AIPA Gearfest 2011

[smurff]

just noticed that there is a gear fest coming up this weekend
From the facebook page

When Saturday, November 26, 2011
Time 10:30am until 3:30pm

Description
The AIPA GearFest is a special one-day only event where all photographers (amateurs and professionals, association members and non-members) can check out the latest and greatest photographic equipment and accessories from New Zealand's leading suppliers.

Come along and test the best new gear from...

Canon (including the yet to be released EOS 1D X)
Nikon (including the new Nikon 1 system)
Sony
Leica
Hasselblad
Mamiya
Leaf
Olympus (PEN)
Sandisk
Bowens
Elinchrom
Broncolor
Profoto
Phase One
PhotoFlex
Chimera
Mola
Manfrotto
Pocket Wizard
Matthews
Gitzo
Tamron
Lowepro
Westcott
Enlight (Orbis & Frio)
LensBaby
Think Tank
Gary Fong
X-Rite
+ many more

FREE ENTRY
FREE PARKING
SPOT PRIZES
SHOW SPECIALS

On site experts will include...
Charles Howells - http://www.charleshowells.com/
James Madelin - http://jmfoto.photoshelter.com/
Aaron K - http://www.aaronkphotography.com/

We’ll also have professional fashion models from Nova at the event so attendees have some beautiful subjects to shoot with those flash new cameras!

https://www.facebook.com/events/202723143133909/

would love to go to this even to see the new canon 1dX, but i think shes going to be very busy!

-Smurff

[smurff]

i stopped in there today, was really good.

had a play with the 1DX, was really nice.
however i didnt like the view finder, it was like a matte finish kinda like the 7D but worst.
felt like everything was kinda blurred or fuzzy, unlike the 5dmkII viewfinder which was nice and clean and sharp.

i would say this could be due to the lcd overlay stuff that they did with the 7d, but i dont believe is on the 5DMKII, but they might have used a thicker screen in the 1DX or something?

just my thoughts on it, if i had the money i would still buy one though.

-smurff

[Kazeden]

Argghhh.....missed it.

[smurff]

it was good, got to play with a hasselbland and a phase one camera, so cool and so expensive

and they had other odds and ends there, one of them was displaying the gary fong stobe things

a good range of sandisk stuff and these things
http://www.sandisk.com/products/memory-vault/sandisk-memory-vault

they looked good, just about bought a 8GB one at $55. bit costly, but they look good, are heavy and i think they would be great as a gift or something like that.

oohhh and they Leica guys were there, drool love the M9 lol

-Smurff