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Kadath
15th of October 2004 (Fri), 13:20
This snuck up on me, its next weekend in NYC. I've been thinking about taking the train in, but I cant find out how much one day at the show is without registering and giving em all my info first. Anyone going, anyone excited about it?

Sam
roanjohn
15th of October 2004 (Fri), 14:11
I might be going........and I think I have an extra ticket from mpix.com

Ro1
Kadath
15th of October 2004 (Fri), 14:46
Awesome, if you find out that you do, and are willing to part with it, please give me a holler at:

samuel.posten@ilex.com

Sam
Kadath
18th of October 2004 (Mon), 06:40
Bump =)

Sam
Kadath
18th of October 2004 (Mon), 06:45
ACK, I just read about your 20d going submersible, I'm sorry to bug ya with the bump, obviously you had other things on your mind this weekend =(

Sam
roanjohn
18th of October 2004 (Mon), 06:55
Hye Kadath!!!

Sorry I didn't see this earlier......have to look for those tickets. I will let you know If I can make it...........We can probably meet or I can mail them to you if I won't need them.........would still like to go though, maybe they'll have some sort of free contest.......might win me an extra camera.........maybe a 1D MarkII!!! :-)

.............that would be nice.

Ro1
Kadath
18th of October 2004 (Mon), 09:57
Alrighty, keep me posted =) And you can call me Sam, just used my EQ nick as my account name and it wound up sticking.

Sam
Kadath
23rd of October 2004 (Sat), 22:54
Well, I did some detective work this week and was able to get a free expo pass from mpix myself, so I checked out the show this morning.

Dont know if I was a wide eyed rube or if the Canon demos were truly more fun and informative than any other I had ever been a party to at a trade show (and I've been to dozens, CES etc)... The 'Explorers of Light' website which I have been following came to life and it was very interesting to watch how they handled studio lighting and the quality of prints they kept burning to 13x20 and poster size was amazing. They claimed that NO postprocessing was done, but each had at least an overlay with camera detail stamped on em, so who knows.

I appreciated getting to throw the entire line of Canon lenses on a 20 d (except the 10-22 which I REALLY wanted to try) and give em a shot. 12 more inches on the damn wire would have gone a long way tho!

I was really impressed with the weight difference between the 70-200 4l and the 2.8 IS L. I think I will stick with my plan on getting the 4L first and decide in the future if double the price is really worth my investment.

I also got to check out the 100 Macro and liked what I saw. Got to see how the 100-400L works with the push/pull and locking. Neat, but boy I dont see how anyone can really hand hold it for any time. Was also pretty impressed with the 17-85 Kit lens, but still not convinced its worth the asking price. If it had a solid wide aperature of 3 or less I would be right there in line for it, I think.

Dell will be getting a call from me on Monday....
Sam