As we reported several weeks ago, US start-up Lytro has unveiled a new and more camera-like iteration of what it calls ‘light field technology’ in… Read more
Posts published in “Opinion”
Specialist outlets need more marketing presence
Australian photo specialty retailing has just 166 outlets in formal buying/marketing groups at the start of 2014. Currently there are 67 Camera House stores, 16… Read more
Nowhere to hid in global marketplace
The launch of two major new cameras this week – the Fujifilm X-T1 and the Olympus OM-D E-M10, highlighted some areas for improvement by Australian… Read more
‘Trend-setters’ do us no favours
Stan Kessanis, principal of Standalone Design, a preferred supplier (in the true sense of the term) to the photo industry for marketing communications design and production,… Read more
Are camera stores retailing’s dodo?
Alan Small (Taree Camera House), sees a diminished future for both specialist retailers, their customers and their suppliers if the twin trends of meagre retail margins… Read more
Enough with the predictions!
Good tidings come in many forms, one of which over the past two weeks has been a veritable orgy of ‘predictions’ that consumer spending is… Read more
Choice presents fiction as fact
Choice (aka The Australian Consumers Association) continues to present half-truths, red herrings and hyperbole as a substitute for valid argument against reducing the LVT on privately-imported… Read more
Editorial, Nov 22: Photo books need to be a ‘no-brainer’
One of the characteristics of the contemporary imaging industry is that much of the innovation of late seems to be coming from new entrants. So… Read more
No one sees it like Canon
So what’s with Canon these days? What would induce a market leader to compete so aggressively with its customers in hardware, and at the same… Read more
Dealers thin on the ground at The Digital Show
Jeff Servaas, whose company PROtog had a high-profile and busy exhibition stand at The Digital Show, responds with some observations to last week’s review of… Read more