AV News 179 - February 2010
AV Lecturers
R P S A V G ro u p
The RPS AV Group committee would like to draw up a list of specialist AV
Lecturers for publication on the RPS web pages and also in AV News for the
benefit of AV Groups, Camera Clubs and Photographic Society Syllabus
Secretaries. If you have a suitable lecture, willing to visit such organizations
and willing to have such details published then please email description and
title of lecture together with full contact details to Bernard Longley, Vice
Chairman AV Group Committee.
And What Are Your Expenses?.......
M a u ric e D y b e c k ARPS
Give a talk, show your pictures and at some stage the Club's Treasurer will
most likely come up to you with this question. Which of these is your response?
1.
Oh, give me nothing. I just do it for love.
2.
Something for my petrol?
3.
Of course I'm asking nothing for myself but all this kit cost me £x.
4.
Fee? How about £25 ? (And I will put that into my pet charity)
5.
Fee of £500 and you supply the projector. (My requirements attached)
I hasten to add that this last was not an AV man but a lecturer to a local
society (not photographic) … and I ended up as his projectionist, working to
his strict specification. And I didn't even get 10%!
Such a range of responses is only to be expected when we are all in the
game for very different reasons. But, for the sake of those who DO want to
try and put a costing on what they get up to in making presentations, let me
try and sort out some of the considerations.
Travel - "Just petrol" can mean many things. And do you really know how
much petrol you used on that rainy night to the Womens' Institute? Mileage
at 30p a mile might be a bit steep but I recall an RPS person who was asking
a well-heeled outfit to give him 25p a mile twenty years ago. They didn't like
it. I suppose in the end what you ask is what you think they can afford. But
remember, the real transport cost is always more than "just petrol"
Use Of Equipment - As this is your hobby and you have all the gear anyway
you may feel that this is not an expense you should impose upon your
audiences. On the other hand equipment does deteriorate with use, though
bulb failure is not the worry it used to be. But just wait until the Big One blows!
Even so, with all the electronic updates that are urged upon us, there is
quite a sizeable capital bill and you may feel that your audiences should help
out with that one. Apportioning the amount will depend upon what portion of
your activity relates to those lecture rounds you do.
Related to equipment is that secondary category that accountants refer to
as Printing, Postages & Stationery. And just think how much ink you have to
keep putting into that printer!
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