photokina

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photokina

Branch Digital media and entertainment
Place of issue Cologne Fair
Website www.photokina.de
Last exhibition
date 26 Sep 2018 to
Sep 29 2018
Place of issue Cologne Fair
Visitors 180,000
Exhibitors 812
Next exhibition
date May 18, 2022 to
May 21, 2022
Place of issue Cologne Fair

The photokina (subtitle: Imaging Unlimited ) is the world's leading trade fair for the photo, video and imaging industry. It was carried out every two years in autumn until 2018. From 2020 it should take place annually in May in Cologne . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the date has been postponed from May 2020 to May 2022. The organizer is Koelnmesse GmbH , the ideal sponsor of the Photoindustrie-Verband e. V.

On the photokina 2018 812 companies, of which 69 percent came from abroad, their products and services presented. Around 180,000 visitors from 127 countries came.

history

The first photokina was held in 1950 on the initiative of the President of the Photo Association , Bruno Uhl . So-called picture shows , which were organized by Leo Fritz Gruber until 1980, are held as a supporting program .

While photokina only took place at irregular intervals in its early years, the organizers decided in 1966 to consistently hold it every two years, in autumn. In 1974, photokina became a trade fair, which was accompanied by a first drop in visitors compared to the previous year: while the trade fair recorded more than 250,000 visitors in 1972, two years later there were only 95,000 professionals, of which, however, a significantly higher proportion were foreign guests . The increasing internationalization of photokina prompted the organizers to change the subtitle (which until then was either “World Fair for Images”, “World Fair for Photography” or “World Fair for Image - Sound - Professional Media”) from German to English. From 2002 to 2014, photokina was subtitled “World of Imaging”. Since 2016 the subtitle has been "Imaging Unlimited". Since 1988 amateurs have had access to the fair again.

From 1982 to 1998 the "German Camera Prize Cologne" was awarded for special camera work in film and television productions at photokina. In 1988 the Photo Industry Association initiated the “largest picture show in the world”, which stretched 1,300 meters from the exhibition halls to the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and entered the Guinness Book of Records .

Since 2008, the city of Cologne and photokina have been organizing photo workshops, shootings, exhibitions and other events aimed at locals in cooperation with Cologne-based companies and institutions. In 2016, "Cologne photographed" was renamed "PROLOGUE by photokina" as part of the new brand identity.

The realignment was announced in 2018, the date shifted to spring with annual implementation. However, the premiere of the realignment was then canceled and postponed to 2020. Industry giants such as Nikon, Leica and Olympus have also canceled 2020. Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic , the trade fair from May 27th to May 30th, 2020 was canceled and is scheduled to take place from May 18th to 21st, 2022.

meaning

Exhibition hall at photokina 2018
Lecture on travel photography at photokina 2018
photokina 2004
photokina 1954
Kazuto Yamaki (Sigma), Andreas Kaufmann (Leica Camera) and Junichiro Kitagawa (Panasonic) after the L-bayonet alliance was announced on September 25, 2018

The photokina is used by the photo industry to present new products and services. The public can get information at the exhibition stands, try out cameras, make contacts, attend lectures and photo exhibitions and track down new " trends ". The following product lines are addressed:

  • Consumer Imaging: Photo and video cameras, camera accessories, films and digital storage media, digital image processing, home printing, picture kiosk systems, mobile imaging, home cinema, slide technology and accessories, frames and albums, merchandise, imaging services;
  • Professional imaging: Professional camera and lighting systems, photo studio equipment, digital imaging and publishing, large format printing, large and mini laboratories, consumables, photofinishing, imaging services, data and video projectors, interactive presentation systems, professional video and audio technology, control technology and networks, AV services.

The photokina also serves as a framework for the presentation of various awards and prizes , e.g. B. the German Camera Award .

new hits

Technically innovative products were often presented or introduced at photokina, such as:

