Hey Glenn, nice to have you on board and not just lurking at last!
Yep, Camera Show on Sunday, I met up with Akalai and Glenn in there. Pretty good show, lots of tables, a lot of gear. If you wanted a manual SLR of any make or description there were 100's there, at pretty low prices. Lots of Leica stuff too. And some really nice Canon R/F's - no P's, thank goodness, I don't need to be tempted - but there was a lovely almost mint VI-T with the 50/1.8 lens.
Glenn, btw, is the mate of mine who I've mentioned a few times as going on photography sessions with.
Good to meet up with another RFF'er; Ashley (Akalai) turns out to be a really fun guy, except for his rather single minded pursuit of odd Contax bits.
Anyway, We all did fairly well, Ashley found a handful of obscure Contax filters caps and bits; Glenn got a bargain XA which seems to work perfectly (made much sweeter by seeing another one on a different table at 3 x the price
) and I scored a couple of bits for my IIIf - an Elmar 3,5cm lens, and a NOOKY-HESUM close up adapter - at good prices.
We also met up with David, an APUG'er from Melbourne who shoots Large Format. And I mean LARGE - he had an 8 x 20 set up in the Cathedral doing some shots of the interior. That's a seriously big and impressive camera. I can feel the siren lure of large format now.....
He had some contact prints to show us, man, talk about blown away. The detail in those suckers is just phenomenal.
Real funny episode tho was sitting on the steps of the cathedral looking through David's prints; a party of Korean tourists came up and started leafing thru them - he ended up selling 2! And they were only rough working prints he'd brought up as some examples of what the camera was capable of! Mind you, an 8 x 20 contact is seriously impressive even at the rough stage.....
