Share We were at CP+ last week and despite what it looks like, we weren’t there just to check out the girls. While wandering around, scouting for new products for the store, we also had the time to go over a few non-work related goodies. The X5 piqued our interest because Terry and I both [...]

Share CP+ is the kind of event that encourages people to become photographers, mainly because the more of us there is, the more clients there are for the exhibitors there. So we had the opportunity to test our and their cameras on various subjects, among which, of course, were the traditional lightly dressed models representing [...]

Share Starting on Wednesday, February 9th and ending halfway through the three-day weekend is CP+,a convention for camera and photography nerds at Pacifico Yokohama in Minatomirai – the same venue as the Electronic Design Faire, incidentally.  We got to sneak in with press credentials during the exclusive media-and-invited-guests block in the morning of the first [...]

Share While it’s true that we were in Yokohama mostly for the free boat ride, we also had the time to check the EDSF that took place nearby. Well, to be perfectly honest, we were kind of invited; so Terry and I decided that we had to go and take a glance at the future [...]

Share Get off the station at Sakuragicho on the Keihin Tohoku line in northeastern Yokohama, and one of the first things you notice is a mass of vertical orange masts nestled cozily in the famous landmarks that make up the cityscape of Minatomirai.  The Nippon-Maru, a 2,278-tonne 4-masted training vessel nicknamed The Pacific Swan, traveled [...]