AV News 177 - August 2009
Farewell?
L ilia n W e b b AIPF
Our names are A and B - the adopted children of Lilian. Our original parents
were James and Moya who lovingly cared for us in the early years before James
decided to let us go when he went for a Colin Balls' model! Anyway, the loving
care continued up to recently. You see, there are very few people who want to
see us nowadays - there have been so many new toys for boys (and girls). We
are considered very yesterday!
We have very happy memories of the lovely outings we were brought on and
have seen inside the meeting places of many camera clubs, homes and halls.
But the most unusual was when we were brought to help show bog images to
bog men in a pub in the middle of a bog - on a very cold December night! Lilian
got in a dither each time she took us out with all the bits and pieces that we
needed (she told us we needed more than what you would for travelling babies)!
Recently, we have only been brought out singly as Lilian has shown her slides
of her trip to the Falklands, South Georgia, the Antarctic and Argentina to various
groups - photographic and other - and she makes sure that if A goes one time,
B goes the other. We are too young to be pensioned off, but it looks like we will
have to go into early retirement just like Lilian.
All is not lost. Lilian by all accounts is the dinosaur of AV and has not made
the transition to digital AV …yet!
What we miss most is all the laughs she had when strange men and women
fiddled with us while they attempted to get sequences together, listen to music,
record and pulse their shows. Our poor ears throbbed with the "ceol and craic"!
What wonderful places we brought people to - gardens and castles, trips at
home and abroad - even air shows and hot air balloon trips. But all is quiet now.
We wonder if new age AV has as much fun as we did?
Still, the memories live on!
Converting Slides To Digital
G ra h a m B la c k w e ll ARPS
Some 15 years or so ago, a lifelong friend,
David Sinclair and I went Trekking to the
Annapurna Sanctuary in Nepal. On returning
home from this "once in a lifetime" trip, I made
an AV record of the journey using
Kodachrome Slides, with music on audio
cassette. Since that time things have moved
on and all my AV shows are now produced
digitally using PicturesToExe and Adobe
Audition.
Some months ago my friend who made the
trip with me became severely disabled and is
now wheelchair bound and trekking is just a
memory from the past.
Graham, their Guide & David
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