Photokina 2012: Wave of Experimentation Sweeps the Camera Industry
By emeadows
October 8, 2012
October 8, 2012
- It was just a decade ago that digital image sensors replaced film, rocking the world of photography. But that was only the beginning of many new changes.
- CNET reports that during the Photokina show, “it was clear a second wave of change is sweeping through the industry. Cameras produced during the first digital photography revolution looked and worked very similarly to their film precursors, but now designers have begun liberating them from the old constraints.”
- The article suggests that three major developments are pushing new changes: “a new class of interchangeable-lens cameras, the arrival of smartphones with wireless networking, and the sudden enthusiasm for full-frame sensors for high-end customers.”
- CNET writes of the camera’s broadening ecosystem, which includes new lens mounts and mirrorless cameras in addition to “stacks of technology that can include processors, operating systems, app stores, online services, social graphs, and user accounts with accompanying credit card numbers.”
- The article features details regarding an “explosion” of mirrorless offerings from Sony, Canon, Fujifilm, Samsung, Pentax and others.
- “The result is a new phase of experimentation that’s refreshing but risky,” the article suggests. “Photographers get a wealth of new choices, but they’re betting on camera systems that might not survive as today’s experimentation settles down into tomorrow’s winners and losers.”
- “For ordinary people, the biggest change in photography is the arrival of smartphones with respectable if not stellar cameras,” notes the article. “Because people always carry their phones, those cameras are the ones increasingly used to document people’s lives photographically.”
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