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Monthly newsletter.August  2010
Photographic News
Greetings!

We encourage you to sign up to Facebook and become a fan of ours. It allows us to send you updates including the arrival of new products and ask for feedback as it happens, rather than once a month. Our photo competitions will be run through facebook - we've already posted the winners of our last photo competition and details about our next photo competition on Facebook.

Find us on Facebook

Now we're looking at how best to publicise our workshops when we launch them - we'd like to publicise these using Facebook. Not everybody reads their newsletter immediately, if at all, and sometimes these end up going into the spam box of your email provider.
 
If you'd rather avoid Facebook but don't mind more regular emails (they'll just be brief notes in between the full monthly newsletter) then subscribe to our "Brief Notes" by clicking on the following link. Make sure you tick the BRIEF NOTES box when required.
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World Photography Day celebrates the announcement of the first photograph ever produced on August 19, 1839...171 years of cameras, photos and painting with light.  What a great reason for a celebration! 
We're celebrating it with activities around the store throughout the day.  
  • a staged photo shoot around the Riff Raff statue at 10am, midday and 2pm where Digital SLR owners can try out lighting and camera accessories. If you can't make it in person, you can watch online via this livecam link
  • a prize for the most creative photo of Riff Raff captured on the day
  • an in-store display of antique and classic cameras from Graham's museum
  • a prize for the oldest camera brought into the store on the day
  • spot prizes
  • celebration specials 
 Check out this link - we're famous!
 
August Photo Competition

We're running another photo competition for our Facebook fans. Theme is "MY BEST FRIEND".  More details can be found here.
First prize - judged by us - will receive a 20x30inch stretched canvas, so enter a photo you'd be proud to hang on your wall. 
Runners up will each receive a $50 printing voucher - these are the photos that get the most number of likes/comments so watch the entries as they're posted and let us know what you think. Alternatively view them all in one place and comment there...link to all photos here.
  
Want some rugged binoculars?
 
 
If you want to buy some Steiner binoculars now that you've seen the video then check out our selection - instore or online here .
 
  

We look forward to your photo competition entries and to seeing you on World Photography day.

Regards,

 Jill Boswell
and the Snapshot Cameras team 

In This Issue
World Photo Day
August Photo Competition
Rugged Binoculars
Card care Update
Shapes Results
Workshops Update
Workshops Update
 
CARD CARE UPDATE
 
This topic crops up often as we are passionate about caring for memory cards.
We aren't always successful at recovering photos from memory cards so see the disappointment this causes.
 
Last month we suggested you practice the 4 F's of card care. A recent discussion with a data recovery expert reinforced this. But he added another suggestion for permanently removing photos from your cards - "FILL WITH ZEROS".  In the unlikely event your card is damaged, the data recovery expert knows every piece of data belongs to your most recent shooting session.
 
To read more about card care and zero-filling 
follow this link.
 
 
SHAPES PHOTO COMPETITION
 
Congratulations to Charly Baty - our winner - and Dominic Cameron and Michael Eastwood - our runners up.
 
 
PHOTO WORKSHOPS
  
 
We sought feedback about the most popular topics wanted for our workshops - using the Facebook Poll Page and a brief email. The most popular three topics were Understanding Your DSLR, Creative Flash Photgraphy, and Photo Walks.
Watch this space.
 
 
Embarrassing moment caught on video
 
 Check out this YouTube video - you may laugh or you may cry - just make sure it never happens to you!
 
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offerCANVAS PRINTING SPECIAL...
save 33.33%!
 
Get your best photos printed onto canvas and stretched over a rigid pine frame for 1/3 less than normal pricing*.
Any shape, any size up to 32" wide (by metres long) can be produced.
 
*Outlab only - excludes canvases printed on-site
Please present this voucher. Offer ends 31/08/10 

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