Snapshots

Press, 10 July 1985, Page 40

Snapshots

Club directory The Avon Camera Club meets on the first Tuesday in the month at Holy Trinity Hall, Avonside, at 7.30 p.m. Contact telephone: 517-402. The Christchurch Photographic Society meets every Wednesday at 22 St Asaph Street at 8 p.m. Contact telephone: 515-156. The Hagley Camera Club meets on the fourth Thursday in the month at 22 St Asaph Street at 7.45 p.m. Contact telephone: 389-438. The Leica Group of New Zealand meets irregularly. Contact telephone: 327-329. The New Brighton Photographic Club meets every Tuesday at the cricket pavilion, Shaw Avenue, at 8 p.m. Contact telephone: 893-617. The Photo Arts Group meets on the first Tuesday in the month in the upstairs common room, Arts Centre, 7.30 p.m. Contact telephone: 383-193. The University of Canterbury Photographic Society meets irregularly. Contact

telephone: 559-703. A beginners’ evening course entitled “Using Your Camera” begins on July 12 at the Photographic Training Centre. The course lasts six hours, spread over two weeks. Slide projector A twin-lens 35mm slide projector which gives automatic dissolving from one picture to the next, or the overlapping of two pictures, is asserted by Rollei as the first of its kind. The projector, the Rolleivision 35 Twin, retails at about $2BOO.

New charger A battery-charger which takes either AA or AAA rechargeable batteries has been released by Unomat. The charger, which can be set to turn itself off when the batteries are charged, has three settings: quick (four to five hours), slow and “permanent” (stabil-ised-current). The retail cost of the charger, the NCLB3, is about $125, as well as $l5 for the AAA adaptor. The distributor is Multi Products, Ltd.