[photo-3d] Mesa Y2K Convention Review

[Gabriel Jacob <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note: I'm kind of embarrased :-) to say this, but I
think this will be P3D's longest post on record! I
didn't intend to beat any record, it just happened.
Believe it or not, I could have written a lot more,
and yes, also a lot less!

Gabriel



Mesa Y2K Convention Review

CHAPTER 1, Mesa NSA Y2K Introduction

Well, where does one start! Thanks to Tom Dory, the
NSA convention committe, and NSA for organizing and
hosting the Mesa Y2K convention. The hotel, Mesa
area, and things to see and do were great. Best of
all was meeting all the nice and friendly people. I
think I've mentioned this before, but I liken the
convention like a family reunion and blind date all
wrapped into one!

I arrived early in the week and it was great to meet
up with familiar faces. The first people I ran into
were Jon Golden and Jan Burandt. It was great chatting
with them and I had their whole undivided attention,
since we were one of first ones there!

CHAPTER 2, Roommate Hopping? 

Later in the evening I ran into Mary Ann and Wolfgang
and I asked them if they knew if anybody wanted to
share a room with me. Just my luck, she mentioned
someone had posted on P3D that they wanted to share
a room. I didn't have any contact with the
outside P3D world so I gave Mary Ann my hotel room
number and she emailed my potential roommate. The
next morning Monty Ramstad phoned me and we teamed up.

I didn't know Monty (or so I thought) until I met him
in the hotel room we were sharing. When he arrived,
we exchanged pleasantries and he mentioned the new
pocket 3-D viewer he was developing. I was quite
surprised when he showed it to me!

I wasn't surprised at the viewer itself, but rather
because I had unknowningly communicated with him
before! A few months ago, Monty had emailed me,
inquiring about my stereoadapter $10 plans. At the
time he introduced himself and gave me the web link
to his viewer. When I saw the viewer in real life, I
told him, "Hey I know you! Your the guy that inquired
about my $10 video-adapter plans!"

I couldn't ask for a greater roomate and it was
interesting to hear his plans for marketing this
rather ingenious viewer. He had showed it at Green
Bay last year. As most know (that attended the
conventions), the viewer will be called the
PokeScope. Neat name!

He designed the viewer and got the tooling done by an
outside company. It will be commercially made and it
obviously has a professional look to it. It will
include software to make your own 3-D images. I can't
wait till Monty finally gets it on to the market!

CHAPTER 3, Mary Ann, Wolfgang, & Charlie's VM Book

There were a lot of other neat and new things at the
Mesa convention. The first few days consisted mainly
of room hopping and boy was that fun! Among the rooms
I visited were Mary Ann & Wolfgang. They recently had
their new VM book come of the press. I was lucky to
get copy no.2! Eat your heart out George! ;-)
Seriously, the copies weren't numbered, but when Mary
Ann told me she sold her first copy, I told her "Okay
I gotta get your second copy!" She signed it,
attesting to that fact. I wonder how much it would
fetch on ebay! ;-) 

It's an amazing book, overflowing with interesting
inside and historical information on Viewmaster. The
300 page plus book is an incredible value at $30. 
This is a story that might never have ever been told
otherwise. I heard the Viewmaster people were also
buying copies.

CHAPTER 4, SSA 1999 Yearbook

Regarding books, I also soon after picked up my copy
of the SSA 1999 Yearbook. Although I'm still not a
member, I was interested in purchasing it, to read all
about those familiar names in the SSA. It was fun to
see the faces behind the names.

Luckily I reserved a copy before heading west,
because Shab was soon sold out. I pointed some other
disappointed potential buyers to Bill Walton, who had
a few copies left. Leafing through the SSA yearbook,
it was interesting to read the background of a lot of
great 3-D photographers.

Also included was a fasinating history on the SSA by
Norm Patterson. The yearbook was very well done with
excellent text and 3-D images (considering it was
done with a digital photocopier)! It's been said a
million times, but I gotta say thanks Shab Levy, on
a job very well done!

I thought to myself while going through it, that it
might be another ten years before they come out with
another yearbook (last one was around 1990 according
to Bill Walton). I wondered how by then, I will have
joined the SSA (finally) and how much fun it would be
to get my picture in the next yearbook. Lo and behold,
I was pleasently surprised to see myself included in
Dan Shelley's APEC III group picture of Dan and
friends at the Richmond 98 NSA convention.

