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Landscape and photography - Scotland and Italy 10 May 2012 3.30pm - 5.30pm FREE Participating speakers include Alexandra Tommasini (Courtauld Institute of Art), Francesca Lazzarini (Curator, Fondazione Fotografia, Modena, Itlay) and artist Alexander Maris (Scotland). Booking is essential as seating is limited so please email programme@stills.org to reserve a […]

Curating Video collections and archives 10 May 2012 11.30am - 1.30pm FREE An introduction to the collections of Careof DOCVA, Milan, Rewind UK and The Agent Ria and their utilisations within curatorial and educational contexts. Participating speakers include Adam Lockhart (Rewind, UK), Chiara Agnello (Careof DOCVA, Milan) and Lyndsay Mann (The Agent Ria). Bo […]

Residencies 9 May 2012 3.30pm - 5.30pm FREE A chaired event with curators and artists discussing the merits and logistics of residential projects. Participating speakers include Kirsten Lloyd (Curator, Stills, Edinburgh), Scott Donaldson (Creative Scotland, Creative Futures Fund), Chiara Agnello (Curator, Careof DOCVA, Milan, Italy) and Francesca Lazzarini ( […]

Emerging Practice 9 May 2012 11.30am - 1.30pm FREE A chaired introduction to contemporary practice by Italian and Scottish photographers participating in Stills' AiR residencies which are artists' residential exchanges between Edinburgh and Modena, Italy. Chaired by artist Valentina Bonizzi (Scotland/Italy) with presentations from past and present […]

Reading Capital with David Harvey 15 May 2012 Geographer and social theorist David Harvey has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital Volume 1 for over 40 years. His lectures are now available online and provide a lively and accessible means of approaching one of the most essential and relevant political, economic and theoretical texts of modern times. In collabor […]

Monday 14th May, 8.30pm - Malaria in the UK, past, present and future.

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Just Posted: Our hands-on preview of the Olympus 75mm F1.8 for Micro Four Thirds. The 75mm is Olympus' premium grade portrait lens for the joint Olympus/Panasonic mirrorless system. We've had a pre-production example in the office for a couple of days and have prepared a hands-on preview, to which we'll add a samples gallery when the promised […]

Facebook has announced a free app called Camera that focuses on viewing and sharing photos. Instead of showing what your friends are doing and thinking, it just dives straight to their photo galleries. The app also allows you to share multiple photos at a time, including descriptions and tagging. There are also tools for cropping and applying filters to your […]

Olympus has released more details about the M.Zuiko Digital ED 75mm F1.8 lens it announced alongside the E-M5, back in January 2012. The relatively compact large-aperture lens offers a 150mm-equivalent field-of-view and a fast internal-focus design. The 75mm will be available from 'Summer 2012' at an expected selling price of around $899.99.

Fujifilm has officially unveiled its promised adapter to allow the use of Leica M-mount lenses on the X-Pro1. Unlike third-party versions, the adapter has electronic contacts for communication with the camera body, and a Function button that allows quick setting of the lens in use. To make full use of the adapter, a firmware update for the X-Pro1 (version 1. […]

We've added a hands-on video describing the features of the Pentax K-30 and explaining how it fits in alongside the K-01 and K-5. As it's a pre-production camera, we've not been able to demostrate the autofocus speed but we have included an example of the shutter sound when continuous shooting. Click here to see our Pentax K-30 preview video.