- - - THE MAGAZINE OF STEREO IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT March/April1993 Volume 20, Number 1 A PuMkatbn d the NATIONAL mREOSCOPlC 3 ASSOCIATION I I Peter Fongel Iceland Friendly VR Bending Colon , Final Selections in "Close-Up" Assignment e two views shown here are the final selections from the ?"Mclose-upn entries that arrived shortly ahead of the deadline. Many readers have probably seen some of Susan Pinsky's by now famous Realist Macro cat stereos in addition to the one featured in The Sodety column and on the back cover of Vo1.19 No.1. For most sub- jects and most stereographers, the subject would be presumed "cov- ered" by now. But Susan has con- tinued to come up with a delight- ful series of new and imaginative "in your face" cat stereos that even those with only an academic inter- est in feline anatomy find fascinat- "Cat Cot Your Tongue" by Susan Pinsky of Culver City, CA reveals exactly why a cat3 tongue ing. Cat fanciers, of course, can feels the way it does. Custom 120 stereo macro camem, flash. never see enough of them. We found this particular action with a custom made 120 rollfilm place, so I got to run some test film close-up simply too good not to camera made by David Burder, through it first. Since cats are my share, and Susan's notes explain its England, for the Stanford School of passion I started with my cats significance to her series of cat Anatomy in Palo Alto, California. drinking water from the kitchen stereos: "Cat Got Your 'Ibngue. Taken He delivered it to California via our faucet, and this is where the whole sequence of this type of shot start- ed." The 3-D potential of smoke, steam and fog has long intrigued stereographers, and Otto Willau combined that interest with the Close-up assignment to produce the view selected here. His entry demonstrates that exotic and expensive equipment isn't neces- sary for all close action stereos. Smoking Candle was made with a +1 lens over the center lenses of a Nimslo. Next Assignment: Children This may sound like an easy one, 1 but we hope to see some imagina- r." 4 tive stereos of kids from age 30 sec- onds to 12 years that have both good stereo impact and that very subjective quality of "human inter- "Smoking Candk" by Otto w~~muof Wen, Austria freezes the unpredictable jwmrns or est." Any number of kids can be smoke offer Mowing out a burning candle. Made with a TECO-Nimslo with +I auxiliary lens included, but one or two generally over middk lens pair fw an 18mm sepamtion on Konicachrome 100. Daylight was com- get more attention than many. bined with remote flash for backlighting. (Continued on page 2) Volume 20, Number 1 MarchIApril 1993 THE MAGAZINE OF STEREO IMAGING, PAST & PRESENT The Memories of Peter Fangel ...................................... 4 Prepared by Erik Fersling with additional editing by 7: K. Treadwell Remembering Larry Wolfe ......................................... 10 by John Dennis A Board of Directc lndy Criscom, Chairman NSA 93-D ...................................................................... 11 Paula R. Fleming by Owen C. Western David Hutchison Dieter Lorenz Shooting Iceland's Surprises with a Stereo Spice Rack .... 12 Susan Pinsky by R. F. Hozisholder T.K. Treadwell Lookin for 3-D in Virtual Reality ............................. 20 NSA Officers by Ken C Bark Cordon D. Hoffman, Presiaenr Then & Now: La Bajada .............................................. 23 JohnWaldsmith, Vice President, I Larry Hess, Secretary Fuser Friendly Computer Stereo ................................ 26 David Wheeler, Treasure, by John E. Williamson Stereo World Stafr r JohnDennis, Editor Back to Basics .............................................................. 28 Mark Willke, Art Director A Review by John Dennis bob Waldsmith, Subscription Manager UFO Captured in Stereo? ............................................ 29 A Stereoscopic Chronology of New York City .......... 32 NSA Mernbership --,.".,,..".*""A ...-,. c. 3-D 34 ""UtCJ, Bendin Colors into Manes ,,KW ,,f~,,,"c,,~rr~,, ,rr,rwu,> a L ................................. P.O. Box 14801, Columbus, OH by David !$ urder &John Dennis Stereo World Editorial C (Letten to the edltor, artrcles &calendar 5610 SE 71st Ave., Portland, OR - Stereo World Regular Fe,atures Editor's View comments and Observat~ons,bylo\lr~ DCIIIII( ..................................2 3-DmTreasures non 1 Letters Reader's Comments and Questions ....................................................... 3 15 Anson St., Ba The Society News from the Stereoscopic Society of America, by Norman B. Patterson ........ 24 NewlViews David_ S! larkman NewViews Current Informat~onon Stereo Today, by David Starkman & Iohn Dennis .......... 