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3d photos taken with a single camera

While hiking I took several 3D photos using a single Canon SX1 IS camera. This works by taking a photo and then sliding the camera a couple of inches to the right and taking the same photo again. The left and right images are then combined with Stereo Photo Maker to create a 3D image.

Obviously, when handheld, camera pointing is not perfectly aligned in the left and right images. Much of the alignment can be cleaned up in Stereo Photo Maker but there will be little artifacts, like lens barrel distortion, still present. But still, this is an interesting way of easily photographing 3D photos of stationary subjects.

(Click on any image for full size – all are in red/cyan stereo anaglyph format)

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Polaroid announced camera running Android OS – in January 2012

I missed this: Aestesis, mobile things and all that stuff » Polaroid SC1630, Compact 16MP Camera with Android OS, the first SmartCamera.

Some rumor sites have said that an upcoming Panasonic Lumix GH-3 camera will feature its own custom software platform as well, enabling third parties to add additional capabilities to the camera. Just a rumor.

3D ecosystem needs quality 3D content

3D TVs themselves are no longer a hot topic at Berlin’s IFA Consumer Electronics Fair. Instead, customers now are more interested in bringing quality 3D movies to the home entertainment systems in their living rooms.

“For the most part, it’s disastrous rubbish. More than half are fraud and creepy. On the whole they are not stacked up to what they are supposed to be.”

via 3D television hype seeks quality films | Germany | DW.DE | 02.09.2012.