Bit annoying with the parking, we went to the caravan show at the NEC a few weeks ago and parking was included in the ticket price but sadly not this time.
WEX in London is pretty good, lots of gear out to touch.
go to the speaker line up - https://www.photographyshow.com/spe... asc&azletter=G&searchgroup=18EB0364-speakers
A much better use for your money
One of the reasons to attend was the show prices being offered at slightly lower than their online price. Kind of pointless attending if your only reason is to buy there if you can buy at the same price online anyway .
That’s the thing it just becomes check out the kit there and buy grey online. Won’t be any uk camera shops in the end.
Well, as I've said before, the astronomical costs of exhibiting make it impossible to offer any real bargains, unless we count unsaleable junk or old stock as bargains.
Even if you minus the vat many cameras like z8 or r5 ii are still priced absolutely insanely in uk.
R5 should be old stock bargain about now, but i fear they will manage to keep it going at r5ii grey prices till next year
I understand the high cost of exhibiting. I don’t expect there to be huge discounts. I seem to remember times when retailers wouldn’t discount prices or run discounted sales in their stores around the time of the photography show. ‘Show prices’ were discounts on the shops normal non sale price around the time of the show.
Even if it's same price as online. I'd buy at the exhibition handing my cash personally. I miss going to a camera shop to try things out and buy right then and their
The difference in costs are quite large vs grey. Like I'm willing to spend an extra 100 to 200 in a 1k or more purchase but if people can save almost half the costs? Hard to say no to grey unfortunately
I always bring pack lunch. Was it really busy inside and how was parking?
I went to the one last year in London and it was busy.
It was a lot smaller... barely filled the hall and there was a black curtain across one end making it smaller. 3LT, Just, Camera world were 3 more I noticed missing this time. My friend did get a good deal on an OM5ii with a kit lens and then, unexpectedly, a free lens and half price extra battery. she was dead chuffed... it made no sense to squish the stands together when there was a very big empty space at one end; well, unless it was to make it look busy. A friend who works regularly on the show said that London was very quiet and that they could go for a wander round during the day as they were not very busy, no big queues to get in etc. Hey ho. I hope it is not terminal. We are not going to Excel next year; travel, accommodation make it a silly price.
Ugh?
is this not spliting the niches into 1) photo and video 2) content creation.
I don't know but given there are a lot of people just using phones now and the show getting smaller, perhaps expanding to include these other areas would help? I saw a lot of people walking around vlogging and such.
I feel the biggest threat to photography is Ai and especially to certain genres such as modelling. If you can bypass the need for models, lighting, licencing, contracts and just take a few basic snaps of an item of clothing and then have Ai generate a whole perfectly lit magazine image from that then it will make a lot of aspects of a studio shot redundant.
