PMA, PPFA 2007
Posted in Business on March 15th, 2007 by Mark Rogers – Be the first to comment
Although photographic printing in general is in decline it is expected to flatten out soon and digital printing is expected to surpass film printing this year. Although image printing is in decline, image capture (the number of pictures taken) is at all time record highs and expected to continue growing at a high rate.
In addition to the new cameras, printers, and video cameras I was surprised to see some of the interesting advances in software for processing digital images. I witnessed an interesting demo of software that could take a group of photo’s, perform face recognition on the prints and automatically create a cool slideshow that is automatically synced with some music and provides panning and zooming from image to image with faces being the focal point. I did not actually try any so I am not sure how easy it actually is in reality.
I also came across some interesting products related to photo storage and picture framing that we will be trying to add to our website in the next few months. One in particular was copper coated CD sleeves to help reduce fading on CDs and DVDs.
Cheers,
Mark
