[MF3D.FORUM:27] Re: Third Friday Stereo Diner Report

[Tom Deering <tmd@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, that is a better Stereo Dinner report that I could have written, 
that's for sure.  I would add a few small details.

1. The guy with the barrier prints, John, also brought a laptop for 
showing live barriers.  He brought it out at the very end of the 
night.  We have sent a number of emails back and forth as we both 
worked on printed and laptop barriers.

2. The fellow to my right (whose name I have forgotten) brought some 
2x2 stereo slides, but his homemade viewer broke on him.  He has come 
to other dinners, and I would have liked to have seen his work.

3. Brian's airplane slides were superb.  The lighting that day was 
awfully nice, and with the tripod, the slides were sweet.  Very 
dramatic.

4. I'd like to thank Greg Erker for allowing me to keep his fireworks 
and fisheye slides a few extra weeks so they could be shown.  They 
were very well received.

5.  This was about the perfect sized crowd, with plenty of slides and 
prints being passed around.  There have been times in the past 14 
months when it was just Brian and me and our wives, but the event has 
gotten some momentum now. I had a blast.


Tom

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On 12/20/99, Brian Reynolds wrote:
>Greg asked to hear about the Third Friday Stereo Dinner, so here is
>what I remember.  I'll apologize in advance for the fact that I never
>remember anyone's names.
>
>There were eight of us at this month's Third Friday Stereo Dinner.
>
>I brought some of my MF pairs taken at Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome of
>their aeroplanes, WWI and earlier.  These were taken on two different
>trips with my Sputnik.  On the first trip I tried handholding and
>focusing with the viewfinder. I wound up with only a couple of sharp
>pairs.  On the second trip I used my tripod and set the camera to the
>hyperfocal distance.  Not everything was as sharp as I'd like, but
>many more shots were usable. The only ones that weren't usable were
>the ones that showed too much of the new flightline fence (behind
>which the camera and tripod were setup).
>
>Jerry (my wife's former co-worker) brought Loreo prints taken at the
>balloon inflation in Central Park the night before the Macy's
>Thanksgiving Day Parade.  Jerry is a balloon wrangler in the parade.
>
>A gentleman from Brooklyn (I told you was bad with names) brought
>another of his home made barrier prints and a backlighting box for it.
>The backlight was a florescent(sp?) tube with a curved shiny (looked
>like a paper coated with a metallic foil) reflector in a nice wooden
>box.  He makes the barrier prints using a inkjet printer. He also
>brought several very nice Nimslo/reading glasses closeups of flowers
>and insects mounted for showing in a Kodak viewer.
>
>Tom brought assorted goodies including samples of Greg's MF Fish Eye
>stereo pairs, some of Greg's MF fireworks pairs, and several of Greg's
>other MF work.  These were all very nice.  After seeing Greg's work
>again my wife is pestering me to take some fireworks shots.
>Unfortunately, even if I had Greg's skills, setting up a ten foot bar
>isn't very practical at the NYC fireworks displays.  Perhaps if we go
>out of town in 2001 (2000 is another Op Sail so we're staying in
>town).
>
>Tom also brought the second  MF Folio with him so that others could
>see what a folio is and how it works and also had some of his 35mm
>work.
>
>There was another couple at the table, but I don't recall their names
>(I'm really, really bad at names), and I don't think they brought
>anything with them.
>
>--
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