Special Photokina 2012 Homepage

Follow updates from the trade show as they are posted!

By PF Staff in Photokina 2012 on Sep 16, 2012

We have just created a special homepage which will contain all of our news postings related to this year's Photokina tradeshow, which is coming up from September 18th (Tuesday) to the 23rd (Sunday) in Cologne, Germany.  Over the course of the event, we will be reporting live from the Pentax booth as well as other expositions, and we will be posting both photos and videos on our homepage.  You can learn more about the event in an earlier homepage post.

If you are planning on attending the event, don't miss us there.  Read this thread for more details.

Best is a list of what we hope to report on during the event:

• Monday 9/17
  • Closed press tour of Photokina
  • CP+ 2013 press conference
• Tuesday 9/18
  
  • Pentax booth & hands-on
  • Tamron press conference
  • Samyang, Sony, Nikon, and Canon booths
• Wednesday 9/19
  
  • 12pm: official PF meetup
  • Formal interview in English with Andre Dierickx, President and Managing Director of Pentax Ricoh Imaging Ltd.
• Thursday 9/20
  
  • Pentax booth wrap-up
  • Informal PF meetup

At the event, we expect Pentax to showcase their 8 recently-announced products and also make updates to or discuss their product roadmaps.

Photokina 2012 is Just Around the Corner

The trade show takes place next week

By PF Staff in Photokina 2012 on Sep 14, 2012

The world's leading imaging fair, Photokina, is held every other year in Cologne, and opens its doors next week.

The fair is open to the public from Tuesday September 18 through Sunday September 23.

The press is allowed in a day early, and that includes your fearless PentaxForums administrators. Hopefully we'll hear some exciting news already that day and we will not hesitate to convey to you what we hear. We hope, of course, that in addition to what has already been announced, Pentax will reveal some more news at the fair, or perhaps tell us something about what the future holds.

We're also planning on reporting other news than just Pentax, in particular related to lenses and cameras that fill a void in the Pentax line-up.

Naturally, we're also planning to meet up with PentaxForums members who attend the event (see this thread for details).