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Canon accessories available from EOS magazine

Looking for an elusive accessory for your EOS camera? Want to know which accessories are compatible with your camera? You will find all the answers in a new section of our online shop.

Select your camera from the list and you will see a list of all the current Canon items which are compatible (excluding lenses and Speedlites). Click on an accessory name for more details, and to buy online.

News from Experience Seminars

Experience Seminars is a photo training company offering seminars around the UK. Following the success of mid-week courses at their offices in Cambridgeshire, they are introducing a programme of mid-week courses in Manchester, running from Tuesday 21 to Thursday 23 November 2006.

Experience Seminars has also introduced a specific course covering the EOS 350D. This adds to their courses for EOS 5D and 30D camera owners, and many other courses covering most aspects of digital photography and Speedlite flash photography.

If you want to learn more about the practical aspects of photography, Experience Seminars offers a range of Days Out and Photo Shoot events. In addition to their popular Big Cat days at reserves in Hertfordshire and Kent, there are macro Days Out at butterfly houses around the country, and many other events around the UK.

For full details of their programme, visit Experience Seminars.

Classifieds site beats magazine pages

If you are a subscriber to EOS magazine, you will have seen that we have dropped the classified advert pages in favour of a new Classifieds website.

A few readers have complained about this, saying that the magazine pages were much busier than the site. In fact, the opposite is true.

Although the site does not look that busy, it is actually carrying more than double the number of ads we published in EOS magazine. The classified site was launched at the end of March and attracted 351 adverts in the first three months. The December 2005 issue of EOS magazine featured 135 items from 78 advertisers, also for a three month period.

The difference is, of course, that adverts only remain on the classifieds site until they are sold. There is continual replacement. On the magazine pages you saw three months of adverts together.

If you have any comments about this, or any other aspect of EOS magazine, please e-mail Robert Scott.

EOS Discovery shows

Canon EOS Discovery shows are a series of free events aimed at photography enthusiasts. The series is designed to inspire participants about photography and develop their knowledge of the EOS SLR camera system.

The shows will take place at London’s Business Design Centre in Islington. You can choose between sessions on Thursday 3 August at 6.00–8.00pm and Saturday 5 August at 9.00am–12.00pm or 2.00–5.00pm.

The series is presented by photography experts, including renowned celebrity and music photographer Andy Earl (www.andyearl.com). Demonstrating how professional photographers use EOS in their work, the shows will explore nature, fashion, sports and reportage photography, providing tips and techniques to help amateurs extend their photographic skills. Post-shoot possibilities will be demonstrated with iPhoto and Aperture image processing applications from Apple.

Places are strictly limited. To register, visit EOS Discovery.

Canon sponsors National Park photo contest

Canon USA is sponsoring The Canon National Park Photo Contest. The contest is open to any U.S. resident over 21 years of age who is not a professional photographer.

Go to the Canon National Park Photo Contest. website for full details, rules and list of the prizes which include Canon EOS Digital SLR cameras with EF zoom lenses, and PIXMA Pro photo printers.

Canon has best ever spring performance

Canon has beaten its own profit forecast for the second quarter of 2006. Gross profit totalled $4.37 billion, 0.7 percent higher than forecast. Compared to last year, net sales increased by 13 percent, gross profit by 16 percent, operating profit by 33 percent and net income by 29 percent.

More digital camera sales forecast

Canon Inc. has increased its 2006 sales forecast for digital cameras from 19.2 to 20 million units. If reached, this will show an 18 percent increase in their digital camera sales from last year.

Latest Canon promotions

EOS 5D cash back
Buy an EOS 5D camera between 21 February 2006 and 31 October 2006 and receive £200 cashback from Canon.

Canon EOS 30D
Purchase a Canon EOS 30D between 15 March 2006 and 31 December 2006 and apply for a free 256/512MB CompactFlash card.

EOS Extra Promotion Cash Back Offers
Purchase an EOS 30D, 350D or 5D between 15 March and 31 December 2006 to qualify for cash back offers on a range of Canon accessories.

For full details and terms and conditions of all these offers, visit Canon promotions.

In store demonstrations

A programme of Canon In-store demonstration days is available.

The programme covers events up to 11 November 2006 at locations around England and Jersey.

In-store days are held within specific stores to offer comprehensive product demonstrations and give you the opportunity to ask specialists all the questions you may have. These days are independently run by the stores themselves.

Latest firmware upgrades

Canon has released new firmware upgrades for the EOS 5D and EOS 1D Mark II N. The EOS 5D firmware corrects communication errors with EOS Capture software and improves wireless flash photography with Speedlite 580EX. The firmware upgrades for both models offer enhancements for direct printing to two Pixma Pro printers.

You can check that you are using the lastest firmware version, and download upgrades, by following the camera links from firmware upgrades.

Super sites

Don't forget to visit our three websites:

EOS magazine main site
News and information about EOS cameras and accessories, plus our ever-expanding online shop. You can also subscribe to EOS magazine online, and renew your subjscription.

EOS magazine forums
The place to chat to other EOS enthusiasts about everything EOS. There are currently over 42,000 posts on the site from over 2800 members.

EOS magazine classified adverts
Buy, sell or exchange camera equipment on our latest site.