MarchlApril 1987 Volume 14, Number 1 STEREO1, NATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC ASSOCIATION NORTH AMERICA'S HISTORIC BUILDINGS by Neal Bullington The Santa Barbara Mission Located at 2201 Laguna St. in cupola facing a center pediment restored between 1950 and 1953. Santa Barbara, California, the with niche for statuary. The large This is the fourth church to be mission dates back to 1820. The round-arched entrance is flanked by located on this site and is the state's complex features a stone, 2-story, L- three Ionic columns on each side. only mission not secularized in the shaped church with gabled roof The structure was partially Mexican decree of 1833. Ownership sections. There are a pair of square destroyed by an earthquake and is private. m fronted corner bell towers with rebuilt in 1927. The facade and arched openings, dome, and small towers were demolished and Copyright O 1987 by the NATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC ASSOCIATION STEREOa i -4 v v - -.4.J.A Volume 14, Number 1 MarchiApril 1987 NSA Board of Directors IN THIS ISSUE CHAIRMAN Louis H. Smaus Through the Electron Window. ............................... 4 MEMBERS by Norman B. Patterson Paul Wing T.K. Treadwell How Well Do You Know Your Prints? .......................... .I4 by John Dennis NSA Officers PRESIDENT Kodak Alterations Anybody Can Do .......................... .15 T.K. Treadwell by Marshall Rubin SECRETARY The Third Dimension at Photokina ........................... .16 John Weiler by Dieter Lorenz, translated by Richard Mills & Vance Bass TREASURER William Eloe Arizona Stereo: An Update .................................. .19 VlCE PRESIDENT, REGIONAL AFFAIRS by Bruce Hooper Tom Rogers Stereo Emeralds .......................................... .22 VlCE PRESIDENT, MEMBERSHIP by Joseph Henggeler as told to Laurance Wolfe Donato Bracco GENERAL BUSINESS MANAGER Life After Two Expos for a Pair of 3-D Films .................... .31 Linda S. Carter by Don Marren NSA Staff A Working List of Western Photographers ......................31 PUBLICATIONS by John Dennis Jack & Pat Wilburn NSA Philly '87 ............................................ .34 Stereo World Staff by William Brex General Chairman EDITOR John Dennis Bicameral Art and the 3-D Zone. ............................. .38 ART DIRECTOR by Ray Zone Mark Willke Vertical 3-D Viewing ....................................... .40 CONTEMPORARY STEREOSCOPY by Paul Wing David Starkman William Shepard The Literature of Stereoscopy: 1853-1986 ...................... .44 Paul Wing by Harold A. Layer Stereo World is published bimonthly by the National Stereoscooic Association. Inc. Annual dues: $22 third REGULAR FEATURES Editor'sView .............................................. 2 Letters ................................................... 3 with the MarchlApril issueof the current calendar year. 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Temple Ave., #399 LaPuente, CA 91744 The head of a red ant as seen through a Stereoscopic Society, American Br. Scanning Electron Microscope in a stereo Jack E. Cavender,Corresponding Secretary pair produced by Norman B. Patterson. 1677 Dorsey Ave., Suite C Magnified 50 times in the actual view, East Point, GA 30344 this is one of several such images to be seen "Through the Electron Window'l- MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL STEREOSCOPIC UNION the feature by Mr. Patterson in this issue. stereo collectors, photographers, smaller pairs and use a viewer on artists, researchers, historians, the larger ones. "All The Views librarians, etc. who read Stereo The concern here is for people That's Fit To Fuse" World. Any non-profit, all who use a viewer for all the Welcome to Volume 14, Number 1 volunteer effort like this depends stereographs in the magazine. of the only magazine of its kind in completely on its membership for Viewers designed for "full size" the world. There are, of course, EVERYTHING that eventually views can be hard for some people several very fine publications appears in print AND for spreading to use on the smaller pairs. Shorter produced by stereo photography word of our existence to potential focal length viewers designed for clubs around the world-many in new members. Try to keep a few smaller separation pairs can be just effect representing entire countries. NSA membership folders and/or the as tricky to use on the larger views But only Stereo World attempts to Stereo World brochure handy (in (vintage stereographs involve up to consistently cover both the historical your car for instance) to leave with 90 mm or so separation sometimes) AND the contemporary aspects of people at photo shows, antique and can cut off part of the images stereo imaging, and to do so as shops, camera stores, schools, even when you are able to fuse much as possible on a world wide museums, etc. The NSA office in them. 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Hack 2 STEREO WORLD March/April1987 The Great Separation Debate 'scopes-would not exceed a World Flight I offer these comments in separation of 65 mm! I want to congratulate you on the response to Bill Patterson's Society But most of us dislike viewing an excellent article appearing in the Column in the Jan./Feb. '87 issue. image that is supposed to be at (Nov./Dec. '86) Stereo World on the Let me begin by stating that I've infinity but offers an eyeball World Cruiser Project. Quite a been touched and moved bv Bill's convergence of only a few feet. Have contrast to that of the recent exquisite stereography and you ever noticed how much more successful "Voyager," wasn't it ? I've commentary as often as I've been grand a scenic becomes when you always felt quite close to the Cruiser impressed by his technical mastery bring the lenses of a transparency crew, as I was one of a large group of the stereoscopic print medium! viewer in from maximum to a of Boy Scouts encamped at old On this subject of separation normal setting? Running the focus Wright Airfield in the fall of 1924 however, we totally disagree and my out helps too.