Our 30th annual PSPCS Sale, Swap & show of pre-owned, collectible and antique photographica. This is the largest one day show in the Western US and will be held on May 1, 2010 in the Pavilion on the Western Washington Fair Grounds, Puyallup, Washington. Less than an hour south of Seattle.
Check back here in early January for more details on our show. Happy camera hunting until then!
For General Show Information: General admission at 10 am is $6.00 and an Early-in at 8:30 am is $25.00. The show hours are 8:30 am to about 4 pm.
2009 Show Experience Weekend Presented: Lense Lore: A Primer on Early Lenses by Milan Zahorcak
The presentation was Thursday April 2 and at our meeting place at the Des Moines Masonic Temple - 2208 S. 223rd St. Meeting starts at 7 PM with the doors opening at 6 PM. Refreshments will be available. We will have a short business meeting followed by the presentation.
From our Editor of the Bellow, Bill Kimber:
Each year your Show Committee works diligently to fine a really good speaker to present our special meeting talk to kick off our Show Experience Weekend. We have brought in fine people from all over the U.S and Canada. As we began our search for this years speaker ... with the help of PSPCS and member Ralph London ... we soon realized we had a very special canidate in our back yard. His name: Milam Zahorcak. Milan lives outside of Portland, Oregon and has been a member of PSPCS since 1991. His area of expertise is early lenses. What a great topic we thought. After all a 19th century camera was nothing more then a light tight box with a piece of sensitized material at one end and a hole at the other end. It, of course, needed a lense to make the picture. Without a lense ... nothing.
The title of Milan's talk is Lense Lore: A Primer on Early Lenses. He will have slides and examples to show. We asked him for a bit of a resume to let you better know who he is. What we reeived was the following third person reply:
"Most of us know Milan from various local shows and his displays at Pupallup. At one time he used to collect early wooden gear, then early shutters and now (he) just collects early lenses and specializes in original designs and the evolution of various lens types.
Milan recently wrote the section on the "Evolution of the Photographic Lense" in the current edition of the Focal Encyclopedia; and claims that it was mostly true when he wrote it He's been collecting lenses of an "orginal design by the original maker" for about ten years. The city of Tualatin Public Library thought he had the most interesting collection of items no one had ever heard of that they had ever put on display.
As a result of the library experience, the orginal title for his presentation was going to be, "What the Hell is That?" ... but he didn't want us to get too excited. And so, as our special Show Experience Weekend speaker he will be discussing "Lens Lore" ... the lenses found on early American cameras up through about 1900 ... and the stories behind them. He promises that almost everything he'll say is largely true ... and if it isn't it'll be interesting anyway"
