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Lots of camera launches coming up - could it be CP+ show time?
Posted 27-01-12 at 10:59 AM by Ian
I can tell you that there are lots of camera launches coming up early next month. That's because the big annual Japanese CP+ Camera & Photo Imaging Show in Yokohama starts on 9th February and continues through to the 12th.
Some of these new launches are completely embargoed and I can't even reveal who some of the manufacturers are. But Olympus is currently in the middle of a teaser campaign heralding a revival of the Olympu OM film SLR brand, widely believed to be called OM-D. Ricoh/Pentax are launching something, possibly a system camera that is based around a larger sensor than its Q very compact system camera.
In fact we will see more camera launches around CP+ than there were at PMA/CES earlier this month, which suggests that CP+ can now legitimately claim to be the number one annual photo industry trade show now that PMA has declined. Only one other photo trade show is bigger - and by quite a margin, and that is Photokina in Cologne, Germany, but that happens only once every two years.
Some of these new launches are completely embargoed and I can't even reveal who some of the manufacturers are. But Olympus is currently in the middle of a teaser campaign heralding a revival of the Olympu OM film SLR brand, widely believed to be called OM-D. Ricoh/Pentax are launching something, possibly a system camera that is based around a larger sensor than its Q very compact system camera.
In fact we will see more camera launches around CP+ than there were at PMA/CES earlier this month, which suggests that CP+ can now legitimately claim to be the number one annual photo industry trade show now that PMA has declined. Only one other photo trade show is bigger - and by quite a margin, and that is Photokina in Cologne, Germany, but that happens only once every two years.
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So are you visiting Japan?Posted 27-01-12 at 12:48 PM by yoshi 
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Yoshi - I wish I was, but I think the economic situation limits my ambition!
Posted 27-01-12 at 02:33 PM by Ian
