Albuquerque & Santa Fe
I attended a Canon arranged trip to Albuquerque and Santa Fe this past week. A group of us flew in on Tuesday and enjoyed a welcome dinner at our hotel in Albuquerque. We were all issued the new Canon 7D digital camera and were able to choose from a wide variety of Canon lenses and accessories for our use for the next several days. I brought many of my own lenses with me so chose the 400mm DO optic. We spent the remainder of the evening being trained on the Canon 7D’s many functions. There will be much more on the camera and my impressions using it in a future post.
On Wednesday morning we were given briefings on the Canon Pixma desktop printers. Following lunch we were bussed to the Evans Movie Ranch in Santa Fe for an afternoon of shooting with the equipment. At the ranch we had access to all the buildings and Canon had arranged for several models in full western cowboy(girl) gear.
Evans Movie Ranch Desperado
On Thursday morning we received briefings on the Canon ipf professional ink jet printers and spent the remainder of the day printing images on the Pixma and ipf 24 inch printers.
That evening we were treated to a wonderful farewell dinner at the El Pinto restaurant. There we were entertained by the operations director with a discussion of tequilas and a tequila tasting. He also detailed the restaurant’s development and their extensive chile growing and processing.
Friday was the scheduled fly-out date but I arranged for an extra day’s stay in Albuquerque’s old town district.
Old Town Albuquerque Shops