On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 03:06:18PM -0800, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > Macworld Expo is going on and I hear a lot of WOW this and that on the > news and on line. I was in SF yesterday. Did a bit of gallery visiting. > Visited the Macworld exhibition too.
I stopped off at Macworld today. > Saw tons of people wandering around with massive DSLRs and big lenses > hung from their necks, as well as big bag or backpack stuffed full of > photo gear. I didn't see many pictures being taken, and I have to say > that I wonder what the point of carrying 20 pounds of expensive camera > gear around a show floor for several hours might be unless you're using > it to make photographs. WOW. That's why I left my cameras at home. The K10D/BG2/16-50 is no lightweight. I did see a lot of people actually using their heavy cameras, though. > I played with the Nikon D700 and D300 again at the Nikon booth. Nice ... > solid, professional quality cameras. Good lenses. I didn't bother to pick > up the D3x or D3, I know they're great pieces of equipment. WOW. Yep. Nikon had an awful lot of good stuff on display. As did Canon, at their booth. One surprise was a booth for Samy's camera! I even saw a Pentax (K20D) at one of the booths; that was what the Lensbaby folks were using to show off their toys. > My meander through the show was as it usually goes nowadays. I wander > the edges of the exhibition space looking at the small booths and > talking to people. The usual suspects were there, I picked up a couple > of pieces of literature, talked to a few old friends and colleagues. It > was a good show. I wasn't that thrilled - at times it seemed like half the booths were trying to sell me fancy cases of some kind (even some camera bags), and a large chunk of the rest were selling RAID servers (Buffalo, Lacie, Drobo, and a whole slew of Pacific Rim companies - everything from USB-powered boxes to multi-terabyte high-bandwidth video servers). -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
