John Swainston writes: I have just returned from six weeks on the road as an amateur enthusiast photographer. I shot over 14,000 frames with my… Read more
Posts published in “Opinion”
DCW’s winning formula
The following is a ‘companion piece’ to our report last week on Bill McCurry’s PMA Podcast interview with Digital Camera Warehouse’s Lucinda Dalton. We asked… Read more
Printing trade show still going strong
Former photo industry trade show organiser and exhibition afficionado Paul Curtis ‘compares and contrasts’ the divergent paths taken by the printing and the photographic industry… Read more
BUDGET 2015: Something for small business, but little vision
John Swainston, recently retired MD of Maxwell International Australia, provides an overview commentary on the 2015-16 Budget. This week’s Budget news that services downloaded from… Read more
Grey market reality check
With the overseas buying power of the dollar falling, Photo Counter asks a ‘typical Milllenial’ shopper to find out where the best deals might be for… Read more
Music retailers show us how
Saturday, April 18 is international Record Store Day – an initiative developed eight years ago by independent music specialist retailers in the US to promote… Read more
Selfies so last year. Smelfies the new thing
It’s been a good year for April Fools joke press releases. (We particularly enjoyed Three-Legged Things ‘Someone Elsie Stick’, forwarded by PROtog.) So when we… Read more
Where are we going?
John Wallace has kept himself busy since closing the door on Foto Riesel several months ago. One of his activities is maintaining an interesting website… Read more
What’s happening at PMA?
So, what is happening at PMA? Certainly not ‘business as usual’! The new administration of Gabrielle Mullinax as president and Georgia McCabe as CEO (pictured… Read more
Changing of the guard?
Alan Small (Taree Camera House), steps back and takes in the big picture, identifying South Korea ‘where ‘highly organised and cashed-up manufacturers are looking hard… Read more