Digital Changes In The Photography Industry

Quality camera manufacturers consisted of a few companies including Nikon, Canon, Olympus and Pentax. Digital photography has allowed electronic companies like Sony, Panasonic and Casio, to become top sellers of quality digital cameras. On the other hand, companies like Minolta, have either been taken over or shut the doors.

Digital photography has replaced instant cameras like Polaroid cameras. Where there was once a professional line of instant cameras for the photography industry, these have now been replaced by digital cameras.

Digital photography now meets the need for instant feedback, without the cost of Polaroid instant film. If you search hard, you can still find instant film, but you will really need to find that needle in a haystack of digital cameras.

Once digital cameras began to outsell film cameras, Kodak began to close down factories. Together with Fuji, they found themselves facing a much lower demand for many higher end films and recently, Kodak announced an end to the production of the much loved Kodachrome slide film.

Some of the old photography masters, must be spinning in their graves.

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