All work, no play (maybe a little)
Comments(0) Photokina was great but I won’t be writing much about that. You’ll be able to read and see everything on e-Fotografija anyway. For now all I have for you is this… it was a bittersweet dissapointment on one hand and an exciting glimpse into the near future (and past) on the other.
We didn’t get all that we hoped for as far as cameras go but several companies served us some very interesting products to drool over. I’m actually tempted to switch to Pentax K10D with an assortment of their sweet pancake limited series lenses (21, 40, 70).
The Seitz 6×17 and Seitz Roundshot D3 were equally impressive.
Zeiss and Arri lenses….enough of that… it was drool fest whichever way you look at it. 
Leica M8 will probably be in every photographers wet dreams. It is, in every sense, a decent Leica M.
My mind keeps wandering over to the Visual Gallery (hall 1) and the amazing collection of photographs as well as rare photo books. I could spend days in there. As it happened I only had a few hours.
The other interesting aspect were all the new printers and papers that emerged in the past few years. Crane, Hahnemuehle, Innova, Bergger…. you really have to feel those papers to get it.
Enough, enough, enough… 4 days was nowhere near enough to really see the entire show. Sure, you could walk all over in a day but that’s hardly the point if you ask me.
We had some nice interviews… and a few bad ones. Hint: never talk to the marketing and PR department if you really want to walk away with stuff that you can’t read on the net. Always request the R&D geeks. Others atendees are optional.
I thought I said I won’t be talking much about Photokina? 
Full Stop.
