Looking for some last minute digital photography gift inspiration? Over at DPS we've just posted 9 Fun Digital Photography Christmas Gifts with some great ideas. Also if you're looking for digital cameras you might want to check out our more prominent post with a range of popular digital cameras and accessories. Happy Holiday Shopping! ...
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DPB's sister site, Digital Photography School, today announced a brand new design and the launch of Forums. These forums came as a result of a lot of feedback from readers that they wanted a place to: Share their digital photos Work on common assignments Talk about what they were learning Ask questions of other digital photographers Submit reviews of cameras and lenses Read the opinion of other real users of cameras that they were considering buying Get to know...
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Over at DPS I've posted 45 Digital Camera and Photography Gift Ideas for those looking for inspiration for their Christmas lists. The lists are based upon what readers of the site have been buying recently on Amazon. Here are the Digital SLR gift ideas: Digital SLRs Gift Ideas Canon EOS 30D CANON Digital Rebel XT EOS Nikon D200 Canon Digital Rebel XTi Nikon D80 Nikon D50 Pentax *istDS2 ...
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Over at Digital Photography School today I've posted 45 Digital Camera and Photography Gift Ideas for those looking for inspiration for their Christmas lists. The lists are based upon what readers of the site have been buying recently on Amazon. Here is the point and shoot digital camera category: Point and Shoot Cameras Canon PowerShot SD630 Canon PowerShot SD600 Canon PowerShot SD800 IS Fujifilm FinePix F30 Sony Cybershot DSC-h2 Nikon Coolpix S7c Canon PowerShot A530 Canon PowerShot A540 Panasonic...
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Welcome to Canon Australia as a major sponsor of Digital Photography Blog over the coming weeks. You'll see their banner across the top of this blog for the next few weeks with a promotion for their new Canon EOS 400D - a new DSLR. The banner links to a competition for Australians where they're offering pretty cool prizes (including a $25,000 trip, 8 Canon EOS 400D DSLRs, photography kits, cash and more) in a photo competition (which starts in...
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I'm often asked by readers which cameras they should buy. It's always a difficult question - but one way I answer it is to share what other readers are buying. Here's the top ten digital cameras (and lenses) bought by this blog's readers at Amazon in August: Canon EOS 30D DSLR - the update to the popular 20D (I'm testing it at the moment and it's great!). Canon 50mm f1.8 Lens - this is one of those 'must have'...
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Just a short note to let readers know that we're currently doing some updates on the back end of this site. You'll notice a few error messages for the next 24 hours (especially around category pages) but we hope to have them resolved tomorrow. Thanks for your patience. ...
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With Christmas just under a month away we've noticed an increase in traffic here at Digital Photography Blog from people looking for the perfect digital camera to give as a Christmas gift. Here are some of the hottest Digital Cameras that people are looking for this Christmas Point and Shoot Digital Camera Gift Ideas Kodak EasyShare Z760 - to quote Eric Zoolander (as you do) - if this camera were a male model we'd say 'he's so hot right...
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During Easter of 2004 Digital Photography Blog held it's first Digital Photography Site Awards. The winners were: Digital Photography Review Digital Camera Resource Photography Blog Digital Photography Now Steve's Digicams Luminous Landscape Megapixel Digital Outback Photo Imaging Resource photo.net It's time for the 2005 Awards and as part of the process this year we'd like to open things up for nominations. Tell us about your favorite digital photography online resource either in comments below or by emailing us using...
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You may have noticed that the past 24 hours have seen a few new authors added to this Digital Photography Blog. This is in preparation for me taking a few weeks off to do some holidaying (and a few days work) in Europe. There are three great guest authors who will be keeping you up to date with the latest news: Simon is a fellow Aussie (from Sydney) who has never blogged before but whom is obsessed about digital photography....
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Digital Photography Blog currently has a number of valuable advertising positions available for advertisers wishing to expose their products and services to hundreds of thousands of visitors every month. Opportunities exist for sponsorship via text links, banner or skyscraper ads as well as newsletter sponsorship. Download our Sponsorship Information Pack for more information on how you can take advantage of this wonderful opportunity....
