Why New Digicams Fail to Capture the Magic of the Originals | The PetaPixel Podcast
This week on the PetaPixel Podast, Chris Niccolls and Jaron Schneider are joined by Gordon Laing and Sarah Teng for a discussion on the explosive popularity of digicams and why no matter how hard they might try, modern companies can’t fully recapture the magic of the point-and-shoot cameras from 10+ years ago.
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In This Episode:
- 00:00 – Intro w/ Gordon Laing and Sarah Teng
- 09:27 – The FX5 delay might be related to an LCD issue
- 17:22 – DJI sells more cameras than all Japanese makers combined
- 27:16 – The ghost of Photokina has returned
- 33:59 – Huawei went so far into the future it came back to the Olympus Air A01
- 36:26 – Canon, Nikon, Sony, and Fujifilm all see the future of photography differently
- 50:57 – The Await is a tiny digicam for those with digital fatigue
- 51:32 – The Portal is a screenless, weather-proof digicam
- 53:34 – The state of digicams and why we’re seeing so many now
- 1:21:47 – Tech Support
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