Camera Club receives camera donations

By Rex Dolby

The Wassenberg Camera Club will hold its regularly scheduled meeting on Thursday, August 9, at 7 p.m. at the Wassenberg Art Center. Outdoor Fun is the competition theme in prints and slides that evening. There will also be a number of business items to be discussed. The public is invited and welcome to attend.

The theme should produce a large number of entries for competition. If you and/or a friend enjoy an outdoor activity, have a photo of it, you have a picture to be entered. Pretty much any activity done outside that can be described with an action verb will qualify if the subject is having fun. The subject does not have to be limited to humans. Birds, animals, and fish may also be considered. This could be verrrry interesting!

The club has received a large number of photography pieces. Joan Giessler donated Elmer’s Baby Brownie camera, which was manufactured between 1939 and 1954. It used 127 film.

Anonymous donors have given a Canon Powershot 350 digital camera made in 1997, an Olympus Quikmatic film camera, which was introduced in 1967 and was the only Olympus camera to use 126 film, and an HP Photosmart 945 digital camera that was made in 2003 and features a digital flash to even out high contrast scenes. Also donated were a  Canon Photura video camera, introduced in 1990 with image stabilization, a Nikon N75 built in 2003 that introduced auto focus, and a Sony Mavica Digital still camera built in 1997. This camera was the first of the Mavica line. The club also received two more gadget bags and is grateful to all the folks who have so generously donated to the club’s collection.

If you haven’t picked up your Van Wert County Fair entry forms for entering art or photography, you may pick up a form here at the art center during our regular hours.

The Wassenberg Art Center’s hours during exhibits are: Tuesday through Sunday 1–5 p.m. and you may contact the art center at 419.238.6837, by email: info@wassenbergartcenter.orgor via our website at: wassenbergartcenter.org. The Wassenberg Art Center is located at 643 South Washington Street in Van Wert.