[Leica] photokina is no more

[Douglas Barry]

The Irish photography show seems to have folded its tents too - not that 
I've ever gone to see it. But, being such a small country, our main 
event for seeing cars and luxury consumer goods - even cameras - was 
always the annual Spring Show at the RDS which ended about 20 odd years 
ago.

When I was a kid of 15, I went there and got a lift in the James Bond 
Aston Martin DB5 sitting in the front passenger ejector seat. The Aston 
dealer for Ireland (Crawfords of Dublin) had it over on its stand to 
promote the brand. Just as the show was closing for the day, and they 
had started the car to take back to the garage for overnight storage, 
the heavens opened, so I managed to blag a lift to a bus stop from the 
exhibition stand.  I don't think he got it out of second gear. Oh, for a 
phone camera at the time!

If I win the Lotto, I'm going to buy a DB5

Douglas

On 27/11/2020 19:41, Jim Shulman wrote:
> Over the past several years my friends have called Photo Plus expo the
> computer show, since the major improvements have been with sensor and other
> electronic technology.  What isnt replaceable are all the interesting
> vendors selling display equipment, books, specialized lenses and other
> related items.
>
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2020, 2:32 PM Philippe via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
>
>> Well, times are changing - the internet, the I-Phone, etc. Who would like
>> to make it to a car show when they’re all the same, and have already been
>> advertised the world over  …
>>
>> This being said, some people might miss the
>> Donners/waffles/burgers/Bretzels or Bier here oder I fall um there … I do
>> not.
>>
>> Amities
>>
>> Philippe
>>
>>
>>
>>> Le 27 nov. 2020 à 16:56, Doug Herr via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> a
>> écrit :
>>> https://www.photokina.com <https://www.photokina.com/>
>>>
>>> :(
>>>
>>> Doug Herr
>>> Birdman of Sacramento
>>> http://www.wildlightphoto.com <http://www.wildlightphoto.com/>
>>>
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