Margaret Brown, technical editor with Photo Review Australia magazine and website and the most active camera and accessories reviewer in Australia by a country mile,… Read more
Posts published in “Opinion”
Editorial, Issue 155: Time for a change
We’ve closed our Readers Poll on what manner of annual photo show readers would prefer, with a clear majority of votes - 59 percent -… Read more
Fujifilm’s gift to photo specialists
A corporation can be dominant in an industry without demonstrating any real leadership. But everyone wins when a dominant company puts resources into growing the… Read more
A troubling Choice
‘Choice’ has recently tumbled on to the fact that there are local distributors playing a role in the global supply chain, and thus Australian pricing.… Read more
Gaps in the market
The contribution below is from a (soon to depart) member of the photo industry addressing discrepancies in the pricing of enthusiast cameras available to different… Read more
IDEA delivers great PHOTO show
The Digital Show held in Melbourne last weekend was a stunning reaffirmation of the photographic industry as a discrete retailing category. The other side of… Read more
The Great Divide
Earlier this week Facebook announced its acquisition of smartphone-based photo sharing website Instagram for a cool $1 billion. Instagram has grown dramatically over its short… Read more
Comparing Apples with oranges
Apple has announced it has sold three million units of its New iPad since last Friday. This has been characterised by Apple as ‘the strongest… Read more
Pricing transparency changes the game
This contribution came originally as a reader’s comment on local pricing from Peter Michael, following last week’s interview with Canon Australia’s Darren Ryan. He has… Read more
Editorial: March 15 - not feeling the love
I’ve been listening to the two sides of politics over the past 48 hours claiming they are respectively the true Bestest Best Friends of small… Read more