=========================================================== THE NIKONIAN http://www.nikonians.com Regular Newsletter #9 02-DEC-2000 =========================================================== In this issue: 1. Editors Note 2. Lassi Tolvanen Wins the November Contest 3. Nikonians Coffee Mugs 4. Local Nikonians Groups 5. The Stealth Monopod aka "Merlin Stick" Article 6. Lot's of Activity in Our F/N80 Users Forum 7. N80 or N90? 8. The BEST Nikon Compact Zoom? 9. Some Upcoming Events 10. B&W Portraits 1. Editors Note =========================================================== Thanks for your interest in our non-profit community for Nikon users. We would like to sincerely appologize to all of our patient subscribers for not getting out this edition of our newsletter earlier - Main reason for the pause has been professional-life overload :-| Nikonians has received great attention by various people and important websites throughout the last months, for example Professional Photography's "Impact Award". We are very pleased to tell you that we're now over 1,700 registered Nikonians in the community! Due to that our provider have been switching hardware, the message subscription to forums have had some hickups (subscriptions not being sent out). This should though work again without problems. We have had some problems with uploading the images to the contest in a timely manner. Main reason being the popularity (i.e. the number of contestants). Images who didn't make it for the November contest, will be included for December. We are currently investigating better software enabling us to automatically include the data of each image being posted. This has previously been a manual and very tedious process. Due to the huge amount of work involved in this, we are currently not including the data below the images (it must though be included by the contestant!) To all of you helping out and to all members participating in the community - *big* thanks goes out to all of you! Have fun! Bo & JRP 02-Dec-2000 bo@nikonians.com jrpalacios@nikonians.com 2. Lassi Tolvanen Wins the November Contest =========================================================== Lassi Tolvanen's great photograph "Guidance Lights" won the November contest. We congratulate Lassi to this feat! http://www.nikonians.com/cgi-bin/imageFolio/imageFolio.cgi?action=view&link=NikoniansPhotoContest-Winners&image=648-LassiTolvanen-GuidanceLights.jpg&img=&tt=img 3. Nikonians Coffee Mugs =========================================================== Well, at last we were able to get one of the first give- aways done thanks to US based Nikonian Victor Newman; Our nice, black, huge coffee mugs! Some of our earliest members have received one and some more "old hands" might recieve one for Christmas. If you're curious about our mugs, check out: http://www.nikonians.com/dcforum/DCForumID38/67.html 4. Local Nikonian Groups =========================================================== Several members have asked us regarding the possibility to have a graphical map to be able see where other members are located, to have a searchable listing or similar. We think this is a great idea and we'll try to set up something like this in the community. If anyone of you is able to help out with the cgi scripts for this, we would be pleased to learn more about it. Just write editorial@nikonians.com a short note. One member would like to hear about Nikonians in and around Silicon Valley: http://www.nikonians.com/dcforum/DCForumID38/62.html 5. The Stealth Monopod aka "Merlin Stick" Article =========================================================== A short article on how-to make your own walking stick monopod has been written by Nikonian Mike Graham. Check out: http://www.nikonians.com/html/resources/non-nikon_articles/merlin_stick.html 6. Lot's of Activity in Our F/N80 Users Forum =========================================================== Moderator Lodewyk Sutherland takes care of the traffic in our popular F/N80 Users Forum. One of the interesting topics are: "F/N80 User Satisfaction Survey" http://www.nikonians.com/dcforum/DCForumID58/23.html The forum is located here: http://www.nikonians.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcboard.cgi?az=list&forum=DCForumID58 7. N80 or N90? =========================================================== With Nikon having their F/N80 out, several members have been thinking what is the best buy. Check out: http://www.nikonians.com/dcforum/DCForumID5/136.html 8. The BEST Nikon Compact Zoom? =========================================================== As always, this is a question of taste and use. A thorough discussion on this can be found right here: http://www.nikonians.com/dcforum/DCForumID6/107.html 9. Some Upcoming Events =========================================================== Some of the events in December: 02 & 03-DEC-2000 Nikon School in Detroit 09 & 10-DEC-2000 Nikon School in NYC Btw, the position for Calendar Administrator is open. If you want to help out, just send editorial@nikonians.com a short email. 10. B&W Portraits =========================================================== Wendy Folse, our moderator of the Nikonians Ladies forum asked: Is anyone else getting more and more requests for black & white portraits? [...] Check out: http://www.nikonians.com/dcforum/DCForumID42/19.html =========================================================== If you have any questions regarding this newsletter, please send an email to editorial@nikonians.com You receive THE NIKONIAN because you have requested it. We hope you find it useful, however, if you'd like your name to be removed from the newsletter, you can simply do so at any time from the main page at our community: http://www.nikonians.com