Focus on Imaging 2007

Well after a four hour drive up from Cornwall and a 5 hour drive back in some of the worse rain I have seen in England, at one point i couldnt see the end of my bonnet!! I have to say thought Focus this year was so much better than two years ago. Managed to speak to everyone I needed to, was disappointed with Nikon and Epson however they need to employ people who care about customers as the service I recieved was on the bad side of poor. Fuji rocked and a big thanks to Theo who has some of the best customer care skills I have seen as well as a intrest in his products.

What news from Focus? Well Lexar have a new card system coming out but at present it wont work with any DSLR. Its a CF with a write speed of x300 called the UMDA. The Fuji S5 is fantastic at Low light levels and the noise actually looks like grain! Looks like fuji has re-invented the wheel for this one, yes its the D200 body, yes even though it takes the nikon battery grip you have to use the fuji battery however it seems fuji have got the right heart for the camera and that to me goes back to the days of film.
Aperture looks fantastic, but if you use CS2 I just cant see the need for it. Whats the betting that CS4 has it included rather than bridge? Photovalue have some fantastic new albums out, at a price I just couldnt believe and Noble fine art just looked fantastic yet again, their work just seems to impress me more and more everytime I see it.

The mighty SWPP stand was like a island in a stormy sea, many thanks to Paul Taylor for the chat, it was nice to speak with a real photographer rather than a sales man. So that was this year at Focus, look out for some of the new products that I saw at Focus as they just blew me away and will be available from Stewart Plant Photography very soon.