Club History - 2000 onwards
In 2000 Horsham Council created a Millennium Capsule to commemorate the event, which is buried under the Forum. The Photographic Society contributed a roll of 35mm film with images of the town.(see photo)
In 2001 members took photographs of Horsham from the same locations as the 1951 album, highlighting the changes in town. This was published as part of the Tempus “Then and Now ” series of books and became a popular gift.
During this decade the quality of digital cameras has improved greatly, ranging from digital SLRs with manual controls, to easy-to-use automatic compact cameras, to mobile phones: all giving excellent results as pixels increased from 1 megapixels up to 8 megapixels]
Society members have gone almost 100% digital: print competitions remain popular and black and white images are still considered the best medium for some subjects. However colour slide competitions no longer take place and have been replaced by digital images projected onto a screen from a lap top computer.
Major advantages of digital photography are the ease of reviewing the result on the camera within seconds of taking a picture and the convenience of the large storage capacity of the memory cards, some capable of holding over a thousand images, compared to film, which had a maximum capacity of 36 images.
Consequently photographers can take many images but now print very few, whereas most film images were printed and kept and many members possess thousands of colour slides. Storage space is drastically reduced as people are no longer generating albums of photographs, but filing them on the PC or a CD-ROM.
In 2001 members took photographs of Horsham from the same locations as the 1951 album, highlighting the changes in town. This was published as part of the Tempus “Then and Now ” series of books and became a popular gift.
During this decade the quality of digital cameras has improved greatly, ranging from digital SLRs with manual controls, to easy-to-use automatic compact cameras, to mobile phones: all giving excellent results as pixels increased from 1 megapixels up to 8 megapixels]
Society members have gone almost 100% digital: print competitions remain popular and black and white images are still considered the best medium for some subjects. However colour slide competitions no longer take place and have been replaced by digital images projected onto a screen from a lap top computer.
Major advantages of digital photography are the ease of reviewing the result on the camera within seconds of taking a picture and the convenience of the large storage capacity of the memory cards, some capable of holding over a thousand images, compared to film, which had a maximum capacity of 36 images.
Consequently photographers can take many images but now print very few, whereas most film images were printed and kept and many members possess thousands of colour slides. Storage space is drastically reduced as people are no longer generating albums of photographs, but filing them on the PC or a CD-ROM.
