start with crappy film cameras. (ebay. under 15 bucks could score you a ton. or even disposables.) show the school board how much the kids are loving photo club, take prints, cameras, students, and receipts to show how in the future it will cost so much less for the kids to go digital, and will prepare them for future challenges in technologies. and possibly help them get better jobs because of their knowledge of a now standard computer program, and minor editing skills.
our school is a small public charter school, so the board isn't like... the city's school board. money is tight for payroll, so i doubt any sales pitch like that would work since the kids don't even have tech/typing anymore because we had to cut people. any developing or prints would be covered by me personally. it's just the actual cameras i'm looking for now, which is why i'm directly going for digital. i am hoping to set up some exhibits of the kids' work and whatnot to raise awareness and possibly even move to film because we have plenty of space in the school to set up a darkroom if there was money or time for me to do something like that. so i do like the idea of keeping the receipts to demonstrate the need for outside sources of money. i would have never thought to save it all.
I wish I could help so much more because I LOVED photo class when I was in highschool. Buuut, theres a LJ community called "_wantlists" and I got Photoshop CS3 for 15 dollars burned. If you need photobooks for examples or ideas for the kids let me know, my mom is an art major and I'm sure she has some extra.
I'm sure you could find local community sponsors to raise money, reach out to camera companies, or host a drive for people to get rid of their old cameras. If your school is a nonprofit institution it could be tax-deductible.
there's super cheap academic pricing for photoshop. i agree, reach out to local camera stores (just go through the phone book and call all of them) and to adobe.
if you can't get free/cheap academic pricing for photoshop, there's always GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
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our school is a small public charter school, so the board isn't like... the city's school board. money is tight for payroll, so i doubt any sales pitch like that would work since the kids don't even have tech/typing anymore because we had to cut people. any developing or prints would be covered by me personally. it's just the actual cameras i'm looking for now, which is why i'm directly going for digital. i am hoping to set up some exhibits of the kids' work and whatnot to raise awareness and possibly even move to film because we have plenty of space in the school to set up a darkroom if there was money or time for me to do something like that. so i do like the idea of keeping the receipts to demonstrate the need for outside sources of money. i would have never thought to save it all.
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if you can't get free/cheap academic pricing for photoshop, there's always GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/)
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