[photo-3d] 3rd Friday Dinner report

["Jim Harp" <matmail2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> I am sorry I was unable to attend last night's 3rd Friday Stereo 
> Dinner.  From the description, it sounds like it must have been a
> blast.
>
> Can anyone give a report?

It was indeed a blast - wish you could have been there.  Our special guest
David Burder showed up with the 12 lens Nimslo I mentioned earlier, and some
beautiful lenticulars including one enlarged to about 3 feet square.
Sheldon had the new Realist Macro camera and some sample slides.  I never
realized what a fascinating 3D subject the human nose is.  The newly minted
Macro Realist is a marvelous bit of engineering.  I was interested to see
that the new shutter is in front of the two lenses.  The automatic flash
that comes with the camera does all the work in terms of exposure- there are
metal pins that act as guides for where the subject matter should be
positioned, and otherwise it's a "point and shoot" operation.  I want one!
There were about 12 of us there passing around William's (sorry - I didn't
catch the last name) beautiful Medium Format Sputnik slides of circus
elephants and tall ships and John Billingham's stunning MF slide-bar macro
shots.  There were also plenty of nice Realist format and twin 35mm slides.
I got some insight into how to improve my twin SLR mirror close-up rig
thanks to Brian Reynolds and John B.  We concluded that when properly
aligned this setup won't produce keystone distortion.  We all had a chance
to enjoy the computer modeled swimming dolphins animated analglyph, thanks
to Pat graciously bringing over a lap-top, and to top it off, Burder had a
lenticular printed stereocard which flipped between two different vintage
views depending on what angle you held it at. (!!!) It was like a three hour
NSA convention - let's do it again soon... (the third Friday of September is
the 15th)  Jim Harp