PMA '09

As you probably know, the PMA (Photo Marketing Association) convention, the biggest photo industry trade show in the U.S., gets underway in Las Vegas tomorrow.

Most show announcements, of course, take place neither at the show nor during it, but in advance of it. The story of this year's show can pretty much be told by this clip from dpreview's New Product Index:

There have been a few new lenses (all of which we've reported on), and of course the Olympus E-620. Otherwise, it's pretty much consumer digicams, all the way down.*

Mike

*It's a joke that David Vestal likes: a little boy is asked what holds the world up. "A strong man holds the world on his shoulders." But what's the giant standing on? "He's standing on the back of an elephant." And what's the elephant standing on? "On the back of a giant turtle." When asked what the giant turtle is standing on, the little boy thinks for a minute, and then says, "It's just turtles, all the way down."

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Comments

[Mrten]

Turtles and elephants, like the Terry Pratchett's Discworld...

[Ken White]

The Samsung NX series looks interesting. Larger sensor than the G1. Pentax lens mount?

[Martin Doonan]

I'm hoping there's a fixed lens camera in the NX series or that it'll have a wide-ish pancake available.
Owning a Samsung camera (albeit a cheap one), I quite like the slightly different approaches they are bringing to the idea of camera design & interface. Their designers seem to actually think about how one might want to use the thing, rather than adding the latest me-too features to a decades-old design base.

[erlik]

Yeah, turtles all the way down to India. :-)

Isn't it so every PMA or Photokina? And then at the fair they jump out with DSLRs or something similar...

And Samsung still persist in their "secrecy". They didn't have any concrete specs when they tried to counter the Panasonic/Olympus MFT announcement last summer, nor they have any concrete specs now. Although they did advance the original schedule for several months. So Pentax K-mount is still the most likely suspect, but beyond that, it's anybody's guess.

BTW, Mike, Wikipedia has something to say about the turtles.

[Robert Noble]

Considering today is Dr. Seuss's birthday, the boy's turtle cosmology is quite apropos: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ag8cy9r2XdE/STmifqweN3I/AAAAAAAACHM/syWOmdxn3hE/s320/51VfPzPD7eL.jpg

(No need to publish this; I just thought of Yertle when I heard the Vestal anecdote.)