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Do you have a Website? Would you like to provide your readers with the latest in Digital Photography News courtesy of Digital Photography Blog? Simply add the following piece of code to your site in the place you want our headlines to appear and you'll automatically have our latest 6 headlines served to your site as its updated here. Here's the code: <b><a href=“http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog”>Digital Camera News</a></b><br> <?php include 'http://ns2.bigbold.com/digest/493aa6bd2029/8f347f302fbf.html'; ?> Let us know how it goes. ...
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There has been some discussion in DP Review's Forums about our publication yesterday of details of the new Canon Rebel XT after a reader (Rich) emailed me with pointing me to this page at the Lets Go Digital's PMA Report. I do not know how Rich found the page (it was not linked to from their front page) but assume that he made some educated guesses after looking at the URLs of previously announced new digital cameras on their...
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January was a big month for new digital cameras (over 40 new products) but February is shaping up to be even bigger. Already we've had some big announcements in the lead up to the PMA show in a few days time. Here is a summary of what has been going on in digital camera new release world so far this month: Canon - Canon Rebel XT DSLR - 8.0MP DSLR - Canon Powershot SD400 - IXUS 50 - 5MP,...
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If you're a regular reader of Digital Photography Blog and a subscriber to our Newsletter you'll be aware that this blog is one of a number of similar sites on a range of topics. One of our sites, ProBlogger, has been nominated for an award as best overall blog in a business blogging awards competition. The prize for the award is for website design which we'd love to use to improve this site. You can help improve the service we...
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I'm really happy to announce a great new offer for Digital Photography Blog readers from foto burst. Where they will give you one month's free use of their Group Photo Albums. The difference of this service to others that I've seen is that you are able to invite friends and family to become contributors to an album - but that it is so easy to use that they won't be overwhelmed by the admin of having to know how...
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The new models of digital cameras, scanners, printers and other digital imaging products come thick and fast in January every year with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Here are the latest products to be released this month (to be updated through the month - bookmark this page) - arranged by Manufacturer: Brother - Brother HL-2070 Printer - Brother HL-2040 Printer Canon - Canon Canoscan LiDE 500F Scanner - Canon Selphy CP-400 Photo Printer - Canon Pixma iP90 Photo...
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The last three months of 2004 saw a record number of sales at the Digital Camera Department of our Affiliate partner site - Amazon (US). It seems that digital cameras (and their accessories) were a popular gift this Christmas so we thought it might be interesting to publish what products you our readers bought this Christmas from Amazon after clicking on links from this site. Following are your most popular purchases of the last three months (not ranked in...
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Christmas will be on us within hours and the shopping frenzy for digital cameras will pause momentarily before the Sales start. Whilst many thousands of digital cameras have been bought as Christmas gifts this year - the bargains are about to appear in the shops. We've just been notified of a number of post Christmas sales at UK online retailers that we thought you, our loyal readers, might find of interest if you're in the mood for buying a cheap...
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For a more up to date list check out Popular Digital Cameras and Gear at Digital Photography School. It is beginning to look a lot like Christmas and we've noticed a remarkable upturn in the number of visitors to Digital Photography Blog over the past month. It seems that Digital Cameras are among the most popular gifts this Christmas. As a result we thought we'd compile a list of the 10 most searched for Digital Cameras on this site over...
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Searching for a Digital Camera to give to your loved one this Christmas? We've assembled the following digital cameras that would make great gifts for that special someone. Products have been assembled from a variety of UK online retailers that we have an affiliate relationship with. For more information on individual products use our search feature in the sidebar to search for reviews of cameras within this site. We also recommend and are affiliated with Amazon UK and US -...
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Do you have a Digital Imaging Blog? There are a growing number of Digicam bloggers out there - it seems to be one of the cool things to blog about these days. If you do have a digital imaging blog - either about Digital Cameras, Printers, Scanners, Photography Tips, Camera phones - whatever - I'd like to hear from you. You see I think we might be able to work together in a number of ways that are mutually beneficial...
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Congratulations to Sam for winning the $100 Amazon gift voucher for his review of the Panasonic Lumix DMC-LC80. Sam was selected randomly out of a hat today from a number of other names of people who submitted reviews - you should have received an email with details of your prize today Sam. Thanks to all who submitted reviews - there were some very high quality pieces submitted that will only make our site stronger. We'll run a similar competition early...
