Issue link: https://digital.copcomm.com/i/1475048
CineGear This year, the CineGear Expo became somewhat of an "also-ran" trade show, happening six weeks after NAB and a week after the delayed NAMM (and just before InfoComm in Las Vegas). The show was moved downtown to the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC) June 9-12 of this year. It had previously been held on the Paramount Lot in 2019, was canceled in 2020, and moved to September in 2021 (at the LACC). No attendance numbers were published, but the show appeared to be poorly attended the two days that I was there, with lots of empty space around the vendors. Moving downtown created problems for attendees. Traffic is always worse downtown. Although parking on Thursday and Friday was free, it was $40 on the weekend, the day many would have off and would like to attend, and the day that traffic is generally lighter. Making matters worse this year, the Summit of the Americas was happening on the same days as the Expo, with President Biden in attendance. This led to numerous street closures and a long wait to enter the Convention Center parking lot, with the wait on Thursday being more than 45 minutes and the wait of Friday more than 20 minutes. I hope that they can return to a studio location in the future. The show is overwhelmingly about camera and other production elements. There were only a few tables dedicated to audio, including our own CAS table, as well as CAS member Doc Justice's table, Halter Technical, which introduced their Microsone Discreet Audio Monitoring System.