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Thieves raid Leica’s Mayfair store

About 4 hours ago

Tens of thousands of pounds worth of top-of-the-range Leica camera gear was stolen from the company's flagship store in Mayfair, London last month, it has emerged.

Leica M-E front (main)

Suspected serial camera thief on the loose, shops warned

About 7 hours ago

A man suspected of stealing £6,000 worth of Leica gear from a London camera shop may have struck other stores across the South East, dealers have been warned.

Harar, Ethiopia by Dave Watts/Photo Democracy

Deadline looms for fine art award

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

A new fine art award that will give photographers the chance to make some money from their work through official representation will be closing entries on May 31

J M Cameron courtesy Department for Culture, Media & Sport

11th-hour bid to save historic ‘at risk’ photo album

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Historians have launched an 11th-hour bid to save the earliest recorded photo album belonging to pioneering British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, which is in danger of leaving UK shores.

Callum Mcinerney Riley's Flickr page

Image sharing site Flickr in huge revamp (update)

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Image sharing website Flickr has undergone a significant revamp, offering all users 1TB of free storage space and display of images at ‘full resolution’.

Copyright symbol by Antony Green

Photographers warned over celebrity photos on social networks

Monday, 20 May 2013

The perils of posting photos of celebrities on social networking websites have been exposed in a British court case.

Olympus XZ-1 front

Olympus to cut more jobs amid compact camera crash (update Monday 19 May)

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Olympus has shed 3,400 imaging staff, and plans more job cuts, amid a worse than predicted decline in compact camera sales.

Touit 1.8-32 on Sony NEX and Fujifilm X

Zeiss launches new lenses for Sony and Fujifilm mirrorless cameras

Thursday, 16 May 2013

Two new lenses are the first of Carl Zeiss's Touit series of autofocus lenses for the Sony NEX and Fujifilm X camera ranges.

EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender

Canon debuts £11,999 telephoto lens: Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Extender 1.4x

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Canon has introduced a new high-performance super-telephoto lens, retailing at £11,999.99, as the latest addition to its L-series

Cuckmere Haven by John Franklin

Peace Camp photography competition exhibition to begin in June

Wednesday, 15 May 2013

An exhibition that includes the winning images of last year's Peace Camp photography competition will be starting next month.

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