The end of the yellow boxes:
The venerable but bankrupt camera company Eastman Kodak has put the iconic film portion of its business up for sale.
Eastman Kodak said on Thursday that its selling the business unit, which includes its "traditional photographic paper and still camera film products." Film has been overtaken by digital imaging in recent years.
Sawdust Productions, an international consortium of three Los Angeles and Montreal-based production companies, has announced the launch of “SAWDUST,” the first 3D television series to be shot in 3D and 2D.
via 3D TV Series Announced by Sawdust Productions – Entertainment News – redOrbit.
Google Invents 3D Video Conferencing for Notebooks & Beyond – Telepresence Options.
But from the drawing, their interaxial spacing is WAY too large to be useful. Let’s assume its just a concept.
The actual patent application appears to be no so much about 3D video conferencing as about using two cameras for either 3D or two separate 2D images, say, for a 2nd person sitting next to the first.
This goes with my sense that business applications of 3D could be more lucrative than the better known entertainment options.
Basically – a movie theater system that does not require 3D glasses to watch 3D movies: Optics InfoBase: Optics Express – A frontal projection-type three-dimensional display.
Sony Exmor RS sensor upgrades photo and video quality of smartphone cameras.
I am skeptical of the HDR movie recording claim vis a vis cell phones. HDR video recording likely produces very large video files, not exactly the best match to the limited memory on smart phones. However, the HDR output might have benefits to at least improving dynamic range of the MPEG4 recording. Present small sensors generally have terrible dynamic range.