Fujifilm is showing off a digital camera that takes 3D photographs, and it looks awfully similar to film cameras that could take 3D photos: two lenses mounted at either end of a widish camera body. See a picture at dpreview.
What's different from the chemically-based film days is that this camera is part of a new 3D system Fujifilm's developed: take, view, and print in 3D -- for still images and movies.
The camera's viewfinder will be able to display 3D images without you needing to wear special glasses, as will a 9" photoframe. The displays use a "light direction control module" in the back of the LCD to control light being transmitted to the left and right eyes.
The 3D printing is not 3D printing as we know it, but is done on flat sheets, "a fine pitch lenticular sheet" that gives multi-viewpoint 3D views. I am guessing that the sheets have triangular ridges, and that the left and right images are cleverly printed the left and right sides of the triangles.
Fujifilm notes that dual-lens cameras could be capable of additional tasks:
- Take still pictures and movies at the same time.
- Take telephoto and wide-angle pictures at the same time.
- Take two pictures at the same time with different film modes.
- Stitch together two images for panoramic pictures.
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