CHAPTER 5, Ray Hannisian's 3-D Video Room

Of course the convention wasn't all about 3-D books
and I did a lot of room hopping before the convention
officially started. I made sure to check out Ray
Hannisian's room since he wasn't going to have a
table at the trade fair.

I got to preview his work in progress, 3-D video on
computer. It was interesting to see. The 3-D was
good with no flicker but the compression still needed
work. The 3-D video compression looked like a very
compressed jpeg image. Ray explained they are working
on it, and I'm looking forward to when they get the
compression "wrinkles", ironed out. Ray was also
demonstrating his other traditional video tape 3-D
videos, which were great, disregarding the inherit
flicker of NTSC broadcasting.


CHAPTER 6, Boris's Anaglyph Pantograms

Paul Talbot and Boris Starosta were my neighbors
among others on the "celebrity" floor. I paid them
a visit and said hi to Paul, a long P3D friend who
I never had the pleasure of meeting. Swell guy!

I picked up a copy of Boris's latest pantogram of the
NSA Y2K Mesa snow globe that he rendered. Amazing
stuff, I gotta try this one day! It was fasinating to
see his other amazing anaglyph stuff and how he has
progressed since I last saw his work at Richmond.

There was so much to see and do that I also missed
a lot of stuff! Melody Steele another very good
friend that I first met at Richmond, was at Mesa and
she mentioned how another person was also doing
pantograms! I never got a chance to meet Owen but
Melody showed me one of the pantograms she bought
from him. Apparently he has a patent on making
pantograms, or so I'm told. Hmmm.

CHAPTER 7, Allan's Super-Anaglyph Glasses

It was nice to see anaglyphs galore at Mesa! Allan
Silliphant was demonstrating his new soon to be
released Super Anaglyph Glasses! They are not in 
production yet but he had prototypes available and
they look very promising! I have countless anaglyph
glasses and I have to say these are one of the better
ones, especially compared to the hard lens versions,
which there are few good ones to be had.

Talking with him, it was evident that he has put a
lot of thought into getting rid of ghosting that
plagues a lot of anaglyph images. His glasses use
a new formulation of red/cyan filtering and also a
novel half diopter difference between lenses! I
haven't been able to see if this is really an
improvement but coming from his interesting and
varied business/technical background, he was a man
not to be dismissed too quickly. He was involved
in filming and producing the 3-D 1969 movie, "The
Stewardesses" and helped produce the Stereovision
system.

Allan also demonstrated his prismatic 3-D glasses
with self-masking built-in. The glasses were
basically plexiglas prisms for viewing cross-eyed
images. These should be great for cross-eyed format
jps images. The built-in self-masking also worked
very well. As he said, "They SELF-mask, so you see a
single 3-D image, NOT 3 images!" It reminded me a
bit of the horse blinders (or whatever they're
called). More info can be found on the above glasses
at, http://www.hd-widescreen.com/glasses.htm

CHAPTER 8, Harry Richard's Room

I wandered into Harry's room to check out the Jori-
Stereoskop that he mentioned on the APEC list before
the convention. This is a compact stereo print
lorgnette viewer. The plexiglas lenses are pretty
big but still fit very easily in your shirt pocket.
The viewers were developed by Joachim Richter in
Germany. There were two types. One had adjustable
interoculars and the other one was fixed.

In the room I ran into Gary Nored and Dr.Dave! Gary
showed us his stereoviews that he had printed from
his ALPS dyesub printer. I was impressed! He
mentioned there was a slight banding problem, but
that was hardlly noticable in most pictures. It was
nice to meet Gary and Dave. I had never met Gary
previous to this convention and he was a very
interesting and knowledgable guy! Funny too! Gary, 
Dr.Dave and I shared many a lunch and supper. :-)

CHAPTER 9, NSA Convention Officially Starts

It was already busy with the room hopping and running
into so many interesting people (and 3-D stuff of
course), that things really started to heat up when
the convention officially started, on Thursday, July 6.
I had to forego some lunches to try to see everything! 

I had preregistered and picked up my NSA registration
package early. I was pleasently surprised when the 
package included a very nice NSA keychain! One side
had the NSA logo and the other side had Boris's snow
globe design of the Mesa Y2K convention.

Also included were a pair of anaglyph and polaroid
glasses, donated by American Paper Optics for the the
stereo theaters. Thank you American Paper Optics!

The Calender book of events was very well done with
full of information of what was scheduled. There was
also interesting short summaries of the people giving
slide shows at the stereo theater. Included was a
sample image and portrait of the presenter.

