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Issue 13 · Fall
Meeting December 11, 2005
 Our Fall meeting for 2005 was held at a meeting
room at The Soccer
Centre on Martingrove in Toronto. The room was arranged by Les
Jones and the meeting was unofficially hosted by Bob Wilson. It was
decided that the room could be a suitable location to hold future
meetings, especially for those who are not able to host a meeting in
their home. Are there any volunteers? Now’s your
chance to
create your own agenda for a meeting. Both Bob and Les will
need
to be consulted in order to arrange the location
details.
We kicked off the meeting with a slide presentation, in STEREO of
course. 
John Long
says that doing medium format stereo
is a pain in the ...butt. He had about 20 views mounted and
he
solicited our opinions on whether the images were significantly sharper
and worth the effort over 35mm. Most people noticed
“a
wealth of detail”. The pictures were shot with
Scala
film. He had pictures of his daughter at rowing practise on a
misty river at 5am. He also had views of people
“taking the
waters” in the slag pool from an Iceland power
plant.
Apparantly it is a popular thing to do. The cities in iceland
are
heated with hot spring water which is pumped into every home.
He
also had a view of a Chzecklosovakian car called a
“Tatra”which he is a fan of and was only imported
in North
America for one year in 1982. He also had an interesting view
of
a roadside curiousity. When one of the many volcanoes erupt
in
Iceland they usually create devestating flash floods. Every year that
there is not a landside local people place a rock on a ever growing
roadside rockpile. John is interested in the complex
compositions. Something that is well suited for
stereo.
Photographers usually try to reduce clutter in mono photography
but levels of detail and multiple layers become a added bonus
in
stereo. One of his images was of rusted metal shapes in an
industrial area and in the background a hearse could be seen. This then
becomes a tool for interesting story
telling.
• Bob Wilson
was next with some realist mounted commercial slides. Some
images
included scenes from the 3D film “House of
Wax”. He
ended his presentation with a variety of images of his son Brian
growing up. Bob said that he stopped shooting stereo slides
when
Kodak stopped mounting
them.
• J Mutch
had
some somical trick photography Realist images by Tommy Thomas. The
first was of Alan Young. Other images were titled
“The
Camera That Sees the Same As You”, “AHead on a
Platter” and one amazing image of a shattering
lightbulb.
• Mike Yatsula
was next with some images of Las Vegas casinos, dinosaur skeletons at
the ROM, and a rodeo at California’s
Adventureland.
• John LaRocque
showed some
views he took in Akron, Ohio after the NSAMidwest meeting a couple of
years
ago.
• Pina
had some views from Egypt and
Pompeii.
•
Iceland appeared to be the star of the show as Matt Tatham had
views of hiking 100km across the Hot Springs Trail.
Show
and Tell
 Knowing that most of us bring new items to show
and tell Bob
decided to show us some “old” things. He shared two
ingenius stereo printing frames one for the Kodak No.2 Stereo Brownie
which was made between1905 to 1910. It allows you to
transpose
the reversed images and print a stereo image on one sheet of
paper. He also had a no name brand that only had 1 film plane
for
exposure.
 Felix
said that due to it’s popularity he will publish another 3D
issue
of “PhotoED” magazine in about a year’s
time and gave
us a head’s up for submission’s. He plans
to call it
“Stereo Canada” as opposed to “Stereo
World”. He also plugged his “Guide to
Photography” Softbound textbox which he has for sale for
$10. He said that there is no textbook available to students
that
comes close to it for the price. He also plans to publish a
special issue/book of 3D images pertaining to Niagara Falls.
One
thing that he finds of interest is how people used to be posed gazing
upon the object of interest with there back to the camera as opposed to
today’s style of posing the person facing the
camera.
Although the book will focus on historical 3D images there will also be
a contemporary section. He also mentioned meeting a fellow
stereo
enthusiast who works for and has access to the hydo-electric plant in
which he has taken stereo images.
Josh
Kaell had an interesting film canister from
“The Assasination of Jesse James”, a
movie that was being shot in Alberta and produced by Brad
Pitt.
The label on the can had a stereo pair of Jesse propped up in his
coffin. Josh talked about “Chicken
Little”. He
mentioned that they were using circular polarisors. There was
then a debate between Mike and Josh about what was better film or HD
projection. Even though Mike said
that it was projecting at 144 fps there was still some flicker. Josh
felt that the film contained poor to mediocre 3D. But that
didn’t stop pina from enjoying the film.
Stan talked about how certain lenses were giving him a
hotspot
when shooting infrared on digital cameras. He said that it
had to
do with reflection issues on the back of the lens and the
chip.
There is information on the web about which lenses to avoid.
John
Long brought an
antique stereocard cabinet viewer which he converted to show about 15
of his medium format images. He had a recent gallery showing
of
his impressive 10” x 10” framed stereo
prints. He
said that a lot of people had a hard time using his large format viewer
and was suprised to find how many people
could not cross-eye view. He realized that people who buy
photos
for art want large images. Quite a few purchasers were not
interested in buying the viewer or even seeing the print in
3D.
But enjoyed the image on it’s own.
 Les
Jones mentioned
that he collects soccer memoralbilia and stereo views and
passed
some around. He was also looking for someone who would be
interested in mounting about 10 rolls of his own realist
images.
Stan joked that he’d do it for $150 per image.
 Burke Brown
enlightened us about a young man who has developed a process to scan a
3D image and laser etching it into glass cubes. He was set up
at
the CNE in the Queen Elizabeth Building. His website
is www.crystallizeit.com
 J Mutch
shared a medium format camera from the 20’s
that shoots in stereo
and converts to a panoramic camera. When you shift the lens
the
septum adjusts automatically.
Matt
Neima shared two different types of viewers that he is
using
to view medium format 3D. He also talked about some software
to
create moving image “Ken Burns” style
slideshows with
your
computer for output to DVD. It is available at www.imaginate.com
Pina says
that she has taken one year off of teaching and has been photographing
like crazy and has put together 3D presentations for an art group, a
high school class and a grade 5 class. She was suprised by
the
different yet positive reactions she
received from each group.
Mike
Yatsula
explained how his aluminum Realist glass mounts work and how well
suited they are for projection. They are no longer available
except on eBay.
Stan
says that production stopped about 20 years ago because the dies for
the mounts wore out.
David
Delouchery
brought a Nintendo Virtual Boy 3D game system to show off that came out
in 1987 and only lasted for one year before disappearing from the
market. He also mentioned that he had received an email
solicitation from a 3D movie theatre in India that was seeking new 3D
movie content. David has also begun production on a
documentary
about Canadian stereographer James Esson who’s career spanned
from 1875 to 1920.
Peter
Sinclair
says that he can produce an 8x10 3D lenticular print converted from a
2D image for $50. He can also do transparencies. The 8x10
images
are comprised of 5 layers and the $29 4x5 size is produced with 3
layers. Reprints are $2.50. Any low compression digital image
will work. He mentioned that a program called Stereomorpher available
at www.3dphotopro.com
can create intermediates for lenticular printing.
Also in attendance were Ken Strass, & Lorraine
Wilson. Bob
mentioned that Wolgang and Maryann Sell will be speaking about
Viewmaster at the May Photographic Historical Society meeting in
Toronto. The Spring club meeting will be held at Stan
White’s new home in Brantford on April 30, 2006.
Stan by
the way holds the distinction of having the most popular exhibit of 3D
photos in Dinklespiel, Bavaria.
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