PANORAMA Fall 2002 the Magazine of Panoramic Imaging Volume 19, Number 3 Two Three In This Issue

04 President’s Message 15 9-11 One Year Later Historic Panoramas - Paintings SkyPan Panoramas By Stephen Delroy 04 Secretary’s Message 18 On Location: 05 Historic Shepherdstown: Long Distance Colour Image Making Blending the Past and the By Michael Westmoreland Present 20 Product Review: Page 11 Page 13 06 Convention Speaker The Roundshot Model 28-220 Biographies By Roy Christian Member Profile: Pawel Fludinsky 9-11 One Year Later 10 Convention Schedule 22 Current Exhibits: The Panoramic Photography of W.J. 10 Convention Tid Bits Moore, 1913-1939

11 Historic Panoramas - Paintings: 22 From the Archives: The Battle of Gettysburg or The Mile-O-View Camera Pickett’s Charge 24 Buy, Sell and Trade Page 14 Page 15 12 New Members Classified Ads for Members Road Trip On Location: Long Distance Image Making 25 IAPP International Convention From the Archives: The Mile-O-View Camera 13 SkyPan Panoramas Registration Forms By Mark Segal 26 IAPP 2003 Membership Form 14 Member Profile: Pawel Fludzinsky Into (almost) Thin Air Page 18 Page 22

Panorama is the official publication of the President: Peter Lorber Directors: Original written articles and supporting materials, such as photographs or image files, shall be submitted to the International Association of [email protected] Alan Bank - Tupelo, MS Panorama editor for consideration. Articles may be edited and may or may not be published at the discretion of [email protected] Panoramic Photographers. the editor. Submissions will be returned only if a self-addressed stamped envelope has been provided. IAPP is not President Elect: Peter Burg Ron Klein - Juneau, AK responsible for any loss or damage to the original materials that might occur during handling or while in transit. [email protected] [email protected] Submissions for Panorama must be sent to: Ben Porter - Asheville, NC IAPP / Richard Schneider Articles and supporting materials are for one-time use unless other arrangements have been made between the Sec./Treas.: Richard Schneider [email protected] creator(s) of the text and images and IAPP. The author / photographer retains full credit and copyright to their Panorama Magazine Editor [email protected] Mark Segal - Chicago, IL submissions in an edited or unedited form. P.O. Box 6550, [email protected] Ellicott City, Maryland, 21042, USA Panorama Publisher: Warren Wight Color proofs are prefered with digital submissions. If one is not provided, we will do our best to correct the image [email protected] [email protected] ISSN #1090-994X but can’t be held responsible for color and density differences from the original. Four President’s Message Secretary/Treasurer’s Message See You In Shepherdstown By Richard Schneider By Peter Lorber Term limits, as written in our bylaws development for example, it would be to The time is quickly approaching and and share his knowledge and expertise. (Article 4, Section 4) prevent me from change IAPP’s non-profit tax status with the plans are just about completed. The Thank you, John. seeking another term as IAPP’s Secre- the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). We Board and various committees have tary / Treasurer. For those not familiar, are presently a 501-c-6, a category used been working non-stop to make sure, Don’t forget to bring images for our I have maintained IAPP’s finances, for business trade groups. We need to members and guests alike, have an photo contest. It is always one of the records and membership database change to a 501-c-3 educational organi- informative and worthwhile time. If highlights of the convention and even T information for almost 2 1⁄2 years. This zation. Benefits of the c-3 status include Tyou have’t already done so, please send if you do not want to enter, bring some has been a valuable experience for me greatly reduced postage rates for asso- in your registration form, and do not of your best for other members to enjoy. and I hope one that has been beneficial ciation mailings, exemption from state forget to make your hotel reservation. Remember, your images do not have to to IAPP. sales tax and having the ability to accept be from film. With digital, there is no charitable contributions. Planning an international convention limit to what you can do, and it may I am happy to report that at the time of does not happen overnight. A special even be fun to “guess” which is digital this writing (September 3), IAPP had I wish to thank you all for the support thanks goes to Richard Schneider for all and which is film. about $25,500 in the bank - $15,000 in you have given me since I assumed the work and preparation he has done. a Certificate of Deposit that matures in office. Yet in closing, I must stress to you The speaker schedule is complete, and We are still looking for sponsors and October and about $10,500 in our check- all that whatever the financial, political as you can see, the IAPP is keeping pace vendors. Vendor nights have always ing account. We have 400 members, a and even “cultural” state of IAPP, we with the new advances in technology been very successful. It is the time for figure that is slightly down from 2001 will always need the volunteer efforts of and photography. The speakers have vendors and members to really show- but is not unusually low for this associa- our members in order to survive. There varied experiences and expertise to case their products and artwork. Even tion. It is my hope that the next Board of has been no shortage of good ideas pro- share. though we allot time to introduce new Directors will make membership devel- posed over the years, but there has been I would like to extend, from myself and products, there is not enough time to opment and increased corporate support a shortage of people willing and able on behalf of the Board, a special thank really explain in detail or answer any a hallmark of their term of office. to turn these ideas into reality. I hope, you to John McCarthy and Fuji for their questions. Please contact Jan Burg for starting with our convention in Shep- continued support and sponsorship. more information. If I can offer one suggestion to the herdstown this October, we can turn this John arranged for Art Rainville, a well- next Board on how IAPP might better around. respected and noted speaker, to attend I look forward to Shepherdstown and manage its finances, enabling us to and I look forward to both meeting and will, hopefully, see you there. devote more resources to membership Richard listening to him. John also arranged for Nick Meers to come from England Peter Make Your Reservations Today!

The convention site is the Clarion Hotel and Conference Center, a modern and beautiful property that hosted the Middle East Peace Talks a couple of years ago. The lodging rate for convention attendees is approx. 85.00 per night.

Clarion Hotel and Conference Center Shepherdstown, West Virginia - 304.876.7000 www.clarion-shep.com Five

Historic Shepherdstown: IAPP International Blending the Past and the Present Convention 2002 Article courtesy of the Shepherdstown Visitor Center Shepherdstown, WV Shepherdstown and its surroundings hold fascination for a lock (No. 38) named after it. the visitor seeking to savor history. Colonial settlers began [ October 8-13, 2002 ] their migration into the northern end of the Shenandoah The Hamtranck Guard was dispatched to Harper’s Ferry (12 Valley in the early 1700’s. The Colony of Virginia began miles south) to subdue John Brown’s raid on the federal arse- issuing Valley Land Grants in the 1730’s. Thomas Shep- nal in 1859. At the outbreak of the Civil War, this group became Planning Committee Chairmans nd SPEAKERS herd was granted 222 acres on the Company B, 2 Virginia Infantry, Army of Peter Lorber • Ron Klein Ssouth side of the “Potowmack” River. the Confederacy and would later become VENDORS & EXHIBITORS / SILENT From that tract he selected 50 acres part of the famous “Stonewall Brigade”. AUCTION Peter Burg and laid out a town. In 1762 the Vir- REGISTRATION / PROGRAM & ginia Assembly chartered the town as After the huge Battle of Antietam (Sept. 17, BOOKLET “Mecklenburg”. Thomas Shepherd was 1862), fought less than 5 miles away across Richard Schneider the sole trustee: He owned the town the Potomac River in Sharpsburg, Maryland, AWARDS & MERITS / ACTIVITIES General Robert E. Lee’s retreating forces Ben Porter and was responsible for its govern- PUBLICITY ment. By 1775 the town boasted 1000 overwhelmed the town with 5000-8000 casu- Alan Bank inhabitants including millers, tanners, alties. The much lesser Battle of Shepherd- NOMINATING COMMITTEE potters, smiths and other artisans. stown occurred 3 days later. Nevertheless, Chairman - M. Denis Hill more than 100 Confererate soldiers died here Fred Yake • Bill McBride 1775 was also the year that General George Washington issued a call for and are buried in Elmwood Cemetery. “Virginia Volunteer Riflemen” to rein- Bylaw Revision Update force his fledgling Continental Army In 1872, the Town Hall was chartered as a around Boston. The assembled troops “Classical and Scientific Institute”. The build- The Board of Directors has decided to table ing was then leased to the state and Shep- the Proposed Revisions of the IAPP Bylaws departed south of town in July of 1775. as printed in the Summer 2002 issue of Pan- This famous “Beeline March to Cam- herd College was born. orama magazine, and will refer the matter to bridge (Massachusetts)” covered 600 a special committee to be formed by the next miles in 24 days. Shepherdstown today has a population of IAPP President. The Town Hall, chartered as a “Classical and 1800, is perched confidently on a bluff over- Scientific Institution” was leased to the state Instead, the Board has decided to make one The town’s claim to be the birthplace of looking the Potomac, and is proud and pro- and Shepherd College was born. amendment to the existing bylaws, as drafted the steamboat is based on the achieve- tective of both its past and present. The result and approved in 1998. This will be on the ments of James Rumsey who in 1787, 20 years before is its designation as a Historic District on the National Register of ballot at the 2002 Convention. Robert Fulton’s Claremont first steamed up the Hudson Historic Places. Article IX. AMENDMENT OF BYLAWS. Section 1 River in New York State, built and successfully demon- strated a working steamboat on the Potomac River in A stroll through town reveals a mixed collection of beautifully Present Wording: These bylaws may be Shepherdstown.. maintained old homes, a few predating the American Revolu- amended at any regular meeting of the Asso- tion. Among these sites are: The Entler Hotel (Historic Shepherd- ciation by a two-thirds vote of those pres- ent. Notice of proposed amendments must A second Charter issued by the Virginia Assembly, which stown Museum), the Rumsey Steamboat Museum, the Mecklen- be given to all members at least 30 days in allowed for self-government, was granted in 1794. In burg Inn, the Opera House and the Old Trinity Church, advance. 1798 the corporate limits were extended and the name Shopping, dining and cultural events in Shepherdstown reveal Proposed New Wording: These bylaws shall was changed to Shepherd’s Town. After the Civil War, the be amended by a two-thirds vote. All mem- name was officially contracted to Shepherdstown. the town’s cosmopolitan nature. The visitor in search of the bers shall be notified of proposed amend- The part of the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal, across unusual gift, a variety of menus, warmth and hospitality, or ments at least 30 days in advance. the river from Shepherdstown, was built in the 1830’s. entertainment will enjoy the many choices offered by Shepherd- This is the only town in what is now West Virginia to have stown. Six Convention Speaker Biographies

