Debbie99

Thank you for this. Will have to make sure that I consider everything. As you are right it is probably best to get one good camera for video and stills and make sure that it can cope with low light.

In my role as Network Manager / School Photographer I will need to video the "School Show" the camcorders I inherited are old so I would like to get 1 decent one. I could also do with a good digital SLR as again the ones belonging to the school are poor quality and up to now I have been using my own with a school owned SDCard. I will also need a set of backdrops and lighting to take the individual child shots. They would like to use me rather than pay for an official photographer, partly because they think I am good and partly because I can try again tomorrow if the student is not in the mood or off sick - I work in an SEN school. Does anyone have any recommendations? I like the look of this one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08MXPXY9K/?coliid=I1IQXCMAXR3JSV&colid=ZWRQFVP3B8KW&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it Thanks

Hi Would you believe moving to Windows 10 fixed my original issue. In case anyone else wants to take the risk we are using Windows 10 with Smart Notebook 11.4. We have SMART SPNL 6065 v2 boards, they replaced the older ones at some point last year, before I started in September. I have warned SLT & teachers, that we are living on borrowed time and one day there will be a Windows update or something that will mean that this might never work again. Meanwhile everyone is happy. I know this is going to bite me on the bum one day. But worst case scenario - reimage the PC's to the version of Windows at this point in time.

Thank you so much for all your replies. You have given we some really good suggestions. Think I may check out Loxley as I am not convinced the resolution on the photos is enough for photobox etc.

Thanks - Have you ever used either? What did you think of the quality? Not sure why I am so worried about the quality of the canvas, what will let me down is the quality of the photographs!!

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but as we all know, we wear many different hats. Anyway I have 7 photographs that I need to get mounted onto canvas, to go into one of out meeting rooms. I am trying to work with a local company, that do this sort of thing, however it is proving an uphill struggle. I am speaking to a sales person, who is then speaking to the studio, who are then producing pdf's of what it will look like etc, which isn't always what I had asked for. They are also more expensive than Photobox!! So can anyone recommend a company that I can do all of this online, in a variety of different sizes (but about A1). I have never had any of my photos put onto canvas, so haven't seen anything close up and checked the quality of the canvas wrap around vs the photo to start with. So I need your help. Thanks

Yes missed the punch cards - but did get taught about new technology that might take off such as bar codes! Still waiting for the paperless office though.

Yes, just by myself. I was in a team of 3/4 before and by myself before that. I did prefer working in a team, but this was too good an opportunity to miss. The office/bursar/site team have included me in their group so we will have a team Christmas dinner as well as the school one, so I think this could be the best of both worlds. Also get an external engineer in for two hours a fortnight so I can always talk "techy" with him

Although I have been a member for many years, never actually got round to introducing myself. So having recently started in a new school. Thought now would be a good time. Worked in IT since university, having taken Computing O level with my A Levels as that is when my school started offering that course (gives my age away). Started in a business environment, then moved to education just over 11 years ago, first at a Primary, then a secondary and now in a SEN school.

Wow, thank you all for the many suggestions. Something to keep me busy until Christmas!!

Thanks tmoon-mint. It just looks a bit too different!! Also we would probably want to import out existing files. Thanks that might mean we have to spend the money...

Hi We currently have SMARTboards in the school and use SMART Notebook 11.4. This is still running - just! One of our users is having continuous problems with the Notebook software. Keeps on freezing and she is having to load the file up again. A short disruption, but we are a special needs school so any disruption has a disproportionate affect on the children. So far I have uninstalled and reinstalled the software. Replaced the PC entirely with a brand new image (so new hardware and a new image - not the old image updated) Local Profiles so effectively a new profile as well. She is making a note every time it happens, so different classes, different files and different links and different types of links (ie not all sound files etc). Obviously SMART Notebook 11.4 is well out of support, but has the perpetual licence, so we are not breaking any licensing agreement. So do we bite the bullet and upgrade to the latest version and pay the annual costs, where they have the option to increase the prices at any time? Or can anyone recommend any other (free or cheap) software that could be used instead? We are moving to Windows 10 shortly, so definitely needs to be compatible with Windows 10. (We could always upgrade her early so it doesn't have to be compatible with Windows 7) Thanks from someone who needs to think of as cool avatar and sign-off.

I tried googling the first few letter and got Hugo Scheiber - see pic of his signature

A Thank You from me as well. It fixed our issue.

Thanks - trying to running a backup now.