For Online Subscription Digital Subscription With this issue, Smart Photography completes 16 years of publication. Unexpectedly, the sixteenth year also proved to be the most challenging year. The Covid pandemic threw all industries into a tailspin and the recovery is proving to be slow and gradual. We are immensely grateful to all readers and advertisers who stood by us during … [Read more...]
March 2021
For Online Subscription Digital Subscription The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) of Japan has released statistics for 2020 showing the true impact of the pandemic in the imaging industry. Total digital camera shipments were down 41.6% by volume to 88,86,292 units and 29.4% by value to 4 billion dollars. Compact cameras and D-SLRs accounted for most of these … [Read more...]
February 2021
For Online SubscriptionDigital SubscriptionWe are now taking more photos than ever before. Why are we shooting so many pictures? Obviously, to show or share our skills, emotions and likes. However, our research shows that a lot of images taken are never shared. Photographers today have a number of avenues to share their pictures. Apart from friends and relatives, photographs … [Read more...]
January 2021
For Online Subscription Digital Subscription No year could carry such horrible memories as 2020. Last year, when I penned the ‘Welcome’ section for January, there was not even the faintest inkling of how our lives would change so quickly. Stress has become an inevitable factor in our lives and we are lucky, that with our interest in photography, we can reflect and reconnect … [Read more...]
December 2020
For Online Subscription Digital Subscription At last, things are looking up for the imaging industry. Market reports indicate that the festival season saw a definite reversal of the slump and both enquiries and footfalls have increased. The retail sector in the West has adapted to the ‘new normal’ by encouraging video calls for enquiries, holding virtual demonstrations and … [Read more...]
