P3D Re: NSA recap

["Dr. George A. Themelis" <DrT-3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Fairstein, thank you for a nice & detailed accounting of the
NSA convention!  It was nice meeting and talking to you, even for
a few minutes at the trade show!

>Maybe I'll offer Turkish coffee and baklava from my room in Green Bay.

I should be doing that! :-)

>Saturday morning Jon Golden, Ron Labbe, and another fellow (his name
>escapes me) put on a good demonstration of stereo mounting.

This fellow is "our very own" David Kesner (also known as Dr. Dave).
He also presented a "caving" show, all in Spicer mounts with one
side glass, and aluminum binder.  It worked well Dr. Dave!
(Also, I thought the workshop was on Friday.  Maybe there was a 
repeat on Saturday but I attended the one on Friday.)
 
>George has a web
>site! I created a site for him in exchange for some mounting of my
>stereo slides. We are still working on the project, but hopefully you'll
>see his site it soon with an online catalog. 

That's my next project.  Thank you for your help on that!

>Saturday evening I listened to the curator of the Smithsonian's 3D
>collection review their collection. Unfortunately the slides were not in
>3D, but interesting nonetheless. 

Aha!  Were you aware of the little game that half of us were playing?
The minute this lady started showing close-ups of cards, many of us
in the audience were *cross-viewing* the images!!!  Something curious
happened.  One card from a set on mounting was mounted pseudo (the right
image was in the left side).  I knew because I could see perfect stereo
while cross-viewing.  The next time the same thing happened, someone from
the audience said "this is mounted pseudoscopically" and the rest of
us agreed.  The Smithsonian lady was surprised and could not figure out
how we could tell.  There were at least 2-3 cards with the same problem.
Other cards had very little or no depth since the main subject was far
away.  In addition, the stereo window was all screwed up.  But, by
cross-viewing, the window appeared well-placed.  And since there was no
depth in the image, the picture looked well framed!

The bottom line is that these card-making fellows/companies were in a
desperate need of a good mounting seminar!  We are doing much better
today.

George Themelis


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