Macworld 2006: Adobe has today announced a new application aimed squarely at the digital photographer. Lightroom is a workflow and editting application which takes all of the useful photography related stuff from Photoshop and combines this with a sophisticated importation, browsing and organizational front-end. Lightroom is clearly aimed at taking on Apple Aperture as well as a few other high end workflow tools. At the moment Lightroom is available as a Mac OS X only Beta for anyone to try.

Nikon has today announced (not to everyones surprise) the Nikon D200, a ten-point-two megapixel digital SLR with professional features and build quality in a compact body. From a features and functionality point of view the D200 is much closer to the D2X than the D100. Highlights are a magnesium-alloy body, an 11-area AF sensor, 3D Color Matrix Metering II, 5 frames per second continuous shooting, 2.5" LCD monitor, USB 2.0, 1/250 sec X-sync plus WiFi and GPS support. The D200 is about 100g heavier...

The first all-in-one post production tool that provides everything photographers need after the shoot, Aperture offers an advanced and incredibly fast RAW workflow that makes working with a camera’s RAW images as easy as JPEG. Built from the ground up for pros, Aperture features powerful compare and select tools, nondestructive image processing, color managed printing and custom web and book publishing. [Oct 19, 2005]

High Street retailer Dixons is to stop selling 35mm cameras which use film, as digital cameras become the standard model.

Just posted! Our full in-depth review of Nikon's most affordable digital SLR, the six megapixel D50. The D50 is Nikon's answer to the recent spate of affordable digital SLR's like the Canon EOS 300D/350D (Digital Rebel/XT) and Pentax *ist DS. The D50's appearance is so similar to the D70 it would be easy to mistake the two, and indeed in use the D50 sacrificies little feeling just as snappy as its elder sibling. See how the D50 performed and how it compared to the competition, read our detailed review!

Kodak's decision to discontinue sales of its black and white photographic paper from the end of 2005 has disappointed many photographers around the world, although few are surprised. Sales of B&W paper have been falling dramatically, by around 25% a...

Fay Godwin, who for many years has dominated British landscape photography, died yesterday, having been in hospital since Easter following a stroke and heart problems. Born 1931 in Berlin where here father was a British diplomat (her mother was an...

“Tiger is the best and most advanced personal computer operating system on the market,” writes Walt Mossberg for the Wall Street Journal. “Its key feature, called Spotlight, is the first universal, integrated search system ever offered as part of a mainstream consumer PC operating system.” He adds that “Spotlight is only one of the impressive new features in Tiger, which will be free on all new Macs and will cost $129 for existing users.” [Apr 28, 2005]

Nearly half the staff at troubled photo materials supplier Ilford Imaging lose their jobs as administrators search for a buyer for the 125-year-old firm.