20 September 2010, pre-day 1 Photokina 2010

Today we arrived in Koln for the Photokina.

I will be at the Profot booth for the next three days doing some demos and mini workshops for Elinchrom and Leaf, so feel free to drop by and say hi. Being there the pre-opening day is always a weird experience, everything is still in the buildup stages and what looks so nice the following days is now just rubbish and piles of cardboard and paper etc. knowing that just in a few hours everything will be done and neat and nice is just almost like a miracle.

Leaf already had some great news, they are releasing the AptusII 12, a full frame 80MP digital back, yes you read that correctly full frame 80MP’s wow that’s a lot of detail, I think you can see the DNA of the model with a close up, would love to play around with that one 🙂

Here is some information on this great new digital back from Leaf…..http://www.leaf-photography.com/products_aptus212.asp

And some new lenses from Schneider http://www.captureintegration.com/2010/09/19/three-other-new-schneider-lenses/

But there will be much more of course, also from Elinchrom………… I think 😀
Looking forward to meeting up with Joe McNally and see his presentation, but there is so much more going on, I always say when vikings die they go to the walhalla, when photographers die they will probably go the Photokina…. but seeing the size of the photokina you could die if you have to see everything in one day, pffff it’s HUGE. glad we have some parking spaces next to our hall so we don’t have to rush in the morning.

You can find Profo (Elinchrom) in HALL 9, A, Booth 20.
Make sure to drop by when you’re there, see you 😀

Here is the first small backstage video. I will try to upload one every day after the show.