I managed to get myself special access to PMA (http://www.pmaaustralia.com.au/) The place I work for had a stall so I got special Exhibitor access before the public where let in the door.

It was a great show I got my hands on a heap of canon glass some worth upwards of AU$6,000 Canon actually let me try out a heap of there lenses on my 40D body.

There where all the big brands there a great show anyway enough with the talk here are some pics.


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You sure had a great time there thanks for the pictures.

Any information about upcoming products? Nikon D3x etc?

Looks like an awesome place to go! I'm jealous.

Is PMA Australia the same as the one held in Las Vegas around March?

Too bad Photokina is all the way in Germany--supposed to be some big announcements there.

What did Adobe have?

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ahh nice pics, thanks for sharing with us

Being a Canon man I’m totally out of the loop when it comes to Nikon but I did go and see the stall, they had some of there big lens’s of display for you to see look and touch then underneath that they had a “low light room” the guy in there put a couple of different models of Nikon DSLR in my hand and got me to take some pics of a really low light set, It was a blacked out room with dark black walls then they had a small bedside lamp with some staged items like chairs and pillows around it.
He had the first camera set at some crazy ISO like 3200 and I was pretty amazed with the result I had my 40D around me and he joked I dare you to do the same without using your flash (had my 430EX on the top)
Then he put a second model in my hand and I had another go this second one had a brand new lens just out? Sorry forgot the model numbers so much info flying around during the day.



I really don’t know it was big but at the same time not that big I’d guess the one over in Vegas should be quite a bit bigger with more announcements and product launches this one there was not really any big announcements you just wondered around from stall to stall and talked to the sales reps.


They had constant shows/Demos showing off all the latest products and how to use them we got a show bag with a few demo disks I’ve yet to check them out.

Ok well it’s the next day now I could be there again today as my Exhibitor pass lets me in as much as I want but its open to the public and I think it would be just to busy and pushy yesterday was great being able to talk to the sales reps, Here is a look at my stash from yesterday.


My favorite part of the day was getting to try out some canon lens’s I had a go with several of the 70 – 200 models I’m in the market for one but still have no idea what model to get as there are quite a few IS non IS F4, F2.8.
It was cool to get a hold of them and see how big they are in real life rather than just read about them on a review website so I had a play with them then we moved onto things like the very expensive EF85mm f/1.2L 2 USM he was very careful when he handed that over to me saying its worth about $6,000 that was nice to have a play with.

I also had a go with the very wide 10-22mm its not until you look through it yourself you realize wow this is really wide I was very impressed and now want one
This was a quick shot using the 10-22


This is the Canon stall.




For the poster above who asked about Adobe they where showing off the Photoshop express to everybody the presenter was a little worried as he was really doing it live over the internet and as always when you present live to an audience the internet was very slow.

But it was good and we got a free carry bag with Adobe Photoshop light room 2.0 Beta and a Light room 2.0 Tutorials DVD, A pen and a copy of the latest Betta Photo shop magazine.