Columns By George Schaub

Selective Focus: AI Redux—Once Part of the Game, Soon “The Game?”

This column marks the one-year anniversary of my first foray into the AI realms in this journal. Much has transpired since. Over the last...
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Selective Focus: The Web Landscape—The World of Photo Blogs

In the last few years, we’ve witnessed the not so gradual diminution and dissolution of printed pro, amateur and trade photography magazines in the...
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Selective Focus: The Content Creator Market

Every few years a new catchword sums up the marketing direction of the industry. Today’s catchword(s) is, no surprise, “content creator.” These days the...
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Pelican 1595 Air Case Launches

Torrance, CA—Pelican Products, Inc., introduced the Pelican 1595 Air case. This just-announced case offers a new size that is larger than the 1535 Air...
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Selective Focus: Artificial Intelligence and the Photo Industry

There’s no question that some aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) offer, in both camera capture and software processing, enhanced creativity that can drive deeper...
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Selective Focus: A Corner Turned—Looking Back at What Was to Come

As it was a rainy day, I took some time sifting through old hard drives before they died to see what sat within. Looking...
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Selective Focus: Support for the Photo Arts = Growth in the Photo Industry

There’s lots of talk about how to grow the photo industry. While there are a few observations I’d like to share on that front,...
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Selective Focus: Welcome to the New Normal

Everybody’s chattering about a new normal. Climate change; the shift from commuting to working remotely; and the elephant in the room, the effect of...
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In Search of an Imaging Trade Show

The photo and imaging trade show has fallen off the calendar. This was driven mainly by postponements and cancellations caused by the pandemic and...
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Selective Focus: Restart. Some Thoughts on the Post-Pandemic Photo Industry

It would be an easy write to go over what brought us to this state, one where camera shipments are down 50% from last...
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Selective Focus: Weathering the Storm: The Third Wave

Anyone who’s been in the neighborhood since the turn of the century has some perspective on the major disruptions that have rocked the photo...
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Selective Focus: The Industry and the Coronavirus . . . and the Cancellation of...

While the subject of this column was to be the transformation of photokina in its 2020 manifestation, those considerations are moot. According to a...
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Selective Focus: Let the Games Begin—The Photo Industry at the Summer Olympics

When Olympic athletes from around the world race around the track this summer, you can rest assured that every millisecond will be captured using...
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Selective Focus: The Industry and the Amateur

During lunch one day this summer, I took a break from the dreary news shows to catch a few innings of the Little League...
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Selective Focus: The Test of Time—Prints from Digital Files

The industry offers many “venues” for customers to turn binary code (read digital files) into real live photos they can have and hold. They...
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Selective Focus: RIP DSLR?

With the flurry of mirrorless and the dearth of DSLR introductions in the past few months, one might rush to judgment and deem the...
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Selective Focus: Turning Point—Megapixels, Formats and the Need for Speed

There’s no question that 2018 saw a turning point in camera build and technology, with EVF models making a run at DSLR dominance. Thanks to...
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Selective Focus: 2019—The Year of the Lens

Judging from the lens introductions at photokina, and those already in the pipeline, consumers have some tough, though plentiful, choices to make when it...
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2018 photokina: A “Map” of Today’s Imaging World

The World’s Fair of Imaging, photokina, has gotten a makeover—one that expands what it means to participate in the imaging industry. At the same...
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2018 photokina: A “Map” of Today’s Imaging World

The World’s Fair of Imaging, photokina, has gotten a makeover—one that expands what it means to participate in the imaging industry. At the same...

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