In-house exhibition at Calumet in Berlin and how we got a bag from Ka... came...

Last week on Friday we were in beautiful Berlin at the Calumet in-house exhibition. Anyone who follows what we do at compagnon knows that we started a cooperation with Calumet a good three months ago. To be precise, Calumet sells our bags and they do a very good job of it... Calumet has a total of six branches in six different, fairly large cities in Germany. These include Berlin, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Essen, Munich and Stuttgart. By the way, another important city will be added soon - but that's still a secret...

In recent years, the guys and gals at Calumet have always organized an in-house exhibition immediately after Photokina to present the most exciting and latest Photokina products. All customers are then invited to attend. That's how we ended up presenting our bags to the people on site at Calumet in Berlin last Friday. We will also be present at the next five events: Here is the link directly to Calumet www. calumetphoto.de/... Düsseldorf // Thursday, October 02nd from 10.00 a.m. Hamburg // Thursday, October 09 from 10.00 a.m. Stuttgart // Thursday, October 16 from 10:00 a.m. Munich // Friday, October 24 from 10:00 a.m. Essen // Thursday, October 30 from 10:00 a. m. We look forward to seeing everyone of you who comes by to have a little chat with us. Food will also be provided. In Berlin we had veal sausages, pretzels and sweet mustard - it couldn't be more Oktoberfest. We were totally fascinated by the fact that we chatted to some people who have been following us on the blog, Facebook, Instagram and elsewhere for quite some time... For the sake of fairness, we'd like to add that we promised in Berlin that there would be a small gift with every bag purchased on site. We will do the same at the other events. A little tip: this is our latest product :-) Also worth an anecdote - a young man really liked our little messenger in light brown. He told us that he would definitely like to get this one, but not today. We talked for a while about his type of photography, which we found very exciting. Basically, he does reportages, he visits people in remote areas (these also exist in Germany) and portrays them from his journalistic background... Anyway, he already had a photo bag from Kal...., but it annoys him. :-) To be fair, it has to be said that the company in question has been on the market a little longer than us and has obviously done a lot of things right, otherwise it would no longer be on the market. What's more, their approach to materials, style, etc. is quite different from ours. At some point, the young man said goodbye to us only to stand in front of us again a good ten minutes later and take the light brown messenger with him...

As you can see, this decision had an effect on his mood. But the coolest thing is that he packed the contents of his old photo bag directly into his new compagnon little messenger and gave us his old bag as a gift. It now has a place of honor in our studio... And here again as a GIF... :-) just had to be.