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There comes a time in every good blog master's year when their partner insists that they get a life and take a holiday - that time has come for this blogger and as a result as I take a trip to New Zealand over the next couple of weeks posting on this site will be intermittent. I'll check in from time to time with the bigger news that breaks but to keep with the latest news on a day to...
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Do you own a digital camera, printer, scanner or camera phone? Would you like the chance to win a $100 (US) gift from Amazon simply by writing a short review of your experiences with it? Digital Photography Blog, in conjunction with Camera Phone Zone and Printer Blog are giving you the chance to win a $100 gift voucher from Amazon for each review of a printer, scanner, digital camera, camera phone or photo editing software package. You get one chance...
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Anyone who regularly follows the latest Digital Camera news will know that the last two months have seen an incredible array of new digital cameras released onto the market in the lead up to the upcoming Photokina show in Germany. Below are the newest digital cameras to be announced over the past two months - arranged by manufacturer. This page will continue to be updated as new cameras are announced. update - we're now up to 60 new digital cameras...
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I want to extend a warm welcome to the brand new Australian Sponsors of Digital Photography Blog - Savy Shopper. You may have seen their banner at the top of this site over the last few days - hopefully you've had time already to check out their extensive range of digital cameras and camcorders. To celebrate the beginning of our brand new partnership Savy Shopper is very generously having a Free Delivery day for all our Australian Readership. So if...
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"Altek, a (Taiwanese) manufacturer of digital still cameras (DSCs), will extend its product line to CMOS lens modules for use in phone cameras, with volume production beginning this quarter for VGA (0.3-0.35 megapixel) modules and next quarter for 1.3-megapixel modules, according to Jason Lin, company vice president for corporate marketing & new business development. The VGA lens modules will be initially shipped to the China market, Lin added." Read more at DSC maker Altek to begin producing CMOS lens modules...
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Lets Go Digital reports that Canon have won 3 DIWA awards for their Powershot Pro 1 (Gold Medal), Powershot S1 IS (Silver Medal) and EOS 300D (Silver Medal). "The awards are the results of comprehensive, independent reviews of different samples, made by a number of DIWA camera testing experts from Europe and USA. The PowerShot Pro 1 qualified for the prestigious DIWA gold medal in the Advanced Digital Camera category, thanks to 8 Megapixel resolution, a powerful and high performance...
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"Yahoo has introduced a service allowing users to upload photos to their Yahoo Photo online accounts directly from their cell phones. The Mobile Photos Upload service is an addition to the existing Yahoo photo service, which allows users to store digital albums online and share them with friends and family. The new service is available to camera phone users who are customers of Sprint Communications, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile USA, Cingular Wireless and Verizon Wireless." Read More at Yahoo! News -...
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Welcome to those visiting Digital Photography Blog today after reading about us in 'Livewire' (in the Age and Sydney Morning Herald) today (no online article). Thanks to Joanna McErvale who wrote us up as 'Blog of the Week'. She wrote: 'The burgeoning legion of amateur digital photographers will be bookmarking this one. Baptist minister and camera enthusiast Darren Rowse began his blog as a collection of photos after his European holiday last August. Alongside the pictures, he included a short...
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Google Inc. Press Release MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2004--Google Inc. today announced it acquired Picasa, Inc., a Pasadena, Calif.-based digital photo management company. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. "Picasa enables users to easily manage and share digital photographs, and its technologies complement Google's ongoing mission to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," said Jonathan Rosenberg, vice president, Product Management. "Picasa is an innovator in the field of digital photography, and we're...
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We were interested to get this Press release from Xerox today announcing their Olympics Sponsorship - partly because it relates to this photography blog, but also because we've just started an Olympics Blog. Check it out today for all the latest Olympic News. Xerox Press Release 'Team Xerox' Celebrates Olympic Sponsorship With Six-Story Banner In Athens, Greece Mosaic combines more than 27,000 employee photos to honor the Games ATHENS, July 09, 2004 -- In support of the 2004 Summer Olympic...
