David, my wife and I belong to a Mac users group in Princeton. The club has a guest speaker every week, for the general membership. However, just before the regular meeting, they have two special sessions, one for beginners and one for intermediate members. Each is led by and experienced person who usually presents one or two short topics and then conducts a question and answer session. This system has worked very well for that group. You might try setting up a "newbie" session for 30-45 minutes before the main meeting of your camera club, if that can be arranged.
Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 11:19 AM, David J Brooks <pentko...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tonight is the first camera club meeting for 2013/14 season. At the > end of last session, i declined to continue on as VP, so i will be > just one of the ordinary Joes, so to speak. > > However not sure i want to re up. The original idea was good, start > the club and teach the new camera owners how to get off Auto and enjoy > all aspects of their cameras. However we have gotten pretty big, fast, > about 50 members now, up from the original 12. Most of last year, and > what i can see for this year, will be guest speakers. Now thats fine, > we all enjoy the lectures and seeing their photos and how they did > them, but i only see one meeting were we will be teaching the newbies > so to speak, how to work the cameras. > > I enjoy the company but nowt sure its going to be worth the $65. > > Decisions decisions. > > Dave > > > > -- > Documenting Life in Rural Ontario. > www.caughtinmotion.com > http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ > York Region, Ontario, Canada > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