The back of the book had an assortment of information
on the local resturants and things to see and do. As
if we didn't have enough to see and do! :-)

CHAPTER 10, Viewmaster Meeting

I attended the Viewmaster, APEC, and Internet meeting
that day. The Viewmaster meeting was fun and was well
represented by some nice folk from the VM company.
They talked about the future and recent problems they
had with moving their production to Mexico. It was
kind of eerie because I could relate. The company I
work for recently went through exactly the same thing.
Later, Charlie Van Pelt treated us to a projection of
his personal VM reels when he was very young.

CHAPTER 11, APEC III Meeting

The APEC meeting was well attended and Tom Dory (our
APEC redistributer and NSA Convention Chairman)
discussed future business such as timing of our
periodic submittals. Afterwards everyone introduced
themselves and we had a group discussion.

Jim Harp showed us his monolith photographic prints
processed from digital files. He had slipped an
example of this, in a previous exchange, and none of
us were the wiser! The digital files were submitted
to the film processor and printed out on photographic
paper. The neat thing is that it costs about the same
as processing your regular film prints. It was
amazingly well done.

It looks like this might very well solve the Realist
print problems! Kind of ironic that modern day digital
technology might very well save the day regarding
printing Realist 3-D images.

CHAPTER 12, Internet Meeting

Dan Shelley hosted the Internet Meeting and handed
out a print out of almost ALL the Internet email 3-D
lists. Dan, what happened to the ANAGLYPH list??? ;-)
Joking aside, I didn't have access to the Internet
when Dan was inquiring about all the 3-D email lists
on P3D. I'll address the need for an anaglyph list
in another post.

CHAPTER 13, Dan Shelley's Anaglyph Workshop

Dan Shelley also gave a great workshop on creating
anaglyphs. Only one hitch was when Dan was trying to
demonstrate ghosting and the audience couldn't see
it. Way to go Dan!!! 

Dan also showed us a anaglyph video clip captured
recently from a television broadcast. I won't go into
the specifics of the clip due to th recent uproar on
copyright infringments! ;-)

I was also showing some of my anaglyph images but was
leary on showing them by the end of the convention
because of sensory 3-D image overload of all the
great 3-D stereo at the slide shows, hotel rooms,
trade fair, work shops, and trade fair! 

CHAPTER 14, Another Anaglyph Workshop?

There was a lot of anaglyph related stuff among the
multitude of other 3-D related stereo! Another 
interesting workshop, that took the audience by
surprise, was "The Creation of panoramic stereo
images Workshop," given by Shmuel Peleg. Shmuel is
a professor at a Hebrew university. He and his
students had created automated software that will
stitch images into a panoramic image.

The workshop got off to a slow start since it was
evident from the beginning that we weren't really
going to get a hands on tutorial on making our own
panoramic 3-D images, but rather a demo of the system
Shmuel and his students had developed for their own
use.

Shmuel explained how the software they developed, 
automatically stitched successive frames using a
garden variety CCD (or CMOS) camera and a standard
computer hardware. Now the part that took us by
surprise was the demonstration he gave! After
explaining the theory, he waved a tiny hand held
camera in the air. Moments later, the LCD projector
displayed a large stereoscopic anaglyph panoramic
image of us! 

He certainly had our attention by then and we were
all animated with all kinds of questions on where we
could buy it and so on. Shmuel was also caught by
surprise in our sudden great interest in his product!

One person in the audience mentioned how seemingly
easy it was to do. Shmuel looked at him with an
incredulous sort of look, before stating (in a good
humored way), it took them 5 years to create this
"easy" software! He went on to say how they approached
NASA about using their system for the Mars Pathfinder
mission from a few years back. NASA replied that they
already had developed their own system. 

CHAPTER 15, Other Workshops

I also attended (and missed quite a few, too much to
see and do) numerous workshops like, George Freeman's
"Aesthetics of Stereo Card Making", David Lee's
"Camera Separation in Stereo Photography" (always a
dangerous topic!), Dr.T and Dr.Dave's "Stereo Slide
Mounting", and other ones mentioned elsewhere in this
post.
   
I attended most of these workshops not really to
learn anything (even though I did learn something),
but rather to see and learn about the people giving
these workshops. Luckily they all gave out handout
notes and the workshops were very well presented! 

