
Chris Summers, President, choose a topic that takes us back to the future along with a need to review all our old photo folders. How many of us can remember our first digital cameras let alone find the photos? Some time in history, I had an Olympus micro 4/3rds camera that took great photos but I continued to use my film camera so I was not yet completely committed to digital. In 2008 I saw an advertisement for the Leica V-Lux 1 and ended up using it for years so I consider that camera to be my first digital camera and my film camera started collecting dust on the shelf. I loved how versatile it was, Leica is known for how sharp the photos can be and I finally found my muse.

It had a fixed zoom 35-420mm lens with 10 megapixels. I still have it and occasionally I’ll bring it as a second camera but I gave it up when I bought my first Canon 5D Mark II in 2011. A very light camera with great range with its zoom and the pictures were awesome. The picture above was taken along the Destin beach in 2009 and is one of my favorite photos. I took it to Alaska in 2009 and Mike commented on my small camera compared to the other DSLR cameras with zoom lenses that were on the boat. Little did he know that the comment led me to my first purchase of a DSLR and all the additional lenses and additional cameras that it would cost him later.
Weather permitting we will be meeting at the Kingwood First Baptist Church, 3500 Woodland Hills Drive, and via Zoom starting at 6:30 pm. Your old Zoom meeting link will work or watch for Chuck’s e-mail with the meeting link. Please check out your meeting link beforehand so Chuck is not trying to let you in during the meeting.
Chris has said if you don’t have the current assignment and have photos to share please upload them. Use the button on the Members Welcome page after logging in for the upload button. The assignment is any old photos from your early digital cameras. Have a little fun with the assignment and we’ll look forward to seeing your back-to-the-future photos.