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This article reports on the 2006 Photo Marketing Association Annual Trade Show held in Orlando, Florida, which focused on expanding and profiting from the ecosystem that surrounds digital photography. The ecosystem concept encompasses everything that occurs the moment the shutter snaps, whether that shutter is on a still camera or a camera phone. Photo editing and sharing software announced at the show features the ability to connect to online photograph services or retail Web sites to deliver print orders that are available in-store or mailed home.

The article reports that the annual Photo Marketing Association show on February 26, 2006 in Orlando, Florida will try to appeal the female market. It will play host to about 700 exhibitors and 20,000 attendees, as well as new digital cameras, retail printing solutions, imaging software and accessories. Among the highlights will be the launch of Panasonic's first digital single-lens reflex (SLR), developed in conjunction with Olympus. Sony, in contrast, will keep quiet about its forthcoming digital-SLR, which it had developed in a partnership with Konica Minolta. Ned Bunnell, Pentax marketing manager, predicts that even with the strong growth in the digital SLR market, it will still occupy a small niche in the overall digital photography market through 2009.

This article provides information on the memory cards introduced at the Photo Marketing Association trade show held in Orlando, Florida from February 20 to 23, 2005. Line expansions were the order of the day for flash-memory manufacturers at the trade show. Delkin Devices introduced its own riff on SanDisk's USB-enabled Super Density (SD) cards with its SD-Xtra. The SD card offers a built-in USB 2.0 flash drive. It will be available in 128 megabytes (MB) to 1 gigabyte (GB) capacities. Kingston Technology unveiled six new flash-memory products at the show, including an MMCplus card based on the high-speed Matched Memory Cycle (MMC) card format, MMCplus cards will be available in 256MB, 512MB and 1GB capacities for a suggested $34, $62 and $109, respectively. Lexar Media expanded its Kodak-branded lineup of flash memory cards with the addition of miniSD, Reduced Size MMC (RS-MMC) and MMC-mobile cards. The mobile cards will include adapters allowing them to work with their full-size compatriots. The miniSD cards and RS-MMC cards will ship in March 2005. Panasonic announced an expansion of its high-speed line of SD cards with the addition of a high-speed 256MB of 2MB per second. It will ship in April 2005 for a suggested $44.99. SanDisk added a 2GB card to its Memory Stick PRO Duo line and announced it will offer PRO Duo in its Ultra II line of flash products geared toward higher resolution, higher performance digital cameras.

This article reports on the outcome of the Photo Marketing Association's (PMA) annual trade show which was held in Orlando, Florida in February 2005. In a testament to the blistering pace of change in the new era of digital imaging, the PMA trade show was no longer a forum for heralding the rise, and defending the photographic bona fides, of digital cameras. Instead, it was a venue to tackle three core issues such as how to keep profits healthy as sales of digital cameras slow, how to continue camera innovation to maintain a robust upgrade market, and what to do with all these camera phones. According to the PMA forecast, digital camera sales will grow another 12 percent to reach 20.5 million units in 2005, but sales will reach their peak by the end of 2006 or 2007. Self-service kiosks were particularly prevalent as a lower-cost alternative to a full blown digital minilab, many offered the ability to accept camera phone images through infrared or Bluetooth. Over a dozen companies were promoting digital kiosks to retail accounts not already gobbled up by Kodak and Fujifilm, which combined, have an installation base of roughly 40,000 kiosks in the U.S. Vendors were also hinting at digital imaging's next steps, including integration with wireless networks and camera phones.

Reports the annual trade show and convention of Photo Marketing Association on digital camera in Orlando, Florida. Occurrence of digital cameras in the market; Increase on the investments of digital cameras; Features of digital cameras.

Highlights the annual trade show and convention of the Orange County Convention Center for the Photo Marketing Associations in Orlando, Florida. Expansion of the consumer level PowerShot line from Canon; Availability of FinePix 30i combination digital camera and MP3 player from Fujifilm; Features of the DX4900 from Kodak.

Highlights the annual trade show by the photo Marketing Association in Orlando, Florida. Number of participants expected for the show; Features of the show; Schedule of the event.

Highlights the 2001 Photo Marketing Association trade show and convention in Orlando, Florida. Focus of photo industry on the transition from analog to digital; Partnership between Shutterfly and Best Buy; Launch of digital cameras from Canon; Introduction of 512-megabyte CompactFlash Card from Delkin and SanDisk.

Highlights the trade show of Photo Marketing Associations (PMA) in Orlando, Florida. Showcase of digital cameras and accessories of digicam manufacturers; Features of Megapixel 3 players; Varieties of digital cameras and models.

Highlights the Photo Marketing Association trade show and convention in Orlando, Florida. Showcase of digital imaging products; Success of the photo industry on sales increase of digital camera; Outgrowth of the industry through cross-pollination of computer imaging technologies.

The article presents information on high-resolution scanners and photo printers showcased at the Photo Marketing Association exhibition in Orlando, Florida in March 2006. Canon introduced a 10-ink pigment-based Pro9500 and eight-color, dye-based Pro9000 photo printer. Epson introduced two new high-end flatbed scanners, the Perfection V700 Photo and V750 Pro-m. Hewlett-Packard announced a high-end eight-ink photo printer, the Photosmart Pro B9180 along with a third-generation gray ink in its Vivera line.

The article presents information on the printing options introduced by software vendors at the Photo Marketing Association exhibition in Orlando, Florida in March 2006. Adobe added online backup services for users of its Photoshop and Creative Suite imaging programs. The lineup of ArcSoft includes Scan-n-Stitch Deluxe for scanning oversized artwork and Photo Montage, which can create a single image using hundreds or thousands of digital images. The Spyder2express monitor calibrator for use on cathode ray tube, liquid crystal display and notebook displays has been announced by ColorVision. And Nikon has reached a collaboration agreement with Nik Software to jointly develop and distribute digital photography software and imaging technologies.

Introduces the digital camera from Casio introduced in Orlando, Florida.

Reports the plan of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company to ship 3.3-megapixel ipalm digital cameras in Orlando, Florida. Replacement of the PV-DC3000 by models PV-DC3000-A and PV-DC3010; Schedule for the shipments; Retail prices suggested for the device; Features of ipalm digital cameras.

Features models of digital camcorders/still camcorder presented at the PMA trade show in Orlando, Florida. Addition of three digital camcorders in the ZR series of Canon; Design of the GR-DVP3 miniDV camera from JVC; Accounts on the two miniDV Digital Handycam camcorders developed by Sony Electronics.

Reports the selection of Shutterfly by Best Buy to create and market the online photo center in Orlando, Florida. Online services and information offered in the web site; Importance of the online center in Best Buy commitment to innovative digital services; Impact of services provided by Shutterfly on consumer electronic retailers.