The folks that brought you Slumdog Millionaire have released the world’s first integrated 3D cinema camera and stereo visualization system at NAB. The SI-3D shoots uncompressed raw imagery from two synchronized cameras, and encodes it directly onto a single quicktime file with convergence metadata.
The SI-3D system uses two remote SI-2K Mini cameras with an P+S interchange lens mount connected to a single processing system via gigabit Ethernet where they are synchronized and controlled through the familiar SiliconDVR touchscreen interface. On-set, each camera can be viewed individually or in stereo mixed modes using modern 3D LCD and DLP displays.
One common problem with most stereo camera systems is that each camera must be focuses, calibrated, and white-balanced individually. In this system, the data is streamed to a common drive without any processing, and they’ve provided tools that allow you to calibrate and modify the imagery of both streams simultaneously .
via Silicon Imaging.
