Journal the Exakta Times
The Exakta Circle publishes a quarterly journal, the Exakta Times, since
1990. Each issue contains usually 30 or more pages of letters, studies,
collected data, personal opinions and impressions, discussions (sometimes even
heated ones) and equipment for want and for sale, with many illustrations, some
in full colour.
NB We missed the September 2008 issue due to changes in the committee. The
Chrismas 2008 issue appeared as usual.
Website
The domain name of our website is exaktacircle.org.
NB In the recent past, you could find a lot of information about the Exakta
Circle and the Exakta Times on this site. Due to changes in the committee, the
management of the site has been interrupted but has been reestablished now.
Size
The Exakta Circle has about 140 members (2008) from all over the world.
Many of them are active collectors, not only of equipment but also of information about the history of the Ihagee company and its products.
Meetings
Twice a year there is a formal/informal meeting of the members. One is the
Spring Meeting, usually in April. The Annual General Meeting (AGM) is in October.
Nowadays these meetings are held in Steventon, a village south-east of Oxford.
Members not only talk about their hobby, they also bring items to show or to
sell.
So far, no "official" meetings have been organised in other countries,
although members have met there in smaller groups sometimes.
Next meetings
The next meetings (Spring and AGM) will take place on Sunday 19 April and on
Sunday 11 October 2009, both at St. Michael's Church Hall, The Causeway, Steventon,
Oxfordshire.
Booklets
Another activity is the "booklets". Several little booklets circulate
between the members. Each member describes on one page a recent acquisition or
interesting fact before sending it back for redistribution.
Unfortunately this activity is losing speed because many members "forget" to
send back the booklets.
Library
The club's librarian has a large amount of relevant documentation at his
disposal. Members may study this material. Even more documents are listed in the
Ihagee/Exakta bibliography.
Informal communicaton
Much communication between members is done informally. The internet is a very
practical means to exchange news, questions and answers and research material.
The committee of the Exakta Circle
consists of the following members (October 2008):
vacant chairman
Chris Fransella secretary/acting
chairman
cafransella@tiscali.co.uk
Derek Philps
treasurer
(no e-mail)
Jim Anderson member
naithlor@aol.com
Peter Longden librarian/editor
Exakta Times
peteandjude@blueyonder.co.uk
Mike Matthews booklets
coordinator
wenmik@btinternet.com
Mark Stuecheli
booklets coordinator for North America
mstuke@everestkc.net
Hugo Ruys
webmaster ad interim
hugo.ruys@ihagee.org
Much is available but maybe even more is unknown, unclear, not sorted out or
contradictory. Do you want to be mostly a passive member or do you want to
support the ongoing study into the past of Ihagee and Exakta? You are welcome.
Annual fees
Membership fees are very reasonable for 2009/10.
In October 2007 the AGM decided to raise the contribution for 2008-09 to £ 23
for UK members and £ 25 for overseas. This is to finance more pages in full
colour in the Exakta Times. If you don't want those extra pages, you pay £ 5
less.
The Club Year goes from the 1st of April to end
March. The strongly recommended way to pay for overseas members is PayPal.
Payment details for the year 2009-2010 are now on the EC site.
Now join us
Now that you want to know more or become a member, visit the web site of the
Exakta Circle http://www.exaktacircle.org
NB The magement of the website has been interrupted due to changes in the
committee but is has been reestablished.