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This week we've updated the following cameras review pages with the latest reviews from around the web: - Kodak DSC Pro SLR/c - Olympus C-60 Zoom - Sony DSC P100 - Nikon Coolpix 5200 - HP Photosmark R707 - Canon Powershot S500 - Canon Powershot S60 - Olympus C770 Movie - Olympus C360 - Olympus C8080 ...
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To the person who is attempting to spam this site using 'trackback'. Please cease doing so as you are wasting not only my time but your own. Your links are deleted within minutes of going on my site as I have an automated notification system. You will not succeed in boosting your site through my blog. give up....
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Things have been quiet over the last few days at Digital Photography blog because we've just had a weekend away in Sydney (this time we went for relaxation not work). Stay tuned for another big week of Digital Photography News, Tutorials and Reviews - we hope to bring you a review of the new Canon Powershot S1 IS in the next couple of weeks and are looking forward to receiving cameras from Kodak and Casio also. Thanks to those who...
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Your Privacy is a priority for us at Digital Photograpy Blog. We will never give or sell your personal information to anyone. 1. The only information we may collect on this Blog is as follows: Your IP (that is to say, your computer’s individual identification number) will be logged on our server when you visit this Blog. If you choose to leave comments in our Comments Section then, at your option, we use a ‘cookie’ to recognise you. A ‘cookie’...
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What a day - In the past 16 hours Digital Photography Blog (DPB) has been flooded with brand new visitors from all over the web. Welcome to those who have arrived here from the Slashdot link up or from the many others who linked up to our Composition Tips. Records Broken - A big thank you to all who linked up - you helped us achieve a record day here at Digital Photography Blog with just under 50,000 unique visitors...
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Digital Photography Blog wishes to thank its loyal readership for yet another record breaking month of traffic. As can be seen by the graph (left - click to enlarge) we've enjoyed 96,000 unique visitors this month and are expecting even bigger and better things in June. As a result of this continued growth we continue to look for the support and involvement of individuals and companies to share the journey with us. Opportunities for Individuals - As always opportunities exist...
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Ok the server is swapped over - we're still ironing out some bugs now. We are aware of a number of issues with the site and are working to resolve them asap. If you find anything wrong with any aspect of our site please don't hesitate to leave a comment below. Hopefully we'll be back to normal shortly. Thanks again for your patience....
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As a result of the increased readership of this site in recent months we will tonight be moving it across to a new, faster, bigger and cheaper server. It is our hope that this will make viewing the content here a more pleasurable and productive process. However for the next 24 hours it means that readers accessing this site may experience outages and slower than normal loading of pages. We apologize for this inconvenience and hope to have the site...
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Sign up for our free Digital Photography Newsletter Below One of the most common requests that we get here at Digital Photography Blog is for regular email updates of the latest digital Photography News. As a result we are launching a weekly email newsletter service which will have the week's highlights at Digital Photography Blog. Our newsletter is ideal for digital photographers of all levels including technology enthusiasts and web-masters looking for the latest gadgets to feature on your site...
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Digital Photography is a Global Industry and therefore it is our desire for Digital Photography Blog to be as accessible as possible to a global readership. Use the following links (click on a flag) to translate this site into a variety of languages. We hope that this helps our international readers stay up to date with the latest Digital Photography Technology. ...
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My apologies to readers for the mess that my site has been in for the last few hours. I've been having a few problems accessing my server between certain hours overnight. So last night when I uploaded the last entry with the wrongly formatted picture I was unable to fix it. In fact every time I attempted to fix it my server posted the same entry again - so we ended up with 30 or so wrongly formatted announcements of...
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Thanks to all who voted in our Digital Photography Site Awards. Voting is now closed. 324 votes were cast in this poll with a winner clearly emerging from the first day of voting. Minor place voting was tight and the results were as follows. Digital Photography Review - 34% - 111 votes Digital Camera Resource - 17% - 54 votes Photography Blog - 12% - 40 votes (tied) Digital Photography Now - 12% - 40 votes (tied) Steve's Digicams -...