30 . " -9," -. -.nm- i aox L~U,culver c~ry,cn ruL31 - Library Report News from the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library, by Talbot Crane ........... 30 The Society Norman B Patterson Calendar A Listing of Coming Events ......................................................... 37 2922 Woodlawn Ave , Wesleyv~lle,PA - TI- 1 1- Classified Buy, Sell, or Trade It Here .......................................................... 38 I rle un knowns Neal Bu lllngton London Dr , Tre tverse CIW, MI 49684 -+ . " " View-1Master 1_' . wolraana cr Mary Ann Sell %.L.- ;, ~roadvr~wbr, IClnclnnatl, OH 4 - - Ste reo Worlcj Advertis ing Peter Fongel and his fornlly ~nthew garden display (Clarsrfied & d~splayads) -- - .-A. - the stereoscopes made In the busy home workshop r.u. box I48U I, columbus, OH ca. 1884. Fangel later became the leadlng Dan~sh (Insert llyers & ouctron ads) stereographer of hrs time, document~nghls country Jeffrey Kraus, 1 Lauren Dr., Card~ner, - m over 7,000 wews, many of which were marketed in the U.S. Thanks to the efforts of Errk Ferslfng and Stereo World Back Issue !Service J.K. Treadwell, the section of Fangel's unpublished (Wrrte for ovorlabrhty & pncer ) P.O. Box 398, Sycamore, OH 44882 autobiography cover~nghis stereo work has been translated for publ~cat~onas our feature rn this issue. Oliver Wendell Holrnes Stereoscopic Research Lihrarv (Affrl~atedwrth the Natronal Stereoscope A Eastern College, St. Dav~ds,PA -- - --. - Stereo World(lSSN 0191-4030)is published bimonthly b the National Stereoscopic Association, Inc., P.O. Box 14801, Columbus, OH 43214. Stereoscopic Society of A rnerica Entire contents 61993,all rights reserved. Materlal In tiis publication may not be reproduced without wrltten permission of the NSA, Inc. ~ Pr~ntedin USA. 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Con- inside pages, which you may eter Fangel's autobiographical trary to what some traditionalists notice as you read this issue. notes about his self-taught may fear, it's not a signal of any Stereo World's covers and content Pcareer in stereography (this coup by VR-crazed, 3-D techno-mil- will continue the effort to reflect issue's feature article) are enough to itants intent on eradicating syrn- the wide interests of NSA members, make me tired just reading about all bols of 19th century stereography. as generally represented by that work - toiling all day in his Many of the oldest views lack any researchers and writers who con- workshop and then spending most arched tops or have arches of vary- tribute articles, information, or of his evenings working on stereo ing curvatures and styles, and these ideas. If you sense a lack of atten- (somehow this all starts to sound will no longer have a generic arch tion to any particular area of stereo familiar). The sheer number of imposed on them. Art Director history or imaging technology, work hours put in by people like Mark Willke has introduced some start writing - or at least talk to Fangel to maintain a successful additional improvements on the people of similar interests who may business must have been consider- give it a try. m able. As illustrated in our cover view, Fangel's was a family operation in Denmark which benefited greatly from having a distributor in the Assignment- 3-D &ontin& ,. Inside ,,., ,:OVW) United States. This expanded mar- ket both increased his view produc- Relatively close shots taken from your work. Anyone and any image in any tion and spread his images interna- the level of a child's world are print or slide format is eligible. (Keep in mind that images will be reproduced in tionally, assuring that a good per- often the effective. Send any- black and white.) Include all relevant cap- centage of his work would survive thing from action views to por- tion material and technical data as well as to be sought after by today's stu- traits, but do get parents' permis- your name and address. Each entrant may dents and collectors of stereograph- sion for publication if the subjects submit up to 6 images Per assignment. Any stereographer, amateur or profession- are Other than Own ica. Few other small European al, is eligible. Stereos which have won stereographers or publishers had Deadline for the "Children" assign- stereoscopic Society or PSA competitions are such an advantage, and much of ment is October 25, 1993. equally eligible, but please try to send views their work is forever lost. Our cov- The Rules: made within the past eight years. All views erage of European photographers will be returned within 6 to 12 weeks, but As space allows (and depending on the Stereo World and the NSA assume no respon- and publishers in general has been response) judges will select for publication sibility for the safety of photographs.