Sharp Unveils 3-D-Shooting Cellphone Camera

[tickler]

Now everybody will be able to shoot 3D-HD with cellphones

Today Sharp announced plans that could turn your cellphone into a 3-D-shooting mini film studio as early as next year. The company today unveiled a mobile-phone 3-D camera capable of shooting in high def.

The module captures 720p stereoscopic (two-eyed) video and is only about two inches wide. To put that in perspective: Fuji's 3-D camera uses much larger, heavier sensors and only records standard-def video.
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/articl...llphone-camera

[ecchi]

Wonder if James Cameron has one?

[cthulhu_waves]

Ha! I suppose this will be THE gadget that video pirates will use to record 3D movies in movie houses.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by cthulhu_waves

Ha! I suppose this will be THE gadget that video pirates will use to record 3D movies in movie houses.

Won't work. Unlike the old style 3D films (colour separation) You cannot pirate modern 3D movies simply by filming them from the screen. The projector is projecting 2 images each using light polarised in a different plain. However cameras cannot see the difference, so will just record the two flat images as one. The result will simply be a blurred, flat (non 3D) film which will be impossible to watch.

In short (for those who do not understand the above), the only way to make a 3D film (using today's methods, it was different when they used colour separation) is to film a solid object, or to make a print directly from the negative. You cannot "film" a projected 3D image, it simply wont happen.

This is one of the reasons for Hollywood's new love of 3D.

[terry]

Ya, what ecchi said.

haha

Would be a cool phone. Id love to have one.
Although - I hate all these 3d movies.