Fuji 3D

threed123 wrote:

I'm not sure why people are dissing the Fuji W3. It takes excellent pictures, which are just as satisfying as two 35mm pics from better cameras. See this link. I have over 100 from my trip to Africa. These are not 16:9, but you can take them in that format also. Sure, they aren't pixel heavy, but shown on a large 3D TV, they are fantastic.

A 1920x1080 TV (i.e. 1080p) is only 2 M pixels. Even if you crop your 10 M pixel images they should still look fine on a 1080p TV.

Plus the camera also has a zoom option, which I use often. It does flatten depth somewhat, but still useable.

This is a digital zoom, not an optical zoom. Some portion of the center of the 10 M pixel image is enlarged to give you a 10 M pixel output.

The reason why the image looks flat is that when you zoom out you are shooting more distant subjects. To give them the same 3D look you get with closer subjects you need to shoot with a wider interocular distance - hyper stereo.

Stereo photography techniques - Wikipedia

Since the distance between the lenses of the W3 is fixed your zoomed out images will look flat.

You can fix this in StereoPhotoMaker by increasing the separation of the two images. You will lose a bit of the sides of the images since the sides won't overlap anymore.

I think it is harder to fix macro shots in SPM so they look natural.

Check these out: https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/62078305. The Fuji W3 isn't good for video, though. I also have a Panasonic 3D1 pocket camera and took hundreds of pics in Germany and glad I did. The video is better on the 3D1, but not perfect. Both can be had used. Sure, they cost more than when they first came out, but a quickly disappearing.