This is a PDF of a PowerPoint presentation delivered at the 2006 Lyra Imaging Symposium. Consumer photographic habits that remained unchanged for nearly a century have been thrown into chaos by digital technology. Photographers long accustomed to a well-defined set of products and services offered by a handful of manufacturers and retailers now face a market packed with a myriad of constantly changing photo devices and services offered by hundreds of manufacturers and retailers. It's chaos out there, and nobody yet knows just what things will look like when photo habits finally settle down, least of all the many companies chasing the one reliably profitable product in the industry, the photo print. What are the dynamics that drive photo printing? How are customers responding to the proliferation of photo-printing options such as paid and unpaid online services and various types of retail photo printing? And how will photo printing be affected by the emergence of a multitude of electronic photo-viewing devices such as the iPod Photo, Epson's photo viewer, camera phones, and even cameras themselves? This presentation by Charles LeCompte, president of Lyra Research, answers these questions in 26 data- and analysis-packed slides.
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