After 44 years in the photo industry in the UK, USA and Australia, industry icon John Swainston has announced he is stepping down as managing… Read more
Inside Imaging
Samsung S6 matches 16-megapixels with f1.9 lens
With smartphones increasingly taking the place of digital compacts as snapshooter cameras, product announcements at this week’s Mobile World Conference in Barcelona deserve some attention… Read more
New full-frame lenses flesh out Sony range
Sony has added four lenses – including three primes – to its full-frame E-mount lens range, compatible with the A7 family of mirrorless interchangeables. Two… Read more
Coolpix P900 has 2-metre focal length lens!
Nikon’s new Coolpix P900, available March 19, sports a champeen of the world 83x zoom lens. As mentioned last week, GfK cites ultrazoom cameras as… Read more
Nikon announces D7200 enthusiast DSLR
Nikon Australia has announced March 19 local availability of the D7200, a new APS-C format DSLR with the ability to capture up to 100 shots… Read more
Short Exposures: February 27
Youth embrace filum… Polaroid round prints instant hit… Fujifilm agrees with Vint Cerf… Two new Leica T-lenses… I AM Award Winning Youth embraces filum An… 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
Interchangeables now over half the market
The Photo category in GfK’s Temax quarterly report on Australian Technical Consumer Goods (TCG) was down a thumping 30 percent in the final quarter of… Read more
Peter Rose retires from PMA
After almost 10 years at the helm of PMA Australia, Peter Rose has opted to retire, effective from January 31. After a long career in… Read more
Panasonic announces new Lumix prime lenses
Panasonic Australia has announced May release of two new digital interchangeable lenses for the Lumix G Series range: the Lumix G 42.5mm/F1.7 ASPH./Power OIS; and… Read more