December, 2006 - WPS

IN FOCUS
Robert A. Baron, editor
Web edition: Dick Budnik
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Board of Directors for WPS
DICK BUDNIK:
President, Chairman of the Board,
Competition Scorekeeper & WebMaster
CHARLIE KOENIG:
Treasurer & Corporate Secretary
Board Liaison, Executive Vice President
ALBERT TANG:
Recording Secretary,
Assistant Treasurer
MARTIN KANTOR:
Program Director, WCC Liaison
LOIS BARKER:
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Membership Packs
RON CARRAN:
Field Trips
ROBERT BARON:
Newsletter Managing Editor
JOE POLLOCK:
WCC Photography Liaison
HARRY ARCHER:
Digital & Technical Support
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Volunteers
GLEN HALL:
WPS Historian
ROSE ANN & WALTER KIMMEL:
Competition Coordinators
ELINOR STECKER-OREL
Staff Photographer
ROGER CHENAULT:
Competition Judge Coordinator
DEBORAH COHEN:
Club Publicity Chairperson
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PRESENTATIONS:
Carol Finley & Dennis Thornton
HOST/HOSTESS COMMITTEE:
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COMPETITION EVALUATION
COMMITTEE:
Dick Budnik, Lois Barker,
Elinor Stecker-Orel,
Harvey Augenbraun
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Ann & Bob Harper
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Through My
Electronic
ViewFinder
by Dick Budnik
12/01/06 – The Day Film Finally
Died (for me at least). Five years
ago this month Elinor showed me a
Minolta DiMAGE 7. It was the first
time I had looked through an Electronic
Viewfinder (EVF) on a still
camera. She said it gave great images
but she hated the EVF.
Instantly, I fell in love with it.
Imagine, as I changed the exposure,
the EVF lightened or darkened to
show me what the image would
actually look like before I took the
picture. For the previous thirty-five
years of my photography, I had to
guess at my exposures. How many
tens of thousands of slides had I
thrown out due to bad exposures
The next morning I ordered the
camera from B&H.
In the past five years I have used
the D7 and its sixth generation successor,
the A200, to capture over
70, 000 images. I had still kept my
three Olympus film cameras handy
just in case I ever needed to shoot
film again. However, the only film I
shot throughout this period were a
few rolls of slides needed for giving
lectures with a slide projector.
These were PowerPoint images shot
off of my computer monitor or slide
duplicates shot with a 1:1 slide copier
attached to my film camera.
Reality hit me as I was modifying
(Continued on page 3)
Front Cover: Digital Photo
by Eileen Kantor
Blue Plastic
See further, p. 5
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