Dear
Member,
As we are now into
spring, I hope you have cleaned those camera's ready for the season.
The
hand over of the Secretary's roll from Ron went very smoothly, I
spent a day at Ron's house and we and we settled all the club
affairs, and chatted photography over a nice meal and a pint at the
local pub, I was very pleased that Ron is still handling all the
film sales, but for all your film requirements please try to give
Ron as much notice as possible, as I have said before Ron is out and
about more often now.
I
went up to 'Focus 97' at the NEC at Birmingham in February and it
seemed to have many more stands this year than last, I made, what I
thought was a very good buy at the Capital Camera stand, and bought
a 30 metre tin of Fuji Provia for £58.00 inc. VAT, I think I must
have saved about £10 over the normal price, so if you are into
Provia give them a ring and they may still be able to offer it at
the show price, but obviously you must add the dreaded postage and
packing, also at the show I noticed that Silverprint Ltd, had quite
a nice little chemical balance complete with brass weights starting
with two 100 gram weights down to 1 gram, at a price of £34.66,
including VAT, smaller weights would have to be purchased from one
of the specialist outlet's like Hogg Laboratory Supplies,
Birmingham, but it seemed like a good little buy to me, if you are
interested you can contact Silverprint Ltd, 12, Valentine Place,
London SE1 8QH, or tel: 0171 620 0129.
I
am very pleased to say that we had a little bit of fame at last with
a full page article on the Colour Reversal Club published in the new
'35mm Photographer' magazine with four of the twelve colour slides
from our members included, the ones that they chose were from
members, Rita Pearle from Area 13, Sue Floyd, Ron Croad, and Glyn
Willicombe all from Area 20, and very nice they were too! but I also
wish to thank all members who sent me their slides for inclusion and
also lets hope from it we have some new members added to our ranks.
By
the time you read this news the Show/AGM will be upon us, at present
there are no extras to be added from the last Inter-news, but one
thing I did not mention was that refreshments will be available at
reasonable prices.
Ending
on a sad note, I was very sorry to hear that Bill Reid's daughter
Sheila, passed away in early January after a long illness, Sheila
has in the past helped out with the catering when we have had our
meetings at Didcot, and I send the Club's condolences to Bill and
his family on their sad loss.
Best regards.
Pete.