3D Scope/Don Lopp

[Stephen Puckett <spuckett@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Our Cascade Stereoscopic Club here in Portland just finished
it's 2nd annual 3D Scope extravaganza weekend at OMSI (Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry).  It was even bigger and better
than last year's.  Besides helping planning and setup, I worked
there all day Saturday and Sunday.  It was a heady, giddy time 
for all of us 3D'ers and our admiring public.  8-)

Of special interest to MF3D, I had my Puckettscope Mark IX at 
the information table with a hyper slide of Portland eastside
and Mt. Hood that I took from my downtown office window.  The 
idea was that whoever manned the table would feed slides from
my box that sat next to the 'scope.  Naturally, there was not
enough staff at the table to visit with friends/guests, take 
care of doc and other equipment, roam to see other exhibits 
and shows, etc.  A number of our Club and a few guests were,
however, able to enjoy the additional slides, mostly fed by
me.  

Many were interested in the old B&W slides about which I 
posted a couple of weeks ago - they were from somebody's 
alpine vacation in about 1930, the guy hiking in knickers 
and bow tie!  One of our members recognized some of the town
views - apparently it is a famous tourist town right in the 
Alps.  He has several Keystone stereocards from the town that 
he will dig out and show me.  :-)  We had a Monobloc 6x13 
camera (about 1917-25) in one of our antique camera display 
cases.  I took a slide out of the cardboard mount and put it 
next to the camera, putting a white envelope behind it to 
better show the image.

For this show, I used a small light table, taped a metal
bookend under it to form a short prop for the top, velcro'd
the viewer to the table and prop, and blocked the rest of the
light with cardboard and gaffer tape.  This seemed to
work well until at the end of the day a little kid grabbed 
the lens holders and yanked hard - breaking the superglue
join off so that the left lens came flying off!  I retired
the viewer for the rest of the day, bringing it out only under
my direct supervision.  Sunday, it stayed home.
                              
An ASCII picture of the viewer rig from the side:
                                 ___
                                 | |<== viewer
                                |   |
                                |___||
                +-------------------+|<== metal bookend prop
 light table ==>|___________________||
                 /\       ------------
                /  \
Don Lopp came down from the Seattle area.  This was the first
time I had met him.  He seemed in pretty good health to me but
he said that he was still recovering from being many months in
bed with back(?) problems.  He showed about 2 dozen wonderful
MF3D slides that he had taken recently with some homemade 
cameras.  They were in a homemade viewer.  I liked the small 
flat fluorescent light attachment that made for easy hand-held
viewing.  The viewer had interocular adjusting which IMO is 
usually unnecessary.  The lenses had a lot of magnification 
without a lot of distortion around the edges IMO (but I'm 
tolerant).  The magnification added 'impact' to the scene but 
one had to 'peer around the corner' to be able to see all the 
image - I think for now I would rather see most of the image 
all at once.  The woodwork was a pretty reddish wood 
(rosewood?). 

Many of his images were of Mt. Ranier that he had taken from
his bedroom.  I told him that if I had to become bedridden
that I would love such a view!  Such sunsets!