CHAPTER 16, NSA Stereo Theater

Regretfully I wasn't able to see as many of the shows
as I would have liked to but I did manage to see a
few of them.
 "Bwana Devil Made Me Do It" by Ray Zone
 "Reflections on a Golden Age" by David Burder
 "The Making of the Sports Illustrated 3-D Swimsuit
 Issue" by David Klutho and Ron Labbe,
 "Dynamic Symmetry" and "Nudes" by Boris Starosta,
 "Light Painting and other Oddities" by Pad McLaughlin
among a few others stood out in my mind. Of course
 "Baxxstage" by Mark Kernes stood out the most! 

I missed Dale Walshes (a fellow Montrealer) "Winter"
and Dr.Dave's "Frozen in Time - The Splendor of
Winter." Then again I'm not sorry I did because I'm not
particularly fond of winter. Don't get me wrong, it's
great if you don't have to live and work in it. Give
me Mesa weather anytime. Who needs four seasons!

CHAPTER 17, 22nd Annual NSA Spotlight Auction

The NSA auction got underway on Friday evening July 7,
and there were quite a few people in attendance even
though most were also attending the SSA dinner. Good
thing for me, since I had less potential people
bidding against me. Dr.T was there and I had some
trepidations that he might bid against me, but
all turned out well. :-) George had auction card
no.19 and I had no.20. I did think to write 19 on the
backside of my auction card, to "help" Dr.T win
some bids, but I came to my senses when I realized
that would be going to far!

There was an interesting astronomy stereocard set but
it went over what Dr.T and I were willing to bid. I
was interested in it because there was an exceptional
3-D view of the moon. Best that I've ever seen.  

I ran into Ray Zone at the auction and we talked
about the recent APEC exchange and my moon view. I
told him (and Jim Harp later) I was ashamed to mention
how I did it, since I had cheated! His words of wisdom
were, 3-D is all about cheating! I lightened up and
smiled when he told me that! I'm smiling now as I
write this again! :-) Thanks Ray Zone!

Lot no.83, which consisted of a vintage historical 
train view "Joining of the Rails" fetched a
commanding $1900 by bidder no.45! Actually the
winning bid could have been potentially much higher
since the bidder was just waving his card up in the
air the whole time, trying to keep the auctioneers
attention, TILL HE WON! When he did finally win,
everyone applauded!  

CHAPTER 18, Trade Fair

The Trade Fair opened on Saturday, July 8 and good
thing that it did because I don't think I could
squeeze everything in the previous few hectic days.
There was a lot to see, do, and BUY! I picked up
Reel-3D's 2000 Catalog no.21 and some more things
from Dalia's table that I managed to miss at her room.

It was nice to see Steve Berezin again. Steve had
some rather nice inexpensive achromatic loupes that
were made in Russia. They were available from 4x to
10x magnifications. He also had a slew of other neat
3-D stuff at his table, that one can't do without!

I also bought some mylar tape from Rocky Mountain 
Memories (Paul Talbot) so that I can finally attempt
Dr.Dave's mounting method (I understand he didn't
develop it but he IS an active promoter of the
method, thanks Dr.Dave!). I've seen him demonstrate
it before and thought it was a great method, but since I
don't mount many slides, I never really looked into it.
I finally will give it a try! 

Paul was also handing out free samples of a new high
quality self stick mount (and slip-in, heat seal,
etc.) These look very interesting and I'm eager to
try them out. Hopefully they will be my mount of
choice. Imagine, no ironing, no taping, and no
slipping! 

Paul Talbot's table right right beside Dr.T's table.
Dr.T was pitching Realist related stuff (what else?)
and a new updated Bogen slide bar! It is much nicer
than the previous one, in that it's all black and
has a rubber pad rather than a cork one. Dr.T, do
you accept trade-ins on a new one!?! ;-)

I also finally was able to officially give George his
"prize" for winning the "Who's backyard is this?"
contest from a few months ago. Greg Dinkins, another
P3D'er and founder of the New York Stereoscopic
Society, was there to capture the moment in 3-D.

There was another vendor pitching those LCS glasses.
I was kinda leery because I've been "burned" a few
times with LCS glasses. I asked him a few questions,
but didn't leave satisfied that they were the ones
for me. His sales pitch was smooth, it had some
cracks in it.

He mentioned how they were plug & play and that no
drivers were needed. The literature mentioned how 
the glasses work with nearly any PC and monitor. 
They also mentioned, performance was limited by your
computer and that the glasses were capable of very
high resolution and fast refresh rates.

