Pentax User Club (Take 2)

Hi Dan,

Sorry.

I should take more care when reading the postings.



As I said - good luck to you in your task. I can not comment on the rest of the PUC as this is really the only bit I currently use. It would be nice to get the newsletter again.

Howard

according to my quick calculations, with 2GB/month of bandwidth you could download one image the size of those I post every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

It may also interest you to know that the reply form I am entering this post into totals 53KB, approximately half the size of my standard web photos.

I really don't think you have anything to worry about.

Sssh. Don't tell PeteKD.

G

Hey Dan,

Can you do anything about the forum server going down? It's starting to become a habit.

G

Gosh, thanks George

I have been a member of the Pentax Club since it first started; when I tried to get new members some of the comments were: very expensive for 4 magazines a year, and too much advertising for expensive trips abroad. I notice there are no trips advertised now; I did some 'workshops' for them when Peter & Liz Cox used to run it; they were held in hotels; I would do a whole day of photography,to include camera controls, how to use apertures, compensation,lens effects etc and set up a practical lighting studio where the members could use my lights. I got a 'small fee' and free meals and stay in hotel. Maybe the members would like to have some more 'workshops' but all these 'digital' snappers seem to be EXPERTS not the BEGINNERS that used to belong to the Pentax Club !

I'd welcome some workshops preferably outdoors but all assistance helps

We laid one on, or would have, but despite a half page advert in Pentax User, there was not one response.

My experience of seven years of running a camera club syllabus tells me that very often people do not really want what they say they want.

They ask for outings, only a handful turn up (the organisers plus a couple more usually!). They ask for specific items to be covered and then don't turn up for that night. And so on.

I've never minded, but my conclusion is just do the best you can, be imaginative and see what happens. And make sure that the net is cast as wide as possible subject-wise so that everybody gets something of their particular interests.

You can't please all the people all the time.

Like Roger I would also appreciate some outdoor workshops .

I am a beginer but want to learn amongst a friendly interesting group such as pentax users. Unfortunately I find most cousres cpmpetitve and linked to a qualification. That is why I am ring to work with impotent spider to meet occasionaly and have a shoot.

Why not try running an outdoor workshop and see what happens?

Dave

As I mentioned elsewhere I was at RHS Wisley yesterday, and in addition to their photography exhibition they were running a course on "Plant and Garden Photography". I stuck my head round the classroom door and it seemed well subscribed. Perhaps it is because their target audience may be more skilled at gardening than photography.

http://www.rhs.org.uk/WhatsOn/gardens/Wisley/wisevents.asp