thanks, Dave. For those interested, I was at Photoplus in NY in a little more depth today. (I was bad and snuck in yesterday afternoon after a failed attempt at visiting B&H) BTW, I didn't hear about the "pro services" mentioned elsewhere on this mailing list, so didn't ask about them. And no info was volunteered at the show to me, although I must admit I didn't look at picking up any brochures.
Quick notes about camera manufacturers and trade show booths in general (none of which my hub and I are qualified to speak on). Quick because all I did was briefly pass by most of them. - canon and nikon booths were mobbed. Walking through the nikon booth I did notice that cameras were out on display "Best Buy style" - tied down with cables. Also in the nikon booth, and the reason I walked through it, was a setup of black mannequins wearing colourful masks. Nikon was holding classes on their image software in part of their booth. I ignored canon not because I hate them or anything, but it was a busy day and I just didn't have the time to give them any attention. I only stopped by nikon because they had sent me a postcard about a free calendar. - the only other camera booths that come to mind - leaf (whose booth consisted of a gorgeous redheaded model sitting in a red armchair), and sony alpha, whose booth was mobbed after some sort of dog model showed up and started posing. This sort of tactic drew photographers with all brands of camera in to photograph, as well as allowing people to use the booth cameras on something other than each other. - compare and contrast - pentax booth. As I mentioned previously, I was quite happy with pentax's booth yesterday. This is because I already own their camera. I went right in and got my questions answered. Pentax's cameras were in display counters and you had to ask a rep if you wanted to touch them. As far as I could tell, there was nothing interesting to photograph except for the reps and other attendees (aside from a basket of flowers on the other end of the booth). Hub also commented that the counters were on the inside edge of the large-sized booth - meaning you would actually have to "enter" the booth to view the merchandise. The theatre (pictured on my flickr site) today was apparently showing the same exhibit over and over (this is from my husband who walked by 4 or 5 times) - some guy showing his photos which were taken with pentax cameras. There was also no "schedule of events" so that people could plan their time around showing up to something. Final comment: pentax ads were splashed across quite a lot of the front entry doors into the javits center. The square red sort with the text. On 10/20/07, David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The second shot is interesting. > > Dave > > On 10/20/07, skye pdml <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/skye/tags/pentaxian/ > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
