Last summer, B&H Photo hosted a relatively small camera industry trade show and exposition in New York, testing the waters for the viability of in-person shows after the collapse of Photo Plus. It went so well, that the retailer is doubling its efforts for the follow-up next year.
Aiming to fill the enormous void left by the defunct PhotoPlus Expo that used to take place annually in New York City, B&H is presenting the inaugural Bild Expo at the famed Javits Center in New York City on September 6 and 7.
CP+, Japan's largest photography trade show, has canceled its in-person event for the second straight year due to the coronavirus pandemic. The show will move to be fully online.
The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show that was scheduled to take place in October has been canceled. This follows Sony, Canon, and Panasonic's choice to pull out due to concerns over the coronavirus pandemic.
Panasonic and Canon have announced that neither will be attending NAB this fall as previously planned, joining Sony in pulling out of trade show commitments due to concerns over the spread of COVID-19.
PhotoPlus has announced that its in-person event has been canceled for the second straight year amid travel restrictions and concerns over the continuing spread of COVID-19.
Sony has announced that it has scrapped plans to attend the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) conference as well as InfoComm in-person. The company specified that it did plan to coordinate with NAB digitally, however.
Just one week after Sony joined WPPI's list of exhibitors for this year's 2021 show, the company has announced that it will not be attending this year. The move caps widespread concern from would-be attendees and reports of multiple speakers and instructors canceling plans to attend.
Over the last few years, CP+ in Japan has grown in importance and significance in the camera industry. Unfortunately, this year's show -- which was planned to be in-person -- went fully digital due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Still, the show seems to have done surprisingly well.
The Wedding and Portrait Photographers International Trade Show (WPPI) is one of the more popular photography shows and educational seminars in the United States. Normally held around late February or early March, the show has announced it is shifting its show dates to August as a COVID-19 precaution.
The organizers of CP+, Camera and Photo Imaging Show, have announced that the largest and most prominent trade show for photography in Japan will be going online-only in 2021.
After 70 years of holding its leading photographic trade show in Cologne, Germany, Photokina may be no more. The world's largest photo trade fair has announced that due to a "massive decline in markets for imaging products," it will be discontinued indefinitely.
The PhotoPlus Expo in New York City won't take place until late October, but companies are already deciding whether or not to commit to going. First up: Olympus, who has officially pulled out of this year's show because of the ongoing pandemic.
The organizers of Photokina 2020 have finally announced what we expected all along: the 2020 trade show has been cancelled due to public health concerns surrounding the novel coronavirus. The show will not take place again until May 2022.
The Photography Show, the biggest photography trade show in the UK, just announced at the last minute that it will be postponing this year's event to September as a safety precaution in light of the coronavirus outbreak.
PetaPixel has learned that the CP+ 2020 expo in Japan—one of the largest photo industry trade shows in the world—has been cancelled due to fears over the recent coronavirus outbreak. An official announcement from the show is expected shortly. (UPDATE: Confirmed)
Last week, Fuji Rumors reported that Fujifilm would not be attending Photokina 2020, but the report cited no official sources and neither Photokina nor Fujifilm had made any such announcement. Over the past week, PetaPixel was able to confirm this information with official sources from both Photokina and Fujifilm.
Photokina is still the world's leading imaging expo, but changes to its structure and a struggling industry may be pushing participants away. In a press release published to the expo's website, the trade show's organizer Koelnmesse revealed that Nikon, Leica and Olympus have all chosen to skip Photokina 2020.
Photokina announced in 2017 that starting in 2018, the previously biennial photography trade fair -- the largest in the world -- would become an annual event. The event is also moving from September to May. Since May 2019 is only just over 7 months after the latest show in September 2018, the organizers have decided to cancel the 2019 show and start the new schedule in 2020.
A couple of new photographs of the Olympus XZ-10 high-end compact camera have leaked, revealing that the camera will look pretty similar to the current XZ-2.