3D Stereoscopic Weekend

This event is sponsored by OSPS (Ohio Stereo Photographic Society, www.Ohio3D.com)
NSA (National Stereoscopic Association, the world’s largest stereoscopic organization -see: http://www.stereoview.org/)
and the University of Akron (http://www.uakron.edu/)

and organized by George Themelis (NSA Eastern Midwest Regional Director; the Eastern Midwest region includes the following states: Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia)
and John Waldsmith (founding member of NSA and first Editor of Stereo World.)

The previous years we had around 50 from Canada, UK and various states of the USA. See at the bottom for reports and statistics from previous 3D Weekends

Time/Schedule

Friday, April 29, 2011

3-D movie night! The nearest theater to Quaker Square is the Regal Plaza south off I-77 at Arlington Rd.
(1089 Interstate Parkway 44312) about 10 minutes from Quaker Square Inn.
Show times for Hoodwinked Too! 3:50 PM, 6:30 PM and 9:30 PM. Rio 4:55 PM, 6:35 PM 7:15 PM 9:20 PM and 9:55 PM

Remind those attending that they are showing it in 3-D and in Flat version. Don't buy tickets for or go into the wrong theater.

Saturday, April 30, 2011

7:00 AM - Setup for Trade Show & Stereo Projection - Dealer Setup

8:00 AM to 4:00 PM - Trade Show/Exhibit Room open (Ballroom C)

9:00 AM - 12:00 AM - Stereo Projection Morning Session (Ballroom B)

9:00: Welcome & Opening remarks
9:15: 50 Favorite Stereo Slides (F), Lee Pratt
9:30: Baja California (F), John MacDonald
10:00: My 50 Years of Exhibiting 3D Images (F), Al Sieg
10:30: Stereo Biography (D), Steve Hughes
11:00: Nafplion, First Capital of Greece (D), George Themelis
11:30: Digital Viewing Technologies (D), Jay Horowitz

12:00 AM to 1:30 PM - Lunch Break (Box Lunch included with registration)

Note: The boxed lunch includes a sandwich on grained bread or you may have a vegetarian wrap plus
a whole fresh fruit, baked chips and a Main Street Bakery cookie and a choice of Pepsi products or water.
Please let John Waldsmith know your choices, if you have not done this already.

1:30 PM to 4:00 PM - Stereo Projection Afternoon session

1:30: Macro & Close-ups with the Macrobox (D), George Themelis
2:00: The Ohio Statehouse Then & Now (D), John Waldsmith. George Themelis, Jay Horowitz
2:30: Digital Potpourri (D), Jay Horowitz (organizing)
3:00: On-site Stereo Competition, Barb & Paul Gauche (Directors) **

** We need your entries for the Competition by 12:00 noon.
3 entries per participant (film or digital - for projection).
Please label your slides with title, name and thumbspot (lower left corner)
Name your digital files as follows: LastnameFirstName_This Is The Title_1.jpg (1, 2, 3 will be the order of projection)

4:00 PM End of session, breakdown/pack-up

4:30 PM to 7:00 PM - Dinner

7:00 PM 3D Projection - "Best of the Best", Free and Open to the Public

7:00: A Collection of our Favorites (D), John Bueche, Dennis Green, Barb Gauche
7:10: 3rd Ohio International Exhibition (D), George Themelis (Exhibition Chairman)
7:30: PSA Stereo Sequence Exhibition (F), Lee Pratt (Exhibition Chairman)

F: Film Program / D: Digital Program

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Cuyahoga Valley Railroad from downtown Akron

The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railway leaves downtown Akron at 11:35 AM Sunday May 1, from the depot at 27 Ridge St.
It travels north along the Ohio & Erie Canal and through the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
It arrives at the Canal Visitor's Center at 1 PM and leaves to go back to Akron at 1:30 PM. It arrives in Akron at 2:50 PM.
There is only one run on Sunday, so if you miss getting back on it is a long walk back.
The depot is about a 45 minute walk from Quaker Square. We will need to have volunteers to haul people down.
Plenty of parking at the depot. Cost is adult's $15 and children $10. You buy your ticket at the depot.

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

7:30 PM - OSPS stereo club meeting. You are invited to extend your stay and attend our stereo club meeting.
The program for the May 3 meeting includes Member's Presentations / Open Projector, and our last stereo slide competition
for the year (subject is "Open"). For more details and directions, see www.ohio3d.com.

