3D Club: Review of the first meeting, Oct 27/97

15 people (possibly more and with also at least that many regrets) came for the first meeting of the 3D Club. The meeting was held at 7:30pm at Capilano College in North Vancouver. All those who attended were interested in stereo photography  with backgrounds ranging from beginners to professionals. Other interests such as vr or computers were not represented.

The meeting started in an unstructured manner with members browsing through various cameras and prints that where brought along with small group discussions. A few of notable interest were:

• Kurby Lee had a very nice selection of standard 31/2x7 stereo cards that he was selecting for the Amateur Photographic Exchange Club.
• Peter Lowery had some excellent anaglyph prints that were taken with the Vivitar 70-210 zoom Q-dos lens as well as some prints made with the new Argus stereo camera.
• Dragan Smekal brought one of his "Omniscope" viewers giving all present a chance to try it out (also used later for viewing images on the computer)

There after, we began a more structured meeting with Bernd Simson, Rolf Eipper and Gary Cullen (the three primary promoters for the club beginnings) introducing this new club and the motivations behind it. This evolved into each person at the meeting introducing themselves with their specific interest in 3D. This description of a persons interest often sparked an interesting discussions and questions.

The meeting then went on to presentation of some 3D slides that some members had brought with them. These were presented with Third Dimension Company (TDC) 116 projector and a Viewmaster Stereomatic 500 projector onto a silver screen (and viewed with polarized glasses). Some of the slides seen were:

• Peter Lowery's slides included a most impressive one of an F-111 with its nose protruding out from the screen as well as pumkin, waterslide, giant redwood, PNE rollercoaster and girl/cat.
• Brad Neave selection of slides included an architectural slide of Holiday Inn on Broadway, a panorama of Vancouver, wooden shere in Gastown and a rope grid.
• Rolf Eipper showed 3D slides of ISU (International Stereoscopic Union) member outings in Germany, France and Switzerland.

At the end of the presentations the meeting wound up with a number of members visiting the Physics department which has a Holography Lab, a display case showing various 3D techniques and cameras and a computer on the internet showing 3D pictures using a browser plugin called DepthCharge. Small group discussions evolved in the Physics lab with the last of our members leaving for home around midnight.

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