One of the advantages of living in Düsseldorf (Germany) is that you can easily visit the biannual international Photokina trade show in Cologne. So these last two days I spent several hours at this large trade show where every manufacturer of camera equipment presents his products and often even offers a multimedial show experience. The trade show is accompanied by several photographic exhibitions and examples of what can be done with today’s cameras. Hence the whole event is not just technical, but also very colourful and visually impressive.

Images demonstrating the more visual aspects of the Photokina – posing Models, photographic exhibitions and still lifes – can be found in the next article:  Photokina 2006 – Models and more