Canon’s EOS R5 revolutionary 8K video capabilities now appear half baked and crippled by overheating issues. But before we got here, the Canon marketing department’s…
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The sale of the Olympus camera division to Japan Industrial Partners (JIP) may result in removing the ‘Olympus’ label from camera and lens products and,…
Up until recently, Australia’s enthusiast photo media was going broke slowly relying on advertising support from local photo equipment distributors and specialist retailers. Now there’s…
Over the last few weeks, photographs in the news and on social media have documented our behaviour in response to COVID-19. Panic buying of pasta,…
I am no different to anybody else out there. Early last week I had my own mini-meltdown and put myself to bed for the afternoon when it all became too overwhelming. When I got up, I blasted myself in the shower, took the dog for a long walk and thought, 'Okay, do I sink or do I swim?’.
In Australia, we are now just a little over two weeks into the far-reaching social, lifestyle, business and economic impacts of COVID-19. From a health standpoint, it is our society’s number one priority. From a business perspective, it is too early to say precisely what the economic impacts will be.
Tough restrictions on Australian weddings now allow only five people to attend, leaving the entire wedding industry without much work for the foreseeable future. But…
Back in the 1980s, a young marketing analyst called Faith Popcorn, one of the first soothsayers for the secular age we now call 'futurologists', came up with the notion of 'cocooning'. What she didn't see coming was the COVID-19 world, in which cocooning is becoming compulsory!
As a (admittedly slightly jaundiced) aficionado of new camera press releases, I’ve been noting an odd but growing trend in recent offerings – a tendency to bag older models in the company’s line-up to boost the credentials of the latest release.
'Over the last few years, it seems like it’s become really cool to hate Adobe; kind of like how it’s cool to hate Coldplay,' Dawood wrote. 'Except the main difference is that Coldplay really does suck.'
Now, nothing against Coldplay, but people’s livelihoods don’t rely on Coldplay. They’re reliant on how Adobe sets its prices and changes things at will with fairly little consultation, and a ton of obfuscation.