Anybody going to Focus this year?

[ap4a]

Originally Posted by ianpinion

Errrrmmmm.... I think you'll find if you pre-register it's free entry except for the £8 parking fee. You get a badge posted to you, so you just pick up a holder on your way in and walk straight through. You only pay the £10 on the day to get in if you haven't pre-registered + the parking charge of £8 on top.

I'm happy to be wrong, but reading the site doesn't give that impression to me.

[greenwing]

From the Focus website:

"Non-trade visitors to FOCUS and hobbyists can pre-register online and pay £8 otherwise its £10 on the day. This includes a free show guide. "

and

What is a trade visitor? What entitles you to free admission to FOCUS ON IMAGING?

•If you are earning your living as a full-time professional photographer.

•If you are a commercial company, government or HM Forces buyer or specifier of imaging equipment or services.

•If you are, or work for, a manufacturer, importer, retailer, dealer, distributor, importer of imaging equipment.

•If you are a professional processor of images.

•If you are a provider of professional imaging services.

•If you are in a professional publishing or photographic library capacity directly related to the imaging marketplace.