Digital Photography Tips and Techniques

Canon consumer imaging group has just launched a sweepstakes promotion event called “Win Maria’s Diamonds”. By entering (limit one entry per person per day) between August 20, 2008 to October 20, 2008, you could one one of five diamond-studded Canon PowerShot SD1100 IS Digital ELPH Cameras, valued at $8,500 each.

Maria Sharapova, a well known women’s tennis star, has won the Wimbledon in 2004, U.S. Open in 2006, and Australian Open in 2008. She entered a contract as Canon’s global brand representative with Canon providing sponsorship through 2010. She has appeared in many Canon ads with the slogan “Make every shot a powershot”.

According to Nikon’s just released financial data, Nikon sold 820,000 units of digital SLR cameras in the first quarter of fiscal 2009 (April 1, 2008 - June 30, 2008), and expects to ship total of 3.3 million units in the Fiscal year 2009 ending March 2009. Read More…

Antonio Perez, CEO of Eastman Kodak, warned that Kodak is to raise its prices for digital cameras, printers and other consumer products by as much as 20% over the coming month because of soaring raw material costs. The entire industry would have to increase prices “without any doubt” as commodity costs would remain high for years owing to high demand in emerging economies. “Everyone has the same problem,” he said.

Without doubt, Kodak is in greater pressure than others since it is balance sheet is still in red. However this might still be happening. If so, the fancy digital camera that you have been drooling over may become suddenly more expensive soon. Another reason to convince yourself you need to buy it now?