P3D Meeting Report

[fotoschack@xxxxxxxxx (Gary Schacker)]

The March meeting of the San Diego 
Stereo Camera Club was a memorable one. Our entire program came to
within an eyelash of being cancelled when we discovered that although
the lights worked in our meeting room, the wall outlets did not. We meet
in a public facility in Balboa Park. Within a few minutes we had caused
two heavy duty extension cords to appear and we were in business again.
We did discover later that even these thick cords were barely up to a
session with the TDC 716 at 1500 watts. The connectors were hot and
melted by the end. 

The first of our 3 yearly competitions was conducted. Participation was
good in this open subject event. Quality of the slides seems to be
somewhat better than in the past. New member Margarita Alarcon was
permitted to enter View-Master format slides just one time before
changing to Realist format with a newly acquired Kodak.  Yours truly
managed to escape with a first place finish with the formidable Lillian
Harris nipping at my heels. 

Our club has recently been invigorated with transplanted members from
the sick and dying rust belt cities of the East and Midwest ;-). The
highlight of the evening was a program of underwater photography by
Edward Jameson of Mass. obtained for us by one of our transplants, Janet
Moyer. This is a super quality program with wonderful narration. Jameson
has a great voice and manner that makes the show especially appealing. 

Upon it's arrival one day before the meeting, we discovered that it was
in 2x2 format which hasn't been done in our club in a decade or so.
Congratulations to Leon Hoffman who was able to put together a zoom lens
Ektagraphic rig on short notice and who projected the program
flawlessly. 
The evening also included a short show and tell session in which world
class collector Ken Wright showed of some recent estate sale
acquisitions. Among the rarest items were some antique wooden large
format glass slide viewers along with a selection of slides in the early
Dufay Color process. Norm Henkels pointed out that this process was a
precursor of the Polachrome color material developed generations later.

Three formats projected in one night!  Not bad for our little provincial
group. 

Gary Schacker


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