SonyBug

Alive and well!

I went to the PPA show at Opryland in Nashville today. Attached are some of the attendees. I went 3 hours prior to the close and the show was crowded! Usually on the last day of a show you can shoot a cannon down any isle and not hit anyone. I go to make bottom feeder offers on stuff I want. Today, I got a $170 iPhone gimbal for $102. Love it.

But the Canon booth had the biggest crowd. They must have been giving away cameras from the crowd. All pictures were on my iPhone as I did not bring a camera since I thought the show would be dead.

Biggest things I saw. Lens makers. (hope I win a new Sigma) tethers to cameras / ipads. Cameras. Did I say lenses??? Lots of printing. Some printers the make me want to add on to my house.

The crowd in front of Canon booth

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GAS alert. Look up at the top center!

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The floor was wet from all the drool.

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Ever seen the inside of a Leica. Here's 3 of them.

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traderjohn Loc: New York City

"But the Canon booth had the biggest crowd"
Were they "kicking the tires" or buying?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Thanks for that info about shooting a cannon. I'll get mine cleaned up for next year.

John Howard Loc: SW Florida and Blue Ridge Mountains of NC.

I was on a NG Photo Expedition last November in Japan. 14 people total. 1 Sony shooter, 2 Nikon shooters, 1 iPhone shooter, 10 Canon shooters. The pro was shooting Canon's latest 50mp camera. The rest all appeared to be shooting what normal people shoot, midrange, few full frame sensor cameras. And FYI, the lead pro is a pretty famous guy. He shoots raw+jpg and downloads the jpgs to an iPad Pro and edits on the go. He is a believer in pushing the ISO and worrying about it later.

amfoto1 Loc: San Jose, Calif. USA

It's interesting that only one of your four photos was taken at the Canon booth.... The other three appear to have been taken at the Sony booth.

BTW, some years ago my step-daughter ran Microsoft's trade show appearances. Rather than haul around a bunch of computers for demos, they would have one or two or three dozen built, loaded up with every piece of software M'soft offers and shipped directly to the show by the manufacturer. Apparently that was cheaper than moving and storing the machines between shows, as well as insuring the demo units were as up-to-date as possible. At the close of the show they always sold off all those computers, typically with only a few days use and still loaded with fully licensed M'soft software. Don't know if they still do that. But it was a really good way to get a new, ready-to-use computer for pennies on the dollar. They were typically fairly high-end machines, too. Unfortunately, I was never in a position to take advantage of the bargains!

I think Canon often ships their demo units straight from trade shows back to their facilities here in Silicon Valley, to be sold as refurbished via the Canon USA website. They can no longer sell the items as new. "Loaner" gear from major events they support also end up being sold that way, apparently. There is often an uptick in the stock at the website, right after a trade show or big event (Super Bowl, etc.)

dwmoar Loc: Oregon, Willamette Valley

Tire kickers turn into tomorrows buyers..

SonyBug

The major manufacturers did not appear to be selling, but more informational seminars. There were plenty of dealers though that that multiple products for sale. I think some of the lens makers were actually selling.

There were probably 100 people standing in front of the Canon booth. Far and away more than congregating anywhere else. What also was interesting was the average age of attendees was in the 30's. Much younger than I would have thought. Also, I went to one of these 5 years age and this show had 4 - 5 times more attendees. Shows the economy is roaring along...

SonyBug

Jerry, I would have shot a Canon down the isle, but I shoot Sony now! Don't know if you can get a cannon thru security!

SonyBug

Yes, I pay more attention to Sony since that is what I now shoot with. I do not want to appear biased though so I put the attendance at the Canon booth in my photo review.

The only camera I actually picked up there was a a6600. Pointed it into the aisle and in 1 second it had locked on a bystanders eye from about 50 feet out. Hmmm, too bad I went to the a7III. I need to check and see if it does that as fast.

The reason I go in looking for deals is when I ran trade show booths, I used to bargain all the time. I had a buddy that once traded a paint brush for a lawn mower. Trade show people usually don't want to ship stuff back.

SonyBug

I did see a fantastic software program that cleaned up the noise from high ISO. I have a camera that does not have this problem, but if I had the problem, I would have bought the software.

He did a demo of a cleaned up photo at 25,500 ISO and one shot at 100 ISO. The cleaned photo actually looked better.

traderjohn Loc: New York City

I bet a lot of retail companies would like to think that was true.

dmc Loc: Montgomery, AL

What was the name of the software ?

JD750 Loc: SoCal

You said you attached attendees, how did you do that? I thought only pictures could be attached.   😂