At 1:10 AM +0200 10/7/04, Willem-Jan Markerink wrote:
Oh well, I never like the large boots anyway, the larger, the more flashy, and the more show & entertainment, the less actual info....Kodak being the worst (their analog-film counters looked like museum-vitrines....:((
The most fun & exciting stuff is always found in the smallest boots, with first-time-exposing manufacturers....:)) -- Bye,
Very true. What makes Photokina really enjoyable are the small booths, like Roundshot/Alpa, Bergger, and Canham. Canham was so small he had a glass display case, a couple of tripods with cameras on them, and Keith Canham to show you his stuff and talk to you in a corner of the Schneider-Kreuznach stand. But it was Keith Canham showing you the Canham DLC, and Werner Seitz showing you the Roundshot models.
Interstingly, at the Hasselblad booth upstairs, Dr. Hubert Nasse of Zeiss (a lens designer) was demonstrating the new Zeiss rangefinder camera and lenses, and ready for discussions on lens design and the role that Zeiss, Cosina and Hasselblad have regarding this camera. Later on I met Dr. Nasse again in the Cosina enclave (not a display booth, as you had to knock on a door and speak the secret code word :-) to get in).
At the Canon display, I got little info, and the only positive was the ability to play with some items I hadn't previously seen.
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