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Refocus That
Please - by Bill Moll
This month’s program will be the PSA Traveling show. This is the one which circulates to numerous
clubs, each of which judges the images and the winners are based on the
composite results. Three lucky judges at
the February meeting will add the ASA judging to the results.
We would also like to pick slides for the ISU club
folio. This is not for a
competition. Each club contributes ten
slides to a program which goes to 3D clubs around the world. We need to have ten different people
contribute, so bring a couple slides to pick from – we don’t want to have ten
similar images. Since this goes around
the world, we will have to make dupes.
It is difficult to say when the slides will return.
After the PSA show and slide selection, Steve Hughes will do
a revised version of his slide mounting demonstration from the 3DFest.
Since this is a full schedule, will have to start on time
this month! The meeting is the 2nd Friday of this month – February 13. Vince Macek will
provide the refreshments. We will meet at the Congregational Church @ 2676 Clairmont Road (about 1 1/2 blocks south of I-85) This is
the Church up the winding road, through the woods. If you have any questions, call Bill @
706-859-7726.
January’s competition results were:
Slides
First Mill at
Second
Third
HM Golden Rod in the Smokies Bert
Arps
HM Deb and the Blowfish Al Hess
HM
HM A Bridge in
Cards
First Ken Kistner
Second Twilight at
HM NC Stream Ed
Ganger
HM Hands Steve Hughes
Show-and-tell:
Mike Griffith displayed
about half of the rare
Steve Hughes showed off
three Johnson stereoviews which he had made from
Mike’s CDVs.
Many of the old 2D photos were made with multi-lens cameras, since the
printing out process from negatives was quite slow in those days. If you get the right ones, you can make a stereocard. Of the
three pairs which Mike had, one was a great 3D pair, one was an upper right and
lower left pair, so the 3D was a bit off, and the other was really two
different shots, apparently from the same sitting. This was a good merger of collecting and
modern digital repair and card making.
Ted Baskin setup a medium
format viewing table. Ted is very good
with Sputnik camera tuning (the Sputnik has been referred to as a camera
kit). Ted’s slides show how well it does
when it is tuned.
Ed Ganger, a new old
member, brought in some of his cards that he had made since his last meeting and
a couple NYC cards that he had mounted for Cynthia Morton Chapman.
Some cardboard slide
mount options were discussed briefly and samples provided by Rocky Mountain
Memories were handed out. The
distribution was based on participation in club programs. The educational extras for the programs this
year were based on what we could come up with rapidly. We need new programs for next year. If you have something which you would like to
share with the club, please let me know.
Ones which come to mind are tuning Sputnik cameras, twinning cameras and
testing shutter speeds.
There were 21 people at the January meeting. The past several years have been depressed
years for the economy and most hobby activities (the 400 at the
New members from the January meeting are:
Ed Ganger
Roy J. Floyd
Al and Debbie Hess
Next month:
The
competition in March will be a theme competition. After some discussion, the club decided to
make “
Refreshments:
February Vince Macek
March Dave Horton
April Bert Arps
May Les Heyward
September Dodo
Depolarizing film:
Charles Piper tells us in “The Technical Page” that
Strain-free glass and acetate-based film are okay, but Estar
(polyester) based films and many clear plastic materials depolarize. That still pretty well summarizes the
situation.
To be more specific, Kodak Technical Pan 2415, Kodak Ektachrome Professional Infrared EIR Color Slide Film ISO
100/200, Kodak Aerographic Direct Duplicating Film 2422 and Kodak Professional
B/W Duplicating Film SO-132 depolarize. "Instant"Polaroid 35mm film and most B&W slide
films do. Agfa
Scala does not depolarize, but requires non-E6
developing.
Seattle Film Works, Dale Labs, RGB and B&W Bulk Plus-X
Film are movie film based (Estar) and depolarize.
RBT slide mount update:
There is good (non)breaking news on
the RBT mounts. To recap the situation,
folklore has it that the original RBT mounts were beige and black and had pin
breakage when separated. RBT changed to
the white and black and eliminated pin breakage. The white was also very good for reducing the
heat on a slide chip during projection, but was referred to as the
ghastly/ghostly white when viewed in a hand viewer. So RBT went back top beige and had a pin
breakage problem again, but were in denial, despite the reports from the field.
Now the ASA enters the fray.
I separate my mounts frequently and had a breakage problem with the
beige mounts. I discussed this with
Steve Hughes, who mounts it right the first time and hadn’t noticed the problem. He verified the pin problem when he tried to
separate some mount halves. He then
translated this to some dimensional measurements which sort of indicated a
problem and then to some pressure tests which left no doubt that there was a
quantitative basis for the breakage.
Steve sent this data to Jon Golden, the primary RBT
distributor in the
Proposed 2005 Southern Regional meeting/3DFest:
Based on discussions at
the 3DFest in October, I would like the ASA to sponsor a NSA regional meeting
and 3DFest in February 2005. The date
was chosen because it doesn’t conflict with anything – 3D, football, March
Madness, good weather, etc. We would
have to avoid Super Bowl Sunday and Valentines Day, so means February 19-20 or
27-28. What events we would have would
depend upon the volunteers to do things and the space available. The objective would be to promote 3D in
Events might include
(additions to the 3DFest are in italics):
3D card, slide, anaglyph,
lenticular and equipment displays
Stereo Theater
How-to demonstrations
PSA Stereo Exhibition
Trade show
We need to discuss this
in the social hour in February and make a decision by March/April if we want to
do it.