(found in a P&S ad, no reason to start smoking though)
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Fakespace Boom 3C
(dual CRT, 1280x1024)
RPI Entertainment
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Unfortunately most 3D cameras are vintage. |
New - fall 2006:
3DWorld - Tri-lens Manual Reflex
Stereo Camera
RBT-Raumbildtechnik GmbH, Germany
manufactures a variety of high-quality stereo-cameras, stereo-slide-projectors
and utilities
Fixed focus, fixed exposure. The only affordable non-vintage stereo photo camera working in standard 35mm format I could find. Prints can be made in any lab. The result is a split image for parallel viewing, as you can see from the viewer in the image avove. It's made of very thick and stable plastic. Rated as a good, cheap beginner (!) system by german "3D-Magazin". Not good enough for the pro stereo photographer however.
I bought the camera and tried it on a cloudy december day. The results were way to dark, even with a 400 ASA Kodak print film. This baby needs lots of light! The manual suggests 200 or 400 ASA film, but I achieved good results with 800 ASA. The close-up shots done with the built-in flash are better than expected.
The viewfinder image isn't accurate. What you see on the left corner of the viewfinder won't be on the actual photo, at least in a distant range of less than 5 m. (Look at this shot from my gallery. This site in the UK has some more shots.)
Available in Germany at 3d-video.de
Camera and additional standard- and mini-viewers available in the USA
here.
Camera and viewers are manufactured by Loreo
Asia Ltd. Hong Kong, Fax: 852-8685937
All in all the Loreo is an easy, cheap and
rewarding entry into real 3D. Recommended!
Vivitar 3Dcam
Loreo "Lens in a cap" SLR 3D lens replacement
Replaces the standard lens of a SLR camera. Different versions available
for Canon, Pentax, Minolta, Nikon, Olympus.
3/4 sensor format versions available for digital SLR.
ImageTech 3DMagic, one-way
3-lens camera. Fixed focus, fixed exposure. Flash and no-flash version
available.
ImageTech 3Dfx, 3-lens
camera. Fixed focus, fixed exposure, flash.
ImageTech 3D Wizard, 3-lens camera. 3 level focus, 3 level exposure, flash.
ImageTech 3D trio (1998), 3-lens camera, fixfocus, flash .
All 3 ImageTech cams use 35 mm film, but the resulting image
format isn't standard (AFAIK). I guess a slide from this cameras wouldn't
fit in a normal slide holder. The negatives are out of scale, wider than
normal. Ordering prints or a photo-CD from an ordinary lab might result
in a mess. Treatment in a special lab is required. The result is a lenticular
print, the rugged plastic 3D stuff you can find in cornflakes boxes. 3D-postcards
work that way too. This isn't my idea of good 3D. A review of the cameras
in the german newspaper FAZ (7/15/97)
wasn't that positve. The 3D-effect was described as "gelinde Räumlichkeit"
(= soft/weak 3D).
A processing service for 3- and 4-lens shots is hard to find.
Try this one: orasee.com
Beam-Splitters for standard camera filter mounts. Available
from various manufacturers & dealers.
One source is 3dist.
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n-Vision Virtual Binoculars handheld
stereo display, CRT, 640*480 non-int., 1280*1024 int.
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VRex VRKiosk
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VRex Cyberbook, Stereo3D-notebook
(passive, line-sequential)
Passive polarization system. The odd-line of the Cyberbook's
display are polarized one way, the even lines are polarized the other way.
By wearing polarization glasses one eye can only see half of the lines.
Used with some alternate-line 3D software you'll see stereo3D. No heavy
glasses, no flicker, no interlace or page-flipping compatibility issues.
Cool.
3DTV Corp. provided me with a sample of the VB and some VB-modules.
Pretty impressing. Crystal clear, ghost free stereo-image! I'm thinking
about doing a 'vintage review' of the gadget.
suitable for many kinds of small, portable
systems, including HMD's.
Here's what they claim to be the advantages of LED over LCD:
Smaller
Lower Cost
Lower Power Consumption
Higher Contrast
Resolution Scalability
More Rugged Display
Superior Color
100% Image Fill (no gaps between pixels as
in LCD's)
Full Color Pixels (a single pixel appears
in whatever tint, opposed to the red/green/blue triads in
LCD's)
I guess there'll be backdraws as well.
The current version (P7) offers true 640x480
in 4096 colors at 60 Hz. It'll be manufactured by Omron,
a large japanese company.
I don't know of any HMD which uses this technology
yet.
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given on this page.
Christoph Bungert, Germany
