009 News in PDF format

[Doug Dickson]

Thank you for that, Blair...

In retrospect I think my views on that other forum may be too parochial, I tend to inhabit the 'Card Structure Modelling' and 'Scenery and Structure' sections where I see no bullying or trolling.

Oo-er, am I perhaps a member of a clique there? :o

Do you think my suggestion of a dedicated submissions email address worthy of further consideration?

It is how a huge American site, 'Model Railroad Hobbyists' do business. That way if you submit something that the Editor considers unsuitable or insufficiently worthwhile for publication, the dialogue remains a private matter between the two of you.

Doug

[Doug Dickson]

Thanks, Cornelius, that is worth knowing. I did wonder if my idea so simple  not to have been thought of already, perhaps it could be more widely promulgated, or have I not yet found that information on the forum/home page?

Doug

[gtmspyder]

Thank you BrianM and Blair for your replies.

If you re-read my post you will see that the difficulty I had was the fact that having got the pictures, which I took specifically to show on the forum, which were high quality from my expensive tripod mounted in most cases, camera, uploaded onto my computer, I then reduced them to 800x600 size and deleted the originals as no longer required, from my hard drive. 

I then uploaded the 800x600 copies to Photo Bucket, specifically to ease the posting on to the forum.

So I no longer had the mega sized pictures available to go with my written words, annoying I know, but when I took the pictures, there was no thought about sending them to the magazine.

BrianM, I read your method of picture taking, and was surprised by your comment that you opened the lens wide, as this would reduce your depth of field tremendously, and with the camera tripod mounted, was totally unnecessary as the longer exposure time necessary for the smaller aperture would be no problem with the camera tripod mounted??  Or perhaps I have read it wrong.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

[Hobby]

Ah, I see Brian. I always download my photos at top resolution and then save them to a CD/DVD so I have the originals...

[B.Meldon]

BrianM, I read your method of picture taking, and was surprised by your comment that you opened the lens wide, as this would reduce your depth of field tremendously, and with the camera tripod mounted, was totally unnecessary as the longer exposure time necessary for the smaller aperture would be no problem with the camera tripod mounted??  Or perhaps I have read it wrong.

Kind regards,

BrianT.

Yes sorry there was an error in my last post.

I shut the aperture to the smallest size, that is the largest F number!

Brian Meldon

[clayliner]

Ah, progress...

I often wonder now how we ever managed before the arrival of the paperless office ;)

David.
(With apologies for the not entirely helpful contribution to the discussion)

[Hobby]

It's an interesting thought, though... I could not have done what I have in Central European modelling without the 'Net and all that goes with it... (OK, perhaps I could, but it would have taken decades of research rather than days...) :)

[alan]

I'm late to this discussion. Firstly can I please ask you to assume that I don't read every posting so I'm more than likely to miss any question that my be posed to me. If you need me to reply specifically, please send me a private message or an email.

The Society is primarily a postal organisation and every member receives a posted copy of the 009 News. For some years now, the cost of posting the News to overseas members has risen considerably year on year and has been subsided by other means. However, increases in the past 15 months have made this unsustainable and we had to make significant increases in the cost of overseas membership. However, we are conscious that overseas members do not receive the same benefits as enjoyed by the UK members and so have had to look at still providing the 009 News but not in a printed format and so don't need to pass on the increased cost. We have introduced a PDF issue of the News which is presently available for overseas members only.

Overseas members are being offered the option of a PDF-only membership or a continued postal copy (but at an increased subscription fee) at their renewal of their membership. At the moment, it is emailed to them.

We have no intention of offering a PDF-only option to UK members as we are simply not geared up to deal with the extra administration burden that this would create. Please remember that your Committee are all volunteers and many are still working full time and have the pressures of family life.

We are looking at a substantial change to the Society's website where we would expect members who want access a PDF copy to do it through a "self serve" facility where the current and back issues would be available. This will need to be only available for current members only, of course, and we need this to be administered as simply as possible. We are in the process of gathering requirements for this and will be soon seeking tenders from interested parties to make this a reality. We recognise that this is beyond the ability of the Committee to do this "in house" as we don't have time and, in most cases, the knowledge to do this.  If you feel that you have skills in this area then please get in touch with the Secretary.

Alan

[Graeme Dunbar]

Thanks Alan. That's encouraging news.

[Jeff Schumaker]

Can someone tell me when the pdf verrsion of the August issue of the newsletter will be emailed?

Jeff S

[alan]

Hopefully today, Jeff; it's "in hand".

[Jeff Schumaker]

Many thanks, Alan.

Jeff S.

[Commerlad]

Also late to the conversation, and another who has in the past seemingly been banging his head against a brick wall asking for the option of PDF in the UK (and the added advantage that older archived copies could also be accessed) and NO I would not ask for a discount for not receiving a paper copy (even though at present I am still awaiting delivery of the August copy which I understand some people had obtained a week ago)

It is just that my jokes about the Postal Tractor and snail mail are not that funny when you get the service I do from our beloved post office.

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE,

Can we have PDF for the UK as well if we wish.

Message to secretary and committee.

Remember I submitted details ages ago (beginning of 2013 including a request that it was discussed at NGM) about how you could have a secure system at no cost to the society.

[Commerlad]

And I now have my August copy.

Arrived 2:35 PM 24th July (Over a week later than some!)

[alan]

Also late to the conversation, and another who has in the past seemingly been banging his head against a brick wall asking for the option of PDF in the UK (and the added advantage that older archived copies could also be accessed) and NO I would not ask for a discount for not receiving a paper copy (even though at present I am still awaiting delivery of the August copy which I understand some people had obtained a week ago)

Just to re-iterate that we are looking at making PDFs available for all members, not just those overseas. We are presently restricting this to overseas members as we can't cope with the administrative burden of including all members at the moment. We are looking at a revamp of the website to allow members to have access to a members'-only area and the PDF news will be available through that on a "self service" basis. Please be aware that we will NOT be reducing the cost of membership for UK members.

It is hoped to have something in place by the end of the year.