First time @ Mini Meet :)

[Trieu]

Hi everyone!

Nice to have met you all today great to put names to faces!

Real eye opener to see how much there really is to photography... not just the end result.

Anyways, looking forward to the next meet. BTW, do I have this topic in the right place?

[avkomp]

probably as good a place as any.

I really have to get to a mini meet one day.
very slack of me.

steve

[birddog114]

Trieu,
Great to meet you today, hope will see you again at the next mini meet.

[gstark]

Great to meet you too.

And all the other new faces as well.

I must say that I was especially pleased to see all the Canon users too. that's an indicator to me that, while we stil have a long way to go before the numebrs will achieve some measure of equilibrium, we are at least heading in the right direction.

And from what I could tell, I think that everyone had a good time through each of the facets of the day: PIW, the meet/shoot, and dinner afterwards.

[Alpha_7]

It was great to meet you and a number of other members who I hadn't had a chance to meet, including Danielr and DaveB that both travel a fair distance to attend

[moz]

Yeah, was really pleased to meet some of you (us?) and put people to names. Teasing Gary is even more fun in real life

Thanks to the organisers, and the food was excellent.

Now I have 2GB of images to play with, mostly from roaming the show sticking my card in things. Was interesting that Nikon gave us D2x's on the back of their show lenses, and let us wave them about a bit, but Canon bolted them down and put geriatric film bodies on them. Convenient for me, though, as otherwise I wouldn't have been able to get shots from the Nikon toys. I was amused at the number of people who just hit the shutter button on the Canons, heard the 8fps shutter, then moved on. Like, that's a 600/4 lens, the least you can do is look through the viewfinder for a second. With the Canons I could just stick my camera on the back of them so it did work both ways a bit.

edit: Gary, here's a photo taken with my heavy-duty paperweight: http://www.moz.net.nz/image2/leigh.jpg (focus set to 28cm, f/8, 12mm, file is only 15kb)

[Grev]

I must say that I was especially pleased to see all the Canon users too. that's an indicator to me that, while we stil have a long way to go before the numebrs will achieve some measure of equilibrium, we are at least heading in the right direction.

Well, today at the meet here, Manta let the Canon jokes fly.

[nito]

Let see now, I met

alpha was craig who sat opposite me.

Thaddeus the trickster at the end of the dinner

never formally met 4nsic who is leigh but see lots of pics of him in the forum. Might be the most photographed subject here.

which one is moz and trieu? Were you sitting next to Joe and his grandson?

[Trieu]

Hi Nito, I didn't get a chance to hang around for dinner... had to head off early.

I was there from 3pm till about 4.30pm outside the gardens

Asian guy, wearing jeans and a white stripped polo top holding my measly 350D amongst all the other huge camera's and asking all the questions.. yeap that would have been me.

Stubbsy took a shoot of me

[firsty]

Stubbsy took a shoot of me

Treiu
Stubbsy wasn't the only to catch a shot of you



Had a great time... shot mostly shit shots... had a great time

[stubbsy]

Trieu It was great to catch up with you and a few other new members (some of whom I managed to get a mug shot for the gallery). I didn't make it to dinner - sounds like I missed a good feed.

[nito]

Dinner was very good. Except the annoying waiters which were in short supply. I am still waiting for the two spoons to scoop the chill sauces from yesterday. Missed out on a good feed Peter.

[Trieu]

Yo!!! Affirmative. That is me.

Damn I didn't even see that shot coming but all good.

Good shot too I must say... (as in sharp I mean)

[Alpha_7]

Nito,

DaveB was sitting to my right at dinner (your left), and then next to him was Moz (Glasses and entertaining crashing / racing stories). Next to him was Owen (blue shirt, dark hair) and then Firsty (if my memory serves me correctly). Fab (fabrisco, no idea the spelling) was the cool dude sitting between Joe and his Grandson, I think the women require no introduction, I hope I got everyone on the table, I apologise if I mixed anything up.

[nito]

Thanks Alpha,

So DaveB and Moz were the canon shooters? I didnt even release that it was owen or firsty next to me.

[Alpha_7]

Yep DaveB and Moz are canon shooters, Moz looked really familar to me, but I'm sure I haven't met him before... it was odd, DaveB had the cool toys, the Gitzo, autoleveling head, and the little 12" mac.

I didn't get have a chance to introduce myself t all the other people that we'd bumped into that day, which I regret now, but I'm sure they will be another time. BTW, the guy in the white shirt that left just before dinner (I was blinding him with the SB-800 for about 5 minutes as we waited for everyone to rock up, that's Daniel_r from Canberra.

[firsty]

Alpha I was trying to work out who you were

you missed pgatt in your list

from you going anti clockwize
DaveB, Moz, o1, Pgatt, Me, Nitto.....

[Alpha_7]

Are thanks for correcting me, I thought I was missing someone as from memory we had more people at the table, but for the life of my I couldn't recall who, we need steffan's FE shots from dinner that might help.

Sorry Pgatt for leaving you off the list.

[O1]

Gents
Have made it back to sunny Hobart and am sitting down trying to sort out all of the information I collected. Wow what a weekend with just so much to learn.

Was very good to catch up with you all and I enjoyed the food and conversation very much. Must say that I have a great appreciation for all of the information openly shared and just enjoyed the environment.

many thanks

Owen

[stubbsy]

It was good to meet you too Owen. I should have your photo, along with Trieu's and DaveB's added to the forum mugshot gallery tonight. Did anyone get pics of the other new faces?

[Alpha_7]

It was great to meet you Owen, I'm glad you could make it, it certainly helps to have a face to the name of atleast some of the forum members, and think you did well to meet as many as you did.

[losfp]

Sounds like a great meet, guys! Sadly I haven't been able to get to any of the dinner meets yet, but my time will come.. oh yes!

[gstark]

Owen,

Glad that you've arrived home safe and sound, and I'm glad that you were able to enjoy just a small part of what we have here.

[DaveB]

It was good to catch up with some of the Sydney folk in person!

While I remember, when people were playing with my EF-S 10-22mm lens outside the exhibition centre, somehow the Canon rear cap got swapped with a Sigma one. If the owner of the Sigma cap would care to PM me I'd like to arrange swapping them back.

[Alpha_7]

Dave can't help you with the lens cap, but can I ask what PSD did you have Moz have and they appeared to be slightly different models ? Or atleast revisions ?

[DaveB]

Dave can't help you with the lens cap, but can I ask what PSD did you have Moz have and they appeared to be slightly different models ? Or atleast revisions ?

We both had the Nexto CF, but the only difference between them was the plug on the external (secondary) battery (and the fact that the internal hard drives were different capacities).

[Alpha_7]

Sweet thanks DaveB they looked pretty robust.

[moz]

The reason I like them is because they give significantly faster transfer from the card than the competition. Which not only saves time, it means you get more gig's transferred for your battery life. I'm working on tweaking it to use camera batteries, to make it even easier.