This morning Canon Inc. has posted it’s first quarter results with a clear indication of the effect of the Great East Japan Earthquake on 11th March 2011 being shown in the figures. In several parts of the report there are figures with and without the ‘earthquake effect’ shown. Most clear is the 21.2 billion yen …
Four Canon products have received awards from the Technical Image Press Association (TIPA) this year. The TIPA jury comprises editors from leading European photography titles who meet annually to discuss and review the latest products in several categories. Having recently studied the new EOS 600D in depth to deliver training on the EOS 600D for …
Last week I was quickly reading some tweets while waiting to start my day’s presenting task and saw a tweet from Dutch photographer Frank Doorhof. I’ve exchanged quite a few twitter conversations with Frank over the last year or more and Frank’s tweet was asking for pictures that he would critique. I had the final …
I received a message that for the 11th consecutive year Canon was the recipient of the ‘Most Trusted Camera Brand’ award from Readers Digest in Finland. The European Trusted Brands survey has been conducted annually since 2001 and surveys 33,000 people in 16 countries. The Readers Digest Trusted Brands site shows only the last five …
I’m really fortunate to have visited Japan many times in the past, and have worked alongside many colleagues from Japan during my time at Canon. It’s heart breaking to see the images of Japan after the quake, tsunami and now nuclear disaster. My thoughts are with my friends and former colleagues at this time. Fortunately …
Now that I am doing some training activities with Dave Newton on EOS Network we decided to set ourselves a little challenge. The brief was to go out to the same place and take five pictures, but with only five items of equipment each. Both of us have quite different approaches to pictures and equipment. …
Spring is here, and Canon has announced a whole collection of new products: EOS 600D EOS 1100D Speedlite 320EX and Speedlite 270EX II EF500mm f/4L IS II USM and EF600mm f/4L IS II USM EF200-400mm f/4L IS USM EXTENDER 1.4x Some new IXUS cameras, PIXMA printers and six new calculators… The number 6 has appeared …
I have some great news, i’m joining forces with fellow Canon EOS and photo trainer Dave Newton on EOS Network. Together we offer an unrivalled knowledge of all things EOS and pretty much anything Canon and photography too. This is a great opportunity for both of us to work together on several projects under the …