The Kodak Easyshare Touch M5370 is a new compact camera featuring a 16 megapixel sensor and a touchscreen interface. The Kodak M5370 also offers a 5X wide angle SCHNEIDER KREUZNACH lens, an enhanced Share Button App, Face Tagging, 720p HD video, and over 20 different scene modes. The Kodak Touch camera comes in silver, blue, pink and red for £129.99.

Manfrotto LINO is a new range of apparel and accessories designed with professionals in mind. The LINO collection comprises a range of jackets and bags for men and women that combine the functional requirements of a professional photographer with a stylish, Italian design aesthetic. LINO bags and apparel are designed to be objects of desire that will work hard, day in, day out.

The SanDisk Memory Vault is a photo album for the digital age. It provides consumers with peace of mind that their precious photos and videos will be preserved for up to 100 years. The SanDisk Memory Vault is available in 8 GB and 16GB capacities and costs $49.99 and $89.99 respectively.

Eye-Fi and SanDisk have joined forces to deliver a co-branded SD wireless memory card in Europe. The SanDisk Eye-Fi Wireless memory card allows consumers to instantly transfer photos and videos from a camera to a nearby smartphone or tablet, or to a comuter via Wi-Fi. The SanDisk Eye-Fi Wireless memory card comes in 4GB and 8GB capacities and features Class 4 minimum sustained write speed, 802.11n wireless performance, automatic backup, social media integration and Endless Memory.

Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Home is the strongest recovery software available on the market. The 11th edition allows PC users to recover their systems from four different emergency environments, such as WinPE 3.0, Linux, DOS or native Windows. Paragon Backup & Recovery 11 Home is available now for £29.95.

Jessops are offering 1/3 off all Jessops printed photo products to celebrate the opening of their new store at Westfield Stratford City in London. Constructed near the Olympic site, Westfield is Europe’s largest urban shopping centre. The new Jessops store boasts a new customer-friendly layout enabling you to test and trial live interactive cameras.

The Sun and Moon Calculator is a Solar and Lunar database for Windows. Designed for photographers and anyone who needs to know the position of the Sun and Moon from any location at any time, the Sun and Moon Calculator includes unique features such as lunar phase and the ability to see the sun and moon as they are currently in the sky. The Sun and Moon Calculator costs £26.03.

The winners of the Eyewitness Photography Competition, launched by Metroprint in partnership with the Royal Academy of Arts, have been announced. The competition, hosted by Metroprint, Metro Imaging’s new online print service, coincided with the Royal Academy’s exhibition: Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century - Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkácsi. The overall winner is “Boy in the Water” by David Gould (above), which depicts a young boy wading across the Yumana River, as seen from a railway bridge.

Scenes from the Art World is a major exhibition of photographs by Dafydd Jones, hosted by the Idea Generation Gallery in London. “A leading pioneer in society photography, Dafydd Jones has been photographing key art world names for the past three decades,” the organisers say. “His social reportage is a visual record of the art world’s transformation from small and unknown gallery launches of the nineteen eighties to the large scale celebrity haunts of the contemporary art market.” On show from 6-16 October, the exhibition features photos of Lucian Freud, Tracey Emin, Damien Hirst, Jay Jopling, David Hockney, Nicholas Serota and Gavin Tuck as seen through the lens of Dafydd Jones. The Idea Generation Gallery is located at 11 Chance Street, London E2 7JB.

PhotoVoice, an international charity and one of the leading organisations in the field of participatory photography, is organising an auction event and exhibition called the PhotoVoice Auction of Exceptional Photographs. The Auction is now in its ninth year, but the preview exhibition - taking place from 14-18 November at La Galleria, London - is new. The Auction itself will start at 6.30pm on 22 November, at Thomson Reuters, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf.

Agency Access has announced the acquisition of ADBASE and its division providing online portfolios, FoundFolios. “This move positions Agency Access to be the top photo marketing and illustrator marketing resource provider,” the company says. ADBASE and FoundFolios will become divisions within Agency Access, maintaining their websites, brand identity and product offerings, and will continue to operate from their Toronto location.

