Camera & Photo Imaging Show CP+2013 World Premiere Connecting the world, expanding the limit of photo imaging Announcement

The Camera & Imaging Products Association (CIPA) (JCII Bldg. 25, Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Japan; President: Makoto Kimura) will hold the CP+2013 Camera & Imaging Show from January 31 (Thursday) to February 3 (Sunday), 2013, at the PACIFICO YOKOHAMA.

The history of CP+ stretches back more than 50 years, tracing its origins to the first Japan Camera Show. This year marks the fourth year since the venue moved to Yokohama, a bustling international hub and one of the largest cities in Japan. CP+ has grown into one of the largest comprehensive camera and imaging shows in Asia. Every year more families and women come, as well as business users, and the 2012 event was attended by 65,000 people and enabled the world premiere of 55 cameras. There are expected to be even more such announcements at CP+2013.

Japan is an international leader in the photography and imaging business. Japanese manufacturers command approximately 80% of the global market for digital cameras, and more than 99% of the market for interchangeable lens type digital cameras. Taking advantage of Japan’s position as the center of the photo and imaging industry, CP+ acts as a launch pad for presenting the world with the latest information on a wide range of areas in the industry, from the initial input of data to its final output.

This marks the third year for Photo Yokohama, an event put on by Yokohama City that merges industry and culture through photography. And the event grows even larger this year. This time around, especially, will see citywide involvement with CP+ and Photo Yokohama, in large part through coordination with the Yokohama Museum of Art’s “Two Photographers: Robert Capa Centennial/Gerda Taro Retrospective” exhibit, and the event will continue to accelerate the further development of photo and video culture in the years to come.

As a new development at CP+2013, we will have video-related events and the “Video Area for Professionals”, a new addition where we present a full range of video solutions with a focus on a technology at the center of attention recently, SLR cameras. There will also be a panel discussion and exhibition commemorating 30 years of the Camera Grand Prix.

Through a variety of events such as photo exhibitions and product exhibits that allow visitors to experience the fun of “communicating and connecting” through photographs, the event will also be a 4-day opportunity for the many wonders of photography and video related to industry and culture to come together.