38 members and 1 guest attended our March 10th meeting.
• Club President Vince Gagnier reminded us of a get-together at Smitty’s Restaurant on Saturday, May 21st, from 12 ’til 2. If you plan on going, kindly let Vince know.
• The Club’s planning committee is currently looking for suggestions for this Summer’s Walk-Abouts. If you have an idea for an interesting place the group could go to take pictures, send Vince an e-mail at: vgagnier@mnsi.net
• Dave Noordhoff presented his Technical Challenge on Image Stabilization.
The challenge involves assignments in which participants will investigate how forms of optical stabilization help keep their images sharper, how well they can do without it, and techniques to at least partially remedy camera shake.
For a review of the presentation, download Dave’s Notes.
• Competition Manager Gavin Stuart reminded us about our next CCC Competition on March 24th.
– Novice – People Outdoors (must be taken outside, flash is allowed)
2 entries per member
– Intermediate / Advanced and Salon – Urban Decay
(Deteriorating structures in a town or city setting. No barns or farm buildings)
2 entries per member
All entries should be sized 1400 pixels Horizontal, 1050 pixels Vertical Maximum for ultimate projection impact – jpg format. Image may be smaller.
Submit CCC entries to Gavin Stuart at gcstuart@mnsi.net
by Friday March 13 – 8 PM
• Carson Plant and Shannon L’Ecuyer reviewed some of the excellent prints that were brought in for display and made several favourable comments. Remember, we’d love to see some of your favourite work. Any size, any subject is more than welcome. Your next opportunity will be on April 14th. Don’t be shy. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.
• Paul Schmoldt announced the results of the off-site judging for the latest CAPA competitions. Pictures chosen for the Open category were taken by Reagan Smolders, Carson Plant, Chad Barry, Gavin Stuart, Paul Schmoldt and Jim Pollock. Images chosen to represent The Club in the Nature category were submitted by Butch Dompierre, Carson Plant, Dave Stewart, Margaret Manson, Patricia Kral and Jim Pollock.
• Vince Gagnier showed us his amazing time lapse photos and explained how he went about capturing them. Watching a series of photos showing how a butterfly hatches was truly fascinating. Thanks Vince for a job well done.
• Our next meeting will be held on March 24th when our guest speaker will be Stan Buell whose topic will be Galapagos and Africa. Don’t miss this one!
The camera is just a tool. It is not responsible for the picture.
1969 – George Smith and Willard Boyle invented the charge-coupled device (CCD), the image sensor that’s the heart of all digital cameras, at Bell Labs.
1975 – Smith and Boyle demonstrated the first CCD camera with image quality sharp enough for broadcast television.
1981 – Sony introduces the Pro Mavica, the first commercial electronic still camera which recorded images as magnetic impulses on a compact two-inch still-video floppy disk.
1986 – Kodak scientists invented the world’s first megapixel sensor, capable of recording 1.4 million pixels that could produce a 5×7-inch digital photo-quality print.
1987 – The first issue of Electronic Photography News is published.
1990 – Logitech came out with the Dycam Model 1 black-and-white digicam, the world’s first completely digital consumer camera.
1990 – Adobe introduced Photoshop 1.0
1994 – Kodak releases a 1 MB compact flash card.
1994 – Apple markets the QuickTake 100 camera, the first digital camera for the consumer-level market that worked with a home computer via a serial cable.
1995 – Canon introduces the EF 75-300mm F4-5.6 IS lens, the first lens with image stabilization.
1999 – Nikon’s D1 becomes the first digital SLR. It had a 2.74 megapixel sensor and sold for $6000.
2000 – Canon released the EOS D30 with a 3.25 megapixel CMOS image sensor.
2004 – Canon markets their first “full frame” DSLR, the 1Ds II that featured 16.7 megapixels.
2006 – Nikon discontinued most of its film cameras and manual focus lenses. Canon follows suit shortly after.
2007 – Nikon introduces their first “full frame” DSLR, the D3. It has a 12 megapixel sensor.
2008 – The Nikon D90 became the first DSLR camera to record video.
2012 – Nikon debuts their 36 megapixel D-800 camera.
2015 – Canon announces their 50.6 MP cameras, the 5DS and 5DS R.