With only a single day to see one of the largest trade shows in the world, I got an early start. I spent the morning searching for and checking out the competition. Fortunately, there were not many companies showing autonomous floor care products and of those, I was not impressed with any of them. By noon, I had completed my mission and spent the afternoon wandering about the massive show. Naturally, it did not take long before I found myself visiting the major photography vendors. At the Sigma booth, visitors were invited to use one of their high-end cameras to photograph a professional model. At the end of the show, a winning photo is selected and the person who took it receives a high-end lens. I have little chance of winning but did enjoy the experience of photographing a professional model if only for three minutes.

Because I stay pretty current on the latest photography gear it did not take long before I had seen everything of interest to me. I did see a new lens from Canon that I have on my radar (200-400mm f/4 zoom) but it was inside a glass case and no one could tell me when production would begin. With another hour or two to kill before the meeting I am here to attend begins, I check out the remaining halls for anything of interest. Not clear to me why Audi was at the show with a race car inside the biggest light box I have ever seen but it made for a nice photo and they were handing out really cool Audi flashlights which charge from your cigarette lighter.