We have told you numerous times about the Fujifilm’s W3 camera that can take 3-D photos (which is available at at Amazon for $449.95). Unfortunately, Sony cameras do not have this ability. Instead some Sony digital cameras have a Sweep Panorama mode. This has been upgraded by Sony into a 3-D Sweep Panorama mode. What is this mode? How does it work? What Sony digital cameras have it? Anton over at the 3D Vision Blog can fill you in on all the details.

As you should know taking a 3D photo requires you to shoot the same scene twice with a bit of a horizontal offset between each photo, so if you have a camera with two separate sensors you can automate the process and do it with at the same time. However you you need to replicate that with a 2D camera that has just one sensor you can just move the camera a bit on the left/right after you take the first photo and then take the second one. But thanks to the consecutive shooting modes available in almost all modern digital cameras you are able to shoot photos with a speed of a few frames per second, and if you add a horizontal movement of the camera to left/right while you hold the button to shoot multiple photos on the camera you can pretty much automate that process. Add a bit of processing after that of the photos that were taken and you pretty much get the basic functionality of the 3D Sweep Panorama mode, of course Sony has packaged that into a nice and simple to use mode for pretty much anyone that can use a digital camera.

via About the 3D Sweep Panorama Mode in Some Sony Digital Cameras – 3D Vision Blog

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