Thanks for that, Jostein. I seem to have missed your snow crystals pics; could you post a link, please?
A crappy photo of a penguin printed at 1x1 meters is still a crappy photo of a penguin. I still maintain that you have some great penguin pics, no matter what size you print em or what camera you took them with. Cheers, —M. \/\/o/\/\ --> http://WorldOfMiserere.com http://EnticingTheLight.com A Quest for Photographic Enlightenment On 16 January 2011 15:34, AlunFoto <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi gang, > > I spent this week-end at the booth of BioFoto (www.biofoto.no), at the > Norwegian Photo Expo (http://www.fotomessen.com), with the occasional > excursion around the hall to get some general impressions. If you have > no interest in stuff like this, here's the point to stop reading. > > About a quarter of the expo was dedicated to photo exhibitions. > Margaret de Lange and Frans Lanting both had a big presence, and for > the rest there were Norwegian photographers of more and less interest. > BioFoto had a corner to themselves, where I was allowed to put up a > few of my Antarctica pictures and a couple of snow crystals. My > original idea was to fill the space entirely with Antarctica and South > Georgia pics, but I'm glad I diversified. The snow crystals attracted > far more attention than the others. Mostly down to their uniqueness in > the exhibition, I think. Just a few plaster walls away, Pål Hermansen > had a broad wall full of emperor penguin shots; made with a digital > Hassy and printed in 1x1 meter and upwards. Fat chance to compete with > that... :-) A breath of fresh air in the exhibition was also the wall > with shots from the students at BILDER - Nordic School of Photography. > Very different, very diverse, and full of youthful energy. A lot > funnier to watch than both de Lange and Lanting, IMHO. > > The Norwegian market is small, but with proportionally many strong > buyers, so it may yet have some relevance for trends in larger > countries' markets. There were both photographic and photo-related > businesses present. Print shops, software vendors, and photo gear > peddlers and distributors. Nikon had a big section with lots of > competent gear people, skillful photographers and loads of gear to try > out. Same thing with Canon, Elinchrome and a few other brands. Sony's > stand was mostly for show, but sported a fair selection of photo gear > nonetheless. Samsung had a huge section with nearly nothing in it. > Leica was relegated to a modest corner, together with Tokina and > Tamrac and some chinese brand of tripod I've never heard of before. > Olympus had no presence at all. > > Pentax was represented by the former Norwegian distributor Fovi, the > chain store JapanPhoto, and the current distributor Focus Trading. The > former had a small booth with loads of gear for sale. The latter had a > chunk of floor the size of Sony and Samsung together, promoting a long > list of brands, including Zeiss, Panasonic, Pentax and Tamron. Pentax > had a modest representation with two 645D and a couple of lenses, some > K-x, K-r, K-5 and compacts, and a selection of the K-mount lens > lineup. Nothing could be bought over the counter, however. Every sale > was referred to either JapanPhoto or Fovi. Fovi also had a 645D > available for fondling. JapanPhoto, however, pushed Mamiya's 33 Mpx > alternative at a very aggressive price. Neither sold a single MedF > camera through the whole expo. > > Not even to me. :-) > > But both the K-5 and the 645D attracted a fair amount of attention, > and have apparently earned the respect of both Nikon and Canon > peddlers. > > > Jostein > > > > -- > http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ > http://alunfoto.blogspot.com > > -- > 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. > -- 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.
