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Handheld, single camera, #3D still photos
The following photos were taken while hiking, using a single Lumix GH-2 camera. The 3D effect is created by taking the left image photo, then moving the camera slightly to the right, and taking the right image photo. The two images are then combined in Stereo Photo Maker to create these red/cyan anaglyph images.
(Click on any image for full size – all are in red/cyan stereo anaglyph format)
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Nokia improves image stabilization in new smart phone cameras
This is what I expected after last week’s short teaser video showing a young woman riding along on a bike – the usual CMOS “jello” was not present. Nokia has addressed the problem of jittery camera phone videos by providing image stabilization in a smart phone camera:
The Lumia 920s PureView feature is a “floating lens technology” where the camera lens actually moves and responds to jittery hand motions, ensuring a more stable image. The technology also helps out at night, brightening up images in low-light conditions, with some shots looking like they were taken by a more sophisticated DSLR.
via Nokias turnaround hopes come to focus with new Lumia phones | Mobile – CNET News.
Their original “teaser” video clip turned out to been shot on a professional CCD video camera system, hence, no jello. However, Nokia has posted a new clip showing a side by side comparison of a normal cell phone video with the new optically stabilized Lumia 920 video camera. OIS does work (I have it on an older video camera).
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4k TV is, in part, all about 3D displays and projection systems
The Verge writes an article saying that 4k is wonderful, unlike 3D, saying that 4k is what consumers want. This reporter does not understand the relationship between 4k and 3D at all and seems to think that when 4k comes along, no one will watch 3D.
Most people are unable to distinguish between 720p and 1080p on their large screen home TVs unless they have huge screens. 4k is designed, in part, to present 3D images. Most current 1080p based 3D systems either halve the resolution or halve the frames – with one half to the left eye and another half to the right eye.
A “4k” image is four times the resolution of 1080p (think 4 screens instead of one 1080p screen) and provides the quantity of information to present high quality 3D images.
3D works best when there is as much detail as possible and looks worse when downgraded. A 3D video shot on two 1080p cameras still ends up with the equivalent of 540p for the left eye and 540p for the right eye, or 960 vertical lines, or half the frames devoted to the left and half to the right eye. Either way, today’s system lose a lot of resolution – 4k fixes that too.
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