Rick Ernest Bruner Modern Photography, the Rangefinder, Stephen Delroy CustomHouse at One Bowling Green. Rick Ernest Bruner was born in Water- the Photographic Society of America My formal education concentrated first (A National Historic Landmark and loo, Iowa, graduated from the Univer- Journal, Industrial Photography, as well in Chemistry (advanced degree, MA & landlord to a Smithsonian Museum and sity of Northern Iowa with a Bachelor as RIT’s own journal. almost PhD.*Brooklyn College, Brandeis a prime example of Beaux Arts architec- of Arts in Art Education in 1974 and University) and subsequently, Law ture in NYC.) graduated from Wayne State University He has developed an unusual rotating (Suffolk University). My first jobs saw in Detroit, MI with a Masters of Fine Art film panoramic and peripheral camera me working in the paper industry for I have had a life long interest in pho- in 1981. and built several prototype scanning Fortune 100 tography starting as a schoolboy. I cameras and enlargers. With the latter companies purchased my first SLR in the early He is currently an Associate Profes- he has made enlargements that exceed handling 1960’s. About 5 years ago I discovered sor of Art at Shepherd College in 100 continuous feet in length and with compliance of the panoramic format and have been Shepherdstown, WV, he Chair of the a camera like this he made one continu- their products “experimenting” with it ever since. I Department of Art and is Coordinator ous photograph of the whole length of with FDA, joined IAPP just after the Cherokee con- of the Photography/Computer Imagery East Avenue in Rochester, New York. USDA and ference and have attended most every Program. EPA laws and one since then (missing only the DC He was the Inaugural Kodak Visiting regulations. regional gathering). I currently own a He resides in Northern Virginia with his professor to Australia in 1992, a Visit- After a brief Noblex, Hasselblad X-Pan, and a 70mm wife, Lisa and their four-year-old son, ing Scholar at NASA Langley Research stint as an Roundshot. I am also in the process in Emil. Rick will primarily be discussing Center in 1993 and has been a guest independent building a “digital darkroom.” familiar and “off the beaten path” places lecturer at photographic educational consultant to photograph in the Shepherdstown institutions in Sweden, Argentina and I was hired Jan Faul area. Brazil and many other photographic by the U.S. As a photographer I have used a great societies and organizations worldwide. General Services Administration to variety of locations and styles through- Andrew Davidhazy do environmental assessment of their out my career. My experiences have Professor Andrew Davidhazy is a fac- For more information, please visit high-rise office buildings. My current been as varied as the ideas of man and ulty member and chair of the Imaging Andrew’s web site at www.rit.edu/ position finds me as the Building Man- are instrumental in the development of and Photographic Technology Depart- ~andpph. ager for the Alexander Hamilton U.S. my art. My work has taken me from the ment of the School of Photo- hills of Appalachia to Europe and graphic Arts and Sciences at the beyond. My vision has become Rochester Institute of Technology refined and enriched by my com- (RIT) in Rochester, New York. mercial and documentary work; this has fueled my desire to photo- He is an instructor with almost 25 graph the faces and places that are years of teaching experience and my greatest passion. he specializes in the scientific and technical aspects of photography, Upon graduation from George although he also has a signifi- Washington University in 1969, I cant interest in the creative and worked at the Smithsonian’s Arts aesthetic aspects of the medium. & Industries, National Portrait He has lectured and exhibited Gallery, and National Collection of worldwide and his writings Fine Arts museums; a year later I have been published in numer- left to curate photography exhibits ous books, articles and journals for Sen. Howard H. Baker, Jr. This including Popular Photography, This unusual view of Shepherdstown was created by Jan Faul. led to other opportunities, the first Seven

of which was as Chief Photographer for In 1996 he started on a new photo- Nicholas Hellmuth panoramic images his new playground the Office of Economic Opportunity. graphic project from the summit of Mt. Nicholas Hellmuth has advanced and has done so for the last 5 years. Marcy, the highest point in New York through years of basic wide angle and Jook’s favorite 360VR images are visu- In 1979, I moved to Copenhagen, as I State and experimented briefly with stationary panoramic cameras to the ally vivid and uniquely conceptual. His hoped Denmark’s radically different some panoramic equipment. He soon rotating 70mm Seitz SuperRound Shot. strong sense for color, lighting and com- culture might provide new challenges. bought his first panoramic camera, a When the digital era arrived he acquired position are naturally bound to sneak During this period I traveled exten- Noblex 135U. He fell in love with the a Dicomed with BetterLight panoramic into his panoramic work. sively inside and outside Denmark format, and began documenting the software. Recently Nicholas upgraded while doing commercial photography region with a completely new perspec- to the BetterLight Super6000 with Pano/ Jook will talk about creating spherical for northern European corporations tive. In 1999, he bought a Roundshot WideView rotating panoramic tripod 360° panoramic images with fisheye like Bang & Olufsen, Esso, Volvo, and Super 35 after signing a book contract head. lenses. Instead of stepping back to Mærsk Shipping. I also received direct with Rizzoli for a photographic “coffee capture a scene with conventional wide- corporate support from Polaroid, Ilford table” book on the Adirondack region. Dr. Hellmuth teaches digital photog- angle lenses, the 360° spherical format Photo (Ciba-Geigy), and Kodak. But as raphy including panoramic photogra- forces the photographer to get into the a non-Dane, I was barred from receiv- Carl’s work has been published in many phy. His specialty is wide format inkjet middle of a scene. ing state arts funding, a discovery publications regionally, and nationally. printing of mural-sized panoramic which tied to other discrimination, His work can be found in calendars, images. He is Director, Large Format The full spherical 360° panorama is contributed to my departure from Den- books, magazines, commercial work, as Digital Imaging Division, at Bowling the ultimate image format. It is easily mark. I left Denmark in 1989. I returned fine art prints and posters, and he’s had Green State University in Ohio as well viewed and explored interactively on a home to enjoy the Bill of Rights, the free numerous one person gallery showings as Director, Digital Imaging Resource computer monitor. For prints, there are speech it guarantees and to photograph in the region. He also leads photography Center, at the Universidad Francisco infinite points of view the photographer the places in America I had missed workshops and Photoshop workshops Marroquin in Guatemala City, Guate- can extract for his audience. Jook will so dearly through my decade-long in the upstate New York area. mala (www.ctpid.ufm.edu). show examples of this using software absence. from Adobe Photoshop and Panorama Over the past several years he has For more information on Dr. Hellmuth Tools. Since 1991, I have concentrated on enjoyed working in his ‘digital dark- and his work, please visit www.digital- working with black and white pho- room’ and exploring the incredible photography.org. For more information, please visit Jook’s tographs, developing new darkroom potential of Adobe Photoshop. Scan- web site at http://360vr.com. techniques, and making editioned ning his transparencies, and doing color Jook Leung series of prints. I am continuing to work work in Photoshop has given him the Jook Leung’s photo by Ted Thomas on numerous projects and on American flexibility and control needed to be faces and places. I wish to portray the able to reproduce the full intent of the Nick Meers unseen, bring the ignored to life, and to original image. At the convention, Carl Nick Meers was born in the Cotswolds create my art from the leavings of the will explore some of the possibilities of in 1955, and grew up in Gloucestershire hand of man on the land. working with panoramas in Photoshop, and Dorset, England. After graduat- and also offer a multi-media program ing from the Guilford School of Art, For more information on Jan using some of the panoramas of the Nick was commissioned to shoot the Faul, please visit his web site at mountains he has photographed in first of over thirty travel books in Paris, www.artfaul.com. North America. then worked in the National Parks in California soon after. The extreme scale, Carl Heilman II For more information on Carl With over 20 years as a commercial combined with intimate details of the Carl Heilman has been photograph- and his photography, please photographer and with a background landscape, started him off on a lifelong ing nature in the Adirondack Park of visit www.carlheilman.com and in photocomposition and digital photo- upstate New York for almost 30 years. www.naturepanoramas.com. illustration, Jook is excited to make 360° More on page Eight Eight

