THE WEEK OF 05/14/2009
THIS SATURDAY'S WORKSHOPS
9-11am: "Using Your Nikon D60/D40 Camera"
1-3 pm: "Using Your Nikon D90/D70 Camera"
4-6 pm: "Using Your Nikon D700/D300 Camera"
Paul is the instructor. Reservations are requested. www.camerasbrookwood.com/WorkshopPage/WorkshopPage.html
MORE PHOTO INSTRUCTION
CAMERAS BROOKWOOD has added a new Wednesday Workshop: "How To Clean Your Digital Camera Sensor"-$30, bring a friend for $10 more. Schedule for your convenience on any Wednesday at any time. Please reserve 24 hours ahead so that we will have adequate staffing during your workshop.
Samford After Sundown has just published their new Summer 2009 Schedule. Ken Boyd took the cover shot. To register or to request a catalog, call 205 726-2739 or goto http://www.samford.edu/sundown .
NEW PRODUCTS
Manfrotto (Bogen) has just introduced a new design in light stands. Steve declares them to be "great!". They can be snapped together for transporting and storage; they stand upright when closed both individually or snapped together; they are air-cusioned, they release easily to the open position. Available in 12 foot and 7 foot models. The 7 foot model is especially compact for transporting. $120 and $80.
Other new gadgets- the LastOLite TriFlash shoe-mount flash bracket allows you to mount three shoe-mount flashes to one light stand, $77.00. The LastOLite TriGrip Holder is designed to mount a LastOLite TriGrip Reflector to any light stand. $129
PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT
Want to make your own coffee table book of your photographs for yourself or for a gift (or to sell)? Hahnemule, one of our premier inkjet paper suppliers, offers a kit with book cover and twenty sheets of premium, double sided inkjet paper that allows you to print exhibition quality prints on both sides of the paper and then fabricate the pages into the cover to make a professional grade book. $69 for the kit.
ORDER PRINTS ONLINE
The first dozen orders over $40 will receive a penguin FREE. http://www.cbPhotoLab.com . Use Offer Code #NL0514.**(see notes)
PHOTO EXHIBITIONS
Ann Von Kuhn has an exhibition of forty of her photographs at Loretta Goodwin Gallery, 605 South 28th Street. "A Sense Of Place" are black and white images from her travels. Blank note cards, along with the photographs, are available for purchase through May 22nd.
EMAIL SPECIALS**
A versatile and powerful accessory every hobbiest should have- only one left and it only fits the Canon Rebel: the Zigview R Digital View Finder with remote shutter release and intervolometer with motion detection. $279.95; newsletter special for $97.
Kaiser 12.6 inch Paper Cutter cuts paper up to .5 mm easily and accurately with a safe rotating circular blade; newsletter special $39. One to a customer.
STAFF
Dianne purchases the inventory, pays the vendors, maintains the processing lab, resolves customer problems, and then covers the showroom in her spare time. Dianne attends most Photo Show openings and actively supports the Birmingham photographic community. She has worked at CAMERAS BROOKWOOD for 32 years and intends to work here another 32 years.
**NOTE
All offers and promotions contained in this newsletter are extended only to the person to whom the email is addressed, are valid for six days from the newsletter date, are limited to only items in stock, with one offer to a customer.