Every year we work at one of the busiest photo shows in NYC... Photo Plus. It’s held at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in Manhattan and although I look forward to seeing everyone from work, I look forward to being home after this show is over. This year I didn’t really take too many pictures in the city so there’s not much to report on that front. I did have a great time after the show hours visiting with my work friends as well as some other good friends... Bill Fortney, Scott Kelby, RC Concepcion, Brad Moore and a few others.

Working the booth, on the other hand, is a crazy busy time! There is no real way to sum it up except to show you the videos below that will pretty much tell the story. My colleague, Mark Suban, mounted a couple of remote cameras in the lighting rig to capture what it’s like to see how people move through the booth area.

As you will see, it doesn’t look too busy at first. That’s because there was about an hour for making sure everything is good to go and another hour for the Gold Member pass holders to come in first. Then the flood gates opened and it never stops until the show closes. Most of us either lose our voices completely or get sick from this show... or both! Hand sanitizer is a must have!

Sometimes we take bets on who’s gonna get the first way off base question of the day... of course that happened to come to “yours truly”! I think the first guy in the door came straight to me for some reason and asked me what the exact pixel size, in microns, are the individual pixels on a D3 camera body. I asked him why he needed to know such a detail and he said that by his calculations he determined that to get the image quality he needs the pixels need to be at least 8 microns in size... Thank goodness the D3 has pixels that are larger than that. So, he looked at me... paused for a moment... smiled... said “thanks”... and then walked away. That was it! I think he came to the show just to ask that question! Who knows???

At least he was better than the guy on the second day that said, “F*** YOU!” to me! Yea... that was enjoyable! He was just mad because I wouldn’t take out a second piece of gear for him to see since I was already helping another customer. First of all, he had already been helped and walked away from the counter... then he came back and cut right to the front and interrupted my conversation. (We are only allowed to have one piece of gear out at a time for security purposes). So, I tried to explain why I couldn’t take the piece out then he decided to say what he said!

Anyway, here are a couple of videos to show you what the booth is like from a couple of angles. They are about four minutes long and the file sizes are around 75MB each so you may have to wait a minute or so for it to catch up to you... Enjoy...