3D camera!

[Lee`]

I've got a friend that started up a company in holographics, so this is a topic of particular interest;

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...0.html?CNN=YES

[Akhtar2]

So would you have to wear 3D glasses? Seems like a pretty pointless product unless everyone has 3D glasses with them!

[Blastuk]

there's no real way to view pictures in 3d though.. unless you have 3d glasses or you can do the crosseye technique, I can take 3d pictures of a scene/object by taking 2 photos.. take the first photo and then move the camera parallel(without turning/rotating) a few inches to the side and take another, combine in paint/photoshop/specialist program etc

[Lee`]

What do you mean by no real way? You can use stereoscopic lenticular displays (probably what is being used by fuji) to display your 3D pictures. Blast, your right, you can do that and get a stereoscopic picture, and that's exactly what the fuji does, but in one camera, ie stick two lenses and sensors in, to create to images, giving a 3D image.
One of the methods to view 3D pictures is by using glass to discriminate between the light coming in one eye and another, classically in the 90's with the red and blue glasses, but in the cinema nowadays they use the different directions of circularly polarised light, so the picture doesn't look funny to someone not wearing the glasses, but looks 3D if you are. But, I presume fuji will be using something a bit more clever, like lenticular. Or maybe just holographics.

[GoNz0]

reinventing the wheel

[Blastuk]

By no real way I should have said no real cheap+practical way

Those special monitors = lots of money
special printed paper with the plastic coat thing= can't do it yourself and will cost a lot more than regular stuff if you want it

You can get the paper 3d glasses (red+blue/polarised) but in my experience they don't work well when you have to wear glasses to see (not sure about the red+blue but the polarised ones don't line up the picture properly when I have glasses on).

tl;dr: If you want to view 3d pictures without tricks you need to spend a lot of money.

[Lee`]

In terms of pricing;

http://www.finepixreal3dw1.com/finep...ricing-update/

Early reports have the UK release of theFujifilm FinePix Real 3D W1 digital camera listed at $570 GBP, which is about $940 US. Bear in mind that this price is just for the digital camera! If you want the FinePix Real 3D V1 picture viewer, be prepaired to shell out an additional $390 GBP, or about $642 US. You could forgo the picture viewer and email your pics directly to FujiFilm and have them printed, but it has been rumoured that the cost of prints will be $3 GBP per picture. So, in the long run, you may find it wise to invest in the FinePix Real 3D System after all.

[Blastuk]

/facepalm @ dollar signs

well.. it doesn't say how big the prints will be but right now regular stuff can be pennies.. £3 each print is way too much..

I won't say much about the camera price.. the viewer is a bit vague though, is it a monitor or a little screen or what? seems a bit cheap if it's a monitor..

[Lee`]

It's is going to be more expensive than anything 2D, but it's the novelty of it, people that are flush with cash may well be willing to spend the extra if it's good enough quality.

http://www.fujifilm.com/products/3d/...ons/index.html

[luo9670]

How ?