10 Best Camera and Video Accessories from PhotoPlus Expo
For those who believe there is life in cameras bigger than a smartphone, PhotoPlus Expo in New York City is the place to be in late October. Several hundred vendors show off all manner of accessories, services, add-ons, filters, tripods, strobes, and gadgets. Some are useful, some not, and some are variations on what we’ve seen before, such as better ways to bounce the light from an electronic flash off the wall or ceiling.
The front of the convention space holds monster booths from Canon, Nikon, Panasonic/Lumix, Pentax, and Sony. There and downstairs at the Javits Center are some 100 seminars (main photo) on taking better photos, processing images, and getting the best from your gear. Some of it even applies to smartphones. Here are 10 goods and services we especially liked from PPE 2018 for big cameras, action cameras such as GoPro, and smartphones.
One aisle of the show targeted virtual reality and AI, targeting what you can do to create immersive photos. On smartphones, it enables face recognition, adjustable background blur (variable f/stop), and 3D images that change as you finger-scroll on your camera, or with a pointing device.
Mark the calendar for the return of PPE, Oct. 24-26, 2019, again at the Javits Center.
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