The Photography and Video Show

I don’t have any pictures because I need to get the film developed….

Today finds us at the Photography and Video Show in the National Exhibition Centre (NEC). I’ve not been before. It’s awesome. Loads of familiar brands plus a whole bunch of other interesting stuff. My favourite stand was the Disabled Photographers Society. They collect donations over the year and then put them all up for sale at the show. So there were lots of old cameras to root through.

A little dusty but otherwise perfect

I found the Pentax ProgramA you can see above. This dates from around 1980. I’ve no idea if it works. It was one of the first “battery only” cameras and it won’t do anything until you give it a couple of LR44 cells. I’ll find out when I get home whether or not it works.

Next year the show will be in London rather than Birmingham. I’m definitely going to try to get there though, it was great fun.

Update: I got the camera home, popped in a couple of batteries and everything seems to do what it should. So the next step is to pop a film in it.