There is nothing more exciting than seeing your own artwork hanging on a wall. Framed canvases make a big statement and are capturing everybody’s imagination as a way of personalising a room, making it look more exciting.

Imagine being able to do that with your own photography. It doesn’t matter whether you are a keen amateur or renowned professional; whether you are hanging a holiday snap or creating a wedding portrait – you can frame it for yourself.

All you need to do is learn how to plan and make a stretcher frame, stretch and attach your photo-canvas and then finish it off, as a canvas wrap or using a box / tray frame. Sounds complicated? Many people take the time and invest in training to develop their imaging skills. Why not do the same with learning how to frame?

“It is not just because it saves you money in the long term,” says DIYframing CEO, Duncan McDonald, “Doing your own framing makes you totally in control of how your artwork looks – no compromise!”

Among the latest additions to the DIYframing training programme is The Ultimate Photography Framing Weekend. Three days that take complete novices through a whole series of picture framing and mount cutting activities, culminating in how to work with canvas prints.

Most recently DIYframing has worked with specific businesses, to market, jointly, “bespoke” training days. As a commercial enterprise it makes good sense. It can help to promote a particular way of working for staff and franchises, or to show customers how they can make best use of an exciting service.

“If you print images, why not help customers learn how to frame them?” Duncan goes on to say, “We know we can offer the best training, in all aspects of picture framing. We are really interested in making these commercial links. Working with specific businesses, we can market training directly to a new customer base, giving them exactly what they really want.”

Visit us at the Show and talk to our team about Framing Canvas.

Visit our website at www.diyframing.com or call the team today on 0800 80 10 61

Diyframing's surgery handing out free prescriptions!

Dr Duncan and his staff will be welcoming all photographers with framing ailments.

Following last years conferences it was apparent that photographers were having a nightmare sorting out their framing needs.

Problems including canvas stretching, cutting mounts and running a profitable workshop were abundant.

Max Xvereb of Kaiser Ltd in Malta visited the stand with the not uncommon complaint of CMS (Crappy Mounts Syndrome)

Max said " We needed to sort out our mount cutting to make the presentation of our products so much more professional with the help of Diyframing they not only guided us to buy the right cutter for the job but also trained us how to use it"

Diyframing offer free advise on all framing matters including the newest of problems " Stretched Canvases” Dr Duncan says " With the huge growth in digital printing to canvas a place is needed where photographers can find out all the ins and outs and most cost effective way of stretching your own canvas, our drop in centre at the exhibition will examine the symptoms and offer solutions to make canvas stretching a very profitable side to your business".

What ever you’re framing needs visit Diyframing in the for what could be a very enlightening consultation.

To book an appointment or contact us out of surgery hours call 0800 80 10 61 or visit www.diyframing.com

Visit our website at www.diyframing.com or call the team today on 0800 80 10 61

Heralded as the most intuitive and sophisticated creative online print sales & marketing solution around, imagicam are confident about maintaining their leading position with the latest release of their system applications at Focus on Imaging this year.

Many new innovative tools and features will further enhance the imagicam system, which already gives professional photographers an effective and time saving means with which to display and sell their work via the Internet.

But it’s not just all about print sales. “People don’t always remember that the route to maximising sales is through simultaneous marketing.” Comments Peter Grey, Director of imagicam. “For photographers, the Internet has become the perfect medium for this, but only if it is done with correct emphasis”.

For this reason, imagicam has been developed to harness such marketing capabilities, one such product resulting is their extremely powerful and increasingly popular EventPlanner application.

imagicam welcomes all to visit them on Stand G60 for live demonstrations and great show offers. For more information, please call 08456 525 888, email info@imagicam.co.uk or visit our website at www.imagicam.co.uk

Capture a 160 million pixel 6x17 panorama in just one second!

The new Seitz 6x17 digital camera with its D3 digital back is equipped with the first high-speed scanning sensor
developed specifically for photography. The new camera system is fully mobile and easy to operate thanks to a state-of-the-art tablet PC with a graphical touch-screen. World-class lenses by Schneider, Rodenstock or other large-format brands
can be used with the new camera and can be used interchangeably with the new camera. The Seitz D3 sensor cassette can also be fitted to other cameras, such as our new Roundshot D3 360° Panorama camera or – in the future – medium format cameras, which makes the investment in the Seitz D3 technology truly rewarding.

