Visiting the Taipei International Photography & Media Equipment Exhibition 2020

The Taipei International Photography & Media Equipment Exhibition 2020 is taking place these days in Taipei. I visited on the 2nd day in the morning, so that I could avoid crowds, but that wasn't a too successful effort. I reached there around 11 and it was already quite busy, since it was a Saturday morning. I stayed until after lunch and it got really crowded, and the vendors had more activities at their booths, such as models posing with gear and hosts interviewing photographers. While Taiwan just celebrated 200 days without a local coronavirus infection, I still did not want to take any chances, so I left early. Let me share my impressions of particular brands and how the show looked like in general.

Why the Nikon D6 is better for stills than the Canon EOS-1D X Mark III

The online photography community has thrown another massive tantrum after the Nikon D6 turned out to be more of an iterative update instead of a major jump. Lead by airheads running Youtube clickbait farms like Fro Knowns Photo, Tony Northrup as well as self-proclaimed Fuji Ambassador and donations beggar Ken Wheeler, the camera was proclaimed an utter failure and the competing Canon EOS-1D X Mark III the clear winner. We live in a bipolar world where it's all about winning and losing based on arbitrary spec jumps. These channels are making their advertisement and sponsorship money by dividing photography hobbyists into tribes, and then stirring up controversy whenever there's a new major camera release by a large and important brand.

I exposed Ted Forbes from 'The Art of Photography'

Ted Forbes is an American photography Youtuber, who used to become famous talking about the art and the history of photography and amassed quite a following among enthusiasts and hobbyists. The art and craft were the main topic of his channel, but in recent years he adopted the same model as most photography Youtubers, that is doing gear reviews and joining press events by brands. In one of his latest videos he reviewed the latest Canon RF 50mm f/1.2 L lens. It's of course a great lens, and a plenty of lens for most people. Ted did not respond to a lot of comments under the video, but he did to this guy who listed a number of complaints about Canon. While Ted agreed, I countered.