Declining sales of high-end
cameras and lenses are raising an alarming question for companies like Canon
Inc. and Nikon Corp.: Could the proliferation of camera-enabled, app-heavy
smart phones be crushing not only the simple point-and-shoot but premium models
as well? (Question from a 11/8 Wall Street
Journal article)
The answer to this question
could very well be YES. It seems that camera clubs are well advised to include
those new photographers in their planning and develop new standards for those
photographs. Measuring those images to the old club standards in competitions
would be unjust. They are more like museum/gallery type photographs, “you get
what the phone sees”. They are actually more to the truth than the current
images that we show and enter in competitions. Take a look at www.lumieregallery.net , click on
Vivian Maier and compare her images to images taken by a good phone camera
photographer.
Anyway, I intend to convince
our members and management to find ways to attract those new photographers and
their work to our club. There is an unknown amount of great talents out there
that we have not yet recognized. We should invite phone photographers that read
this article, to send us samples of their work to help us learn what is needed
to incorporate those “New Artists” into our group.
Communicate with us by
sending comments and/or sample images by e-mail to APSEntries@gmail.com/ I will mention the best comments and post
some images in my next Smart Phone Blog.
BG