9:00 - 12:00 AM	Morning Session
John Bueche (OSPS President) John Waldsmith George Themelis	Welcome & Opening Remarks
Lee Pratt	Favorite Stereo Slides (F) - A collection of 50 favorite stereo slides with background music.
John MacDonald	Baja California (F) - Pictures include: California Gray Whale watching/petting, various coastal venues in the Sea of Cortez, a side trip to a 17th-century Spanish mission inland, various desert plants in location, shots of Mexican artisans at work in La Paz, and more!
Al Sieg	My 50 Years of Exhibiting 3D Images (F) - After a brief introduction, Al will show us 5 sections of 20 award-winning images from each decade, starting with the 60s and then 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s. A total of 177 stereo slides in RBT mounts. What a treat!
Steve Hughes	Stereo Biography (D) - Steve will tell us how he got started in stereo photography, what pictures he likes to take, what equipment he uses, etc.
George Themelis	Nafplion, First Capital of Greece (D) - A tour of this little known city of Greece with emphasis on its history and what can one do and see today.
Jay Horowitz	Digital Viewing Technologies (D) - Viewing is considered the "weak link" of the digital stereo experience. Jay will briefly review the digital viewing technologies available today and what the future might bring (Note: various digital viewing equipment will be available on display)
1:30-4:00 PM	Afternoon Session
George Themelis	Macro and Close-ups with the Macrobox (D) - Using a semi-transparent mirror it is possible to bring two cameras close together for macro and close ups. This old principle is finding new uses with modern digital cameras. George will explain the principle, digital camera requirements and results typical of this technique.
John Waldsmith, George Themelis, Jay Horowitz	The Ohio Statehouse Then and Now (D) - Early historical stereoviews from John Waldsmith's collection, plus pictures of the interior as it looks today. Included are some of the earliest known stereoviews of Columbus, Ohio, the earliest of the State House and the first stereographs made indoors in Ohio.
Various Makers	Digital Potpourri (D), A short collection of digital stereo programs, selected by Jay Horowitz
Barb & Paul Gauche (Directors)	On-Site Stereo Competition - Each participant can enter up to 3 stereo images (film or digital). Entries must be received before 12:00 noon. These will be judged by a panel of 3 judges and the top-scoring images will receive awards. The audience will vote for their favorite image and select the “People’s Choice” for an extra award.
7:00-8:30 PM	Evening Session
Jay Horowitz (projecting)	A Collection of Our Favorites (D), A collection of favorite stereo images from the Detroit Stereographic Society and the Ohio Stereo Photographic Society. The program was put together by John Bueche, Barb Gauche and Dennis Green.
George Themelis (Exhibition Chairman)	3rd Ohio International Stereo Exhibition (D)
Lee Pratt (Exhibition Chairman)	PSA Stereo Sequence Exhibition (F)

Lee Pratt - Lee grew up on a farm/ranch in Texas. He has two college degrees majoring in physics and served in the U.S. Army. He then became an electronics engineer at the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. He worked in the Research and Development Center and is now retired and widowed. He started doing stereo photography in the 1970's. He is Chairman of PSA's 3D Division, is a Fellow of PSA, and has earned a Master Level 6 exhibition rating. He is Vice President of NSA and is also active in SSA, ISU, and several camera clubs. His other major hobby is growing fruits and berries in his backyard. He seldom rides horses or chases cows now.

John MacDonald - John, a retired musicologist from the University of Akron, was captivated in childhood by stereo photography by the old stereo cards and viewer his mother owned in the 1930s. When, in the 1940s he was a teenager, he experimented with a box camera cha-cha method around his home. When the method worked, he tried other processes like strapping two box cameras together and tripping both shutters at the same time for slow action shots. Finally, when in Germany as a GI in the Signal Corps in 1953, he came upon an Iloca II stereo camera and began more than a half-century of stereo photography with that camera and his current Revere Stereo for more than 10,000 photos of hiking, backpacking, cruise & other vacation venues in national & state parks & monuments, national forests, national lakeshores & seashores in the US and in Europe & Central & South America. While he prefers film, he hopes to tackle digital stereo activities soon.

Al Sieg - Al has been a stereo photographer for more than 50 years. He is currently the world's leading exhibitor in stereo photography with more than 2200 pictures accepted for exhibition and is recognized by the Photographic Society of America, 3D Division as having the highest rank of Master Stereographer XXI. His stereograms have won more than 400 awards, including numerous Stereo slide of the Year Awards. He is a member of PSA having received the Honorary FPSA. He is a past President of the Society, a past chairman of the 3D Division, a member and Fellow of the Third Dimension Society in England, a member and currently the Chairman of the Board of the National Stereoscopic Association and is the Past President of the International Stereoscopic Union. He has presented numerous stereo programs. Professionally, Al worked for many years with the Eastman Kodak Co., where he held the posts of Corporate Vice President in the US, and President and CEO of Eastman Kodak Japan where he lived and worked for seven years.

