Smart Photography April 2022

SMART PHOTOGRAPHY enters its eighteenth year of publication with this issue. It has been quite a journey so far. In 2005, digital had just started replacing film. In 2022, the industry looks quite different with smartphones having captured a large chunk of the lower end of the imaging market. D-SLR cameras have been replaced by mirrorless cameras and camera makers have moved up market. Compact cameras are close to being history and medium format has just about survived. The last two years have been awful, both for the imaging industry and for publications focussed on the industry. Beating all doomsdayers, we have survived and so has the bulk of the imaging industry, albeit in a different form. Our digital readers are now a multiple of print readers. Having said that,…

WE ARE GLUED TO THE GLOBAL IMAGING INDUSTRY Our team is updated with all the benchmarks and road blocks that the field of photography and imaging across the globe experiences. This helps us record the changes in the global perspective, thus making us the first to predict which products will be a rage in the Indian markets. WE’RE IMPARTIAL Loyalty towards our readers is a given, and their best interests are always on our mind. Every verdict is honest and not influenced by advertisers or personal favourites. So when we say a product is a ‘BEST BUY’, then, it is just that! OUR TESTS ARE CONDUCTED BY EXPERTS All equipment go through a series of tests at the hands of our experts. Our reviewers are experts in the field of photography across the country and…

SMART PHOTOGRAPHY enters its eighteenth year of publication with this issue. It has been quite a journey so far. In 2005, digital had just started replacing film. In 2022, the industry looks quite different with smartphones having captured a large chunk of the lower end of the imaging market. D-SLR cameras have been replaced by mirrorless cameras and camera makers have moved up market. Compact cameras are close to being history and medium format has just about survived. The last two years have been awful, both for the imaging industry and for publications focussed on the industry. Beating all doomsdayers, we have survived and so has the bulk of the imaging industry, albeit in a different form. Our digital readers are now a multiple of print readers. Having said that,…

WE ARE GLUED TO THE GLOBAL IMAGING INDUSTRY Our team is updated with all the benchmarks and road blocks that the field of photography and imaging across the globe experiences. This helps us record the changes in the global perspective, thus making us the first to predict which products will be a rage in the Indian markets. WE’RE IMPARTIAL Loyalty towards our readers is a given, and their best interests are always on our mind. Every verdict is honest and not influenced by advertisers or personal favourites. So when we say a product is a ‘BEST BUY’, then, it is just that! OUR TESTS ARE CONDUCTED BY EXPERTS All equipment go through a series of tests at the hands of our experts. Our reviewers are experts in the field of…

Write to us at: Smart Photography, Next Gen Publishing Pvt. Ltd., 608, Trade World, 6th floor, C wing, Kamala Mills Compound, Senapati Bapat Marg, Lower Parel (W), Mumbai - 400 013 E-mail: sp@nextgenpublishing.net Get the creative juices flowing Dear Editor, As you had rightly pointed out in the latest issue, the pandemic did a lot of damage to our physical and mental well-being. A lot of people have indeed been going through depression and this is perhaps the time to turn to your hobbies or learn new skills and get the creative juices flowing. We all look forward to leaving these difficult times behind us and embrace the beauty that life has to offer. Regards, Shweta Dahiya Looking forward to the next issue Dear SP, The latest issue and the cover image were really beautiful. The picture of the two…

Acer Storage has announced a new line of CFexpress Type-B memory cards with read and write speeds of up to 1,600 and 1,200MB/s, respectively. The new Type-B storage cards are designed and manufactured by Biwin Storage Technology, which incorporates its own storage and DRAM memory modules, along with HP-branded hardware. The cards are available in 128GB, 256GB and 512GB capacities. While all variants of the storage cards support a maximum capacity of 1,600MB/s sequential read speeds, the 128GB and 256GB variants support a maximum capacity of 1,000MB/s sequential write speeds and the 512GB variant supports a maximum of 1,200MB/s sequential write speeds. They use a PCIe Gen3x2 interface and offer compatibility with select cameras using XQD card slots. The cards are reported to be UB-guarded, magnet-proof, X-ray proof and anti-static. While…