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So! We are really into the new Millennium. With the Festive Season over, and I hope that you all had a great time and wish you all the very best for 2001 (wasn't it just last week that we saw in 2000!) and that the coming year will bring
many happy and new experiences.

My New Year resolution would be that we get away from the super-hype and daily 'sound-bite'.

On the positive side, it is nice to see the end of the distrust of Digital Imaging and as our Librarian comments on in his
latest treatise, that it is now seen as the future of making pictures and for many years yet to come, both systems will
work alongside each other and our older members will use their great experience to pass onto the up and coming
photographers. Digital only makes taking and editing pictures more convenient but a 'great' picture still needs the 'eye'
of experience and the shared knowledge with those who have learned the tricks of the trade. Modern computer printing
paper still isn't up to the standards of chemically produced prints and many will prefer to stick with their darkrooms for
those 'special' prints.

The last year has seen the bulk of CRC membership take to E-mail and enjoy the instant communications it brings. All
of the Executive Committee are also on the Internet and composing and posting letters is almost and the editor and
Secretary's work eased while still getting the message across. The Newsletters too have gained by the use of good
quality pictures, both in B&W and colour in regular use. And now we have a new CRC Web Site, which not only
advertises the club on a scale which time has yet to prove, but with the secure section giving members access to past
Newsletters which will soon help new members to gain knowledge from previous . It is a very interactive web site and it
can only get better if members look into it regularly and add their comments and enquiries to be updated and shared
with others.

Viewing the web site in no way reflects the time and frustration it has taken, over the last year, to both learn and
compose and finally get onto the Internet. Only the few who were in communications with me and sharing their
knowledge will know the trials and tribulations it took to learn HTML page composing and 'linking' which continued
with the final FTP system that finally uploads the web site to the Internet. At one stage I actually had to pull away
from it and didn't get back to it for some while, but thanks to the help and encouragement of those who helped, we
finally won through.

It was encouraging to receive a number of For Sale and Wanted adverts. Don't forget this service is free to all CRC
members. If you have any photographic equipment you no longer need, you can be sure there is some up and
coming photographer, whom is struggling make ends meet (Yes, remember those days!) , will be greatly appreciative
of your offers.

This newsletter will be a little late being published which has been a mixture of work commitment and, especially,
long periods of lack of copy. I really do need more of you to communicate and tell me what you are doing and
help fill the pages. Why not make it a New year's resolution to:

"Send Bill (the Editor) a letter/e-mail at least once every three
months, for the coming year "

Best Wished to All CRC Members for 2001