Our secretary was absent and the member who volunteered to take notes took them, but unfortunately the notes have not made their way to the newsletter, so I will relate what I recall.

As best I can remember, we had our usual Windows SIG for the first 30 minutes of the meeting. We then were presented with the slate of officers to be voted on at the December meeting. An opportunity was given to add names to the slate, but none was added.

Since Gateway backed out of their scheduled presentation earlier in the week, Ford Bond, a local photographer and computer person, agreed to fill in. And fill in he did, giving us a very good presentation on digital photography.

He brought with him two of his cameras, both Nikon digital cameras. One was a high end consumer model (a little over $1,000) and the other was a professional model. If I remember correctly, he described this professional model as being on the low end of such cameras, costing slightly less than $5,000 for the back alone, although it did have the advantage of using all of the regular Nikon SLR lenses.

He provided a run down on the advantages and disadvantages of both cameras—the only disadvantage of the more expensive model being its price. Along with this, we learned a bit about digital photography in general. For example, you can do more with an underexposed photo than with an overexposed one.

To display the quality of results that can be achieved with a professional digital camera, he passed around a number of prints made from his digital images. At this point he described the various printers he used to produce the photos which he had printed himself.

The next topic was a discussion of how he modifies digital photos by opening the digital file in Adobe PhotoShop, where he can "fine tune" the photos.

Finally, he took us to his web site where he has, among other things, examples of his panoramic photography. Actually we only visited a duplicate of his web site that was on his laptop.

However, you can visit the real site at http://www.computer-doc.net.

As an amateur photographer, I found the presentation very valuable. u