Normally the Mag-C in Erfurt would be an easy going event and a great opportunity to use my small smoke machine for some amazing Cosplay shots especially using it in combination with the big curtains next to the main stages because it's perfectly blocking most of the light, so my LED RGB lights are the only relevant source of light and the smoke catches that colorful efffect perfectly...
BUT if you try to update the firmware of your camera the night before the event - just because there is a new sensor shift feature to create massive pictures, which is completely useless for portraits - and your battery fails during the installation process, you are doomed, because you made your cam a giant and very expensive "BRICK" being unasable.
Without a real cam (my CANON R5) going to the convention would be quite pointless, therefore I skipped day 1 completely while trying all day long to "revive" our big brick - it didn't work.
And once again there's a big BUT, because of some sort of "miracle" I was lucky in the morning trying a hard reset for one more time - I had already made a backup plan and prepared my GoPro as well as my DJI OSMO Pocket to be able to make at least a few pictures and capturing some of the convention's flare and impressions - luckily that HARD RESET worked and my R5 had its "REBIRTH", so I didn't need to rely on my small sensors.
The Mag-C originated from Magdeburg, therefore it kept the name but changed the location to Erfurt. It's already my third time and it's always a good mixture of Otaku convention but also fair. The event line-up itself with all those contests and photo opportunities as well as some Cosplay Influencer meet and greets is ok but especially the hall with all those vendors is more and more disappointing but not just at this con, but on all of them. Very often they either offer the same TEMU und Ali Express drop shipping low quality scam or overpriced prize game figures from Japan which were bought in bulk. In Japan those items are mostly cheap and can be obtained at crane games or HobbyOff shops for little money. And the "good stuff" is sold for 3-5+ times of the original price in Japan. That's why I don't buy at any of those booths for years and get my stuff, if I want something, directly in Japan when I do my trips. Normally I always try to find Game Guides or Artbooks with concept art and add some Games for the archive.
At the photo booths they had a nice throne this year, so I am not sad having missed my chances to visit DEDECO this year, because COSBOX is always having a nice Gothic set with a throne-like seat.
And here are some of the assets we created:
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