The International Imaging Industry Association (I3A) was a

trade association A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific Industry (economics), industry. Through collabor ...

created by the merger of the Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association (PIMA) and the Digital Imaging Group (DIG) in 2001. It served the photographic industry, which included tracking the market size. From 2001 through 2010, I3A also served as the sponsor for

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and

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standards for photography, including the

Picture Transfer Protocol Picture Transfer Protocol (PTP) is a protocol originally developed by the Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association (PIMA) (later known as the International Imaging Industry Association) to allow the transfer of images from digital camer ...

(ISO 15740) as well as consortia standards such as the Internet Imaging Protocol. I3A transferred the sponsorship of ANSI and ISO photographic standards to the

Society for Imaging Science and Technology The Society for Imaging Science and Technology (IS&T) is a professional society (a type of research and education organization) in the field of photography. Founded in 1947 as the Society of Photographic Scientists and Engineers (SPSE), it is head ...

in January 2011, and had been disbanded as of October 2013.

PIMA and NAPM

The Photographic and Imaging Manufacturers Association, or PIMA, was founded in 1946 under the name National Association of Photographic Manufacturers (NAPM). In 1997 the name was changed to PIMA. NAPM and PIMA served as the sponsor for ANSI an
ISO standards for photography
from 1946 until 2001, when NAPM merged with DIG to become I3A.

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