The cooler part is that these bigger-than-life prints were made on Canon printers! These images look good as photos of photos in my shot above you should have seen them in person! See the guy I left in for scale? See the tiny placards next to each image? THose are normal sized placards the prints are about ten feet tall.ĥD is long overdue for replacement, but since myĥD gives sharper results than my Nikon D3 I love They had humongous prints shot on the 1Ds Mk III, which looked great. They merged with Schneider in 1985.Ĭanon had the most impressive images at the show. Otherwise, The best cameras out there are still the 2005-vintage Canon 5D, and last year's Nikon D3 and D300.ī+W was happily celebrating over 60 years of making filters in Germany. The most exciting thing was a totally new fisheye from Sunex, a specialist in fisheyes for automotive and industrial applications.

The Rebel and D60 are important to the bottom lines of Canon and Nikon so they can afford to make the fun stuff for us photographers, but the D60 and XSi themselves are boring. Nikon's biggest thing is the forgettable D60 and interesting 24mm tilt-shift lens, and Canon re-did the world's largest-selling SLR, the Digital Rebel. There weren't even any naked girls, as Samsung had last year. Maybe this means that digital is starting to mature. Fuji had a bigger booth than Canon on the other side of this aisle. Nikon did show a new 24mm PC lens, but since Canon has made the same thing for years, I wasn't overly excited by it. Sorry, but the newest Nikon cameras of interest (D3 and D300) were last year's news. The mot interesting new lens I saw is the Sunex 5.6mm fisheye, and the most interesting camera is the Fuji folding 6x7cm rangefinder prototype. If it doesn't come out at this show, it won't come out until August 20th. In 2004, Nikon announced the D70 at PMA, and so on and so on. In 2007, the 1D Mk III was introduced there. This is the annual show at which all the new cameras for spring are introduced. Rows of T-shirt imprinting machines and photo envelopes.

You and I find interesting, and rows and rows and Show has a couple of huge booths from the people Stores much more money than cameras: frames, processingĮquipment, photo-imprinted mugs and keychains. Of the show is the boring stuff that actually makes Its annual to-the-trade-only show is attended byĬamera store owners and workers. Is the trade group that represents camera stores. PMA 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. Home Search Gallery How-To Books Links Workshops About ContactĪdding to this site when you get yours from those

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