Convention Speaker Biographies from page Seven observation of, and fascination with, Photographs have been exhibited many collection of his gardens and architec- Fine Arts and Journalism, concentrat- changing natural light, and its effects times at The Association of Photog- tural work. ing on photography within each. He upon nature. There followed a series of raphers Gallery in London. Others worked for three years managing an travel adventures that have honed his include the National Trust Centenary Nick Meers appears courtesy of Fuji engineering photo lab for a blueprint- visual skills. exhibition at Osterley House, London, Photo Film USA, Inc. ing company before starting at the and the Fox Talbot Museum at Lacock Library in 1990. Over the next 20 years, his experiences Abbey. Work has also been purchased For more information, please visit Phil has worked extensively with worldwide brought a variety of commis- for the Citibank Art Collection in Nick’s web site at www.nickmeers.com. the Library’s collection of over 4200 sions; his photographs have appeared London, and by private collectors. panoramic photographs, includ- in many books, on calendars, magazine Agency representation of Nick’s work Phil Michel ing inventorying and identification, front covers, annual reports, book jack- is through five stock picture libraries, Phil Michel is a digital conversion conservation, cataloging, and imaging. ets, record covers, greetings cards, post his panoramic collection of work is held coordinator in the Prints & Photographs The collection was originally distrib- cards, and in many magazines. These in Chicago and London. The National Division at the Library of Congress. He uted as an analog videodisc as part of include Country Life, Country Living, Trust Photographic Library has a large attended Indiana University, majoring in the Library’s American Memory Pilot Gardens Illustrated, House Program. and Garden, the National Trust magazine, Perspectives, In Britain, Phil continues to coordinate Period Living, Heritage, Indi- large-scale digital imaging vidual Homes, Photo Technique, projects and oversees an archive Outdoor Photography, Landscape, of nearly 1 million digitized The Illustrated London News, images. Vogue USA and many others. Shannon Perich In addition to the publication of Shannon Perich is a Museum over 30 books, editorial and other Specialist in the Photographic commissions have included the History Collection (PHC) at the Royal Wedding of Charles and Smithsonian’s National Museum Diana in 1981, TV stills photogra- of American History (NMAH). phy for Channel 4 TV, and stock Ms. Perich has been working (travel) commissions all over the in the collection since 1996. world. More than 100 Confederate soldiers are buried here in Elmwood Cemetery. Photo by Jan Faul. She holds a Master’s degree in

Overlooking historic Harper’s Ferry. A typical street in historic Shepherdstown. Nine

Museum Studies from George Wash- using photographs from NMAH’s to an age and speak of a subject - per- For more information, please visit his ington University (1996), and a BA in Science Service collection. The Spring sonal, individual and uniquely Rain- web site at www.studiorainville.com. Art History and a BFA in Photography 2000 issue of the History of Photogra- ville. As a result of years of travel and both from the University of Arizona phy journal featured NMAH’s Photo- study in the world’s great art muse- Peter Randall (1993). Her primary research interests graphic History Collection, in which ums, he has mastered total harmony A native of the New Hampshire sea- within the history of photography are her article “Process and 3-D Materials” in his work. Subject, setting, light and coast, Peter E. Randall is the twelfth snapshot photography, and Richard appeared. pose all join in a motif that sets his generation of his family to live in the Avedon. She is presently the image work apart. region. He has been involved with manager for September 11th: Bearing Ms. Perich is pleased to present publishing since graduating from the Witness to History, the project manager examples of the Photographic History Arthur Rainville has been called an University of New Hampshire as a for the Photographic History Collec- Collection’s panorama photographs extraordinary image creator but as of history major. Before he began his own tion’s web guide to the collection, and and apparatus to the IAPP in her late his notoriety has come from his publishing company, he was editor of exhibition and web site team member presentation, “ Historic Panorama teachings. For twelve years, Portrait a weekly newspaper, and for seven for Making Connections, an exhibition Photographs and Apparatus from Dept. Chair at the New England School years edited New Hampshire Profiles about information and communication the National Museum of American of Photography in Boston, he now magazine. Since 1974, he has authored technologies and their social impact. History’s Collection.” offers enrichment programs to profes- 12 books ranging from collections of sional photographic organizations photographs and travel guides, to local Ms. Perich’s exhibition work includes Arthur Rainville throughout the country. His current history. His most recent books are New curating the showcase exhibition Santo Always considered by his peers to be seminar on Concept Portraiture is a Hampshire: A Living Landscape and Pinholé: a saint for photography, an an artist/innovator and by his clients part of the TNT Tour throughout the Gosport Remembered: the Last Village exhibition about a postmodern paint- to be an image creator with a special US in 2001. An avid member of the at the Isles of Shoals. ing that portrays Ansel Adams as talent for capturing the expression and National Speakers Association, he also the saint of photograpy; co-curating essence of a subject, Arthur Rainville’s presents to non-photographic groups Since 1970, Peter E. Randall Publisher Visualizing the Sixties: Photographs by life’s obsession is Portraiture. Freezing on journeys from his forthcoming book has produced more than 400 books, Lisa Law1965-1971 (); and co-project memories and moments has been his “Living Moments.” most of them heavily illustrated manager for Science Projects: a Tax- daily creed - for today and for genera- volumes related to the history of New onomy of Images, a traveling Interna- tions yet to be born. He possesses a Arthur Rainville appears courtesy of England people, places, and organi- tional Center for Photography show gift for designing portraits that speak Fuji Photo Film USA, Inc. zations. As subsidy publishers, we produce books on behalf of varied clients: individuals, historical societies, non-profit organizations, communi- ties, and businesses. We have worked with Madison Avenue law firms, international clients based in Wash- ington, D.C., with institutions such as Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and Essex Institute in Salem, Massachusetts, and the United Nations.

For more information on Peter Randall, please visit his web site at www.perpublisher.com. Ten

Convention Schedule Nominating Committee Board Recommendations Schedule Subject To Change President-elect: Richard Schneider Date Time Period Lecturer Subject General Category Board Members: Stephen Delroy, Ron Klein, Cary Moore, Alan Zinn Tuesday 10/08/2002 7:00 - 9:00 pm Registration and Reception Wednesday 10/09/2002 8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Information Desk Open Welcoming Remarks and Vendor 9:00 - 9:30 Peter Lorber Introductions General 9:30 - 9:45 Will Landon Multi-media Photographic Presentation Photography IAPP Print Competition 9:45 - 10:00 Terry Nordine Activities in the Shepherdstown Vicinity General Places of Interest in the WV Panhandle There will be a Print Competition held during the convention at the hotel. As in 10:00 - 10:30 Rick Bruner for Photographers Photography 10:30 - 11:00 MORNING BREAK the past, there will be awards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place in each category. Unlike Panoramic Photographs and Artifacts at 11:00 - 11:45 Shannon Perich the Smithsonian Historic Panoramas past competitions, the image will be evaluated on its own merits and not by 11:45 - 12:30 pm Alan Zinn Producing a Handmade Camera Photography 12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH what camera or technique produced it.