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A special welcome to Digital Photography Blog to Beau Photos who will be with us for the next few months as a major partner. Beau Photos was established in 1989 and has been providing quality photographic services ever since. It's founders, Rob and Meg have a passion for photography and give care and detail in all their work. Beau Photos online printing service offers printing of quality 6x4 prints for only 40 cents each. They use Agfa D2 which is...
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A warm welcome is extended to Digital Photography Blog's latest partner - Digital City who will be headlining this site for the next month. Digital City specialize in all things Digital including (and especially) Digital Cameras from all the major manufacturers. They deliver anywhere in Australia or New Zealand (and on occasion world wide). This month they have 27 special offers which include a variety of models of cameras with bonus accessories. Check out their range of Compact Cameras, Digital...
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Reviewers Needed Do you have a Digital Camera? Got something to say about it? Want to get your thoughts published online? Write us 100 - 500 words on your experience with your digital camera and shoot it to us via email. If its suitable to publish we'll post it on the main page of Digital Photogrpahy Blog within a couple of days. If you have your own website or blog - publish your review there and let us know about...
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Sorry to those who've had trouble accessing this site in the past few hours - I'm told we have been having server upgrades. There will be a few more outages in the hours ahead also. Thanks for your patience....
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Last month saw record levels of visitors to Digital Photography Blog. The vast majority of readers come to this site looking for information on specific digital cameras from search engines. Here are the most searched for digital cameras on Digital Photography Blog for March - the numbers besides them are how many people viewed each camera. Congratulations to Canon for both being manufacturer of the month (with 4 out of the top 10) and for having the Camera of the...
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Vote for your favorite Online Digital Photography Resource in our new poll. It is Easter tomorrow and I am taking a short break for the next few days. In the mean time I've selected my top 10 favorite Digital Camera Sites for you my wonderful readers to peruse this Easter. They are following in no particular order for you to check out. Also at the top of the right hand side side bar is a poll for you to vote...
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I've just added a feature to this site that enables you to track our headlines via RSS on your 'MyYahoo' personalized page. To use it click on the button below (if you have a MyYahoo account) which is also found on the left hand sidebar. Hopefully it will make reading this blog a little easier for some. Also don't forget our XML/RSS feed for those of you who use News Aggregators....
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A warm welcome to Digital Camera Warehouse who has just come on board as a sponsorship partner of the Digital Photography Blog. Digital Camera Warehouse offer a comprehensive Digital Camera service to all of Australia. They are fast, friendly and have a large range of competitively priced digital cameras and accessories. They offer a fast Australian wide delivery service and an extended warranty program. Check out their Customer Feedback which shows a long list of happy clients. Welcome to the...
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So many new digital cameras have been announced in the past 7 days (due to the PMA conference being held in Los Angeles) that it is difficult to keep track of them all. Here is a central list with the latest digital cameras announced during or in the lead up to PMA (organized by manufacturer) to help keep track of development. BENQ - BenQ DC S30 - 3.34MP - 3x Optical Zoom CANON - Canon Powershot S1 - 3.2MP -...
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Welcome to Digital Photography Blog. We love Digital Cameras and Photography and want to share our passion and knowledge of this growing medium with you. Digital Photography Blog is site is a hub of information that links to hundreds of other sites around the web that will help you discover what you need to know about digital photography. We spend hours each week scouring the web for relevant, digital photogrpahy news, tutorials and digital camera reviews so that you won't...
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Digital Photography Blog is one of the fastest growing Digital Photography websites on the internet. Since launching in September 2003, the site has built a substantial readership from around the Globe. Current site statistics show that the site is read by over 15,000 unique visitors per day. Opportunities exist for sponsorship via text links, banner or skyscraper ads as well as newsletter sponsorship. To find out how you can share your message with our readers please contact us and we'd...
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If you came here looking for information on the Canon Powershot Pro 1 go here. Reviewers Needed Do you have a Digital Camera? Got something to say about it? Want to get your thoughts published online? Write us 100 - 300 words on your experience with your digital camera and shoot us an email. If its suitable to publish we'll post it on the main page within a couple of days....
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Sorry for those who have tried to comment here - I had them closed in the default. All should be open again now. Thanks to Tony for the heads up....
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