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Issue 10 · Fall
Meeting November 2, 2003
 Don & Madolyn
Tait
hosted our fall gathering in Welland in a common room at the office's
of a local insurance company. Displays surrounded the room by various
members who showed off some of their items of interest.
Things
got underway with a slideshow. Sam Schlifer shared
views of a scenic waterfall near Huntsville and another great view of a
tree growing out of a stump. Don & Madolyn
presented "The Basics of 3D photography" It included views of
dollhouses and some lovely images from various trips around the world
including Yosemite, Utah, Arizona and Ireland. Their second show "The
American Southwest" contained images of Arches National Monument, a
mining ghost town that was abandoned in the 1870's, the Grand Tetons in
Jackson, Wyoming, a organ pipe cactus, hoodoos and macro closeups of
cactus blooms.
At
Show & Tell, Stan White declared that he was experimenting
with infrared film as well as workin g with
older medium format cameras. He pointed out that Kodak's infrared film
was not sharp enough for 3D imaging and recommended Macco infrared film
instead. For digital infrared he says that most cameras can shoot it.
If you can see the red dot that emits from a remote control when it is
activated towards your digital camera then it can shoot infrared. He
uses a Kodak 4800 3.1 MP with a filter. He also suggests using a camera
that records raw files or TIFFS as opposed to JPEGS. He then passed
around his second book of poetry which included images of his infrared
digital stills.
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| Simon Bell visited his son in
September who works at the Lake Agnus Tea House which is located on a 2
hour hike above Lake Louise, Alberta. He passed some views around the
room. Simon also recently moved to to Oakville and he took a photo of a
house fire that made the front page of the Oakville Beaver Newspaper.
The Fire Department and the person who's house burned down also wanted
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- Matt Neima showed off his Carousel
Realist Multi image viewer. He said that it was made by Patent Pending
which got him some cheap laughs but when he announced that he bought it
for $75 at a camera show the laughter turned to moans of envy.
- Bob Wilson showed some old
stereoviews. One was of a 1890 firefighting crew. The second was a
promotional view by Underwood of a man with a stereoviewer standing in
front of a bookshelf full of boxset stereoviews. The third view was by
the Kilburn Company which took northern Ontario views of lakes and
wilderness in the Sault Ste. Marie region before selling all their
negatives to the Keystone Company.
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Jani Hamalainan showed an anaglyph print
of a phantogram that he created. This seemed to be quite topical at
this particular meeting as Peter Sinclair would
explain the process later in the meeting.
Jamie Waese showed off his Loreo 3D
Lens in a Cap beamsplitter camera attachment that he has mounted to a
Nikon 6 megapixel digital camera. He feels it is the most convenient
way to do point and shoot 3D but he wished the image could be wider. He
also found that he wasn't getting enough light indoors for maximum
depth of field.
 Mike Yatsula
brought his Altiscop 120 mm medium format camera which was made from
1937 to 1942.
Felix Russo brought some sample
pages from the upcoming stereo issue of Photo ED magazine. It is
available at Chapters and the 3D issue will be ready by end of
November. Simon has a double page photo printed from a 56 MB file and
an article on why he shoots 3D. Stan has an article titled "3D-101, How
to get started".
 Bill
Kantymir showed some opera glasses that also double as a
single or stereo image camara. It was built in 1899 in Berlin. He says
that you  have to be
really patient to use the glasses for photography as it takes a fair
bit of tinkering and time to set it up. He has been unable to find the
plate holder which would hold the precoated dry plate film. He also
brought a "what is it" object which he thought was for aerial
photography.
- Matt Tatham mentioned that he is
now doing "cha cha" method stereo aerial views with kites. John
LaRocque is making anaglyphs with the Pokescope software from
his Realist views. He also said that he received a message from Dr. T
in Ohio about the May 1st/2nd NSA Midwest mini conference.
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Dave
sports the latest in 3D goggles
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David Delouchery started off his show
and tell wearing a pair of Inuit snow goggles that he brought back from
a trip to Baffin Island. He then showed off some Holmes style viewers
that he's selling to Civil War Reenactors. He made one viewer as an
exact duplicate prior to finding the manufacturer of the model that he
copied. He also passed around some of his recent stereocards and
explained the process he uses to manufacture them.
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| Jodi Paich Kohlstrom brought stereoviews of
the Johnson-Shaw Stereoscopic Museum in Meadville, Pa which were
photographed by various visitors. She is the Executive Director of the
museum which houses the remains of the Keystone Stereoview Collection.
After 30 years of storage, 3 tractor-trailer loads of the company's
views, negatives and equipment were donated to the museum. You can
visit their site at www.johnsonshawmuseum.org for more information.
They still sell original mint views on Ebay and they even have original
wrinkle finish metal hood viewers for sale. She concluded by inviting
us to a magic slide show in December. |
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  John Long is continuing to excite
people about medium format. He saw David Lee's work at Riverside,
California and then spent six hours at his house this summer and
brought back a large wall print stereoview of David's (which needs to
be viewed with a wide image viewer) and is now looking to do his own
images.
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 Steve
Horan was to open his 3D photo booth at the CNE on August
15th but due to the blackout things didn't get started till August
18th. He thanked Peter Sinclair and Jani Hamalainan for their help in
setting up. He discovered that it takes a crowd to get a crowd
interested in your product and even though his images were successful
in their WOW fa ctor it was tough to
open their pocket books. He pitched the idea of photographing the Rue
Morgue horror magazine staff halloween party and the results were very
SCARY! Steve also reminded us of something that we sometimes forget "3D
is supposed to be fun!" The immediate effect of his full page anaglyphs
worked with the crowds and his card viewers did not. Finally he
announced that he has made a full time commitment to this business
venture.
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Peter Sinclair brought a phantogram by
Terry Wilson to show. When placed on a table and viewed at a
45° angle and at a distance of about 5 feet, the perspective
just pops off the page. He explained how to make them which prompted
Stan to ask if they were possible to do prior to the availability of
the popular image editing program, Photoshop.
Well
that's it for this issue. The next NSA convention is July 7-12, 2004 in
Portland, Oregon. Go to www.nsa2004.com for more info. Stan said that
he will be busy in 2007 when NSA and ISU will hold a joint conference.
So long and happy viewing.
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