Photography clubs

~Jan~~Jan~ Registered Users Posts: 966 Major grins
edited June 22, 2007 in The Big Picture
A little background info: I live in a town of about 4,000. Rural farming community.

Anyhow, in our local paper, I saw a notice for a meeting of the town's camera club. I was intrigued, until I saw that photographers were encouraged to bring a slide to share. A slide? What? I don't even know how to get a slide. Is this weird? :scratch I'm thinking this might be a group of old people who share travels pictures. :huh

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  • bhambham Registered Users Posts: 1,303 Major grins
    edited June 20, 2007
    It sounds like the camera club has been around a long time and haven't come full on into digital yet.

    Show up and just see what everyone has, then find out more info and see if its works joining, etc.

    Well at least everybody is interested in photography some just do it differently.
    "A photo is like a hamburger. You can get one from McDonalds for $1, one from Chili's for $5, or one from Ruth's Chris for $15. You usually get what you pay for, but don't expect a Ruth's Chris burger at a McDonalds price, if you want that, go cook it yourself." - me
  • JESTERJESTER Registered Users Posts: 369 Major grins
    edited June 20, 2007
    If you get interested in joining just let me know and I will send you a slide. I think I have some in a box somewhere from back in the 60'srolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
  • GREAPERGREAPER Registered Users Posts: 3,113 Major grins
    edited June 22, 2007
    It has just been the last 4 or 5 years that serious photographers have been switching to digital. Before that, most of the nature folks shot slide film for it's small grain. powerful contrast and saturated colors.

    If you go I think you will find that 60 to 80 percent of them have made the switch, unless it is led by folks that resist change.

    My local club fought it for a while, but are now 95 percent digital. Another local club resisted a lot harder and their membership has dropped by 60 percent and they are just now coming around.
    http://dehmphoto.smugmug.com/

  • Art ScottArt Scott Registered Users Posts: 8,959 Major grins
    edited June 22, 2007
    If they have been around awhile they may be hooked into the PSA (Photographic Society of America) and if it is, then there should be at least one extremely good salon per year of the International Flavor.....I have worked several of these salons (as well as entered in them)...but getting to see the work that comes in from all over the world is really great......

    The camera club I used to belong to was just a bunch of ol fooggies until one evening a bunch of us that were under 50 walked in and sorta took over.....but after about 3 months this group finally admiotted they had stagnated cause they had not had a new member in almost 10yrs and in one night they got 20 new members....it was weird to say the least....
    "Genuine Fractals was, is and will always be the best solution for enlarging digital photos." ....Vincent Versace ... ... COPYRIGHT YOUR WORK ONLINE ... ... My Website

  • ~Jan~~Jan~ Registered Users Posts: 966 Major grins
    edited June 22, 2007
    Art, I think this one is like the one you joined. Laughing.gif I am afraid to even show up. They did say visitors could come an hour after the meeting starts to see the slideshows, so I might just do that!
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