The end of Digital Photography #

Global camera market is in decline. #

Foreword #

As if world didnt’ suck enough, digital photo is becoming part of the past. Cameras - tiny machines engineered to screenshot our mundane life, are no longer generating profits (at least for most of companies). So greedy bastards are taking action.

Amazon: Digital Photography Review closing #

Was established on nov 1998, bought by Amazon in 2007. Brilliant resource for camera enthusiasts is closing april 10th, 2023. Archive team is working on, well, archiving content before it all vanishes. Sample gallery can be (or could have been) traced back to 1998.

Show must go on. #

Apparently, they are moving to PetaPixel.

Olympus out of game. #

Olympus sold its camera division to who-cares-what, and soon to focus its attention on the medical sector. I beg to differ. If only people took 30 minute meditative walks with a cameras daily, just observing and capturing beauty around them - we would have more healthy people around.

Canon banned the production and sales of some third-party lenses for its RF mount cameras. #

Well. They did.

Good news. #

Photography will not die. People will take pictures on phones mostly, which will affect quality. Camera business will become niche, and cameras will become expensive.

Links. #

Digital Photography Review Wiki
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/amazon-shutting-down-dpreview-a-leading-source-of-digital-photography-information/
https://petapixel.com/2023/03/22/to-save-its-content-archive-team-is-attempting-to-back-up-all-of-dpreview/
https://tadviser.com/index.php/Article:Cameras_(Global_Market)
https://www.statista.com/chart/5782/digital-camera-shipments/
https://petapixel.com/2022/10/10/olympus-reveals-it-sold-camera-division-before-it-became-obsolete/
https://petapixel.com/2022/08/29/viltrox-says-canon-has-demanded-they-stop-selling-rf-mount-lenses/
https://fstoppers.com/business/after-banning-some-third-party-lenses-what-does-canons-rf-future-look-616907