April Fool’s Day Stories
April 1st saw the usual spate of hoax-stories, including a couple of photography ones that caught my eye. Over at DP-Now, news broke that Zenit had announced a new budget digital SLR:
“Reliable sources in the Russian Federation have provided dpnow with exclusive details of an exciting new affordable digital camera that could rock the industry. It’s a 2 megapixel digital single lens reflex camera that offers interchabgeable lenses and it’s priced below $300, including a lens.”
Whilst Graphics Software at About.com were reporting the demise of Photoshop:
“n a move that no one expected, Adobe announced today that it has discontinued its flagship product, Photoshop. Despite the success of the Creative Suite which brought record-breaking profits and revenue in the fourth quarter of 2003, Adobe has decided it’s time to halt development on Photoshop.”
Got any more April Fools stories to share?
Website: DP-Now - $299 DSLR on the way from Russia
Website: Graphics Software at About.com - Adobe Discontinues Photoshop



#1 Stephen
I have to say I thought this was another good one, very well put together and almost but not quite believable
http://www.dp-now.com/cgi-bin/forum/forum.pl/noframes/read/16097
1:03 pm - Friday, April 2, 2004
#2 Mark Goldstein
An unexpected page. Scroll down a bit to the section with the blue background. It gives "news" of several new cameras, some quite amazing.
http://www.digitalcamera.jp/index.htm
At the very bottom is the April Fool notice.
I didn't expect this from a Japanese site.
In retrospect it's quite a spoof!
Bob Litten
4:39 pm - Sunday, April 4, 2004