February 24, 2013 by Paul Worthington – PMA Newsline Volunteer pro photographers will capture free portraits of family members of active duty members of the military at The Big Photo Show, through the PMDA’s Portraits of Love program. Working in cooperation with the USO and Shutterfly, the portraits will then be sent…
February 11, 2013 by Paul Worthington = PMA Newsline Photographers across the U.S. still enjoy the permanence print photographs offer for memorializing personal occasions, providing an opportunity for consumer adoption (or re-adoption) of point-and-shoot or SLR cameras. That’s according to a new study released today by the Consumer Electronics Association. However, the report suggests, these…
By Paul Worthington – PMA Newsline – January 2, 2013 There’s not exactly a shortage of retail outlets at which you can make a standard print from a camera or phone photo. To move into the market you’d best be offering something at least a little different or better. Polaroid says it’s doing just…
By Paul Worthington – PMA Newsline CafePress and Snapily teamed to bring “photos to life with the illusion of movement and depth,” the company say. With lenticular prints. no glasses are required to see the 3D effect, as you view two images as you rotate the print back and forth. Customers can now “take…
By Jennifer Kruger – PMA Newsline – October 11, 2012 The Photographic Research Organization (PRO) will hold four days of meetings for PRO members and affiliates during the 2013 PMA@CES event, Jan. 8-11, 2013, in Las Vegas, Nev. PRO activities will begin Wednesday, Jan. 9, and run through Saturday, Jan. 12. “We will be…
By Paul Worthington – PMA Newsline – October 11, 2012 A “stunning contribution” from a system engineer in China is the 500,000th image on Getty Images’ Flickr collection. The photo, available here, is now among the half a million Flickr collection images available for licensing exclusively on gettyimages.com. The company says it provides “content that…
By Paul Worthington – PMA Newsline – July 26, 2012 Mobile app developer Bump Technologies says it first met the need for easily exchanging personal data from one smart phone to another — “But recently, another frustration finally caught up with us: distributing photos taken together with friends and family among the people who were…
June 20, 2012 By Paul Worthington PMA Newsline The photo and video mobile app market is not only booming, it is also changing rapidly. A new study from 6Sight finds that of the 475 top-ranking photo and video apps, 46 percent are less than six months old; 20 percent have just been introduced in…
June 21, 2012 By Jennifer Kruger PMA Newsline The International Photographic Council (IPC), New York, N.Y., presented eight IPC Professional Photographer Leadership Awards during the 14th Annual IPC Pro Award Luncheon, at the United Nations in New York City, May 17. Award Luncheon Chair Andy Marcus, president of Fred Marcus Photography, delivered an insightful…
By Paul Worthington – June 18, 2012 – PMA Newsline Eschewing the post-PC nomenclature of the iPad and its ilk, Microsoft calls its upcoming Surface tablets, “PCs built to be the ultimate stage for Windows.” The Surface devices are “designed to seamlessly transition between consumption and creation, without compromise,” the company adds. They also mark…
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