PMA 2003

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

The annualPMAshow took place this year fromMarch 2-5, 2003in Las Vegas. This was an opportunity for the photographic industry to display its latest offerings — the products that you and I will be buying (or at least coveting) in the months ahead. Other thanPhotokina, which only takes place every 2 years, this istheinternational photographic show.

This report features selected brief product announcement and links as they became available. Most web sites seem to focus on digital developments almost exclusively. Here I tried to cover non-digital products as well. I did not specifically cover the 2,312 new digicam models that were announced, but I gave emphasis to new digital SLRs that appeared.

I attended the show only briefly, on March 3rd and 4th, so most of the information posted here was from online sources.

March 4, 2003 — final reportI spent yesterday afternoon at the PMA show in Las Vegas. I was interesting in reporting on the non-digital products at the show...

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Michael Reichmann is the founder of the Luminous Landscape. Michael passed away in May 2016. Since its inception in 1999 LuLa has become the world's largest site devoted to the art, craft, and technology of photography. Each month more than one million people from every country on the globe visit LuLa.

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