Come to booth Q23 to hold this unique camera in your own hands!

Also on display at the booth is the Roundshot D3 camera which operates with the same digital scan back and is ideal for creating large resolution 360° panoramas, for example capturing 470 million pixels in just 2 seconds!

We are looking forward to meeting you at Focus!

Bogen Imaging UK to unveil new Manfrotto 190CX carbon fiber tripod series

Bogen Imaging UK recently added the Manfrotto brand to its already impressive portfolio of products.

At FOCUS on Imaging 2008 we will be unveiling Manfrotto’s new 190CX carbon fiber tripod series:

• 190CXPRO3 (3-section carbon fiber/magnesium tripod)
• 190CXPRO4 (4-section carbon fiber/magnesium tripod)
• 190CX3 (3-section carbon fiber tripod)

In 2007 the 190X received the TIPA award for Best Accessory on the market. Manfrotto were proud to receive this award, but didn’t stop there. They have taken this already amazing tripod to the next level - carbon fiber!

The 190CX represents the core of what Manfrotto stands for. It incorporates the highest quality materials and totally new design which improves the performance and look.

One of the major new features is that the 190CX uses 100% carbon fibertubes manufactured using cutting edge techniques.

Bogen Imaging UK also distributes the following quality brands, which you can also see at this year’s show:

• Manfrotto (The most respected brand in camera tripods, lighting stands and grip equipment in the world)
• Kata (Stylish carrying solutions for your photo, video, broadcast, lighting and electronic gear)
• Gitzo ( Innovator of camera tripods for over 90 years)
• Visible Dust (Fast becoming the number one choice of digital photographers worldwide - a complete, safe, and easy-to-use camera cleaning system)
• National Geographic (see the latest )
• Camera Armor (Customised design cases to fit SLR cameras like a glove)
• Avenger (Extensive range of lighting grip equipment specially designed for film and broadcasting, for studio or location shooting)

New Website - “For the world’s best accessories around the camera”

Bogen Imaging UK also has a new website which you can access at:www.bogenimaging.co.uk

The new Bogen Imaging UK website provides a convenient, entertaining and seamless environment to: research, learn about, locate, purchase, and service, photographic, video and lighting accessory products, distributed by Bogen Imaging UK.

See you at FOCUS on Imaging 2008 – visit us at stand N10!

For further details about all of our products you can visit our website at: www.bogenimaging.co.uk or tel: 01293 583-300, or email: info@uk.bogenimaging.com

All tickets to the Canon seminars are free.

All seminars will be held on the top deck of the Canon stand L26 Hall 10

Seating for 38 delegates – so places are limited

To reserve your place, stop by the Canon stand to collect your Entrance Ticket

All Seminars will begin promptly on the hour (11.00, 12.00,14.00, 15.00, 16.00, and 17.00)

The Seminar Suite will be open 10 minutes before the Seminar is due to start. However delegates, who have not confirmed their arrival at the Registration Desk, 5 minutes before the Seminars start, will forfeit their reserved place.

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Media Specialists Offer Discounts & LaCie Drive Competition At Photographic Show London, UK, February 2008: London-based media specialists Protape will be exhibiting at the Focus On Imaging show at Birmingham's NEC from Sunday, February 24th to Wednesday, February 27th. For the duration of the show, the Protape stand will act as a discount outpost of the company's Soho-based store, serving up high-quality solid-state, tape- and disc-based storage media and accessories for the professional photographer at reduced prices for the duration of the show.

Whether you shoot on high-quality analogue film or use SD or Compact Flash cards and a digital camera, one thing all photographers share is a need for media. As Protape's name suggests, for many years they were suppliers of analogue tape-based media to creative media professionals. With the move to digital formats over the past few years, they're now more likely to sell you a ruggedised, secure-data hard drive than a roll of tape — which is why they're giving away an FA Porsche 250GB USB 2.0 LaCie hard drive worth nearly £100 every day of the show in their 'Drive A Day' competition. This stylish, high-quality drive, created by the Porsche Design Group, doesn't just look good — it was designed by professionals for professionals, people like you for whom images are more than just a hobby.

To enter the competition, all you have to do is fill in a form on Protape's stand at the exhibition (Stand G27). At the end of each day of the show, a winner will be picked from that day's entrants.

