Leica Survives the Digital Shift

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WETZLAR, Germany—Booming smartphone sales are eating into the digital camera market, but the inventor of the 35mm film camera isn’t blinking.
High-end camera producer Leica Camera AG celebrated its first camera’s 100th anniversary last year with a limited-edition model emblematic of its effort to bridge old and new: a digital camera with no display—just an old-style viewfinder. The retro-chic design, which sold for €15,000 ($16,545), was a hit.
Eastman Kodak Co., another pioneer of mass-market photography, has quit the film business and gone through bankruptcy reorganization. Polaroid Corp., which once seemed to hold great promise, today no longer produces cameras.

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NEW OFFERINGS FROM PANASONIC AND CANON AT PHOTOKINA

This year's Photokina exhibit in Germany is shaping up to be very interesting, especially if you are into the high end compact camera market. With smart phones obliterating the low end of the compact camera market, manufacturers have been looking at the high end as an alternative way to keep the segment alive. So far the leaders in this space have been Sony with the RX100 line and Fuji with it's X30 (and previously X20, and X10). There have been other high end compacts of course, but the it was the RX100 in particular that generated the most interest with its large 1 inch sensor. Well, it now has some interesting competition.

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Howard Huang: The Photo Hit Man

Taiwan-born, Hawaiian-raised, New York-based Howard Huang considers himself an urban fashion/celebrity photographer. Comics and Japanese anime are building blocks for the fantasy sets he creates for musicians, models and actors, from Lil Wayne and Jacki-O to Ice-T and Nicki Minaj. Huang often composites photographs to achieve his inner vision or an art director's storyboard idea.

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