2:00 - 2:45 Jook Leung Spherical Panoramas Digital Imaging

2:45 - 3:00 Paul Pasquarello Anamorphic 3-D Photography Experimental Photography The categories are: Group Photography, Landscapes/Cityscapes, Architectural/

3:00 - 3:45 Peter Randall Publishing a Photography Book Business Industrial, Fine Art/Experimental/Abstract. 3:45 - 4:15 AFTERNOON BREAK Panorama Camera Usage in a Social 4:15 - 5:15 Steven Gross Landscape Photography 5:15 - 7:00 DINNER 7:00 - 10:00 pm TRADE SHOW

Thursday 10/10/2002 8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Information Desk Open Silent Auction Panoramic Photo Collection of the Historic Panoramas and Digital 9:00 - 9:45 am Phil Michel Library of Congress Imaging There will also be a Silent Auction held during the convention at the hotel. A 9:45 - 10:30 John McCarthy S-2 Digital Camera Digital Imaging 10:30 - 11:00 MORNING BREAK good suggestion for individuals would be to submit a book they have pub- 11:00 - 12:30 pm Arthur Rainville Featured Speaker Photography lished. This event proved to be very successful and lucrative for IAPP at the

LUNCH and GROUP PHOTO 2000 Convention in Napa. 12:30 - 2:00 SPOUSE/COMPANION LUNCHEON

2:00 - 2:45 Nicholas Hellmuth Digital Panorama Systems Digital Imaging

2:45 - 3:30 Andrew Davidhazy Improvised Digital Panoramic Camera Digital Imaging 3:30 - 4:00 AFTERNOON BREAK Preservation of the Fred Schutz Spouse/Companion Lunch Panoramic Photo Collection AND Recent Changes in the Stock Photography Historic Panoramas / Digital 4:00 - 4:45 Doug Segal Business Imaging and Business There will be a Spouse/Companion Lunch on Thursday of the Convention 4:45 - 5:30 Bob Kim Digital Color Management Digital Imaging Week. 5:30 - 7:00 DINNER 7:00 - 10:00 TRADE SHOW

Friday 10/11/2002 8:00 - 9:00 am Registration and Information Desk Open There will be a separate sign-up for this event at the convention site. Please seek 9:00 - 9:15 Alan Bank Richard G. Fowler Foundation IAPP Business out Addie Lorber or Marilynne Bank for details when you arrive at the hotel. 9:15 - 10:30 am BUSINESS MEETING and ELECTIONS This should be a very nice and enjoyable event! 10:30 - 11:00 MORNING BREAK

11:00 - 11:30 Stephen Delroy WTC Photographs and Experiences Photography Digital Scanning Techniques for 11:30 - 12:00 Alan Kafton Panoramas Digital Imaging The Story Behind the Widepan 12:00 - 12:30 pm George Pearl Panoramic Camera Photography / Business 12:30 - 2:00 LUNCH Don’t Forget About The Bus Tour To Gettysburg! Adirondack Panoramas and PhotoShop Photography and Digital 2:00 - 2:45 Carl Heilman Techniques Imaging Civil War Battlefield Panoramas and Photography and Digital This scenic and historic tour will depart the hotel at 9:00 am on Saturday morn- 2:45 - 3:30 Jan Faul Digital Printing Techniques Imaging 3:30 - 4:00 AFTERNOON BREAK ing. After a buffet lunch the participants will receive a guided tour (part coach, 4:00 - 5:00 Nick Meers Panoramic Photographers Publication Photography part walking) throughout the internationally famous Civil War battlefield. 5:00 - 5:15 David Orbock Photographic Workshops in France Photography

5:15 - 5:30 Peter Lorber Closing Remarks and Announcements General 5:30 - 7:00 DINNER They will also be able to see the Cyclorama (see article elsewhere in this issue), 7:00 - 10:00 TRADE SHOW one of only 3 panoramic paintings in North America. The tour will return to Saturday 10/12/2002 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Group Excursion to Gettysburg, PA the hotel at approximately 5:00 pm. Tickets are $30.00 per person and can be 7:00 - 10:00 Banquet purchased through the registration form or on site at the hotel. Eleven

Historic Panoramas – Paintings The Battle of Gettysburg or Pickett’s Charge By Paul D. Philippoteaux (1884) Article is reproduced with permission from the Gettysburg National Battlefield Museum Foundation and the National Park Service

The Battle of Gettysburg has been on I never before had the idea that the round. Some linear footage, upper sky Nitkowitz faced the painting with a permanent exhibit at the Cyclorama eye could be so deceived by paint and and apron had been lost to damage and protective layer of Japanese tissue and Center at Gettysburg National Military canvas. to the display of the painting in New dismounted it in 25-foot sections. The Park (Pennsylvania) since 1963. The Jersey. And things would only get worse brittle canvas was first made pliable celebrated French painter Paul Domi- Prompted by the huge financial success over the next 47 years as the painting with damp sponges and weighted nique Philippoteaux painted the Get- of the Chicago exhibit, Willoughby com- went on exhibit in a wooden building at pads to flatten stiff puckers and other Ttysburg Cyclorama. It depicts Pickett’s missioned a second version to be exhib- Gettysburg’s Cemetery Hill. The build- planar distortions. Each section was Charge, the culmination of the three-day ited in Boston in 1884 and two others to ing was unheated and the roof leaked then sized and relined with new canvas Battle of Gettysburg. Philippoteaux was be exhibited in Philadelphia and Brook- causing serious damage to the paint attached with a penetrating melted commissioned by Chicago entrepreneur lyn in 1886. It is the second, or Boston, layer. wax / resin compound, as was state- Charles Willoughby to develop the version that hangs today at Gettysburg of-the-art professional practice at that painting in 1881. In pursuit of accuracy, National Military Park. About 30 years into its stay in Get- time. Additional areas of damaged sky Philippoteaux came to the U.S. from tysburg, in 1942, the Cyclorama came were removed to even out an other- France and interviewed battle veterans. The Boston Gettysburg Cyclorama was under the jurisdiction of the National wise jagged horizontal line. While that He also studied official army maps exhibited in a purpose built building in Park Service (NPS). An on-site restora- conformed to a new mounting system, it and records, and he took a 360° series Boston from its installation in 1884 until tion campaign in 1948 included an effort again shortened the painting’s original of photographs from the center of the 1891 when it was removed and shipped to support the fragile canvas by gluing height. battlefield. Armed with this informa- to another venue. It was returned in horizontal and vertical linen bands to tion, Philippoteaux went back to Europe 1892, rolled up and placed in a 50’ the back and pulling the canvas back In commemoration of the battle’s cen- to plan and complete the painting with diameter wooden crate in an open shed. with straps stapled to wooden supports. tennial and because of the Cyclorama’s his entourage of artists. There, it was damaged by vandalism, Unfortunately, the water-based animal importance as a National Historic fire and rain. glue shrank as it dried. This caused seri- Object, the National Park Service also The finished painting was installed and ous puckering and radiating folds on built a new building designed spe- exhibited in Chicago and was met with In 1910, the painting was purchased by the surface of the painting that remain cifically to display the cyclorama. The great enthusiasm from the public and Albert Hahne and shipped to Newark, visible today. painting was installed in the present- battle veterans. Here is how one Civil New Jersey, where it hung in sections in day Cyclorama Visitor Center in 1962. War veteran described it to another in a department store. The sections were National Park Service Painting Conser- 1884: later shipped for display in Baltimore, vator Walter Nitkiewicz undertook the However, during the lining process, New York and Washington. The sec- next major campaign in 1959-1961. The each section was mounted flat, and I went to see the battle of Gettysburg tions were finally collected and shipped 1948 distortions were not the only prob- problems developed when the sections three times, and you may rest assured to Gettysburg in 1912 where an exten- lem. The canvas was friable, split and did not align when hung. It became that you have got a sight to see before sive restoration was undertaken to torn with deep cracking and cleavage of you die. It is simply wonderful and exhibit the painting once again in the paint layers, flaking and surface loss. more on page Twelve

The Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama depicting Pickett’s Charge, the culmination of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg painted by the celebrated French painter Paul Dominique Philippoteaux. Twelve

The Battle of Gettysburg or Pickett’s Charge from page Eleven apparent that the original shape of ing (stretched at the top only) restricts and program needs are met. the painting was parabolic—that is, the painting from assuming its natu- New (and returning) narrower at the top and wider at the ral hyperbolic shape (when properly The Gettysburg National Battlefield bottom. But the new mounting system stretched at the top and bottom). Unless Museum Foundation has an NPS- Members: was essentially designed for a more this is corrected soon, painting conser- approved fundraising plan and will straight-sided, cylindrical shape. The vators state that the painting will pull launch its campaign in the fall of this Jodi Biggers result was excess fabric at the bottom away from its lining. year. They are now in the process of Arlington, Virginia edge, forming into ruffles. The solu- hiring architectural and museum exhib- Karen Cohen tion was to attach the excess canvas to The current Cyclorama building does its consultants to start work on the Shoots wooden slats on each side of the main not have adequate interior space to cor- design of the facility and interpretive Frankford, West Virginia canvas joins and pull them back in an rect this problem. Heating and venti- exhibits. Groundbreaking is expected Kerry S. Coppin attempt to create a more gradual distri- lating systems in the building pull air in 2003, with an opening tentatively set Univ. of Miami bution of the folds over a wider span through the canvas, causing dirt to be for 2006. Bal Harbour, Florida trapped on the painting surface, which But the solution did not work. The has no protective varnish. The 1961 res- The restored cyclorama painting will be Ray I. Doan lining began to separate from the toration applied a wax/resin compound displayed in a new gallery that would Ray I. Doan Fine Art Photography canvas. In 1975, Walter Nitkiewitz was to the back of the canvas. This com- enhance its interpretation. A new Key Largo, Florida back on site repairing cracks and voids pound is now unstable and is accelerat- program would describe the culmina- Colin Haase caused by separation of layers along ing deterioration of the painting. tion of the battle’s third day: Pickett’s Holland Applied Technologies major canvas joins. The surface dis- Charge. The painting would be a focal Western Springs, Illinois tortions were becoming more visible, The National Park Service plans to point for understanding both the battle Nick Meers and the wooden slats in the back were restore the painting and relocate it to a and its continuing hold on the imagina- Herefordshire, Great Britain repositioned to better distribute excess new park Museum/Visitor Center to be tion of visitors. If possible the diorama, material along the bottom circumfer- funded, built, and operated in partner- which was once part of the painting, Alison Overton ence. A new lighting system was recom- ship with the non-profit Gettysburg would be reconstructed to give visitors Raleigh, North Carolina mended to optically flatten the surface National Battlefield Museum Founda- a sense for what it was like for partici- David Pringle distortions with limited success. tion. The new facility is intended to pants and non-combatants during the Lightning Strikes! solve long-term park problems associ- final clash. Hollywood, California The system for hanging the panels was ated with (1) preservation of the park’s Ian Reid not the only problem. Nitkiewitz noted artifact and archival collections, (2) pres- Editor’s Note: On Saturday, October 12, Eagle Eye Helicopter, Inc. that the new building’s climate control ervation and display of the Cyclorama attendees and companions at the 2002 Homer, Alaska system was not able to stabilize damag- Painting, (3) provision of a museum International Convention will have the ing fluctuations in relative humidity. complex to provide visitors with an opportunity to visit the Cyclorama. An Arthur Richmond In 1984-1989, NPS Painting Conserva- understanding of the significance of the organized full-day tour will depart the Canton, Massachusetts tor Tom Carter worked on site to try Battle of Gettysburg within the context convention hotel and venture up to the Richard M. Schlefer to alleviate on-going planar distortion of the causes and consequences of the National Military Park in Gettysburg, New York, New York and paint flaking due to movement of American Civil War, and (4) removal of Pennsylvania. The cost for the tour is Jeff J. Taugner the canvas painting. Since that time, the current visitor center and Cyclorama $30.00 and is payable either in advance Badger Graphic Sales, Inc. no additional conservation work on the buildings and restoration of the historic (with your registration form) or on-site. Kaukauna, Wisconsin painting has been undertaken by NPS. battle landscapes upon which those buildings currently reside. The Founda- Anyone wishing to make a charitable Jean Yake Complete conservation treatment and a tion is raising $52 million for the project, contribution to the restoration of the Panoramic Services, Inc. new display of the painting are critically which includes a $10 million endow- Cyclorama can do so by visiting http: Las Vegas, Nevada (returning) needed. The current display mount- ment to ensure ongoing maintenance //www.gettysburgfoundation.org. Thirteen SkyPan Panoramas By Mark Segal

SkyPan International was created in to a highly modified RC helicopter. We golf courses, real 1988 thanks to a real estate developer suffered through numerous crashes estate previews client who desired 360 degree pans shot (including Lake Michigan) for 4 years and any low from a helicopter. Little did I know what while learning and improving the altitude posi- adventure lay ahead of me in the art SkyPan system. tion which is too of travel, technical achievements and unsafe for a full danger.S We adapted 70mm Roundshot Using a microwave downlink system size helicopter. cameras with support rigs that hang and RV goggles we can preview the pan Recently we’ve unattached and below full size helicop- in real time, before shooting at high communicated ters, thus allowing flexibility and few speed with our new 28/220 Roundshot and estimated restrictions when shooting overseas. camera. Also, we shoot digital video for companies In 1998 I met Jeff Jones, a remote control using the same underbelly platform and interested in helicopter expert, and today we can remain airborne for up to 20 minutes nuclear plant shoot 360 pans from a 22 pound RPV before refueling. inspections, (remote piloted vehicle) at any height Jeff Jones (left) and Mark Segal ready for the flight of their SkyPan system. remote power up to 500 feet above ground level. As a new company performing a new line surveys, service we’re finding many similarities educating potential customers, present- music videos, botanical gardens, gold We faced numerous challenges in the to the original panoramic photography ing unusual samples of applications and mine pans, hospital campus coverage R&D of balancing, stabilizing and business challenges when I started 20 the promotion-marketing of an esoteric and feature film trailers. isolating camera equipment attached years ago, for example, identifying and service. Due to safety issues we are avoiding Additionally, we’ve had to face some all projects over people, like special difficult and expensive concerns like events and concerts. We welcome FULL CIRCLE PHOTO LAB special insurance coverage, varied safety all ideas from the IAPP membership Now Offering E-6, C-41 and B&W Film Processing issues and never ending technical prob- and invite you to visit our website at lems in maintaining three helicopters www.skypanint.com. Full Circle uses the Ilfochrome (formerly Cibachrome) with hundreds of moving (and break- able) parts. Check out an image of Chicago taken process for prints from transparencies and the with the SkyPan on the next page. Fuji Crystal Archive process for prints from negatives Obvious Skypan uses include typical [ ] birds eye views including agriculture, Mark Segal lives in Chicago, Illinois. Proofing and printing services available for all film sizes 35mm 2 1/4 x-pan 617 4x5 8x10 cirkut >> Call For IAPP Member Deals! << Web Hosting For As Little As $10/Month! Packages For All Your Hosting Needs Including: • CGI • Perl/PHP/mySQL ALSO AVAILABLE: • FrontPage Extensions Web Design and Maintenance • Anonymous FTP • Web-Based Email Full Circle Ltd. 1.888.844.4619 www.fullcirclephoto.com • Much Much More! 407.696.4477 • [email protected] Fourteen

Member Profile: Pawel Fludzinsky Into (almost) Thin Air...