So whether you're a fashion industry photographer, a paid-up member of the paparazzi, or you just cover the occasional wedding, come to the Protape stand at Focus On Imaging for some great deals on media and the chance to win yourself a free LaCie drive!

Epson will be showing their largest LFP model, the 64” Stylus Pro 11880 and their smallest photo printer, the PictureMate 260 and lots more in between. The latest Stylus Photo R1900 with its staggering 18,446,774 trillion colour combinations, will be demonstrated in the UK for the first time.

A number of scanners will be demonstrated, helping consumers to decide if an ‘all-in-one’ will meet their needs or whether separate is best for them.

Professional photographers will be able to see Epson’s new inkset, UltraChrome K3 with Vivid Magenta, being used with the latest LFP models.

All will be able to learn from two masters; Mike McNamee, editor of Professional Imagemaker and Paul Gallagher, photographer and monochrome specialist who will be doing short talks on the stand. These short talks will include subjects such as using colour profiles, using the advanced black and white driver, Epson media choices, fine art printing, colour proofing and matching colour and screen. Mike will talk about ‘Advanced Colour Printing’, whilst Paul will cover ‘Advanced Monochrome Printing’.

The media gallery will show the wide range of options, including premium glossy, traditional photo, canvas and fine art which are available to choose from.

Combining Epson’s patented AcuGrip™ robotic technology and Epson’s patented Micro Piezo™ inkjet technology, the new Discproducer™ PP-100 will be on show for the first time in the UK. The Discproducer is a compact integrated desktop disc duplication solution designed for photographers, businesses and organisations that need to create professional quality customised CDs or DVDs on demand. Whether the photographer wants to produce a digital portfolio, present a professional disc of images to a client or produce instantly recognisable archive discs, the Discproducer is the answer.

Debuting on the MPA stand (Q24) is Epson Gemini 4 - all the professional photographer needs for high quality and flexible studio printing. Epson Gemini 4 puts the photographer in charge from capture to print without leaving the studio. Incorporating powerful image enhancing and digital workflow tools, the photographer can do everything a professional photo lab can whilst adding their own distinctive creative flair.

So come and visit us, Focus on Epson and exceed your vision!

Sigma Imaging (UK) Ltd is pleased to announce that the suggested retail price of the DP1 is £549.99 including VAT. A kit, which comprises the DP1 and VF-11 View Finder, will also be available with a suggested retail price of £599.99 including VAT.

The DP1, which is the only compact digital camera to utilise an APS-C size image sensor, will be available in the UK from April this year.

Full details on the camera and accessories can be found at www.sigma-dp1.com

Pricing

DP1 £549.99

DP1 + VF-11 View Finder £599.99

Accessories

VF-11 VIEW FINDER £84.99

HA-11 HOOD ADAPTER £19.99

EF-140 DG ELECTRONIC FLASH £44.99

SAC-3 AC Adapter £39.99

BC-31 Battery Charger £39.99

BP-31 Li-ion Battery £29.99

SLR-sized image sensor

The size of the image sensor used in the DP1 camera is 20.7mm x 13.8mm. It is approximately seven to twelve times larger than the 1/1.8inch to 1/2.5inch image sensors used in ordinary compact Sensor from a conventional compact digital camera APS-C sensor from the DP1 digital cameras. The pixel size of the image sensor is 7.8μm. The large photodiodes deployed at a large pixel pitch capture pure, rich light efficiently and give the DP1 its high resolution and richly-graduated tones.

Full-color image sensor

The DP1 uses the same 14 megapixel (2652×1768×3 layers) direct image sensor as the SD14. Utilizing the special features of silicon, which is penetrated to different depths by different wavelengths of light, this direct image sensor succeeds in full-color capture with the full RGB in a single-pixel location. Just like film, each photodiode captures all the RGB data, so no final-stage demosaicing is required.

Brand-new “TRUE” image processing engine

The DP1 incorporates “TRUE” (Three-layer Responsive Ultimate Engine), the world’s first image processing engine suited for Foveon three silicon embedded layer direct image sensor. The unique image processing algorithm, which has been developed throughout the development of the SD9, SD10 and SD14 cameras, is incorporated into “TRUE”. It enables high-speed image processing and high image quality.

Digital Photo Solutions Ltd (stand B50) will be demonstrating leading print to finish workflow solutions at this year’s Focus on Imaging show.

