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Sensio format?

Started Mar 3, 2015 | Questions thread
Turbguy1
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Re: Sensio format?

"Horizontally squished" stereo digital files is a common video "format" used, but is very uncommon for stills.  For video, it is a step that helps compress the file by at least 50%, with the playback device re-stretching the image back to "normal".

I have to ask, why bother with storing still images in this format?  You are throwing information away doing so...

The same principle applies to storing stereo stills in anaglyph format.  You throw away a portion of color information residing in the full the stereo pair.  While some color information can be recovered by software, some cannot.

The BEST way to store a stereo image for display is a full size undistorted side-by-side (or above-below) pair.  Period.

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