TWiP 332 – Smartphone Creep
Hosts: Doug Kaye with Valerie Jardin & Don Komarechka
This week on TWiP…
- Canon's financial forecast haunted by smartphone creep
- Adobe hack actually affects 38 million users
- A roundtable discussion about learning photography
- Don Komarechka talks kickstarting photographic projects
- Canon's financial forecast (8:20)
- Adobe hack actually affects 38 million (15:20)
- Learning photography (22:50)
- Kickstarting your photographic dreams (38:37)
- Valerie: Dan Ablan's new Peachpit Press e-book: Composition for Portraiture: Creating compelling headshots, group shots and senior pictures. Only $5!
- Don: Redsnap – Triggertrap's newest innovation
- Doug: Linco Flora 35″ Softbox. $260 at Amazon.
- Outdoor Photography Canada – Don just redesigned their website
- Valerie Jardin's workshops
- All About the Gear – Frederick and Doug's new show
- 1Password – mentioned by Doug to manage all of your passwords across devices
- creativeLive
- Indiegogo
- Don's book is now shipping! Sky Crystals
- Triggertrap
- Regarding the Q&A time-lapse discussion – For external power to the Nikon D7000, you need two parts: The Nikon EP-5B power supply goes into the battery compartment, and the Nikon EH-5B AC adapter plugs into a main power source.
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Two months now since the end of the contest! Very disappointed to see no results.
Which contest? The Drobo contest only ended a few days ago.
A picture is worth a thousand words deadline was august 31st
I think the panel has a myopic view of the camera market. I would say that phones ARE taking sales away from DSLRs, just not from the keen hobbyist and professional market. For years now, DSLRs have been marketed to the “average” consumer (particularly soccer moms) as the solution to making their photos look “professional”. And they bought them in droves, used only the included kit lens, and mostly left them on auto the whole time.
Now, consumers are realizing that they can get similar (and sometimes better) results with their phones, which are a lot less bulky and they have on them the whole time. What we are seeing is a small backlash caused by the over-promise of the marketing department to the snapshot takers out there.
I think the consumer DSLR bubble has burst (and with it the you-too-can-be-a-pro seminar bubble). For photo enthusiasts, I agree with the panel that mirrorless cameras are beginning to replace DSLRs.
Agree 100%. Many of the cheaper DSLRs were sold because there were no alternative and an entry level DSLR was cheap. Now many casual photographers use the their large cameras less and their smart phones (that they update much more frequently) are in use on a daily basis.
While pro’s know about mirrorless and other rapidly changing cameras, the masses have no clue and it’s going to be a hard sell to casual users.