Since our last holiday had been a holiday in Nepal! (This was a few years guide, and a large native staff who did decadent affair on a sunny beach, we ago, before the current political prob- all the carrying, setup, food prepara- desired a more challenging break so lems in Nepal). There were 14 of us on tion, etc. All 14 of us were Americans, weS decided to try a vigorous trekking the trek, plus an experienced mountain mostly from California. My wife and I

SkyPan Panorama This panorama image of the Chi- cago area including the famous Navy Pier was taken with the new SkyPan system by Mark Segal and Jeff Jones. 6 Fifteen

9-11 One Year Later By Stephen Delroy joined the trek from Japan, where we The anniversary of the devastating terrorist attack on the House of an assemblage of Tibetan monks sent by the Dali worked for several years. Mountain World Trade Center (WTC) has just passed. We have adjusted, Llama. They came to heal the pain of the attack. They Travel Sobek (highly recommended), but it has not been pleasant. The only constant is that all would do this using the ancient healing art of the Sacred more on page Sixteen things continue to change, especially close to Ground Zero. Mandala (below). These are constructed out of grains I have found that with the demise of the Twin Towers and of colored sand carefully placed on a specially prepared its wide-open Plaza and fountain, the U.S. Custom House at platform. Thus mandalas are temporary structures built BowlingT Green has been promoted to a high position of visibil- of impermanent materials. Millions of grains of sand are ity. One that was almost the exclusive domain of the WTC. painstakingly laid into place on this flat platform over The 3-month anniversary heralded the arrival at the Custom - more on page Seventeen

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Into (almost) Thin Air... from page Fifteen an American company specializing in through a number of small villages in village. Our days typically consisted of is Ama Dablam, and in the center is the active vacations, organized the trek. the shadows of Everest in Sagarmantha starting our trek at 11-12000’, going to temple at Tengboche, our next destination (Everest) National Park. Our first vil- the bottom of the ravine or pass which later that day! We started with 2 nights in Kathmandu, lage was Namche Bazaar (elev 11500), always seem to exist between us and and then spent 10 days on the trail, where we spent two days to acclimatize our next destination, and then trekking Photo 4 (300mm, Kodak E100SW, expo- sleeping in tents and enjoying the to the altitude. Already I was feeling the up the other side to the next village. sure not recorded) shows a better view beauty of the Himalayas. We were con- effects of the altitude – lightheadedness of Tengboche. Our trek culminated in a stantly surrounded by some of the most and shortness of breathe. However, the On day 6 of the trek, we arrived at the night at Tengboche, an ancient monastery majestic mountains in the world. Typi- sunrises and sunsets were absolutely Everest Hotel – arguably the highest high (13000 feet) in the Himalayas, at the cally, we would trek for about 6 hrs/day, spectacular, making it “worth the pain”. elevation resort in the world, catering doorstep of Everest, surrounded by 8 moving from one small village to the to tourists that fly into the local airstrip, mountains, all over 25000 feet. next, spending most of the time between Photos 1 and 2 (below) were taken from and then, because of the altitude and 11000-13000 feet. The days were sunny our campsite in Namche Bazaar, about lack of time to acclimatize, are provided The views were absolutely spectacular. and clear, and a perfect temperature for 10 minutes apart as the sun rose and oxygen in their rooms. Tengboche was as close as we would get trekking (50-60F). However, the nights illuminated the mountains to our west. to Everest - about a two-day trek away would get quite cold (below freezing), (All photos taken with a Fuji GX617; Photo 3 and 4 (next page) are taken from Everest Base Camp 1. Photo 5 and we bundled into our long under- photos 3 - 300 mm lens, Fuji Velvia; from the Everest Hotel. In 3 (105mm, (previous page) (300mm, Kodak E100SW, wear and down-filled sleeping bags exposure not recorded). ND center weight filter; Kodak E100SW, exposure not recorded) is a spectacular for the night. The stars were incredible exposure not recorded) Mt. Everest is sunset at Tengboche. - you could almost touch the Milky Way Once acclimatized, we continued our in the center of the photo behind cloud - clearly the result of being at that alti- trek through several villages at increas- cover. Unfortunately, during our entire From the moment we got off the plane in tude with no pollution or artificial light ing altitudes, spending our nights trek, we only saw Everest once with- Lukla, we had stepped into a world that sources. The Himalayas were another in campsites on the outskirts of each out cloud cover. The peak to the right time and modernity have not touched. world! Minimal electricity (from a few sporadi- cally functioning generators), no running We left Kathmandu on a small, twin- water, no mechanized vehicles (not even engine plane (we had to wait for the a bicycle) - just as well, because there clouds to clear because there is no such were no roads. The villages were con- thing as instrument flying in these nected by footpaths that were shared by mountains) and arrived in Lukla (eleva- man and yak alike; a primitive setting, tion 9500’), a small mountain village but with unsurpassed beauty. that serves as the starting point for most Everest expeditions. 1 Photo 6 (previous page) (300mm, Kodak E100SW, exposure not recorded) shows The airstrip (and I use the term loosely) two yaks in pasture. These beasts of at Lukla was directly from an Indi- burden were remarkably nimble and ana Jones adventure movie - a gravel sure-footed; nonetheless, we always made runway, about the length of two football sure that we were on the inside of the trail fields, running uphill on the mountain- whenever passing or being passed by side. For takeoff, the plane turns around them, just in case they may slip and send and the downhill runway hopefully pro- you down the mountainside. vides the necessary acceleration before the terrain drops off into the steep The Nepalese, mainly Sherpas in this part valley below. From Lukla, we trekked 2 of Nepal, were a very friendly, accommo- Seventeen

9-11 One Year Later from page Fifteen dating people, always quick to greet you of a few years ago, described by Jon with “Namaste”. Supporting the tourist Krakauer in his book “Into Thin Air”. a period of days or weeks. When swept up and placed in an urn. To trade as guides and porters is a very finished, to symbolize the imperma- fulfill the function of healing, half was important part of their economy. It was At times, every step going uphill nence of all that exists, the colored distributed to the audience at the clos- also very common to see men, women seemed like a struggle. In the evening, sands are swept up and poured into ing ceremony, while the remainder and children carrying their own weight we would fall asleep quickly, from a nearby river or stream where the was carried to a nearby body of water in goods stacked high in baskets on their sheer exhaustion, but often wake up waters carry the healing energies (NY harbor), where it was deposited. backs, transporting them from one vil- in the middle of the night panting for throughout the world. Formed of a The waters then carried the healing lage to the next, moving up and down air. Indeed, my resting pulse was 20-25 traditional prescribed iconography blessing to the ocean, and from there the trails, often barefoot, as nimbly as beats/min higher than it is at sea level, that includes geometric shapes and it spread throughout the world for mountain goats. as my body struggled for oxygen! a multitude of ancient spiritual sym- planetary healing. Permanence is bols, the sand-painted mandala is not important, as nothing on earth is I, on the other hand, hired an extra I have included some photos with this used as a tool for re-consecrating the permanent. Thus only the westerner Sherpa to carry his camera equipment article, but they do not begin to do earth and its inhabitants. groans when this ultimate design is reduced back to grains of sand. and tripod! (In my defense, it was a justice to the grandeur of the Himalayas Each day the monks began the day heavy camera bag and I was fully occu- - they are a poor substitute. However, in with ancient chants and meditations Another event in our Rotunda was pied in just ‘going the distance’). retrospect, what I will always remember (below). The mandala sand paint- a gala reception for an association is the beauty of the place, not the thin ing process begins with an opening of Rhode Island jewelers. A cache Indeed, with the minimal “training” I air, and these photos will continue to ceremony, during which the lamas of silver recovered from the debris did for this trip, I felt the effects of the remind me of my adventures there. consecrate the site and call forth the was cleaned and reprocessed and “thin air” at 11000-13000 feet, and can forces of goodness. This is done by shaped into ornamental angels by Pawel Fludzinski lives in Zionsville, Indi- only begin to fathom the circumstances means of chanting, music and mantra these people. They were hung on a ana. of the disastrous Everest expeditions recitation, and requires approxi- monumental Christmas tree that sits mately half an hour. Only then do adjacent to the famous Bowling Green they start the intricate process of statue of the Bull. There was one laying down the colored sand almost ornament for each fallen firefighter grain by grain. Six to eight monks and police officer. The angels were would work simultaneously through- then sent to the White House and out the day - everyday - until it was eventually distributed to each griev- completed just before Christmas ing family. Day. Once completed this gorgeous, intricate and fragile work of art was more on page Eighteen 3

