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Is the Point and Shoot Camera Dead?

With the increasing quality of photos taken on camera phones, is there still a place in the market for point and shoot cameras?

About 10 years ago, I bought a Canon PowerShot digital camera. It was heavy, it took up my entire pocket and the 32MB memory card it came with meant it did not have the capacity for many pictures. The performance was slow, the flash was awful and the zoom was even worse. I loved it. I carried that camera with me everywhere for years. Sure, it was only two megapixels, but that was basically cutting edge for point and shoot cameras at the time, and leaps and bounds better than any cell phone. Things have changed since then. As iPhones and phones like it become more commonplace, and the cameras on those phones become increasingly higher quality, the consumer's need for the additional weight of a digital camera continues to diminish. The New …

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Photographer Captures 366 Days in 366 Images

Stephen Levin, an instructor in Northwestern's Kapnick Business Institutions Program, is midway through a project to take one photograph every day for a year.

A close-up shot of the bright pink wheel on a bicycle. A skateboarder in black and white, clowning for the camera. A lonely looking house, apparently in the middle of nowhere. A little boy, breaking into a toothy grin.  For the past 160 days, Stephen Levin has taken a photograph every single day.  He’ll keep up the pace for the next 206.  “I carry my camera with me pretty much everywhere,” he says. “You never know when you’re going to find something.”  Levin, 61, is midway through a project to take one picture every day for a year. A lecturer in Northwestern University's Kapnick Business Institutions Program, Levin hasn’t missed a day yet. He came up with the project as a creative exercise for himself, and as a test of discipline.  “That …

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Jannatul Ferdous

1:18 am on Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Really so nice photography and also like your passion in photography.   more ›