Lou Franco's ECM Imaging Blog

I just noticed this blog entry from picturetom pointing to an interesting study on trends in digital photography available for purchase from InfoTrends.

One of our customers, David Cardinal from ProShooters, fits this bill:

‘Today´s photographers are technologically savvy, as a significant majority is using image editing software and many are using RAW conversion and color management software’, commented Ed Lee, Director at InfoTrends.

‘It´s particularly interesting to note that 83% of professional photographers are using the Web as part of their business and about 30% use an online photo service provider. This suggests that a variety of Web services providers could see future growth opportunities.’

David is a photographer who can code and about a year ago wrote a review on choosing an imaging toolkit (ours) for Dr. Dobb's.

At Pro Shooters (www.proshooters.com), our primary product is DigitalPro for Windows, an image-management system for digital photographers. We sell to serious photographers who have large image libraries and often need to process hundreds or even thousands of images at a time. As a result, we serve a niche market and can only afford a small programming team. That means we need to be more productive than the competition to stay ahead. So, instead of trying to do everything ourselves, we rely on tools such as third-party libraries in areas where we can find excellent tools that don't compromise on quality and features.

David also pushes us to continually expand our RAW support (mostly supporting more and more cameras) -- DotImage 6.0 and the upcoming 6.0b both have support for more cameras than previous releases.