Dear All,

Thank you for your continued interest in our publication and our products. We have received very favourable feedback about this newsletter and we will most certainly be trying to improve on it as we get further down the line. We’ve had a very successful World Cup campaign in South Africa and all of our visitors from overseas had an amazing time. The feedback has been extremely positive from photographers we met at the various stadia where we had our service and loan centres for the duration of the competition. The final was particularly hectic for us – we managed to loan out almost 200 items within a 45 minute period leading up to the closing ceremony. This was in addition to the 60 service and cleans we did in the hours leading up to the massive event. One of our colleagues from England was out here for a few weeks and blogged about it for our Pro network website – if you haven’t read it, we have included some of his pictures and words in this issue. It is actually quite interesting to have an overseas visitor’s impressions about our beautiful country.

The pride we all felt was tangible everywhere you looked. We still can’t quite get over the fact that it has finished and gone. I’m pretty sure that soon enough we’ll have something equally interesting to get obsessed about. While we are on the subject of national pride – please check out the competition we are launching on “Ontbytsake” – Saturday mornings during August and September on Kyknet. Some great prizes to be won. We have quite a few other photographic competitions running as well – check out Africa Geographic magazine, Country Life magazine and Your Family magazine, to mention a few.

For you hot blooded males out there – make sure to watch the SA Sports Illustrated Swimwear shoot on DSTV when it is broadcast a little later this year. Most of the footage is currently being filmed on our new flagship XF 300 video camera, but they are also using 5D Mk II and 7D cameras for the first time ever for video footage.

And finally, we are just about to enter launch season with 2010 being a Photokina year, so look out for loads of new product info in upcoming issues of Click mag.

Kind regards

Roger Machin
Product Manager Canon SA