Camera makers are jumping into the 3-D photo market more than 20 years after the format was laughed out of town and ended up as Michael Jackson’s sidekick in Captain Eo.
Recently, Fujifilm announced a two-lensed camera that takes images and movies in 3-D and captures wide-angle photos of single scenes simultaneously. As a result, we’ve heard some rumbling in the wires about other camera manufacturers coming out with their own version in the next year or so.
Since the lenses are 6-7 cm from each other (or about the same length between most people’s eyes), the Real 3-D’s camera processes the images in real time to produce the stereoscopic ‘trick’ effect that makes them look as if they’re floating in air. This is where the processing update of Fujitsu’s ‘Real Photo Processor 3-D’ chip comes in.
The chip blends the dual images and all the important metrics (focus, zoom range and exposure) at once and pushes them out to the LCD, which is also on a 3-D display. By the time this camera is released next year, the company is promising to be able to shoot HD video on it as well.
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