P3D Stereo Exhibitions - Slides & Prints

[Bill C Walton <bill3dbw3d@xxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Jim Norman's evaluation that it is cheaper and easier to
hold a stereo card exhibition than it is a stereo slide exhibition. 

I think that George Themelis possibly misunderstood my comment from a
ways back concerning the Keystone viewer with the achromatic lenses.  I
don't think there is much doubt that it is the "Cadillac of Stereoscopes"
 but IMO it is not a required piece of equipment to conduct a very
successful stereo card exhibition.  Chairpersons of these exhibitions use
whatever stereoscopes are  available, from antique to modern.  As I
recall PSA Nonstar Exhibition Chair James Roy had to resort to a mirror
stereoscope, in one of his exhibitions, so that some oversize prints
could be judged.  The SSA Stereo Card Exhibition used Keystone N50 Home
Training Stereoscopes for our first Exhibition, which was judged during
the Rochester NSA Convention.  But I think they "cramped the style" of
our three judges, Paul Wing, Stan White and Larry Moor, as all of them
are masters of the art of freeviewing.  In the following SSA Exhibitions
we have used Red Wing Viewers which were sold by the Red Wing View
Company in the 1980s.  The Keystone N50 scopes are still available from
Keystone.  The cost of these scopes, the last time I ordered one ,was
$50, but they have a very slow turn around on the orders.

I would suggest that if there are no stereoscopes available, the judges
of a card exhibition could use lorgnette viewers or if push came to shove
the entries could be free viewed.  However this is a bit more laid back
than we like to see.

Of course once you have the entries of these exhibitions judged, you have
to show them to a group or groups of people.  I wonder which of these
examples would be considered the easiest;  Slides-Take a projector, trays
of slides, screen and polarizing glasses to a location and set them up   
Cards-Take a box of cards and a couple of scopes and put them on a table.
(Craig Daniels recommends taking an easy chair and floor lamp  so folks
can look at the stereo cards in comfort. but that might take to long to
complete the process)

As far as mounting of cards compared to slides is concerned I would like
to quote a young APEC member, who is a prolific P3D poster.  (If he reads
this he may identify himself or maybe not)  "I know I enjoy producing
cards MUCH more than mounting the zillion slides chips gathering dust in
my living room."  

George Themelis also raised the question about getting prints mounted. 
As far as I know this service is still available from Stereotype, in
Florence OR.

I wonder why APEC III only accepts stereo cards and not stereo slides? 
This could be a new Thread!!!!


Bill C Walton, Interested in Stereo Cards
(Who is Bill?)
"Ildsjael"
bill3dbw3d@xxxxxxxx

 

  
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