STANTHORPE CAMERA CLUB
FORMED MAY 1952
1st February 1953
Page 120 - Vol. 60 No. 2 The Australasian Photographic Review
STANTHORPE CAMERA CLUB
When the Stanthorpe Camera Club was inaugurated just twelve months ago, most of the members were raw beginners. Recently we held our first Annual Exhibition, which was an unqualified success, for it topped the poll for an Adult Education audience in Stanthorpe when 400 people came to see the show, many of them coming along for a second viewing.
A special feature of the exhibition was the screening of 35mm Kodachrome slides, with an hour of recorded commentary and musical background. This part of the show was particularly well presented on the three nights of the show by R. Mergard and M. Vincent, who, apart from their interest in photography, are “cranks” on sound production and radio.
Other clubs may be interested in the display stands used for this occasion; sturdily built of pine and caneite, these stands are fully collapsible into a bundle of centers and a bundle of supports. In the accompanying pictures, the close-up shows Mr. T. Homan, President, talking to Councilor T.A. Rogers, Chairman of the Stanthorpe Shire Council, who opened the show. This picture also shows the detail of one of the stands, where it can be seen that ordinary office staples were pushed into the caneite, thereby protecting the prints from holes in the corners.
It may also interest other Queensland country clubs to know that the Stanthorpe Camera Club is constituted in co-operation with the Board of Adult Education, and to learn what advantages can accrue from such an association.
Our members pay no fees; the club is therefore “free to the public”. The Board pays practically all our expenses, room rent, rent for the exhibition, hand- bills, window cards, newspaper advertisements and bore the cost of building the display stands, but the latter become the property of the Board, to be used in other centres if required. The Board also pays the fees of approved lecturers.
1st June 1953 Page 380 - Vol. 60 No. 6 Australasian Photo-Review
STANTHORPE CAMERA CLUB
At the meeting on 14th April the evening was spent with a demonstration of enlarging which was a co-operative effort. The instructor Mr. T.J.D. Croston, who is seen in the accompanying photograph as the gentleman with the towel, selected several negatives and various members then made different prints using the same negative. It was a most instructive night and showed how quite different pictures may be made from a single negative.
A PHOTOGRAPH OF SOME STANTHORPE CAMERA CLUB WORKERS
TAKEN WITH BRYAN WILBURN’S HOME-MADE SPEEDLIGHT.
THE SECRETARY, LEN SMITH, IS SEEN OPERATING THE EXPOSURE METER AT THE ENLARGER.