I AM Photokina – Nikon, 21st September 2010

Welcome to Photokina 2010

The Nikon booth at Photokina opened its doors yesterday. Here, Tad Nakayama, President of Nikon Germany talks about why Photokina is such an important event in Nikon’s diary and what’s planned for Photokina 2010.



Introducing I AM Photokina

Each day throughout Photokina Nikon will be bringing you videos updates on what’s been happening on the Nikon booth.

Nikon unveiled its booth, announced Jamie Oliver as a brand ambassador and showcased several recently-launched cameras including the D7000 and D3100.

Here’s Nikon's first daily update from Photokina. Enjoy.



I AM Chase Jarvis: An interview with Chase Jarvis

Photography legend, Chase Jarvis, made the keynote speech on the Nikon booth on Monday. Nikon chatted with Chase after his presentation.



Chase was the first to use our the D7000 camera. Here you can check out the first film he shot with it – “Benevolent Mischief”.

Jamie Oliver to feature in Nikon advertising

Nikon has reveal that Jamie Oliver is set to star in the new 30 second television advert for the Nikon D3100 – our easiest to use D-SLR to date.

The commercial sees Jamie, a keen amateur photographer and user of the D3100, cooking at home with his friends. Watch this space for the TV commercial!

Jamie also took time out to chat with us about his love for photography as well as the close links between his creativity in the kitchen and with his camera. We’ll post this video up on the blog soon.

The D3100 is the successor to Europe’s best selling D-SLR, the D3000. Great for families, its popular Guide mode lets you capture those special moments in perfect quality whilst also helping you learn photography skills to get the most from your D-SLR. It features 14.2 megapixels, full HD movie and comes in a compact, lightweight but tough body so it is easy to carry around too. Check out dpreview’s preview here.

Nature Photographic Competition

Deadline: 31st March 2011
Entry Fee: Free
Prize: $1,000 Grand Prize, 10 Britannica Award Prizes of $75 each, 50 Finalist Certificates, Grand Prize and Britannica Award Prizes will be published in Britannica Online.

Nature photographic competition which is co-sponsored by Ohio Distinctive Publishing and Encyclopaedia Britannica. Photographers may submit their own original photographs of nature taken anywhere in the world. All animals must be taken in their natural environment without any interference .

Eligibility: USA only and over the Age of 18

Copyright: All sponsors will use/publish your photos in a limited, nonexclusive manner as specified in the Usage Rights, and you retain all other rights.

Usage Rights:All Contest Winners (Grand Prize and Britannica Award winners), for no additional consideration, hereby grant the Sponsors the nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, unrestricted rights and license to modify (as Sponsors in their sole discretion deem necessary to better suit their purposes) and display the winning photos on the Contest Website and also use them in any medium and anywhere whatsoever for the promotion of this and future photo contests, and also to include the photographs in Encyclopædia Britannica Online and, at the the sole discretion of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., to include the photographs in other works of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. and its licensees and affiliates (herein collectively referred to as "Encyclopædia Britannica") and also grants Encyclopædia Britannica nonexclusive, worldwide rights in all languages to reproduce the image(s) in print and all current and future electronic versions of Encyclopædia Britannica publications or in works derived from them in whole or in part.

In addition, everyone who enters this Contest hereby agrees that any photographs entered into this competition may be displayed at this Contest website at any time for everyone to see.

Display and publication of photos will be limited to these purposes, and all other rights are reserved by the photographers. Any and all display and publication of any photograph by the Sponsors will include the name of the photographer.

For more information please visit their web site

Your Best Travel and Holiday Images

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Deadline: 30th September 2010
Entry Fee: $9
Prize: $325 & chance to win a DSLR camera outfit

Your best Travel and Holiday images could have a chance of winning $325, with the "members choice winning photo" having the chance of winning a DSLR camera.

Prize : Winner $325, with runners up and "members choice winning photo" will be entered into the end of year "members choice competition" having a chance of winning a DSLR camera outfit.

Eligibility: Competition Open to all.

Copyright: Entrant retains rights to image.

Usage Rights: The winning photograph will be exhitbited on the winners page / partners and affiliates websites.

Olympus BioScapes International Digital Imaging Competition

Deadline: 30th September 2010

Entry Fee: Free

Prize: $10,000 of Olympus products up for grabs

CONTEST DESCRIPTION

Olympus America Inc. is in the seventh year of sponsoring a dynamic international photo competition that honors the world”s most extraordinary microscope images of life science subjects. First Prize is the winner’s choice of Olympus microscope or camera equipment valued at $5,000. Nine additional winners will also receive valuable prizes from Olympus, and many more will receive recognition as honorable mentions.