I asked him to put it in a higher resolution mode
since the mode being demonstrated, was not that
impressive. He was hesitant, but when he did
finally put it in a higher mode, there was some
"noise" problems showing up on the screen. He
didn't know what to make of it. I suspect his
monitor was not up to the task of the higher
resolution/refresh rate.

Some of the images he had on his computer (he was
showing their web site offline), he explained were
2-D to 3-D conversions. I told him that must have
taken along time to do and he said "no, it only takes
a few minutes." That made me take whatever he said
with a grain of salt! 

He called the glasses, "LCD glasses." I told him LCS
would be more appropriate. He thought I was joking
but I told him I'm not and explained why!

The price of the glasses was only $30 and I was still
willing to give them a try (buy a pair) but they were
not available for sale at the trade fair. They were
only from their web site. Apparently they are
available for a limited time free (as Dalia has also
mentioned). You only have to pay shipping & handling.
This offer, is of course, only good in the US. Shucks.
The link for the free glasses is,
http://www.3dmetro.com/

Peter Sinclar from Deep Focus Art/Stereographic Arts
came down from Toronto, Canada and was displaying
(and selling) they're renowned lenticulars, and also
StereoJets. The StereoJets were very impressive,...
and expensive! They ran into the thousands of dollars
for the larger ones. Full page size ones ran into the
hundreds. A tiny business card size one could be had
for $7! The StereoJets were done on Epson printers,
which were much better than the ones I saw two years
ago.

American Paper Optics was giving out a free
promotional package of their wares. In it they
included various 3-D folding print viewers, 3-D cards
and assortment of 3-D glasses. They also had a
magazine that described how businesses could promote
their product with 3-D!

QU-VU was handing out samples of their new print
mounting cards. I don't know what the difference is
between the old ones but I'm willing to give these a
try. I usually cut up my own stereoview cardboard
mounts. Let's see you slide people do that! ;-)

There were a lot of people from Europe and other
places attending this convention. Harry zur
Kleinsmiede from 3-D Book Productions was here with
his daughter and they had a table at trade fair.

Dieter Lorenz, a NSA board member, presented "3D
Discoveries from a Dresden Church" at the stereo
theatre. I bought his anaglyph book, "The Stereo
Image in Science and Technology" from Cygnus
Graphic. The anaglyphs are exceptionally well
done.

Upstairs they had the Competitive Stereoview Display
which I made a point to get to see. Ernie Rairdin
did a bang up job setting it up. Then again, I'm not
surprised, he does a bang up job on his stereocards
too!

CHAPTER 19, Let's Do "Macro" Lunch

Dr.Dave hosted a noon time Macro lunch at the nearby
Quail Run resturant. It was well attended by an
appropriately "small" group of individuals. Of course
nice things come in small packages and this group was
no exception. Jim Harp, Harry Richards, his wife,
Mark Blum, and some others who I forget their names,
and myself were there.

Dr.Dave circulated his macro 3-D slides which were
amazing. He also showed us his RBT rig with macro
attachment! I never realized how BIG the macro
attachment was! What I couldn't understand was, with
a rig like that, why fool around with flatbed macro
stereo scanning!

Jim Harp also circulated his very intersting macro
stuff. He showed us macro lenticular of his child!
It was very cute. Harry Richards showed us his macro
floating fruit loops and floating peanuts! Of course
I was showing my macro anaglyphs. Mark Blum didn't
have anything to show but then again he didn't have
to! We ALL have his fantastic books, don't we!?! :-)
He did mention that he is coming out with a new book
this fall, titled "The Galapalos Islands in 3-D!"
This will be a departure from his underwater and
macro 3-D photography. I definitely will be on the
look out for when it finally comes out.

CHAPTER 20, Awards Banquet

The highlight of the convention, at least for me was
the Awards Banquet. This was held on Saturday evening
July 8. It was nice to seeing the passing of the
guard, with Larry Moor NSA presidency being passed on
to Mary Ann Sell (first female President we're told)
and Shab Levy taking on the Vice Presidency. There
were numerous awards given out for various functions
and accomplishments.

I was lucky to be able to sit with Mary Ann and Jim
Rhoda from Wichita, Mary Ann and Wolfgang Sell, the
Viewmaster people, and David (last name?) who was
a member of the SCSC. He said he missed the very active
and fun 3-D club! He mentioned he grew up in Florida,
lived in California for awhile, and now lives in
Washington D.C. He said he will or has joined the
Potomic Society of Stereo Photographers.

