The following chart from Statista tells a fascinating story about what is happening in digital cameras: This started nearly 5 years ago with Flickr first reporting that the most popular camera for picture taking on its website was not a Canon or Nikon SLR but rather an Apple iPhone. Like the trend towards eCommerce sales, smartphone […]
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Five years ago, this blog was predicting that video would come to the SLR camera World. And just a half year later, Nikon delivered the D90 as the first DSLR that did video with interchangeable Nikon lenses. And the specs on the D90 have been so good that users can still buy a brand new
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Remember the Flip video camera from 5 years ago? Simple and easy to use and able to feed the growing use of video on the Web. Cisco bought Flip for nearly $600M in March 2009. But two years later Cisco shutdown its Flip division as video came on board not only point+shoot as well as
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This blog has argued before that Samsung has a superior product development cycle that allows it to deliver better cameras, smartphone and other electronic devices on a timely basis. The whole idea is to draw from Agile software development – and quickly produce designs that meet consumer feature needs through live products every 6-12
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One of the trends that is effecting camera vendors is that a wide range of electronic device makers outside the familiar ranks are getting into the camera business. Not just smartphones and tablets but laptops, desktops, and all sorts of industrial appliances. This has inevitably had an impact on traditional camera and videocam sales with downward trends
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Convergence is a way of life in electronic gadgets. For example, still and video cameras have merged in the past 5 years. Another example, video cameras at the high-end may provide the next step up with 4000K movie images to draw upon for stills. But the real movement on the gadget highway has been from PDA
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There is no doubt that smartphone users are attached to their cameras – a good camera made a big difference in iPhone 4 and the new iPad sales. And smartphone users snap a lot of photos : On Flickr the iPhone 4 and then iPhone 4s currently rank as the first and third most popular
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With so many smartphones coming out in all sorts of versions its hard to compare products. Here are two places that I go for phone comparison data and particularly for the still camera and video camera performance benchmarks. PhoneArena It is fairly simple to setup the comparison – and the review ratings are often bang on. However
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