These days it is holding the convention and exhibition of the Photo Marketing Association, one of the most important annual events in the world of photography exhibition in which all manufacturers tend to present their latest developments, but given the volume of products presented during the exhibition in practice, many products are actually announced in the weeks before the PMA.
The advent of digital technology in this market, some analysis say that digital cameras now account for up to 92% of sales, has turned upside down, so that many firms traditionally engaged in photography have had to close, leave this market, or make major modifications.
It is clearly time to “renew or die ‘, with companies more than ever embroiled in a race to develop new ideas and technologies that can put you ahead of the competition.
Predict things in a context of volatile is at least complicated, but Canon’s Chuck Westfall dares to make some predictions for the future, on the basis that the megapixel race is over, at least as far as cameras compact is concerned, he says that a camera 7 or 8 MP gives more than enough quality even for extensions of 30 × 45 and will be another type of functions and features that will motivate buyers in a couple of years. Translate and adapt the For cameras, it’s a digital world :
New designs for the cameras , once they no longer use film are freed from physical constraints that this entails, which along with public acceptance of digital opens up the possibility of designs and new features such as the Sony Cyber-shot M2 or the Kodak EasyShare V570 , which has two objectives, one fixed and one with focal zoom.
Image stabilizers to prevent camera shake, particularly useful in the more zoom you are using and / or in low light, and if the camera has a traditional viewfinder, which forces you to take it away from your face while reducing stability because you have to hold a pulse without resting on anything.
Improvements in the ability to record video if you make a couple of years, video cameras and the photo made the work of other penalty cameras today are capable of recording videos at very reasonable, as most support 640 × 480 at 30 frames per second, more than enough quality to watch on a normal TV, and there are some like the Canon PowerShot S80 to record higher resolution and / or frames per second. Of course, video cameras are taking pictures lousy.
Wireless connections to send photos directly to a computer or the web or email as does the Kodak EasyShare One .
Increasingly intelligent software , able to incorporate GPS data in the photos or to realize that people close their eyes so do the photo as some of the latest Nikon CoolPix.
Improvements to screens: Bigger, tactile, and lower power to be incorporating OLED screens.
Certainly interesting times for the amateur photographer.