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9-11 One Year Later from page Seventeen On Location: We have all seen the Time Magazine Captain faced with offering eulogies issue that honors a newsmaker as for eight of his men lost in the col- Long Distance Colour Image Making Person-of-the-Year. This year marked lapse of the Twin Towers. Filled with By Michael Westmoreland investment was in wide and ultra- the 75th anniversary of the Person-of-the- trepidation over this responsibility and One of my favourite subjects is the wide lenses, but recently I have gone Year award. Time mounted an exhibit uncomfortable with his literary abili- waterfront, preferably seen from a in for the long telephoto and its capac- honoring this special award and the ties, he hires a woman to assist him with distance, and some of my favourite ity to delineate the distant skyline. year-end issue of the magazine. The writing the eulogies. It is a play with an images have been waterfronts in U.S. Custom House was selected as aura beyond 9/11 and NYC, significant places like Hong Kong, Venice, The problem with many waterfronts is the venue for the initial presentation whenever people must deal with human Malta, etc. that all the subject interest is above the of Time’s traveling exhibit (now At the loss and devastation. It has seen many O eye level; Smithsonian in Washington DC). After famous theatre and film personalities In the thus the mounting the exhibit a reception was willing to perform for nothing. See it if old days use of a held to honor Mayor Guiliani, this years it comes to your city. (Reviews can be this was dead level recipient and many of the past recipi- found at Curtain Up on the Internet.) accom- tripod ents (below). In attendance were many At present no one is certain how the plished and its past recipients such as Henry Kissinger, anniversary will play in the hearts and with the sequential Newt Gingrich, Billie Jean King, Jeffery TV’s of America and the world. But it Cirkut exposure Bezos and others. The exhibit was a will be a focus for us all as we remember camera rotation very popular one before moving on to the victims, heroes and the future obli- and its is going its next location. gations of our government to find and flexible to waste It would be remiss not to mention a punish the perpetrators of this horror. options of half the special play, “The Guys,” written within We all wish for peace and humanity and bellows, frame with days of the attack about a firehouse the end of terror may it come to pass. long focus feature- lenses less water. There are of course special and shift. I have to stress that I did 35mm shift lenses, but they are all far those for the hell of it; many of them too wide-angle for the kind of subjects have format ratios of 1:10 and greater, I have in mind (not to mention vastly so their destination tends to be gal- expensive). The only other way to lery walls rather than stock library use a shift facility with 35mm format catalogues. involves stepping up the lenses to something designed for a larger image Time moves on, and since becoming circle, i.e. larger format. a septuagenarian I am increasingly disinclined to hump around such vast Recently I took a trip to Australia to burdens of equipment. Thus I have visit relatives, and incorporated some welcomed the advent of the stitched stopovers to include harbours such as panorama and with it a rediscovery Vancouver, Fiji, Sydney, Hobart and of the featherweight 35mm format, Singapore. Thinking about equipment together with all its attendant conve- to go on the trip, and after pondering niences of round-the-world mini-lab the above problems I decided to invest quick processing, easy scanning, etc. in a gadget I had had my eye on for a while, namely the Zork shift adapter. For a long time my main 35mm Zork is a company in Munich, Ger- Ornamental angels hanging on the Christmas tree behind the Bowling Green statue of the Bull. Nineteen

many that makes unique lens adapt- Billingham bag, which is itself small 2x converter; (OK, 600mm would be to the ground and therefore subject to ers of all kinds, both off the shelf enough for the plane overhead locker. absolutely ridiculous, but it would be atmospheric distortion, heat shimmer and bespoke. The next size up from interesting to see just how far I could etc; (also bearing in mind that most of 35mm is 645 and fortunately I am well Normally I prefer using my biggest push it). my stuff is shot through the polluted endowed with Mamiya 645 glassware, Gitzo tripod for long lens shots, even skies of Europe). having had a Hulcherama for many with 35mm, but this time I had to go The final items to go in the bag were years. to the opposite extreme so I packed a small Foba locking turntable that I would welcome any correspondence the baby Gitzo which compacts to a always goes with me on panoramic with other people who have special I was delighted to learn that Zork length of only 13 inches. When con- assignments (and which makes life so experience or suggestions for reading could supply a Nikon/Mamiya 645 sidering the tripod head I reluctantly much easier between exposures), and on the topic. shift adapter off the shelf and the price ditched my favourite for pans, which of course, a small carpenter’s level was a reasonable 600DM (about 300 is the multi-geared Manfrotto 410, in and cable release. You can send me e-mail at US dollars). The adapter is a light- favour of another tiny lightweight [email protected]. weight accessory giving 25mm of shift Gitzo Brevet ball and socket head. As for the trip, I have to report that I in any direction. The Manfrotto is a dream to use for amazed myself. I did get lucky and The address for Zork is: levelling up pans (compared with a have windless conditions, but the Zork It incorporates a small foot with tripod ball and socket) but it was simply too results were far better than I have any Gollierstrasse 70-80339 screw hole, which is a useful idea bulky an item. right to expect. Even the 600mm shots Munich, Germany. as it moves the balance point of the were not bad. Telephone 49-89-508568. camera to a more stable position. It When considering the question of Web site is www.zoerk.com. is described as a “panoramic shift lenses to fit my new toy, the lon- With this sort of subject, which might adapter” because it was primarily gest roll film glassware I have is the be 10-1 ratio or more, I am not looking Michael Westmoreland lives in Leicester, designed to provide a 2-frame join-up Mamiya 645 300 f5.6. While this is no for a huge degree of enlargement. I England. horizontal panorama without moving bulkier or heavier than my 300mm want to keep the final gallery picture the camera or using curvilinear stitch- Nikkor it still seemed to be asking a within reasonable limits so I can get ing routines (as described in Joseph lot to be using it on such a lightweight away with a degree of acuity that is Meehan’s book). stand. somewhat less than the optimum. Below: Sydney, one of the many harbours photographed by Michael during his trip On this trip with the family in tow I With tightly crossed fingers I hoped I am interested in seeing just how far to Australia using the Zork shift adapter. was really pushed for luggage capac- I would be lucky and at least have one can push long-distance colour ity and my photo equipment had to windless conditions. Then almost as image making. Bear in mind that the be restricted to what I could fit in a an afterthought I found room for the pictures in question are taken parallel Twenty

Product Review: The Roundshot Model 28-220 By Roy Christian As a new owner of a Seitz Super 220 Pan Outfit, a tripod and a Canon digi- at any degree. This also works best, in 7 panoramic photographs per roll of Roundshot and a No. 5 Roundshot, it tal outfit on the trip! my experience, at 1/60th second speed. 220 film. A 360-degree image is roughly seemed I had no need for the newest There is a 10-second delay that works 2 x 7” in size. I ended up with images Roundshot: Model 28-220. It is built to I installed a 28mm PC (perspec- with the programmed release. This out of my focus face more than I care to handle a 28 mm lens on a Roundshot tive control) Nikkor lens on the new gives the photographer time to either admit. If you use the cord release and body configured to use 220 format Roundshot. This particular lens can duck out of the picture or become try to get more shots per roll, you tend Afilm. shift 7mm up or down so that a rising part of it. This is a very nice feature if to lose count as to where you are on that front gives you an image with 35mm you can remember to use it! On occa- roll. I tend to take what I think is the last The drawback of my earlier Round- above the level horizon and 21mm sion I have forgotten to set it and then shot, roll the film out with more shots, shot cameras was their weight. I had below the horizon on 220 format film. thought something was wrong with then reload and take the shot again hauled both my cameras to three the camera when it didn’t expose (Or maybe I should stick with the 450- continents. With increased airport The camera has shutter speeds limited when I pushed the shutter release. The degree program!). security (and increased age) it was get- to 1/60th, 1/125th or 1/250th second. It camera also features a lock switch that ting harder to move these cameras – as has a programmed 450-degree rotation prevents you from firing the camera Seitz provides an ingenious non-optical good as they are – around the world. (Seitz recommends a 90-degree lead accidentally. viewfinder (more like an angle finder) So just before a trip to Cambodia in to prevent banding and “film flop”. that can adjust for shifting the lens. With Southeast Asia, I bought the stripped- I found this was unneeded at 1/60th A big drawback of the camera, in my coverage of over 45-degrees up or down, down “outdoor” model of the Round- shutter speed.). The manufacturer opinion, is that there is no exposure often you just shift to the maximum as it shot 28-220. Nevertheless, I was still provides a shutter-release cord so that counter. Therefore, if you use the pro- more than covers the subject. burdened down with equipment, you can adjust the rotation by “eyeball- grammed 450-degree coverage men- having also brought a Hasselblad X- ing” it and cutting short the rotation tioned above, you can plan on getting The coverage of the 28mm lens on 220 Twenty-one