Symform has just announced a new referral programme that will reward users with up to 200GB of free cloud storage. Billed as “the industry’s first decentralised cloud storage solution”, Symform uses RAID-96 to geographically distribute, encrypt, and shred its data. Users contribute inexpensive local storage equal to the amount of data that they want to redundantly store in the cloud. For those with 200GB or less, the service is free.

Ilford has announced an exclusive offer for photographers attending the upcoming PhotoPlus Expo (PPE) and WPPI NYC event on 27-29 October. The company will offer a free 16x20-inch print on Ilford Galerie Gold Fibre Silk paper to the first 100 professional photographers that submit their favourite image to the company’s secure FTP site, and follow that submission with a confirmation e-mail by 24 September. The image should be transferred as the highest possible quality JPEG, rendered in Adobe RGB or sRGB at a minimum of 300dpi, and not exceed 20 inches in the longer dimension. Instructions for logging on to the Ilford FTP site can be found in the press release below.

Phase One today announced open enrollment for its New Zealand Phase One Digital Artist Series (PODAS) workshop. At this event, each participant will receive a Phase One 645DF camera body, a 60-megapixel IQ160 back and an assortment of lenses, plus a free copy of both Capture One Pro and Media Pro software. Held from 30th November to 7th December, the workshop will feature top pro photography instructors and plenty of opportunity to shoot dramatic vistas of lakes, glaciers and ice cliffs. Shooting excursions will be complemented by classroom instruction on topics ranging from visualisation to composition, capture, workflow and presentation. Priced at USD 6900 per person, the New Zealand PODAS workshop is limited to 20 participants. To register, visit the website below.

The Wacom Cintiq 24HD is a new 24-inch widescreen graphics tablet offering a resolution of 1920x1200 pixels. Featuring Wacom’s proprietary Tip Sensor technology, 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and 40 degrees of tilt control, the Wacom Cintiq 24HD comes with an ergonomically designed counter-weighted stand. The included pen has a pressure-sensitive eraser and two side switches that can be customized for common commands such as double-click and right-click. The optional Art Pen supports the pen rotation feature within Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as well as Corel Painter 12, delivering natural brush effects, such as those that a calligraphy pen would produce. The Wacom Cintiq 24HD will be available from a select group of authorized resellers nationwide as well as at Wacom’s online store at a price of $2,499.

Western Digital has introduced two mobile apps for its My Book Live personal cloud storage solution. The WD My Book Live personal cloud storage allows users to keep media and files safe at home on their own physical drive and yet access them over the Internet with any PC or Mac computer or on tablets and smartphones through WD’s new mobile apps. In addition to all of the features currently available in the free WD 2go app, the WD 2go Pro app includes several advanced features, including photo and video clipping, automatic syncing, content sharing and an optional 4-digit pass code. WD 2go is free, while WD 2go Pro is available for $2.99.

Panasonic has announced a new firmware update programme for its Micro Four Thirds (MFT) lenses, and introduced the “HD Lens” category. The company says “HD Lenses” conform to a new standard of AF performance in terms of tracking speed and quietness, allowing users “to fully enjoy HD video recording”. The new firmware update brings quieter AF operation and enhanced stability for the optical image stabiliser during video capture. Click through / scroll down for a full list of “HD Lenses”.

Today, Sekonic announced a free downloadable upgrade to its L-758 Light Meter application and the USB driver for the latest versions of OS X. Version 2.1 of the Sekonic Data Transfer Software is used to easily create and edit camera exposure profiles and then transfer them to the L-758DR DigitalMaster for “extremely accurate” control of exposure. Along with the sensor’s dynamic range, it records the unique variations of a digital camera, such as the effects of shutter speed and aperture mechanisms as well as the characteristics of the lens in use. “The Sekonic L-758DR is the only meter that can be calibrated to read light the way a particular camera system reads light,” the company says. To see how using the Sekonic L-758DR Light Meter and Sekonic Exposure Target (pictured) plus free Data Transfer Software can profile a digital camera and lens combination for total exposure accuracy, watch the YouTube video below.