"Light Reading"
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Club News:
The November 18 meeting will be at the Preston Contemporary Art Center in Mesilla at 6:30. For those who haven't been - 1755 Avenida de Mercado in Mesilla, the street in front of Lorenzo's Restaurant. Turn east toward the mountains off of Avenida de Mesilla before you get to Mesilla proper onto (Calle)Avenida de Mercado at the small shopping center before you get to Mesilla from the north. The Gallery is the large white building at the end of the street.
Part of our program will be a discussion of the use and ethics of digital photo manipulation, this topic having been suggested by a couple of different members this year. I suppose we should also include film photo manipulation in our discussion since that's been done in the darkroom for many years.
We'll devote the rest of the program time to member photo exhibition, and the topic will be "My Personal Favorites for 2008" or "My Best of 2008".
Club News:
Annual Dutch Treat Christmas Dinner on our usual December meeting night, Tuesday, Dec 16 will be at Risotto's in the north parking lot of the Mesilla Valley Mall at 6:00 PM. We need a reservation count by the November meeting, contact Ron Cooper rcooper@zianet.com or let us know at the meeting.
Many thanks to the nominations committee for their work (That may be a harder job than the president's. They've come up with a sterling slate of prospective officers to present to the membership at the meeting this month. Additional nominations will be accepted at the meeting, so if you are interested, please speak up.
Slate:
President: Ron Cooper
Vice President: Cookie Saathoff
Treasurer: Jerry Claessen
What Do You Think? ...
Read recently in some photo or computer magazine, but I don't remember where:
"The number of megapixels does not determine a camera's picture quality; that's a marketing myth. The sensor size is far more important. (Use Google to find it. For example, search for "sensor size Nikon D90.")" At any rate, you can find out your sensor size if you don't have that information at hand.
The list of helpful web sites, tips, catalogs, and other resources is now on the web, with a link from our main page, available to members and visitors. Please keep submitting URLs that you think will be useful for our group. See the Resource list
For Carl's link to lots of information about on-line camera dealers SheddingSomeLight.com (Click on the Buying Cameras and Electronics On-Line link)
Light Impressions web site, or to order a catalog, or call 800-828-6216
Contact the president or the newsletter editors at
PMLpendergrass@comcast.net or call us at 523-9664.