Onsite printing software DARKROOM went to version 9.1 this month, its first release under new ownership: http://bit.ly/lox522. DARKROOM will be sold and supported in the UK by event photography solutions specialist, System Insight
All SONY dye sub printers used by professional and event photographers and photo shops have been discontinued from the end of March 2011 and no further models will be made. SONY has withdrawn from that market. Supply of genuine SONY media for these priners will cease, but compatible media should become available from DNP.
The heyday of the independent photographer who worked only events, and printed on-site, has come and gone. For NewPhotoDigest, photography writer Simon Towler looks at the market again, and reports that things are not that bleak.
Sony is to exit the professional and commercial instant digital photo print market by April 1, 2011. Media supply for existing Sony dye sub printers will transfer to DNP. The change will affect professional photographers and high street photo shops using Sony dye sub systems for onsite printing, passport photographs, schools photography, ‘lab’ printing, and other instant dry print applications.
Sign up for SWPP SISEP, the UK event photographer society, now — in time for the Cambridge member training day on Feb 8 2011: http://bit.ly/dwi0mg
With current sensitivities, for schools, prom and event photographers, it has never been more important to choose a reputable photographer society. And — just as importantly — to avoid disreputable ones.
South Cheshire Studios is a small schools photography business in the UK, owned and managed by Jenny Barnard. When faced with the challenge of pricing nursery packages affordably for lower-income parents, while at the same time still making a profit on them, Jenny decided to bring printing in-house. She cooked up an innovative solution based on affordable Fujifilm ASK professional thermal photo printers.
Schools photography is part of our national culture. We all grow up with it as children, and as parents we later consume it. For the practitioners who provide it, the task divides into two major activities, capture and print. Photographers do the image capture, prints are made by a lab. Both activities may be combined in a single integrated business, although many schools photographers use the services of a specialised lab. Whatever the business model, though, all types of schools service choose Fujiflm solutions. (Advertorial)
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