Champlain Valley P.C. Users Group

Club president,
Steve

Club News-letter editor, Ken

Club treasurer, Bill

Club Photographer
(appointed by the club editor)

Champlain Valley Personal Computer Users Group (CVPCUG) is a club that provides a forum for sharing Questions & Answers, Hints & Tips, Show & Tell, Good & Bad experiences and Focus on Current Topics of Interest.

Meetings are held Monthly on the 2nd Tuesday of every month promptly at 7:00 P.M. We meet at the Computer Land Training Center at 21 Gregory Drive (just off of Kimble Avenue) in Williston, Vermont.

Typically the first half of the meeting is a short business meeting (5 to 30 minutes) followed by a time of sharing. The second half of the meeting is centered around either a presentation or a speaker, following by questions and answered reguarding that night's topics.

Recent topics

March 1998: A representative from Computers Are Us presented us with a basic computer with the normal components of Pentium computers -- at the price of a disposable; but with the expandability of its more costly rivals.

April 1998: Club president Steve demonstrates Nuts and Bolts Utilities program.

July 1998: I demonstrated some of the pluses and minuses of my new Kodak DC120 digital camera to my Olympus camera. Here are some group shots from the Kodak DC120 at 100% (full-size).
The images are at low, medium, high, and uncompressed quality.

Here is a comparison between my Kodak digital CD120 cameras and my Olympus digital D-500L, using our club president as an example.

The left picture is with the Kodak in uncompressed mode at the f-stop at +1.5. Notice that it handles the contrast of human flesh better than the Olympus. But, It is awkward to have to always have to set the Kodak to add light to the scene is order to get a good picture. I can put 34 of these quality pictures on a 32 megabyte flashcard. The right picture is with the Olympus in standard compressed mode and the f-stop set to normal. Better modes result in larger pictures (more pixels), not better quality. Using an 8 megabyte frashcard, I can put 41+ pictures in high quality (1024 x 768 pixels) or 100+ in standard mode (640 x 480 pixels).

One of the serious pluses to the Kodak digital camera is the fact that I can manually set the f-stop to numerous settings between 1/500 of a second to 16 seconds. To the left is a picture of Rick installing Windows '95 in a relatively dark room.

Of course, it is difficult to get a good picture at 1 second, with everyone chatting back and forth.

Click here to see the group's official web-page, authored by the club editor, Ken.

Visitors are welcome to come join us in a meeting for free. We meet the second Tuesday of every month promptly at 7:00 P.M. We meet at the Computer Land Training Center on Gregory Drive in Williston, Vermont.

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