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be made available to stream free of charge. New videos will be uploaded regularly and feature tips, tricks and tutorials for anyone interested in photography. Canon Connected is designed to inspire, inform and entertain our community of photography enthusiasts, while providing educational content that will help them develop new skills. Search for ‘Canon Connected’ on youtube.com In addition to this, to enable our community to connect directly with Canon, we are also launching Canon Live: a place to get advice on all Canon products from our team of experts, seven days a week, through our new Live Chat service. Canon Live will also showcase a series of free online live events from ourselves and our retail partners. canon.co.uk/canonlive KENRO Despite these unprecedented circumstances, we’re committed to continuing to offer you great service, and dispatching your orders efficiently and safely. We are currently operating as usual, with reduced staff numbers in our warehouse strictly following government social distancing and hand hygiene guidelines. We have so far been able to offer an uninterrupted service, with deliveries and orders unaffected by the present crisis. We appreciate your patience and continued business, and we offer you our best wishes during this difficult and uncertain time. kenro.co.uk MANFROTTO UK With the continued spread of Covid-19, our thoughts are with those who have been personally affected. Our top priority is to keep our colleagues and customers safe as we do our part to reduce the spread of the virus globally. Even as cities across the globe come to a standstill, this is a time where we have seen people from all walks of life come together to support each other. The undeniable beauty of these gestures continue to inspire us as we search for new ways to create, express and imagine more, together. Stay strong, stay safe. At Manfrotto, we are creating different stories on topics like food photography, time-lapses and architectural photography, providing tips to train those specialties during
this period. We are also providing free access to a photography course developed by one of our ambassadors, Karl Taylor, to all our clients, as well as free access to a photo editing tool called Skylum to all our clients (Gitzo and Lowepro are also participating to this initiative). We are taking part in a new initiative in collaboration with Boom agency: a contest among a pool of photographers with the primary goal to show though photography the scenario imposed by Covid-19 emergency (tears, moments, places people, love, family, loneliness, fear, hope etc). We are also organising different giveaways and offering a 15% discount and free shipping on purchases made through our website. manfrotto.co.uk MPB MPB is looking to play our part to help photographers and videographers through the current stuck-at-home situation. Many creatives are sat indoors with more time on their hands than they normally would, and we feel now is the perfect time to answer all of those burning questions they might have about kit but never thought to ask. With that in mind, we’ve launched #askmpbanything, an initiative aimed at giving photographers and videographers the answers. Ask us anything you want to know about kit, and our team will answer as many questions as we can. What’s the best way to clean a lens? Can you recommend any budget Canon EF portrait lenses? From tips to recommendations, we’re excited to answer your kit questions. Visit the sites below to send us a question or share it on social media using the #askmpbanything hashtag. bit.ly/MPBfacebookAMA bit.ly/MPBtwitterAMA KASE FILTERS Kase UK continues to offer our amazing customer service, although customers might experience a little extra delay in delivery due to our and our courier’s safe working practices. The majority of deliveries are sent via DPD that uses a contactless system in place with timed delivery slots. Our warehouse team is working on skeleton staff and we are following government advice to keep everyone safe. We are fortunate that we had virtual working practices in place so
no office staff have to relocate and our management and support teams are working normally. We want to give something back to our professional photographers we work with, so 10% of all sales via our website will now be put into a support fund for those that are in mind. We also want to reward customers, so we are pleased to offer a 5% discount code – use the code PRO5KASE at checkout. kasefilters.com LOWEPRO At Lowepro, we always share with our community the joy of exploring new outdoor locations, going into the nature and capturing its beauty in a picture. For our own good, from now, and for the next few weeks, we should step back and simply enjoy our time at home. And we want to make the most of this time, sharing our passion for photography. We aim to make this time more pleasant and lighter, sharing new exciting ways to experiment your passion for photography and travel, while staying safe and sound, close to our families. We continue to travel together, but with imagination. So we asked our trusted Loweprofessionals to stand with us in this difficult time and help inspiring our community, to #capturelifeathome. Spending more time at home gives photographers the chance to think back to their greatest photographic adventures and their most meaningful travels. And to be grateful for having the chance of exploring the real beauty of nature. Our Loweprofessionals, and our community are invited to share the greatest picture from their favourite travel, and state what they learnt and why they are grateful. Finally, our online store is also open offering a 15% discount and free shipping on purchases. lowepro.com/uk-en PANASONIC In these unprecedented times, the Lumix UK team is doing all it can to keep photographers, videographers and creators inspired at home through online events with our retailers, regular ambassador Q&A sessions on our social channels, and tips and tricks to get the most of out of your camera. Continue to watch this space!‹ panasonic.com/uk
stories of life in lockdown. The community is open to photographers of all levels and genres using any equipment. To help inspire and educate our followers, we will also be working with brand ambassadors, influencers and Nikon School staff to share hints and tips on how to make the most of shooting at home. We express our sincerest condolences to all those affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and pray for the speedy recovery of all those taken ill. nikon.co.uk The Imaging Warehouse – whose brands include PermaJet, On-Line Paper, Premier Ink, and Nova Darkroom – is working hard to keep its staff safe while still fulfilling customer orders. Now that we must stay at home, many of us are finding ways to keep ourselves entertained and reconnecting with our hobbies, which for all of you reading this will include photography and printing. Though times may be difficult, we remain united in our creativity – so now more than ever, we hope that you find solace in your art. Pick up your camera (whether it be film or digital), get stuck in with editing THE IMAGING WAREHOUSE those photos you’ve been meaning to get to for years, dust off your printer and find joy in your creations. And most of all, stay safe. permajet.com FUJIFILM UK During these uncertain times, Fujifilm is committed to remaining a source of support and inspiration to the photographic community, encouraging people to embrace their creativity through photography
while staying at home. Therefore, Fujifilm has launched its Stay Creative at Home campaign on its X Stories blog and via social media. Tune in each week for new tips, exercises and techniques to try out at home, alongside FAQs with product specialists, and get involved by sharing your images via #FujifilmFromHome. The first instalment, Make a Splash With Your Indoor Shooting, is live on fujifilm-x. com/en-gb/stories/make-a-splash-with- your-indoor-shooting OLYMPUS UK We’re focusing our efforts on making sure photographers stay at home – and stay inspired with photo project ideas, technical support and guidance to help them through this crisis. We’re also running a series of Facebook Live events with our experts – keep an eye on Image Space for future details of events – and are working to produce shorter tip or project videos to give our photographers ideas! We’re proving that there’s no need to leave the house to take superb photographs: all you need is a bit of inspiration and perhaps some free technical support from one of our Olympus experts. Here’s the link to our virtual one- to-one sessions that people can book on to: olympus-imagespace.co.uk/ olympus-guru-sessions CANON UK To help people through this period of lockdown, from mid-April Canon is launching a new content hub for photography enthusiasts called Canon Connected. The hub will feature exclusive video content produced by a variety Canon Ambassadors, experts and Canon’s wider community. The videos will
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