The cutbacks in the camera industry continue to roll in as the year gradually ends with Tamron announcing voluntary retirement offers going out to some 40% of its Japanese factory workforce. According to Nikkei, 200 employees in Aomori prefecture were asked to accept a voluntary retirement. Tamron will provide packages to those that accept early […]
Author: Kehl Bayern
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It’s probably not breaking news that 2020 is a pretty tough year for the camera industry. This follows years of declining sales that have some analysts still wondering exactly where the bottom of all of this is. Yet there is some hope as Nikon reported a better-than-expected sales increase of 58% but also higher losses […]
We brought you a story the other day about how a couple used a viral photo featuring themselves as a Christmas card, garnering an invoice from the original photographer. Now the McCloskeys are suing the photographer and are alleging that the photographer was trespassing at the time the photo was taken. Boy, that escalated quickly […]
Depending on the viral photo, being the subject of one could either be a good thing or a bad thing. But when you’re a viral photo that many people tend to view as emblematic of some kind of social division in the United States, well, you have to make the best of it. That’s what […]
Fuji seems to be weathering the pandemic and concurrent economic fallout better than the competition, a new exec explained in a recent interview with Amateur Photographer. European President and Managing Director Toshi Iida sat down with the publication to discuss Fuji, how it has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic, and what Iida thinks of Fuji’s APS-C […]
With all of the endless gear news and other goings-on in the world of photography, it’s really nice to sit back and just see what other people are capturing out there. But it doesn’t mean we particularly envy them, especially when it is some kind of incident with an animal. Truly, wildlife photographers are some […]