Category: Market

Photo scammers: The naked truth

photo credit: Don Hankins It appears that -at least in some cases- many ads from Google (like the ones I display on my web sites) are presenting fraudulent business proposals. Usually they are recognizable by the fact that they makes too-good-to-be-true offers (half-price photo cameras or basement-sale prices for pro equipment). But it is not…

No Canon for PMA

This is really recession time: Even Canon decided to cut expenses and will not go to the PMA fair in Anaheim, CA next year (in Feb 2010). This will leave Photokina (in Koln, Germany) as the only world-level photo trade show seeing all major players in the same location. Well, if nobody else tries to…

DSLR market change

This is Photoscala which published the sales numbers for digital SLR cameras. The most amazingly interesting is -for me- which major brands progressed (or not) between 2006 and 2008: You cannot miss the obvious progress of Sony who clearly became a major actor of this market, and a significant competitor for Canon and Nikon. Furthermore,…

Canon fights the recession

The Japanese headquarters of Canon just presented its quarterly financial results and they show profits going down by 88% for the quarter. Obvioulsy, copiers and printers are hit hard by the economic crisss. But despite the grim look of these figures, this is relatively good news (or better than the worse of the worst, maybe).…