CONTEST PRIZE & TERMS

Prize Details: 1st Prize: Winner's choice of Olympus products valued at $5,000 (US list at time of awards). Expense paid trip for two to the awards reception in December.

2nd Prize: Winner's choice of Olympus products valued at $2,500 (US list at time of awards).

3rd Prize: Winner's choice of Olympus products valued at $1,500 (US list at time of awards).

4th to 10th Prizes: Winner's choice of any one (1) of the following:* Olympus Stylus® Tough-6000 digital camera or equivalent;* Olympus LS-10® Digital Voice Recorder or equivalent;* Olympus Magellan® 10x42 EXWP I Binocular or equivalent

Honorable Mentions: A photographic print or plaque of their winning entry. If making such a print is not possible for any reason, the winner will receive an Honor Certificate.

Eligibility: 18+

Copyright: Images are your original work and you must own the rights to your submitted images.

Usage Rights: You consent to the use of your name and likeness, and the use of your award winning images, without additional compensation in any media or format for any purposes deemed appropriate by Olympus in the promotion of the BioScapes competition.

Olympus America Inc. is in the seventh year of sponsoring a dynamic international photo competition that honors the world”s most extraordinary microscope images of life science subjects.

First Prize is the winner’s choice of Olympus microscope or camera equipment valued at $5,000. Nine additional winners will also receive valuable prizes from Olympus, and many more will receive recognition as honorable mentions.

For more information why not visit their web site

Pictures of the world photo contest

Deadline: 30th November 20100
Entry Fee: Entry is free and no purchase is necessary.
Prize: Holiday & return flights to anywhere in the world!

Contest Description

Have you returned from an incredible Trafalgar tour or any other trip and realised that your photos are more than just good – they’re amazing? Then you could win yourself and one companion a free Trafalgar tour including return flights to anywhere in the world!

If you have travel pictures to be proud of, then we invite you to enter our Pictures of the World Photo Competition.

We’re looking for photographs that perfectly capture a place through the local people, traditions, sights and monuments. We want to see our tours through your eyes.

Whether your pictures are of you appreciating new cultures, locals living their lives in exotic landscapes or stunning scenery shots, we are genuinely interested in seeing what you saw.

Contest Prize & Terms

Prize Details: First Place winner will receive a 14 day (or less) Trafalgar tour for two people inclusive of economy return flights from their point of origin.

Second and third place winners will each receive a 10 day (or less) Trafalgar tour for two individuals inclusive of economy return flights from their point of origin.

Eligibility: Open to all photographers worldwide 18+

Copyright: Entrants will retain copyright in their submitted entries.

Usage Rights: By entering, any subsequent prize winners agree to allow the free use of their names, photographs and general locations for publicity and news purposes during this and future promotions by Trafalgar.

By entering, all entrants license Trafalgar to a worldwide royalty-free perpetual license to edit, grant sub-licenses publish and use each entry in any and all media (including print and online) for marketing, publicity and news purposes.

For more information, why not visit their web site

Autumn Photography Competition

Deadline: 15th November 2010
Entry Fee: Free to Enter
Prize: 3 x Nikon Coolpix cameras & 4GB SDHC cards

Contest Description - Reckon you’re the next David Bailey? Love Autumn and want to capture its magic and show off your photography skills at the same time? This is the competition for you! The theme is simply ‘Autumn’ and is open to individual interpretation, but photos entered should be unique, artistic and capture your definition of autumn.

Contest Prize & Terms - Prize Details: 3 winners receive a Nikon Coolpix camera & 4GB SDHC card

Eligibility: Europe and Middle East countries only

Copyright: Entrants will retain copyright in the photographs that they submit to Kingston Technology Europe Ltd.

Usage Rights: By entering the competition, all entrants grant Kingston Technology Europe Ltd the right to publish and exhibit their photographs in print and on the rememberkingtson.com website and Facebook fan page. The winners grant Kingston Technology Europe Ltd the further rights to publish and exhibit their photographs in print, on their various, or in any other media, without limit as to time or territory. No fees will be payable for any of the above uses

While we make every effort to credit photographers, including in printed reproductions of their work, we cannot guarantee that every use of the photographs by the media will include the photographers’ names. Where such accreditation is not possible, winners will be taken to have waived their moral rights in respect thereto.

For more detail, why not visit their web site