The treat for the evening was Ray Zone giving the 
keynote address. It was a moving address. He
mentioned how he got interested in 3-D in the early
50s, when he saw his first 3-D comic book. He gave
thanks to all the people (Tony Alderson, you were
one of them!) that helped him through the years.
He also talked about how great 3-D was, in ALL it's
forms.

CHAPTER 21, Anaglyph Night Out

After the Awards Banquet, everyone (well, almost
everyone) went up to their hotel rooms to change into
their bathing suits, in preparation of the 3-D Swim-
in Theater, at the outside hotel swimming pool. Being
the modest person I am, I changed into casual shorts
and t-shirt. I joined the other modest group at pool
side, where they had chairs for the show.

I expected the 3-D Swim-in Theater to go all downhill
from there on end. They were going to show 16mm
anaglyph shorts, which as much as I love, are usually
very badly done. I wasn't dissappointed, they were BAD!
Still the gang in the pool were having a blast while I
was trying to keep my cool! ;-) It was kinda hot even
though it was late in the evening. I did think to crash
the pool party but I didn't want to make a spectacle of
myself. Then again, they might not have noticed! :-)

Anyways, I had good company. Hayden Baldwin was doing
a bang up job, keeping the place under surveilance
with his great digital pics. He has a nice one of
Swim-in on the web site that he posted a few days ago,
check out, http://www.feinc.net/nsay2k.htm

I thought I was overdressed in my cloths, but there
was a man a few feet ahead of me wearing a suit. I
asked Hayden if he was a FBI agent but he replied,
"No comment."

It was nice to finally meet Hayden Baldwin and he was
there with one of his colleagues that he recruited
into 3-D. Actually I ran into Hayden earlier at the
APEC III meeting. There he showed me some of his
graphic 3-D crime scene stereo images. He warned me
and others before looking at them that they were
explicitly graphic in nature and they were! I much
rather enjoyed Mark Kernes explicitly graphic pictures.

The 4 anaglyph shorts they showed were "Third
Dimensional Murder Mystery", "It Came From Outer
Space", "The Creature From the Black Lagoon", and
"Spooks", a 3 Stooges short. In the last one I could
swear Dr.T was in it!
 
After the show, I was sitting pool side with Brenda
Nowlan, when we struck up a fasinating conversation.
We discussed how a photographers personality
reflects in their images. This was very enlighting
for me. Before we knew it, we realized we were the
only ones left in the pool area! We of course locked
up behind us. ;-)

Chapter 22, Presidents Breakfast

Early Sunday morning, July 9 they had the traditional
in the ballroom and I was fortunate to sit again with
Mary Ann and Jim Rhoda again. I was surprised it was
their first time attending an NSA convention. They
mentioned they had attended the last ISU convention,
which they also enjoyed.

Jon Golden and Jan Burandt were also at the breakfast
table, along with Jacob Van Ekeren. Very intersting
company indeed. As I mentioned in a previous post,
Jacob mentioned that someone had made a few of their
own 3Discover cassettes!

CHAPTER 23, High Noon at the NSA Corral :-(
 
At high noon there was a dark cloud cast over the
convention. This was the infamous fistfight at the
NSA corral. No laughing matter for sure and this kind
of behaviour is totally unacceptable. I was shocked
to hear about this unfortunate turn of events.

CHAPTER 24, Conclusion

Notwithstanding the brief dark cloud, the convention
was a resounding success. There was still some things
and people I wanted to meet but never got a chance to.
Lawrence Kaufman mentioned Kevin Carps was there. I 
first met Kevin about a year ago to the day at the
Montreal 3-D Film Festival. I didn't get a chance to
meet him.

Dr.T mentioned how Grant Campos S-1 pics were super
sharp. I didn't get a chance to see the pics or Grant!
I did manage to run into some very nice P3D'ers like
Howard Wade and Cliff Howard. I also chatted with
John Dukes, who I first met at Richmond.

A lot of other P3D people were there such as Sheldon
Aronowitz, LeRoy Barco, Gary Shacker and numerous
others that would be too long to mention.

Bruce Springsteen's name came up quite a few times in
polite conversation. Hopefully Bruce can make it to
Buffalo next year! See you all there.

P.S. I've uploaded some 3-D pics of the convention 
in the P3D files section. Enjoy! 
http://www.egroups.com/files/photo-3d/NSA_Mesa_Convention/

Gabriel