Wi-Fi your camera from under £100.00

Events should be wireless for health and safety, not to mention practicality.

If you are not using Canon or Nikon, come and see a simple but exciting technology development which will revolutionise the way you work, for a miniscule price.

If you are using Canon or Nikon, come and see a simple but exciting technology development which will revolutionise the way you work, for a miniscule price.

Impress your customers with fast wireless transfer of images straight to your laptop.

Increase efficiency of workflow and reduce wear and tear on your cameras and storage cards.

So come along and see the demonstration by Patrick at:
5:30pm Thursday, June 24th 2010
The Pro Lounge of Jacobs Photo Video and Digital
74 New Oxford Street
London
WC1A 1EU

Good day,

Below are the summaries of the last two meetings held in April and May 2010.

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In order to maintain a level of security, we will have to check names we do not recognise from meetings or the emails until we have established our Forum rules. The forum rules are not yet established, but they will be available shortly. Until then, please moderate your posts with the level of professionalism the group aims to reflect.

Regards

Patrick Nairne

May 27 2010

Danny Green, Kenn Jordan and Patrick Nairne
Apologies: John Christopher

This meeting was all about the launch of the new website and forum of the BEPN.

I wish to say on behalf of the group, many thanks to Kenn for his incredible effort to produce this extremely professional, polished and feature rich site. This site is considerably more powerful than the current needs of the group and is ready for anything we can throw at it for sometime to come. Please remember that Kenn has not charged for the development, design, hosting, cost of the URL or management of the site which would have earned him into the thousands if done for a paying client. At some point, the group will need to shoulder this.

BEPN.co.uk is the first port of call for information about the meetings and for keeping each other informed. There will be no more group emails unless the site is unavailable.

It would not be practical for everyone to be given administrator access to the whole site, but everyone is expected to do more than just post messages. There is need for members to moderate at different times to ensure new applicants can be approved and their posts checked before being published. Moderators also function to ensure the forum rules are adhered to.

The site still has an enormous amount of work to be done to by the group. The site is a shell, which requires content such as the forum rules. For now, there are many things that need to be done, so massive early contribution is required by all.

Members are encouraged to match Kenn’s efforts by really communicating and turbo charging the information flow so that we can build the group. There were many suggestions on how we could tap into the incredible features of the new website including adding members’ areas for galleries and polls to determine monthly meeting topics and education slots.

With the last few turnouts being low, the Pro lounge of Jacobs was not booked. Jacobs have been kind enough to provide their facilities for free, but the numbers must justify their kindness.

The first social meeting is planned tentatively for June 10 2010 at the Bloomsbury. This is awaiting booking confirmation. See BEPN.co.uk for updates.

Once again, welcome to the BEPN website, please consult the site for future information.

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April 29 2010

Danny Green, Kenn Jordan and Patrick Nairne
Apologies: John Christopher and Julius Pottinger

Wireless transferring of files is now possible for system users of almost all makes. This is possible through Eye-Fi products. A demonstration against Canon and Nikon systems is planned for the next meeting.

A group insurance policy requires a formal group to be established. We are some way off that at the moment, so a group insurance policy is not possible right now. Members wishing to loan equipment to each other will need to ensure the member to whom they are loaning the equipment to, is carrying adequate and appropriate insurance cover.

Danny came up with a really great suggestion. We could schedule a social meet in between the formal last Thursday meeting. This could introduce new members to the group with a more relaxed setting.

Lisa Newton of Boogles Ltd is an experienced book keeping company director who is willing to share vital knowledge on business financial management to the group. This can only be viable with around 15 to 20 members.

The group needs a forum-based website to simplify the process of communication. Kenn will be working on this so we can begin communicating for the next meeting.

The meeting time is restrictive for members for whom photography is a part-time job alongside their main income job. This may not be possible though due to the time constraints imposed by the meeting venue and the impact this would have on the full-time photographers.

It is important for members to consider using other networking environments to expand their business opportunities. The group should also consider bringing event organisers on board as group members.

Next meeting scheduled for May 27 2010

The BEPN is a group of photographers who started meeting monthly on August 27 2009 at the Pro Lounge of Jacobs Photo Video & Digital on New Oxford Street in London’s West End.

The existence of the group was inspired by frustration with a lack of professionalism within the event photography industry, epitomised by the event, which lead to John Christopher meeting Julius Pottinger and Patrick Nairne.

A further meeting at the 2008 DPI Show at BDC in Angel Islington resulted in discussions concerned with improving the professionalism, knowledge and attitude of photographers involved in event photography.

Although the primary function of the group is concerned with excellence and continuous improvement, it operates in an economic environment, which is constantly evolving, and so the group will aim to evolve, yet keeping its founding principles at the core.

Please contact us here, for further information.