1982: Camera system with disc film Kodak Disc
2004: Digital camera back for Leica R analog single-lens reflex camera
2008: Mirrorless System Camera Panasonic LUMIX DMC-G1 of the digital camera system Micro Four Thirds
2008:Specification for the storage and exchange of metadata of the Metadata Working Group
2008:Video-capable, digital SLR camera Nikon D90
2008:Finepix Real 3D System from Fujifilm
2012:Video camera with 35 mm full-frame sensor and interchangeable lenses Sony Handycam NEX-VG900
2012:Mirrorless digital compact camera with full-frame sensor Sony Cyber-shot DSC-RX1
2012:High-resolution digital cameras Sigma DP1 Merrill and DP2 Merrill with Foveon X3 sensor
2016:System camera housing GH5 from the manufacturer Panasonic with 6k photo function, 4k photo function with 60 frames per second and video recordings with a bit depth of 10 bits at 30 frames per second
2016:Mirrorless camera system in medium format GFX from the manufacturer Fujifilm
2016:The first system camera housing Yi M1 developed by a Chinese manufacturer ( Xiaomi )
2018 Nikon presents full format mirrorless system cameras Nikon Z6 and Nikon Z7 and the new Z-bayonet
2018 Canon presents its first full-frame mirrorless system camera Canon EOS R with the new RF bayonet
2018 Panasonic announces the date brightest zoom lens for a digital camera system with the focal length range from 10 to 25 millimeters and continuous light intensity 1.7 for the Micro Four Thirds System at
2018 With the weatherproof Fujinon XF 33mm f / 1.0 R WR with X-bayonet, Fujifilm announces the brightest lens with autofocus

literature

  • Highlights of photography. 30 years of photokina picture shows. The imaginary photo museum. Film as art and document. 1980, ISBN 3-7616-0559-5 .
  • Hans Geifes (Ed.): Master photos of photokina. Bachem, Cologne 1966, DNB 457804548 . (Cologne photokina 1966)
  • Leo Fritz Gruber (Ed.): Master photos of photokina. Bachem, Cologne 1968, DNB 457804556 . (Cologne photokina 1968)
  • Jörn Glasenapp : German Post-War Photography: A History of Mentalities in Pictures . Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-7705-4617-6 , pp. 148-160.

Web links

Commons : Photokina  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The world's leading trade fair for photo, video and imaging is repositioning itself
  2. ↑ Koelnmesse press release: No trade fairs will take place until the end of June 2020. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ photokina 2018: Impressive pictures from Cologne. Photokina press release from September 29, 2018. Accessed September 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ a b c History of photokina. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 29, 2016 ; accessed on September 1, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.photoindustrie-verband.de
  5. ↑ New concept, new campaign. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
  6. ↑ photokina 2019 canceled: Applause and criticism. December 19, 2018, accessed November 17, 2019 .
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  8. ↑ photokina 2020 is canceled , photokina press release, accessed on April 1, 2020
  9. ↑ Digital all-round photography - Neue Sicht , test.de , accessed online on October 1, 2012.
  10. ↑ Isa von Bismarck-Osten: Mirror, mirror ... - Part 7: The revolution of digitized mirrors , manager-magazin.de, accessed online on September 24, 2012.
  11. ↑ a b "Photokina 2008" - A compact camera with interchangeable lenses , faz.net, accessed online on September 24, 2012.
  12. ↑ Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D System ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , prophoto 7/2009, accessed online on April 12, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.prophoto-online.de
  13. ↑ Photo and video trends: Big chip, small camera , test.de, October 21, 2010, accessed on September 10, 2014.
  14. ↑ photokina 2012 - Trends from the photo fair , test.de , accessed online on September 24, 2012.
  15. ↑ Panasonic Lumix DMC-CM1 - sophisticated combination of smartphone and camera presented , cnet, accessed on September 24, 2014.
  16. ↑ Photokina novelty: New Olympus top model OM-D E-M1 MkII , Pictures - Das Foto-Magazin, September 20, 2016, accessed on March 16, 2017
  17. ↑ Mark Göpferich: Officially: Panasonic GH5 announced photokina 2016 , Photografix, September 19, 2016, accessed on March 16, 2017
  18. ↑ Dan Chung: Photokina 2016: Fujifilm GFX 50S medium format camera will have video but no 4K , Newsshooter.com, September 21, 2016, accessed March 16, 2017
  19. ↑ Martin Vieten: Mirrorless system camera Yi M1: The Chinese are coming , photoscala, September 23, 2016, accessed on March 16, 2017
  20. ↑ Leica, Panasonic and Sigma with a common bayonet , golem.de from September 25, 2018, accessed on September 30, 2018
  21. ↑ a b c The full-format show - These are the camera highlights at Photokina , t-online.de on September 28, 2018, accessed on September 30, 2018
  22. ↑ a b Panasonic Develops Two Models of Its First Full-Frame Mirrorless Camera , Businesswire.com, September 25, 2018, accessed September 30, 2018
  23. ↑ c't photography: Nikon Z6 and Z7: Mirrorless system cameras with full-format sensors. Retrieved on August 23, 2018 (German).
  24. ↑ a b James Artaius: 5 fastest lenses at Photokina , Digital Camera World from September 28, 2018, accessed on September 30, 2018