My evening was well spent; reading insightful blogposts across Comm101 should really become a hobby. In particular, I’ve came across Matthew Anderson’s blog, which stands out to me as it touches on a topic close to my heart. As an owner of Nikon DSLR, I was quite unhappy seeing the DSLR market shrinking at the rate at which it is.

First of all, I do agree with what Matthew’s reasoning behind the reason for the industry’s deceleration. Cellphones today are being released with increasingly advanced camera options; and what’s more? Phones these days might actually trump a DSLR, the Nokia 808 pure view having 42 megapixels – twice as much as most DSLRs. It’s evident that more people are buying hand phones with equivalent cameras rather than a large, heavy, digital.

Talking to a friend about his opinions on the matter provided some valuable insights. “A DSLR is more like a musical instrument, unless you know how to properly use one, it’s useless” he said. To him, a small compact camera that would allow him to capture moments with his friends far better; it was more portable and easy to use.

So on analyzing the case, I’d say I agree with Matthew. I believe that for DSLR companies to continue to be profitable, it must use their expertise in cameras and apply it to the Smartphone market.

Link to Matthew’s Blog: https://blogs.ubc.ca/matthewanderson/2013/11/12/dslr-cameras-failing-exposures/

In Shubhankar Rustagi’s article on the government shutdown, I found his take on the issue very interesting as he looked at all the short term causes and effects of the shutdown. Even though the shutdown was short lived, it’s apparent that there have been some lasting impacts across the government. Upon research, I’ve found there are some long term ones as well.

Firstly, most of the projects in NASA were put off, with some of their facilities shutdown even. Even though the government is now up and running, these projects will still take time to restart. Important projects like those to measure the rate at which the ice sheets in the polar caps was melting have been shutdown.

Secondly, I found that they had also shutdown their national parks, which have still not been re-opened. These will be continue to be closed till further notice this means that they will be loosing prime tourism money. If this were to continue they would struggle to re-open with the state budget, which has now been reduced for the national parks. But I do believe that his view on the effect his will have on the global economy and the future of the American economy could not be more accurate.

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