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Our Lady of the Snows Stormy Knights
Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps Alumni News Letter
The Knightly News Letter, Issue 5
June 6, 2001
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Stormy Knights Home Page:
www.stormyknights.org
Contents:
1) Our Lady of Snows School Reunion: May 20, 2001
2) Digital Photography Tips
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1) Our Lady of Snows School Reunion: May 20, 2001
The reunion was a lot of fun.
Between 100 and 150
OLS school alumni attended. Alumni from as far back
as 1963.
There were about 20-25 Stormy Knights alumni as well.
It was good to see everybody after such a long time.
I'm sure a lot more would have made it if not for
long distances to travel.
In the links below, you will find pictures I took from
the reunion. I wish I had taken more pictures, but I guess
I was doing too much catching up. If anybody has any
photo's they want to share, please contact me by e-mail.
I'll send you my address if you have pictures for me to scan in.
Otherwise you can forward them to me as attachments.
Click on the link below to go directly to the Stormy Knights
Reunion Page:
www.stormyknights.org/reunion.htm
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2) Digital Photography
Tips
I'll share some of my experience with my new digital camera.
It's a Kodak DC4800 with a 64 MB Flash Memory Card.
The bigger the flash card you can afford the better. As file
sizes get bigger, the 8 or 16 MB cards that come with the
camera become almost useless. I would definitely recommend
the camera. It takes great pictures right of the box in "auto"
mode, but can be customized if you want to play with it.
It takes a bit of getting used to.
You should play with it before
a lot before taking it to an important event. Digital photography
also requires a lot of time in front of your computer to download,
fix, crop, save and organize your photos. I wouldn't recommend
any digital camera to anyone (even the inexpensive sub $100 ones),
unless you are very comfortable in front of your computer.
I also found out
that mishaps CAN and DO happen. I "moved"
instead of "copied" some "photos" from the camera to the
hard
drive on my computer. Perfectly good "photos" turned into
corrupted "files" that I threw into my circular binary bit bucket.
I should have copied them and made sure they all got transferred
properly BEFORE deleting them.
A USB port is an absolute necessity
in ANY camera as file sizes
get larger. This means a lot of older computers without USB ports
won't be able to support a digital camera. Make sure to check for
compatibility (Win95, Win98??), and disk space availability.
You should also have a CD burner to archive or back up your "photos".
How many floppies (1.44 MB each) do you think it would take to archive
100 MB of data? 100 MB is equivalent to about 5-10 rolls of film
depending on picture resolution. I have yet to back up a few hundred
photo's I've taken. I guess I'm waiting for a virus or disc crash to
totally ruin my day.
Well, I hope I haven't turned anybody off to buying a digital camera,
but better to be prepared than have an expensive paper weight.
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See you at the finish line...
Sal Gambino
salgambino@yahoo.com