Any photographer, artist or imaging business visiting the DPS stand will see how they can move seamlessly from scan to print to finish to frame in less than 30 minutes. And with great deals on all the products on show, the DPS stand is definitely one not to miss.

DPS Stand B50 visitor highlights :

• Test drive & compare the latest large format printers from Epson, HP & Canon, using your own images.
• See the brand new Shiraz Focus software exclusively on the DPS stand. This ground-breaking software has been developed specifically for photographers to simplify & control the process of taking single and multiple images from screen to large format print in just a few easy steps.
• Learn how ICC profiles and built-in colour management features guarantee excellent colour rendition & colour matching across different media types.
• Explore the extensive range of Intellicoat Magiclee media & see how you can increase your profits in the photographic, fine art and canvas printing markets.
• Discover how to enhance your print service with the HotPress JetMounter – a straightforward & cost effective way of overlaminating, protecting or mounting your prints onto board and a variety of other substrates.
• Find out how to protect canvas prints & stretch them onto frames faster than ever before with the DPS QuickMate.
• Take advantage of exclusive show deals and amazing special bundle offers, valid only for the duration of the show. All show purchases include a free subscription to the industry-leading Professional Photographer magazine.

DPS look forward to meeting new and existing customers at the show.

About Digital Photo Solutions Ltd:

Digital Photo Solutions Ltd is one of the UK’s leading suppliers of large format printers to the photographic & fine art markets and is an authorised specialist dealer for over 30 digital imaging brands.

For further details, visit DPS stand B50 at Focus on Imaging 2008, call 0844 482 0560 or go to www.digitalphotosolutions.co.uk

See us on Stand F29. Continuous demonstrations.
Try them out yourself.

The folks at Longridge really do understand that mountboard and cutting windows is not the most exciting part of your photography, but please let us remind you that this can be a simple task which adds to the overall impression when presenting your images. Whilst it is possible to cut a window with almost any mountboard cutting system or even a utility knife, with sufficient practice; it is much easier and simpler to use a Longridge mountboard cutting system, because it does exactly what it says on the tin, or rather the DVD instruction disc. The DVD shows you how to cut mounts easily and accurately first time and every time and even how to be a little more creative with the mounts themselves.

Come and have a look at our systems STAND F29, Hall 9 - and try them for yourself. Left-handed Chris Longridge with right handed Eden cutting mounts with the Trio Maxi System

The Longridge range expands this year with the launch at Focus of the Duo Maxi and Trio Maxi Systems, specifically introduced for the growing trend in panoramic artwork and larger printing possibilities – the Trio Maxi has two parallelograms which provides extra versatility so that although capable of cutting mounts up to A0 longways, it is not unwieldy to use for much smaller mounts 

VISIT US IN HALL 9, AISLE F, STAND F29

W: www.longridge.co.uk E: sales@longridge.co.uk T: 01983 874121

When cutting mountboard and windows, the folks at Longridge really do understand that you are not really interested in the protective cutting strip: it is just one of those things you have to have to protect the blade.

Well, at the risk of boring you with technology let us explain that the Longridge SprintMat cutting strips do more than just protect the cutting blade.

The SprintMat strips, unlike that scrap of waste mountboard you usually use, have all their fibres aligned in the direction of your cut, which does two nice things. First it is easier to make the cut, because you are not cutting across the grain of the cutting mat and second and more importantly the SprintMat positively helps support the blade making for a cleaner more accurate window cut.

And, for those who watch their pennies it SprintMats at Longridge Mount Cutters makes the blades last a little longer too! Stand F29, Hall 9

The folks at Longridge really do appreciate that when you fish out your mountboard cutting system you just hope that there is a fresh 270 size blade in there. So, if you have run out of blades may we suggest a better alternative: the Longridge blade, which fits in exactly the same equipment that a 270 style blade does, was actually specifically designed for cutting mountboard, not just any old general purpose utility blade.

The Longridge blade has progressive edges which are optimised for cutting windows in mountboard, with a better sharper edge than ordinary 270 style blades which means that you get a cleaner crisper edge to your window cut. 

And for those who watch the pennies, the Longridge blades last sharper for longer as well.

The Longridge blades are manufactured in the UK by the best of the best blade company, so why not try out a pack? Available in packs of ten and fifty blades at very reasonable cost.

VISIT US IN HALL 9, AISLE F, STAND F29