The start of a new financial year is an appropriate time to review the year that has gone by and to prepare a wish-list of what would happen in the forthcoming year. The sudden collapse in the compact camera market worldwide definitely took Japanese camera manufacturers by surprise. Whilst Smartphones were expected to nibble at the edges, they ended up ravaging the bottom end … [Read more...]
Tiny Details
Kane Lew is an avid wildlife photographer who specialises in creating beautiful macro images. You can find his work at www.500px.com/DigitalBromide Tell us a little about yourself. What inculcated the love for photography in you? I’m a graduate from the prestigious art institute, Sir J.J. Institute of Applied Arts. I work with a Mumbai based digital agency as a Creative … [Read more...]
WILD FRAMES
Lion Cub Dubai-based Nisha Purushothaman is a nature lover who freezes moments in bird and wildlife photography. Through her pictures, she wishes to share stories with the world. You can find some of er work at www.nishas.info As told to Tanika Godbole Play of … [Read more...]
Fight to Finish…!
The compact camera is not dead yet nor is it going to die very soon. It is in fact reinventing itself and camera manufacturers have rightly decided to emphasise and work on two aspects of these cameras which Smartphones cannot get close to or match, at least, not in the short term. These two aspects relate to (1) size of the sensor and (2) the zoom ratio. Depending on which … [Read more...]
Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1
Nikon has produced 90 million Nikkor lenses since production began in 1959 with lenses for the Nikon F. Nikon’s increase in market share perhaps explains how the last 5 million were manufactured in the last 10 months. Remember that the D-SLR market in the developed world has been tepid in 2014. Canon has produced 100 million EF lenses since manufacturing started in 1986. … [Read more...]