Steve Hughes - Steve has been interested in stereo photography since he discovered it as a teenager. Almost as interested in designing cameras as using them, Steve’s main interests are travel photography and building digital stereo camera equipment. A member of the NSA and the ISU, he is best known for his workshops on the technical side of stereo photography and for actively promoting digital stereo projection.

George Themelis - George (or DrT as he is better known in the stereoscopic community) discovered stereo photography and joined NSA in 1988. His first stereo camera was a Stereo Realist. In 1997 he helped start the Ohio Stereo Photographic Society (OSPS) in Cleveland. Today George keeps himself busy as the Editor of the OSPS newsletter "Stereogram", where he publishes stereo Tutorials every month, repairs stereo cameras and viewers and also buys/sells/trades stereo equipment and supplies for stereo photography. His web site is: www.drt3d.com. He also takes plenty of stereo pictures (15,000 pairs with the Fuji since October 2009).

Jay Horowitz - While pursuing stereoscopic imaging technology in my role as a scientific visualization specialist for NASA, I rekindled a long dormant interest in stereo photography. I now find many opportunities to mix work and pleasure. At NASA I produce computer generated 3D imagery of complex data as well as photographs of wind tunnels and rocket engines. Outside work, I take photographs of friends, family, and anything the Ohio Stereo Photographic Society's competitions entice me to take. Equally fond and frustrated by both film and digital, I will gladly argue the merits of each over the other.

John Waldsmith - John began collecting stereo views in 1971. In the beginning he collected everything 3-D but eventually found that his money and space was limited enough that he had to specialize so he limited his stereo view collection to just views of Ohio by Ohio photographers or publishers. John is a co-founder of the National Stereoscopic Association and a past vice-president, editor of Stereo World and librarian of the NSA Oliver Wendell Holmes Stereoscopic Research Library. He is also the author of Stereo Views, An Illustrated History and Price Guide. His wife Janet is retired after thirty years of teaching. John is also a licensed and bonded Auctioneer and Personal Property Appraiser.

Barbara Gauche - Barb lives in Macomb Township, Michigan. She adopted stereo photography as a hobby relatively recently (early 2004), and has enjoyed success in club competitions as a member of both the Detroit Stereographic Society (DSS) and the Ohio Stereo Photographic Society (OSPS) with her slides, digital images and stereo cards. She has had several slides accepted in national and international competitions. Barb joined DSS in February of 2004 and OSPS in September of 2004 and is currently President of DSS. She served on the 2008 NSA Convention committee as the Registration Chair and was a Co-Chair for the 2010 NSA Convention.

Paul Gauche - Paul followed his wife, Barb, into stereography in 2004 shortly after she was lured into joining the Detroit Stereoscopic Society by Dennis Green. As with many enthusiasts, Paul's first 3D exposure was a ViewMaster and reels of the Wonders of the World, National Parks, early NASA rockets and others. He started with a Revere 33 stereo camera and now has shifted primarily to shooting digital cha-chas and Fuji W1 stereo imaging. Paul is mainly attracted to subjects like buildings and bridges that don't move while he's figuring out the camera settings.

Quaker Square Inn room rate is $109 plus tax.
For rooms call: (330) 253-5970 Request 3-D Weekend.

Please Note: Faculty and Students of U of A may attend for FREE by presenting their U of A identification but are not eligible for the boxed lunch. If you want the lunch, you must register for $15 which we must receive by April 27.

NSA Regional Director	George Themelis, 10243 Echo Hill Dr, Brecksville, OH 44141, (440) 666-4006, email: drt-3d@live.com
Auctioneer & Trade manager	John Waldsmith, PO Box 83, Sharon Center, OH 44274, (330) 239-2212, email: vansywalsy@aol.com

3D Weekend	Year	Date	Location	Attendance (Overall/Local)	Report
1	2003	May 3-4	Holiday Inn, Fairlawn OH	~ 100	3DWeekend-2003-Report.PDF
2	2004	May 1-2	Holiday Inn, Fairlawn OH	98	3DWeekend-2004-Report.PDF
3	2005	April 30-May 1	Sheraton Hotel, Cleveland Airport OH	~80	3DWeekend-2005-Report.PDF
4	2006	May 6-7	Embassy Suites, Independence OH	67	3DWeekend-2006-Report.pdf
5	2007	May 4-6	Embassy Suites, Independence OH	63 / 19	3DWeekend-2007-Report.pdf
6	2008	May 2-4	Embassy Suites, Independence OH	55 / 22	3DWeekend-2008-Report.pdf
7	2009	May 1-3	Sawmill Creek - Huron OH	42 / 14	3DWeekend-2009-Report.pdf
2010 3D Weekend was not held, to support the NSA Convention held at Sawmill Creek Resort in Huron OH
8	2011	April 30-May 1	Quaker Square Inn, Akron OH