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Issue 12 · Fall
Meeting December 12, 2004
Welcome Back!
It’s
been a
full year since our last meeting in December of 2004 and we are back
together again enjoying our love for 3D. It’s been
quite a year for our local members. Both Steve Horan and Stan
White graced the cover of “Stereo World” this past
season.
Our club, with the help of Bob Wilson, Simon Bell and myself put
together a stereo display for Heritage Mississauga in
February.
Simon Bell put on a couple exhibits of his stereo work this past summer
and I’m sure many other members experienced personal 3D
achievements since our last meeting.
What
a blast we had. There was an exceptional turnout with quite a
few
new faces as well as some who had not been to a meeting for
awhile. The exciting thing was seeing how many people had
been
developing and achieving new ideas and techniques of exploring 3D. 
So
what happened?
Yours truly,
David
Delouchery hosted the event in Kitchener and after the
initial meet and greet things got under way with a slide show. Josh Kaell
shared his TrueVue collection of images. Most were from the early
40’s and the first set were scenic monotone warmly tinted
images
that were quite nostalgic. Locations included, Yellowstone,
the Golden
Gate Bridge, Lake Louise, the White House and New York. The
next set of images were of Hollywood personalities
from the 1932 movie premiere of Mae West’s
“I’m No
Angel”. We then watched a semi riské
collection
titled “A Night at the College Inn” which included
backstage pictures of chorus girls and dancers getting ready for a
show. “A Night at the Carnival” showed a
sleazier
side of the “Circus” life. These images
included side
show freaks and monkeys. The final presentation was called
“Santa’s Workshop for Boys”
This charming
collection was actually a promotion for American Flyer
Trains.
There were wonderful images of boys dressed as Santa’s Elves
complete with beards helping Santa make model trains. I then
shared a short video I had made of my visit to the Keystone Museum in
Meadville, Pa. Some other images that were projected included
a
view of lichen from J
and 3 views of the 1952 Grey Cup parade in Toronto that Simon Bell had as a
gift from New England NSA member Ron Labbe.
Show
and Tell
So
lets move on to what people had to tell and show. Bob Wilson passed
around his copy of Harold
Lloyd’s “Hollywood Nudes in
3D”. This is the
second book published of Llyod’s stereo work and a lot more
revealing than the first which featured Marilyn Monroe in 3D. Matt Tatham
shared some of his time exposure views of Las Vegas. Stan
White
talked about his infra-red hyper-view landscape images and the
techniques he uses to tint/paint them in Photoshop. He says
that
2 lens cameras are only effective from 2 to 8 metres and then the image
goes flat. His camera rig has a 20”
base. To
avoid parallax he keeps the foreground at least 30 feet from the
lens. He has a third camera in the centre which he plans to
use
with colour film for tinting purposes.
 Jason LaBelle,
an old friend and co-worker of Simon’s, brought a Polaroid 3D
camera to sell. It is very similar to a passport camera but
was
packaged specifically for 3D and sold for half the price. It
takes 600 film.
Simon Bell shared
his story of how he got into 3D. Turns out he was going
to the Galapagos on a photo trip and met a woman with a Kodak stereo
camera from the 50’s. He then asked Les Jones about
how he
could do 3D who in turn directed him to Stan White and the rest they
could say is history. Simon brought his most recent publication. A
non-stereo collection of photos of vintage cars of Cuba titled
“Chariots of Chrome - Classic American Cars of
Cuba”
He said that the publisher could'nt’t be convinced to publish
the
photos in 3D because they wanted to create a
“quality” coffee table book. Well that’s
not the kind
of quality we like, right? He had copies available for $30. He also has
a display of his 3D Cuban cars on at the Moses Znaimer Television
Museum (MZTV) His friend Gail joined us for the meeting as
well.
Sarah Shrigley
passed around some of her side-by-side 35mm views.
Steve Horan had
quite the item to show off. He has mounted
3 sony camera’s together and synced them with a Lanc Sheppard
sync controller for creating Lenticular images. He also had a
phantagram Christmas card for sale.
Matt
Neima is
exploring medium format 3D and uses a Sputnik. He passed
around a
cheap but good quality medium format viewer from China that is
available at most of the 3D retailers.
Jani Hamalainan
had phantogram images of “Amanda”, a Sunshine girl
which he
took while at a bikini contest at the docks. He also recently received
a patent for a technology he created which is a 3D biometric user
recognition system. It took 5 years to
develop.
 Peter Sinclair
talked about his new service for printing lenticulars and
distributing cameras designed for taking lenticulars. They
range
from low-end consumer single-use and reloadable 2 lens
cameras to
a high-end 5 lens camera. Models prices are $20, $100, $300 and $1700
US. The high-end camera comes with either 38mm wide angle
lenses
or 78mm portrait lenses. All cameras use standard 35 mm negative
film. Prints are $1.70 each if you print the whole
roll.
Reprints are $2.75. A 8x10 is $22. He
says that the
lenticular resolution is 179 lines per inch.
Felix Russo
said that the 3D issue of “Photo Ed” magazine was
very
popular and expressed that lots of high school kids are very interested
in 3D. He passed around copies of the Winter 2004-05 issue and
highlighted what was coming up in future issues which included special
photographic techniques and travel photography. He is
publishing
a Canadian focussed photographic textbook.
Laura Jones met the
Wilson’s about 15 years ago when she was collecting 3D
views but is now using some of Peter Sinclair’s lenticular
cameras to produce her own lenticulars. Josh Kaell says that
his
RBT is once again on the fritz. He also said that
“Polar
Express” is a lousy movie and the 3D is very
variable.
Jamie
Waese
takes 3D snapshots of his family with a digital SLR and a “3D
lens in a cap” his goal is to create children’s
entertainment in 3D.
David
Delouchery
talked about the stereocards that he creates of civil war
re-enactors. I also brought up info on our opportunity to
create
a stereo exhibit for Heritage Mississauga from February to
April.
Ken Strass (sic?) is interested in photographic
history.
J
had some
European format views. He also mentioned that he has a
European
projector that is 220V which he wants to be able to run on 110V
power. He asked if anyone had any ideas on what he could
use. Active Surplus on Queen St. in Toronto was suggested and
Simon quipped that he could go there after visiting his 3D display at
City TV.
With
food and drink
our Fall 2004 meeting came to a successfull close. Please
keep in
mind that we need volunteers to host future meetings. If you
have
ideas or suggestions please pass them along to myself or Bob Wilson. |