My magazine, Buying Cameras, and team scooped several Awards in the quarterly Apex Awards including Title of the Quarter
Peter Bargh
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November 21st, 1997
Apex Award Winner
April 26th, 1996
Samsung European Convention 96 – Marbella
Samsung’s European Convention 1996 was to Marbella in Spain. I attended as editor of Buying Cameras magazine.
British Airways flight BA 2473 – I was in Seat 4E
We stopped at the Melia Don Pepe Hotel
Cipriano Playas Del Doque
Hacienda La Venta
Puerto Banus
It was the famous trip of Prairie Oyster, Finger dancing prawns, clothes swapping by the pool, unexpected karaoke and hangover donkey riding…goes down as one of the best press trips in my career, made extra special by Dan, Rog, Liz and, of course, Mr Gary Banks. I drank some very strange stuff on that event.
Samsung Representatives
Gary Banks, J Lee, H Paik
Press attending
Peter Bargh, Daniel Lezano, Roger Payne, Keith Wilson, Liz Walker, Neil Whitford, Dennis Taylor, M Blackledge
Some of the many European editors included TIPA friends Sylvie Hugues from Reponse Photo (France), Fre Withoff from FotoHandel (Holland), Johan Elzenga Foto-Visie (Holland) Juan Varela FV Actualidad (Spain) and Giulio Forti Reflex (Italy)
February 21st, 1996
PMA 1996 – Las Vegas
Las Vegas in the United States was the venue for the 1996 PMA Conference.
I spent five days there as Editor of Buying Cameras magazine
I caught United Airlines 931 flight from London to Las Vegas via San Francisco
Press attending
Peter Bargh, William Cheung
April 26th, 1995
Contax Symposium Mallorca
I attended the International Contax Zeiss Symposium at Richard Branson’s Hotel La Residencia in Deia, Mallorca
I was editor representing Buying Cameras magazine.
The objective for Contax was to discuss the methods used for magazine lens testing and the quality of Contax lenses. They were not happy with the general reduction in magazine testing quality and were suggesting that the technical editors were no longer very technical and didn’t understand the finer aspects of lens performance. An interesting debate!
Contax representatives
Leo Stejskal
Invited UK Press
Peter Bargh, David Kilpatrick, Joel Lacey
