For Online Subscription Digital Subscription As we enter 2020, let us look back at the year that just preceded it. For our industry, 2019 has indeed been a challenging year. Compact camera sales continued to fall, D-SLR sales faced new challenges and the mirrorless market, although growing, was not growing fast enough to arrest the decline in compact and D-SLR camera … [Read more...]

For Online Subscription Digital Subscription As 2019 draws to a close, let us look at some of the new features that have hit the market in the last few quarters. Built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity are now old hat and every manufacturer has been looking for that ‘something new’ with which they can grab the attention of photographers. Clever new autofocus … [Read more...]

For Online Subscription Digital Subscription In our daily rigmarole, we sometimes slip up and forget important events. One such event was the completion of 100 years by Olympus. Although Olympus is currently not in India, there is no way anyone can forget its contribution to photography, starting with the PEN series, the OM-1 and its successors, the formidable OM-4, the … [Read more...]

For Online Subscription Digital Subscription One problem that we in India face constantly in our photo pursuits is the presence of haze. Haze very often reduces the impact and the quality of the image taken. It is, therefore, often recommended that you take your pictures around sunrise or sunset. October signals the end of the monsoon, and the reward is beautiful … [Read more...]

For Online Subscription Digital Subscription As Chandrayaan 2 heads towards the moon, one wonders about the photographic equipment being used. Amazingly, a full 50 years have passed since man first set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969. It will interest readers to note that the first camera brand to be chosen for the American space programme in 1961 was a Leica. In … [Read more...]