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For many of us using colour slide film was the mainstay of our photographic output but, equally, many of you will say “it still is!” But we cannot be unaware of the swiftness of technological change going on around us as evidenced, for instance, by Eastman Kodak’s fourth-quarter financial report for 2005 which showed that for the first time their digital sales overtook film-based products.

This season a total of 122 digital images were submitted by 21 members, 7 of whom entered the maximum nine files for the projected image digital competitions. One member rightly deserves our thanks, our programming guru, Maurice Hammon, for without his ingenious programme PicShow and the associated resizing programme, the digital competition would not have run so smoothly and efficiently.

So with the first run now complete of digital competitions on an experimental basis it is time to look forward to next season.

Again there will be three digital competitions to be judged externally, but this time there will be a trophy to play for. The winner of the digital league will be the member who has the highest total score based on the five best marks from a possible nine images entered.

Though there was no outright winner this year for the digital competitions the committee at their last meeting deliberated over no less than nine statistical methods to find who, in theory, could have been a winner. But instead, our number crunching found that three members Steve Day, Jim Denton and Maurice Hammon always came out on top for this season, which ever way the marks were interpreted. So many congratulations to them.

Mike Parry