Stand a chance to WIN this week with Olympus in our Rubber Monkey Home Challenge! Great job on all your submissions for last week's theme! We're really enjoying seeing your experience of the lockdown. - Our second theme is.... "Walk About" What does your neighbourhood look like? What are your views when you go out for a walk? How are you getting some exercise in? We want to know what 'walk about' means to you. - Up for grabs? The winning photo will win it's owner an Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark III with 14-42mm & 40-150mm Lenses, worth $1,848! What are you waiting for? Enter now: https://bit.ly/2wPgfuj... read more

Hey monkeys! Great news - your lockdown experience is about to get a whole lot easier! As per MBIE guidelines, we are now able to accept and ship orders for essential products from ALL of our customers. Essential goods are classified as those that support working/studying from home, but to make your life easier, we’ve put together an awesome Essential category for you to shop from! Start shopping: https://bit.ly/2UPRXbF... read more

Hey Monkeys! We’re all in this lockdown together and we’re helping one another by all staying at home. It’s the ... read more

Throughout the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) situation in New Zealand, our focus has been on protecting the health and safety of our staff and customers while continuing to deliver our core business. As New Zealand enters the Level 4 shutdown tomorrow, our stores and distribution warehouse will be affected. - Read our full statement to find out how the Level 4 shutdown will affect our customers: https://bit.ly/2Uw8bGD... read more

Canon has announced plans to livestream a Virtual Press Conference on Monday the 20th of April at 1pm EDT, in order to safely “unveil the company’s new professional imaging products and technologies” to the world. We suspect this will be what they had planned to reveal at the NAB Show. At least now we have a date to look forward to, a countdown page to follow, and less than three weeks until we find out more! Take a look: https://bit.ly/3bN6StJ... read more

Stand a chance to WIN this week with Sony in our Rubber Monkey Home Challenge! - We’re all in this lockdown together and we’re helping one another by all staying at home. It's the perfect opportunity for learning new skills or improving skills you have already started to learn ...and that's where we come in! - Here's how it works: 1. Every week during the lockdown, a new post will be loaded onto the Rubber Monkey Facebook page, that will feature a new theme for your photographs. 2. Submit your entry using the form in the blog post. 3. One winner will be chosen for each theme. 4. Winners are chosen based on both photographic skill and artistic interpretation of the theme. 5. Prizes will be shipped to the winners after the lockdown is lifted. - Our first theme is.... "Isolation Bubble" For the next few weeks, we are all going to be inside our 'isolation bubbles' - are you alone? Is there a group of you? We want to know what 'isolation bubble' means to you. - Up for grabs? The winning photo will win it's owner a Sony Cyber-Shot RX100 IV, worth $1,339! What are you waiting for? Enter now: https://bit.ly/2wPgfuj... read more

The team over at Aputure have started a schedule of free online streaming events! - On Wednesdays, they will be having a Aputure Lighting Certification presentation. Viewers will get an hour to take the quiz after the stream and top performers will be rewarded with certification and a M9. Lucky winners get to walk away with the coveted MC. On Fridays, there'll be in-depth discussions with weekly guests (directors, DPs, photographers, gaffers) and cover wider issues regarding camerawork and lighting, LED technology, analyse and touch on lighting breakdowns from recent projects. - Head on over to the Aputure Asia User Group to find out more!... read more