Which lens for your Pentax SLR?

Your Pentax SLR has an interchangeable lens, giving you access to a wide range of versatile options to tackle any aspect of photography, whether it's family snaps, extreme sports or specialized nature photography. This guide explains about the types of subject you may encounter and suggest the ideal lens for you.

Hahnel industries introduce the Triad 80

A professional tripod featuring the unique design and quality expected of the Hähnel brand.

Think Tank Photo Streetwalker Backpacks

Think Tank Photo Streetwalker Backpacks for photography in crowded urban spaces.

Harman photo papers, good for more than 200 years

Wilhem Imaging Research awards Harman Technology’s fibre base Baryta inkjet papers a permanence rating in excess of 200 years.

Credit crunch is eating away at the photo industry

Times are getting harder for the photographic industry as Adobe's President and Chief Executive Officer says they are feeling the pinch.

New image search product

Imprezzeo launches image search beta product, transforming the way we search for digital images.

Jalbum Widgets get the picture everywhere

Cutting-edge technology made simple, portable and free.

ePHOTOzine have teamed up with Pentax UK

We have teamed up with Pentax UK to give our members the chance to win a Pentax K20D SLR Kit.

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Servigroup Hotels photography competition winners announced

The winners of Servigroup Hotels 2nd Photography Competition “Fun in the water” have been announced.

Douglas Photographic announces new Grey Card

The new Douglas Mark II provides better, more consistent colour balancing of digital and conventional photography.

PictoColor releases CorrectPhoto 3.2 digital photo editor

Crop and Re-size Photos with AutoRez for Print, HDTV, Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, eBay, Real Estate Listings, and Web Design and optimize color with OneClick.

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ5 has a 28mm wide angle lens for sweeping vistas and 10x optical zoom for if you can't be bothered to go and see them explains languid Matt Grayson.

Nikon D3x hands on

With the credit crunch underway, Matt Grayson throws caution to the wind and goes to look at the Nikon D3x, a camera with a price tag equal to at least one week's salary.

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Olympus MJU 1040 review

The Olympus MJU 1040 is a pocket digital camera. It has 10 megapixels and a 3x optical zoom lens. It comes in four colours: black, silver, red and yellow. David Tymon from Cameras.co.uk has reviewed.

Nikon Coolpix S610c

Matt Grayson has shown his spouse the Nikon Coolpix S610c in the hope that wifey will go wifi.

Visico Excel VC300 Plus

Ian Andrews hones his studio skills by testing the Excel VC300 plus lighting kit from Visico.

The last Rowardennan meet

The Rowardennan youth hostel has finally closed it's doors on our ePHOTOzine members and here Jeanie tells their story.

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Photo-journalist for the National Geographic talks to ePHOTOzine

Award-winning photo-journalist Brian Skerry has worked for National Geographic for the last ten years. Here he tells ePHOTOzine about his marine-related stories and why it took so long for him to enter a competition.

Hard work, passion and pure determination

Graham Smith shows that if you want something bad enough you will and can do anything to make sure you get it. Here he tells ePHOTOzine about life as a music photographer and how money and good gear isn't everything.

Cash from Cards

There seems to be a card for everything these days but does this mean there's a photo needed for every card too? ePHOTOzine spoke to some photographers who are trying to make a living from producing cards to see if the demand is there.

Mo.tion an exhibition by Kati and Ian Byrne

Mo.tion is a new exhibition which features two travel photographers work and Martin Jordan went along for the opening.

Layer Masks in GIMP and Paint Shop Pro X2

Michael Bates shows us how to use layer masks in GIMP.

Creating water reflections in GIMP

Michael Bates shows us how we can create reflections in GIMP.

Capturing what the eye cannot see

Infra-red photography is a bit like Marmite you either love it or hate it and John Powell, the founder of the Infra-Red Photographic Society most definitely adores it. He started taking infra-red images in the eighties and here he tells ePHOTOzine why more people should be looking at the world in a way we can't usually see.

Chris Hanley explains simple lighting for location portraits

The Horse and its Human is his latest project and here he talks ePHOTOzine through some of his techniques he uses when out shooting for this particular series.

Guide to photographing Children

A guide to photographing children at an eventful time such as a birthday party, Halloween or Christmas, by Catherine Connor from the Annabel Williams Studio.