[Dave Canon]

Just to add a further comment. I think Dave is right that there is a market for people who have just moved up from compact cameras and do not understand how to use an SLR. In the planning of our Club course we did discuss this and considered running a half day workshop open to the general public (for a fee) on the basis that we may also recruit some new members.

In the end we decided that the Club was really for photographers who wanted to go that bit further in photography i.e. we wanted photographers who would continue to develop within the Club rather than just train a member of the public who then goes away. While we did cover the basics of SLR (or DSLR) photography the vast majority of our students were familiar with this and really wanted to know everything digital including intermediate level PhotoShop.