Kodak has moved to stop the company behind Panasonic and JVC infringing patents found in its digital cameras.

The camera company is suing Japan's Matsushita for infringing patents including ones for an "electronic camera utilizing image...

With an out of left field announcement, General Electrics is to enter the digital camera market with the General Imaging Co.

The eight new GE digital cameras will debut at PMA in Las Vegas during 8-11 March. The headline product will be a...

As reported on our sister site, photographypress.co.uk, Kodak has said it signed a licensing pact with Sony that settles a dispute over digital camera and imaging technology patents, and grants each company access to the other's patents.

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The latest camera manufacturer merger will take place next October between optical glass maker Hoya and Pentax.

The two companies will become known as Hoya Pentax HD on 1 October, after the contract is signed in April.

The last...

Despite predictions that digital camera sales would slow this year and start to plateau, analysts at NPD say that sales in the US have exceeded expectation, and may indeed reach a record high.

Last year sales increased by only 22% through...

Olympus, Panasonic, and Sigma are now jointly publishing a catalogue of their interchangeable lenses.

All three manufacturers make lenses according to the Four Thirds system, which is an open standard so that lenses and camera bodies are...

Canon has teamed up with the WWF to offer buyers of certain PowerShot cameras a free WWF Adoption Box.

People who buy the PowerShot A530, A540, A630, A640, or A710iS, or those who A530 and CP720 or A430 and CP720 bundles will receive an Adoption...

Panasonic is backing a unique project to document photographically the world’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

Using Panasonic Lumix cameras, a team of 20 photographers across the globe will set out to document the sites, their visitors, and the...

The DSLRs that Nikon released last year are performing even better than expected, as Nikon's head of camera unit said the company is shipping 35% more units year-on-year.

In 2005, Canon held over 50% of the market share, with Nikon's share...

HP launched 100—count 'em—products for the autumn, including four new cameras and a raft of photo printers.

Amongst the innovations in the new products are the first touch-screen LCD on an HP Photosmart printer, a 10MP compact camera, and a...

Canon has been named the number one leading provider of imaging technology solutions for the fourth year in a row by a leading technology market intelligence provider IDC.

According to the IDC sector report, Canon has 16.5% of the Western...

Sony has announced that it will be created a new sub-brand for its range of Digital SLR cameras launching this summer.

The new brand name, α (Alpha), is the same name as Minolta has used for its SLR/DSLR cameras in the Japanese market...

Panasonic has announced that it has signed up to the Four Thirds System Supported by Olympus and Fujifilm at PMA in Orlando, Florida.

The company also announced that it has jointly developed a new DSLR camera with Olympus - the DMC-L1 Digital...

If might sound dull, but without batteries all our lovely gadgets would be pointless paperweights.

Seeing that digital cameras, and other such gadget niceties suck the living life out of standard batteries quicker that you can say “power surge”,...

One of the oldest names in the photographic business and the camera company that developed the world's first autofocus camera is pulling out of the business due to its inability to keep up with the demands and changing speed of digital photography.