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You are invited to the next meeting of the Washington Area Computer
(WAC) User Group, scheduled on Saturday, February 18th from 12:30 PM
to 3:30 PM at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), 4210
Roberts Road, Fairfax, Virginia. The meeting is free and open to the
public. Preregistration is not required to attend.

Dan Feighery, member of WAC and one of OLLI's premier photographers,
will present “Digital Photography” at the February meeting. Dan
characterized this session as plowing the digital photo field “a mile
wide and an inch deep.” He will discuss general concepts of digital
cameras, including types and specifications, basic automatic picture
taking and bundled software, the histogram, pixels and aspect ratio.
Other topics will focus on color management, white balance, and grain.
Dan will also examine camera lens factors, such as focal length, crop
factor, angle of view, zoom ratio, and depth of field. He'll tackle
the exposure triangle – aperture, shutter speed, and chip sensitivity.

Also at the February meeting, WAC member Lorrin Garson will
demonstrate the installation and use of TrueCrypt software. Private
information such as financial and medical records, personal
correspondence and collections of passwords are highly vulnerable to
theft unless such information is strongly encrypted. TrueCrypt (http://
www.truecrypt.org/) is a free, open-source application that
conveniently allows you to store any type of computer file on a
virtual disk drive on your hard drive, thumb drive, CD or DVD.

WAC is a non-profit general interest computer user group that supports
the Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux operating systems. For more
information, visit our web site at http://www.wacug.org/, e-mail info
(at) wacug.org, or call the WAC AnswerLine at 703-370-7649.