - and the line is that it's a design-led camera aimed fashionable-types, and possibly a younger market. [...]

3 days ago

Our high-key photo competition winner is announced!

For January, we were looking for bright, airy, and positive high-key images to kick off the new year. This was the entry that made both Haje and me go 'Yes!' It's calm, delicate, and gorgeous. Congratulations, Hooker771 (he doesn't give his real name on Flickr), for your charming First Year of Ballet. You've just won yourself a 12" Fracture. Details of our February competition will be going up [...]

3 days ago

Ten new compacts from Nikon

Nikon announced ten new compact cameras today, ranging from the simplest point-and-shoot that starts at £70 and runs off of AA batteries, to the high-end P310 (an upgrade on the P300) at £300, via some superzooms that go up to £400 in price. Giving you the full details on all of them will likely send you to sleep and reduce me to  gibbering wreck, so how about we take a [...]

4 days ago

Could Yahoo! be engineering Flickr's demise from the inside out?

Yahoo! undertook a mass cull of staff late in 2010, of which a significant percentage were Flickr staff. A little over a year on and it would seem as if that were insufficient; another bundle of Flickr staff have just lost their jobs. This time it's the entire senior tier of customer support that's been asked to pack up their desks. This is a group of gifted and committed people, according to [...]

5 days ago

A highly specced and all-weather compact: the Sony TX200V

About three weeks ago, Sony announced three new compact cameras at CES; today, it's announced another three compact cameras. At least they've not flooded the market in one go, I suppose. And there's something that's caught my eye with the TX200V. The TX200V is definitely the most exciting of the three cameras announced today. It is touch-screen operated and has an 18.2 megapixel Exmor R CMOS [...]

1 week ago

The weekly round-up

It's been a busy week for Google, what with swinging the axe over Picnik and coming under fire for its new updated privacy policy, not to mention Daphne Keller - one its execs - letting slip that she uses Flickr rather that Picasa (or Google+) at the Leveson Inquiry. Then there have been a couple of important copyright judgements in the UK; one ruled that occasionally the public interest is more [...]

1 week ago

When freedom of expression trumps copyright

Imagine the situation: you're the editor of a newspaper or news website covering the conviction of a mother for the murder of her child through neglect. The story is grim and gruesome, but you think that including some compare-and-contrast photos, showing the child in years gone by, happy and healthy, as well as in the hideous conditions in which he was left to die miserably, is in the public [...]

1 week ago

The Pentax Optio VS20, all geared up for vertical shooting

There might be a constant background wittering that compact cameras are dying, being overtaken by camera phones, but camera manufacturers haven't given up on them yet - far from it, when you look at the new releases announced at CES - and that includes Pentax, who announced the Optio VS 20 today. And I have to say, based on the spec, the VS20 is an alright little point-and-shoot. It has a [...]

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