About Banbury Camera Club
Banbury Camera Club was founded in 1946 and still maintains its original aim:
to bring together all those interested in photography in the area. Whatever
your standard, equipment, or interests, you will be very welcome at our
meetings.
We have members who are interested in a full range of formats and methods - from traditional black and white printing, through colour slides and conventional colour printing, to digital imaging using computers and inkjet printers. Some members use compact cameras for colour en-prints. Others have 35mm single lens reflexes or medium format cameras. Whether it’s improving your holiday pictures for the family album, or producing exhibition prints, we hope that the Banbury Camera Club has something for you.
The results so far for Club Competitions
PDI: Projected Digital Images Competitions
This year we introduce a new format for judging our photographic images. We
will still be having Colour & Mono print competitions, be we are now going
to compete with Projected Digital Images, the first is on 6th October and
will be a test run for further competitions. As this will be our first try
with the new process, we will be judging this one ourselves.
We will be pressing into service our new projector, laptop and will use 'CComp' an electronic scoring system. Members will be able to submit two digital images, these can either be digital photographs of scanned from transparencies (film or slide), and can be straight, manipulated or composites; provided the originals were taken by the entrant. The images must not be more than 1280 pixels wide and 1024 pixels high, and saved as a JPEG (.jpg) file at the high to maximum (fine) quality.
The club will be selling BCC branded USB memory sticks to allow members to make their competition submissions. The memory pens are 512MB and will be available at a concession of £3 (replacements will be sold at cost, £5).
Club is granted Lottery Award
Thanks to The National Lottery 'Awards for All' scheme Banbury Camera Club
now has a some wonderful new equipment. The bid, prepared by our Chairman - Ray
Jordan and with the support of the committee, outlined our need for
projection and scanning equipment to aid
Alan Sergeant with his 'The Images of Banbury Project'
and to help the Club show members images, AV presentations and demonstrate
image editing.
The new projector was first used at our annual AV presentation. The general opinion was that the new Canon projector was far superior to our old HP projector and one member commented that it was the best image he had seen from digital projection. We also have an Apple MacBook Pro, which has allowed us to install Windows XP as well as the Macintosh OS-X operating systems giving us the flexibility to support both PC and Mac club members. We have also purchased Photoshop CS3, Photoshop Elements 6, Adobe Lightroom, and ProShow Gold to assist members in learning image management, editing and presentation processes.
Photographic Exhibition 2007
This years exhibition was again held a the wonderful Michael Heseltine
Gallery at Chenderit's Schools Visual Art Collage and for the fourth year
running it was a great success. In mid October, many people from the
surrounding counties can to see the diverse collection of nearly 100
pictures. Most of the pictures were also for sale and most of the profits
from these sales was donated to support
Katherine House Hospice. To find out
more information and see images from the exhibition click on the following
link Photographic Exhibition
2007.
Practical Sessions
We have now had two of these using the new format. Currently there is help
on using your Camera (Digital or Film), Basic Photoshop, Advanced Photoshop,
Mount Cutting (Mount cutter and mount card: black and white, available at
each practical session - £1 per card) and Dark room use. We would like all
members to fill in the following questionnaire
BCC
Questionnaire 2007, so we can arrange for appropriate sessions and
demonstrations to help everyone to learn new techniques.
Digital or Film - Home printing or Minilab
We are interested in a full range of formats and methods: digital imaging, using home computers and inkjet printers; traditional black and white printing; colour slides. Some of us take our pictures with compact cameras, either film or digital. Others have single lens reflex 35mm film or digital cameras, or large or medium format equipment. We make our own prints, or have them made professionally.
Chenderit School Arts College
We are fortunate in having access to excellent facilities
for practical photography at Chenderit. There is a superb digital imaging suite equipped with the
very latest computers, scanners and printers. There is also a fully equipped darkroom with six enlargers.
So we can put a big emphasis on practical work, offering opportunities for individual and group use of
the extensive facilities, with experienced members offering advice or support.
So whether it is learning to use your camera, improving your holiday pictures for the family
album, producing exhibition prints, or simply enjoying other people’s photographs, we
hope that Banbury Camera Club has something for you.
Winter and Spring Programme
From September to May we meet each week at 7.30 pm on Monday evenings. The programme includes:
• Visiting speakers and exhibitions;
• Discussion and advice sessions;
• Showing of members’ prints and slides;
• Practical sessions, including studio work, darkroom and digital imaging demonstrations and tuition;
• Competitions for members and with other clubs;
• Weekend outings
Summer Programme
From June to August we meet less frequently; there are outings to places of general and photographic interest.
Apart from taking photos, we normally meet for a drink or light meal on these visits. But it’s quite informal, so feel free to come along for just part of the time. Photos taken on the these visits may be entered in the competitions for pictures taken at club events.
Competitions - Subjects for 2008/9
Most of the competitions are open subject, but we also have set subject contests. The subjects for the coming season are:
Water and Patterns. We also have the new
Photo Finish Impact Trophy for prints which illustrate Impact, a subject which is open to all kinds of interpretation.
What does it cost to join?
Annual subscription is £22; £17.50 if you are unwaged; £5 for junior members under 18 years. There is a
family membership concession. Members also pay a £1 meeting fee for the Chenderit meetings. Visitors are always welcome – we won’t expect.
How
to find Us
In the winter we normally meet at our new venue Chenderit School Middleton Cheney.
This excellent facility provides us with full access to darkroom facilities
and a number of digital imaging workstations. This provides amble opportunity
to share skills, ideas and collective experience.
We meet on Monday evenings at 7.30. A map of how to find us is available here
For Details of our next event Click Here
For more information about:
Banbury, Chenderit School, and Middleton Cheney