format film is equivalent to a 15mm lens I shoot 220 format color negative film signed on. At the time Singapore Air- The Cambodian people are anxious to on 35mm film. This means you must in the 100-400 ISO range. I found that lines offered a 7-day package from San welcome and provide good hospital- choose your subjects with care. Distant Fuji’s 800 ISO film jammed the pres- Francisco for $1500.00 US. ity for tourists. The US dollar goes far mountain ranges are to be avoided! sure plate (thicker emulsion?). I have here. Will and I thoroughly enjoyed our Angkor Wat in Cambodia was an ideal also successfully used 120 format film, The ruins of Angkor Wat are extensive. trip. The heat in March can be exhaust- location because the ruins were close but found that it only gives you 3 shots During its height of power and influ- ing and so we needed our mid-day together and topped with tall tropical per roll. As suggested before, I have ence, the ancient Cambodian kings rests. We encountered no real insect trees. Distortion from the camera’s rota- had no problems with banding. I did would each try to out-do the other by problem, though we learned that the tion should be considered as you plan find out of focus strips at the beginning erecting larger and more elaborate tem- cooler months of December and Janu- your shot. Some of this can be corrected of a shot when using the 1/250th speed. ples and shrines at the site. This took ary is a more active period for pests. If in Adobe’s Photo Shop software. One could conceivably use the 28- place over a 300-year period. Angkor you have the time and funds available, 220 hand-held like a Globuscope. My Wat was built with 40,000elephants we recommend that you venture soon Seitz produces a more expensive model efforts in this area were not good! More carrying stones from a quarry 50 miles to Cambodia before prices skyrocket. for the 28-220 with additional slower attention to leveling and using a mono- away. shutter speeds AND an exposure coun- pod would likely improve results. Roy Christian lives in Aptos, California. ter. For me, the light-weight of my The tallest tower at the site is taller model, the simplicity of operation and Travel Notes: After my wife and than Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. the high quality of the images recorded friends refused to join me on a trip The Angkor Wat and surrounding area These images of Angkor Wat in Cambodia were more than compensate for its draw- to Cambodia, I called fellow IAPP comprised the largest city in the world shot on color negative film, scanned using an backs. member Will Landon who quickly in 1100 A.D. Imacon scanner and enhanced in Photoshop. Twenty-two

From The Archives Current Exhibits: The Mile-O-View Camera The Panoramic Photography of By T. B. Lambert Editors note: This article is reprinted from “The Boy Mechanic - Volume II, 1915” and appeared in the W. J. Moore 1913-1939. April 1998 Issue of Panorama Magazine.

A selection of sixteen of the pan- shape: 8 inches high and varying oramas by W. J. Moore, originally widths up to 8 feet. shown at the Vancouver Museum, will be on view indefinitely in the The selection of historic panoramic Archives’ Display Gallery. photographs featured in the exhibi- A tion document the industrial devel- This exhibition, organized by the opment of False Creek, shipbuilding Many have tried, but heretofore no one City of Vancouver Archives, pro- and other local industries, as well as has succeeded in taking panoramic vides unique historical views of people, neighborhoods, civic events, views from the side of fast-moving Greater Vancouver from 1913 to the waterfront and cityscapes. trains or street cars. Motion pictures are 1939 through a selection of black easily obtained from the front or rear and white panorama photographs. You can find descriptions (but of moving trains, but none with the Mcamera lens pointing at right angles, or which in the case of a post-card size, is The exhibit is actually a remnant of a unfortunately, no images) of the nearly so, to the track. 6 in. long and 3 3/4 in. wide; then cut a larger exhibit placed in the Vancou- photographs currently on display narrow slot, about 3/64 in. wide cross- ver Museum in 1995. The original by searching the negative numbers A complete apparatus for taking con- wise through the center of the material. exhibit featured 51 photographs on our web site (using the keyword tinuous and perfect panoramic pictures taken between 1913 and 1939, a No. search in “all records”). These are the of any desired length as one travels This slot should extend to within about 8 Cirkut camera and printed infor- numbers: Pan N43, Pan N227, Pan through a country, is too complicated to 1/2 in. of each edge, and the edges mation on the preservation of the N216, Pan N217, Pan N224, Pan N26, be described in detail within the limits must be perfectly smooth and straight. W. J. Moore collection at the City of Pan NVIB, Pan N85A, Pan N85B, Pan of this article, but a simple arrange- If paper is used, glue it to the opening Vancouver Archives. The current N73, Pan N74, Pan NXV, Pan N120, ment, invented and constructed by the in the camera. If hard rubber is used, exhibit is of a smaller selection of Pan N256, Pan N226, Pan N222, Pan writer, will enable anyone to perform it can be made up as shown and set in matted, framed photographs with N221, Pan N158. the experiment at practically no cost the camera opening. explanatory notes. Two display cases except for the film. also contain material pertaining to City of Vancouver Archives are This will bring the slot directly back of Some form of a roll-film camera is the lens center and at right angles to the conservation of fragile photo- located at 1150 Chestnut Street, essential, and simply as a working the direction in which the film moves graphic negatives at the Archives. Vancouver, BC, Canada. The basis, it will be assumed an ordinary when being rolled. phone number is 604-736-8561. camera is used, post-card camera in Moore specialized in panoramas, The web site for the exhibit is size, for which the following things will A board is prepared, about 4 ft. long, working with a No. 8 Cirkut Outfit www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/ctyclerk/ be required: A piece of thin black card 10 in. wide and 3/4 in. thick. This is camera. He demonstrated experi- archives/about/currexhi.htm. or hard rubber; a small board, and a to take the place of a tripod, and it ence, skill and planning to master piece of wire to be used as a crank. must have a small hole and suitable the mechanical and aesthetic con- This text was used with permission of wing nut to attach the camera near the siderations of the panoramic format. Evelyn Peters McLellan. Prepare the paper, or hard rubber, by center. The photographs have a unique Archivist, City of Vancouver Archives. cutting it to a size that will exactly cover the rear camera opening when This length of board will reach from the back of the camera is removed, the back of one seat to another when it Twenty-three

is placed to support the camera during ning. This will give a panoramic pic- per second. A good method of trying steady and not twisted out of position the exposure. ture, continuous in character, and if the this out is to use one film as a test and by turning the crank, otherwise the speed of turning is well judged, some turn the crank a few times and note resulting picture will be warped. A wire, about 1/8-in. in diameter, is very splendid views can be made. its speed by the second, then stop and bent, as shown, with a short hook on begin again at another speed for a few If the slot in the back board is not one end, and the other turned up at The focal length of the lens and the turns and so on, until the entire film is smooth and true, the picture will be right angles, to serve as a handle. This speed of the train will govern the speed exposed, always noting the turns and streaked. Turning the film too fast will wire, when hooked into the wing nut, of turning the crank. For an average time for each change, also the speed of make the picture elongated, and too will enable one to wind up the film at a lens, the crank should be given one the train. When the film is developed slowly, condensed. fairly uniform speed. This completes all turn per second when the car is travel- the one that shows best will give the the necessary apparatus. ing about 15 miles an hour, or the aver- proper number of turns per second. Should the camera be pointed other- age speed of a streetcar. wise than at right angles the picture To take pictures with this panoramic The following points must be consid- will be distorted. This arrangement outfit, load the camera in the usual A train traveling 30 miles an hour ered: The track should not be rough, cannot be used to take moving objects way, but do not wind it up to expo- will require two turns of the crank and the camera must be perfectly except under special conditions. A sure No. 1; stop at a point where the picture of a passing train of cars can beginning of the film will be made if the camera be nearly opposite the is stationary, but the narrow slot in the black wheels and drive rods paper, or rubber. This will appear twisted out would be to stop the turn- of shape. ing at about the time the hand pointer appears in It is best for the experi- the small back window. menter to confine himself to scenery at the begin- Attach the camera firmly ning, avoiding architec- to the board and brace up tural objects, because the lens end so that it will a variation in speed of not easily shake with the turning the crank to movement of the car. Place The two parts as they are applied to an ordinary These two articles constitute the only parts necessary to change a camera wind the film naturally the board across the backs camera. into a Mile-O-View. distorts the architecture, of two adjacent seats, so which variation is not that the camera will point so noticeable in a scenic out of the window at view. exactly right angles to the car. Look for more articles “From When ready to expose, open the shutter wide, The Archives” in upcoming turn the crank that is issues of Panorama Magazine. hooked into the wing nut, and slowly wind up the The “scenic” accompanying the original Mile-O-View article. film while the train is run- Twenty-four

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