I love visiting the Canon center in Hong Kong whenever I’m here; it’s one of the two things that I must do when I’m in Hong Kong: visit the Canon center, and ride the Star Ferry (more pictures from the Star Ferry in another post. hehe.)
The Canon center in Hong Kong is actually 3 floors (at least, that are open to public); I wouldn’t be surprised if there are more floors that Canon owns in the building, since they have a HUGE rotating sign on top of the building where their center is located in (I love it… and point it out to all my friends that I meet up with here. haha)
This time around I actually got lost and went to every Canon floor (Canon Service Center, Canon Pro Solution Hub, and Canon Image Center? I think those are the names).
The Canon Service Center wasn’t too exciting… just really cute Canon service girls (I’m not kidding, there were no guys working there, just girls…) sitting at service counters in Canon uniforms; okay, it was pretty cool- but I didn’t want to look like a creeper, so I didn’t take pictures of the Service Center. lol.
I wandered onto the Canon Pro Solution Hub floor next, and asked if I could take some pictures- the employee working the floor seemed a lot friendlier when she (yes, another cute Canon girl) saw that I was a Canon shooter… biased. lol.
The Pro Solution Hub has Canon technology on display, a place for photographers to post-process (apparently with really good printers and color corrected screens, and also studios and rental equipment (in the back, so I didn’t get a chance to take any pis of that).
Finally, I made it to the floor that I was actually looking for- the Canon Image Center (where they actually sell Canon products), since I was looking for a neck strap; strangely enough, when I bought my 1D Mark IIN from Fredmiranda, it didn’t come with a neck-strap… dangit.
It’s not that bad shooting without a strap; I feel pretty hardcore since I always have to flex my forearm muscles to grip onto the HEAVY 1D Mark IIN body- and, Mike Colon doesn’t shoot with a strap either… so… yeah.
But I did want to pick up a strap for those occasions where I’m shooting an event and I need to make a quick lens change- without having to put my camera on the ground, lol. Yeah, it’s kind of a ghetto lens-changing technique that I have going on.
Anyhow- they have the 1D Mark IV on display! I had a good time playing around with it and messing with the 10fps =) The Canon service employees (all guys, actually), were giving me the, “do you really have to keep doing that?” look, so I stopped. (These Canon dudes look like serious business too, they all have those windy ear-pieces and they’re always communicating to each other through them; like they’re Secret Service agents or something.)
Here’s the Mark IV and also, the very sexy 200mm f/2.0 =)
And it’s never a complete trip to the Canon center without playing the the super-telephoto lenses.
Since on the topic of cameras- I finally found a place that sells gaffers tape, and I taped up all the model and brand labels on my camera and lenses, I don’t really feel much safer walking around with my camera though, since people would probably still know that my camera is baller, judging by the size of the beastly thing, lol.
I need a point and shoot- I even considered selling my 1D Mark IIN and getting a 5D and S90; nah. =p
I’ll be making a trip to the Nikon center in Hong Kong- because I’m wanting to buy a Nikon strap to put on my labeled out camera; haha. I’m lame. But also so I can spy on what the Nikon center looks like- it also look pretty impressive, judging by the website. I love Hong Kong =) Hong Kong loves photographers. Haha.
Well that ends this post- the post lineup (in no particular order, it all depends on which I feel like editing first):
- Hong Kong Scenes/Street
– Hong Kong Fashion! (with a focus on shoes/boots)
– Mi Familia!
Till next time;
-Duncan
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