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EDITORIAL

The weeks and months just seem to flash past. It hardly seems like the New Millennium just started last week, but here we are pushing towards another summer. Newsletter copy is certainly becoming scarcer and difficult to find. Thanks to John Pearle, Margary & Kevin Maskell and Dennis O' Conner for coming to my aid at the last moment and finally having enough to fill another issue. I really do need YOU to keep me informed of your activities and latest photographic jaunts and processing. Every piece of copy is urgently required. No matter how small it will help fill the pages The AGM and Open Meeting is due on Saturday the 8th of April, at Rushwick Village Hall, Worcester and may well be over before you receive this newsletter. If not I hope that you will do all you can to come along and support those who have organised this interesting event. The Stereoscopic demonstration looks like being well worth the effort of attending.

Lawrence Edwards has kindly updated the CRC's E6 Formula, which is intended for the Member's Handbook update. However a lot of work has to go into updating the other pages and it will be some while yet before it is ready for publication. If you require a copy now, please send me a S.A.E. and I will send you one.

Another project I hope to get started soon, is getting the Newsletters onto the CRC Web Site. Creating web pages is still very new to me and is taking some learning but the hope is to eventually have all past and present Newsletters on the ' Web' so that present and new members will have access to the 25 five years of the CRC's considerable experience. As I say, it is a slow job, what with 50 newsletters to reformat in this new system. If there is anyone who would like to assist in this work I would be pleased to hear from them and give every assistance possible. Most of the copy is already saved in ASCII format, and the graphics on discs. I can help with some graphics & print scanning and also with OCR conversion. Please give me a ring or e-mail. My address is on page 16.

With copy slow to materialise I am always on the lookout for anything useable and sometimes some D.I. chat helps fill the bill. However don't be misled by John Pearle's Internet find "Caught in the Web" article as this is full of interesting photographic and processing pieces. The long article will be spread over at least two newsletters, with further updates as they come along.

Brian Asquith also produces another interesting chat page, but mainly touches on the use, or should we say, lack of use, of the Club Library. This is a source of knowledge which I am sure members foolishly ignore. Why not give Brian a ring and find out what is on offer. This is a service which could easily disappear if it isn't used.

Here's hoping for a very colourful and successful photographic season.