NSA '97

[P3D Bill Davis <bd3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Perez writes:

>Things are really starting to come together for the convention. 

My recollection of the final days before last year's Convention was things
"starting to come together" all right.  In the same way that two freight
trains racing full-steam towards each other on the same track are "starting
to come together".  :--)  (and me with my foot stuck in the ties)
 
>Those of us in the Puget Sound Stereo Camera Club say welcome to those
>of you coming out to Bellevue. We're looking forward to meeting you!

I would *heartily* recommend that everyone who is in the area and can do it
get themselves to this Convention.  If you've never been to an NSA
convention and have wondered what they're all about, go! Stereo folks are
among the friendliest and most unassuming people I've been priviledged to
meet. These folks will make you feel right at home.  Here's the biggest
bunch of them that ever gets together during the year, getting together in
Bellevue. High spirits abound at these things.  I can see the glow from my
yard in NY.

You don't want to miss the fascinating and overwhelming array of unusual
cameras and viewers, prints, slides, reels, books and much more all laid
out in row after row of tables in the enormous Trade Fair.  This is what
the flea markets are like in my dreams!  Imagine tables *full* of
View-Master reels!  (I've got a very modest collection of a couple hundred
reels and they all fit in a 6" long recipe box.)  There has to be a million
VM reels for sale at NSA.  Cameras, viewers...every one I've heard of, plus
more that I hadn't. Priced from moderate starter cameras and viewers for
under $100 to the rare what-do-you-mean-you-sold-the-car-for-one-camera
models. 

The slide shows are going to be nothing short of magnificent!  Two full
days (plus a good chunk of a third) of excellent Stereo slide shows.  Not
all excellent maybe but you could join the audience groaning or snickering
at the bad ones.  No don't do that, how would the poor photographer feel if
he/she were in the audience.  Please save any nasty criticisms of the slide
shows for a more private setting, like this list.   :--)

If you're anywhere in that area and you haven't made up your mind yet,
please strongly consider going to this Convention.  It will be no closer
than a thousand miles from Bellevue for the next four or five years at
least.  If you're in the Northwest and you miss this chance you'll have a
long wait for the next one.

Biggest 3-D get-together of the year, with a schedule of events, workshops
(worships?) and exhibits that promise to make this Convention the best ever
and I can't go.  Damn!

In the Pacific Northwest, where the scenery begs for stereo cameras, where
I've never been but have always wanted to, and I can't go.  Damn!

Got a trip to DisneyWorld swallowing the family vacation money this year.
Richmond '98 is what I have to look forward to.  



Best regards,
Bill Davis
mailto:bd3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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