BOWENS LAUNCH NEW LIGHTING PUBLICATION!

• Bowens launch new lighting publication! – BOWENS have launched LiteBook, a new bi-monthly publication about studio lighting. The publication is available free online, or printed copies may be picked up at BOWENS dealers. Robert Cook, Marketing Manager for BOWENS, stressed that LiteBook will always be a publication packed with attractive editorial, and never just a product brochure

HELMUT NEWTON AT TOPSHOP!

•  Helmut Newton At TopShop! –
TopShop toured an instant photography installation called The Newton Machine round some of its stores earlier this month. Named after the late Helmut Newton, TopShop's Newton Machine was an installation of a self-photography solution inspired by this celebrated photographer. Newton was dismissive of other photographers whose reputations he believed were based

ANNIE LEIBOVITZ -Life Through a Lens

•  Annie Leibovitz – Life Through A Lens! – Last week BBC One screened the one-hour biopic Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. If you missed it, today is your last chance to watch it on the BBCi Player! Life Through A Lens was screened as one of BBC One's Imagine series of programmes, presented by Alan Yentob. The film-maker was Leibovitz's own sister, Barbera. Her film traces Anna-Lou's

SUMMER SHOW SOLD OUT!

•  Summer Show Sold Out! – If you were lucky enough to book a seat at the www. photomart .co.uk SUMMER SHOW, we'll see you there in London on Wednesday! If not, it's too late now – this event has sold out, and no tickets will be sold at the gate! Demand for bookings for this bumper day of photo workshops was phenomenal this year. "It's like we have Michael Jackson coming!" www.photomart.co.uk

MITSUBISHI PRINTERS GET VISTA DRIVERS!

• Mitsubishi Printers Get Vista Drivers! – Mitsubishi Electric have now released Vista drivers for their range of professional dye sub photo printers. There are drivers available for download for the CP9550DW, CP9800DW and CP3800DW. (Click the links to download the drivers.) Windows Vista now supports 77,000 printers, but many photographers have been clobbered by the Microsoft OS's lack of

MAC DRIVERS FOR SONY UP-DR200 PRINTER!

• MAC Drivers FOR SONY UP-DR200 Printer! – Macintosh drivers have now been developed for the new SONY UP-DR200 fast 6"x8" event printer. Although SONY have yet to officially release them, the developers say they've passed Beta, so PhotoWeek! makes an unofficial and unsupported release candidate available to our readers here now! – Enjoy! But remember to be careful out there! Related Stories:

NO PHOTOWEEK! NEXT WEEK!

• No PhotoWeek! Next Week! – PhotoWeek! skips an issue next week. We're taking our annual midsummer break. We'll be back in your in-box on Monday, 30 June! More than 15,000 individuals have signed up and dipped into PhotoWeek! over the past eighteen months. We now have a hard core readership of 7,000 opening an average of two issues a month. The readers are overwhelmingly professional

ACCESS TO SHOWROOMS RESTRICTED!

• Access to Showrooms Restricted 18 June! – Due to the SUMMER SHOW on Wednesday, customer access to the www. photomart .co.uk showrooms in London will be a little restricted on 18 June, as there will be workshops taking place in them. www.photomart.co.uk hope callers to the showrooms won't be too inconvenienced. [add comment]

GREEN AND YELLOW GIANTS RAISE PRICES!

•  Green & Yellow giants Raise Prices! – The two surviving giants of the traditional photo industry, Fujifilm and Kodak, have both announced massive global price hikes in film and paper. The increases are blamed on factors including global commodities costs – particularly of oil, but also of silver. They become effective by July this year. Photographers and photo labs are facing a double whammy

MITSUBISHI UK INTRODUCE EASYPHOTO!

• Mitsubishi UK Introduce EasyPhoto! – Mitsubishi's EasyPhoto instant photo printing solution, first previewed this year at PMA in the States, is now available in a European incarnation, and is on sale in the UK. Mitsubishi Electric UK are marketing a configuration of a red CP9550DW-S tied to the new EasyPhoto touch-screen terminal unit as an entry-level digital photo finishing solution for