Most Significant New Technology from PMA - NXP's SnapSpot GPS

16:14 EDT - Every year I look for the piece of technology at PMA that'll have the biggest impact on the photography marketplace over the next year or so. This year, that honor goes to NXP Software's "SnapSpot GPS" technology. You heard it here first: Two years from now, a lot of digicams (and even cell phones) will have GPS-based geo-tagging capability built right in!

Every year at PMA, I look for the technology that best gives a glimpse over the horizon at what's coming for the digital camera market in the months and years ahead. This time, I wasn't really seeing much that seemed very revolutionary, and had almost despaired of my search. - Until, that is, I came across NXP Software, and their "SwGPS SnapSpot" technology. This is actually the technology... (More)

Pasini Reports: Wrapping It Up

22:27 EDT - A slide show, our Envy Awards and Highlights wrap up our coverage of PMA 2007

Imaging Resource's PMA coverage set a few new records. We put up 45 videos featuring knowledgeable spokespeople showing off their products, 17 booth reports with 457 images and 2,490 words hosted by Phanfare, 14 daily show reports (nearly 24,000 words) with over 272 shots arranged as both Flash slide shows and HTML galleries, plus 173 news items, many posted by Zig Weidelich, who manned the home front... (More)

Canon Celebrates 20th Anniversary of EOS (UPDATED)

16:36 EDT - The full transcripts of presentations by Canon executives covering the Canon philosophy, history of EOS and the new EOS-D1 Mark III.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Canon EOS (Electro Optical System) camera line, Canon invited about 200 members of the press and industry analysts to a dinner at the Venetian hotel Thursday evening to celebrate. We're pleased to be able to present the full text of the presentations by President and CEO Adachi, Group Executive Iwashita, Vice President Peck and Director of Media and Customer... (More)

Pasini Reports: Fading, But Catching Up

16:44 EDT - Not us, of course, but 4x6 prints. We summarize Wilhelm's findings in our Saturday show report.

Wilhelm's findings are the highlight of our Saturday report (what you buy at the store can affect your print by a factor of just 200 times!), list the DIMA award winners, find a few interesting products and get some pictures of the Kodak all-in-one printers (after playing with Goldeneye). Read our report for the juicy details. We'll close out our Pasini Reports coverage of PMA with a wrap-up after... (More)