P3D Re: Cleveland Meeting Review

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

Darn it!  Mark's "monthly meeting critique" got me off my lethargic
narcolepsia... I have been taking it easy the past few days... sleeping
as much as 7 hours a night!!! (can you believe this???)  I am also
mounting stereo slides and doing other fun activities...  Apologies
to those waiting for email responses or viewers to be repaired... :(

Mark gave an overview with his usual twisted sense of humor :-)  You
have be there to appreciate these descriptions.  Anyway, it was a
good meeting... I was in charge of the program, "Stereo With a Slide 
Bar".  I tried to address the three basic slide bar questions:  
1) How much to slide, 2) Converge or not converge, 3) How to mount
the resulting images.  Also, showed examples of stereo slides I've 
taken with a slide bar in the past few years, many of them straight
from the kitchen!

Our competition was "Buildings and Monuments"... This is definitely
one of my favorite subjects...... I did quite well with two shots I 
took in Greece last month, one of a church (2nd place - not 1st as 
Mark indicated) and one of the Parliament Building in Athens (3rd 
place).  Both were taken with the RBT in auto mode, using tungsten-
based Ektachrome 64.  

It is amazing how quickly have things changed... Me, a long-time 
advocate of "manual control", now a very satisfied user of automatic
RBT S1 operation.   For example, for these night shots I set the 
aperture at f11 and let the camera select exposure times in the order 
of 10 to 20 seconds ("20 seconds?  Whatever...").  I did not bracket, 
and looking at the results I cannot imagine how anything could be any 
better.  Even Mark was impressed... He said he is selling his Realist 
(his house too!) to get an RBT!!! :-)

To be continued...

George Themelis


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