Fuji’s 3D Point-and-Shoot Due In Sept For $US600, Features Smiley Face

@Sean Ong: Why can I not give you a star :(

portugue

@Sean Ong:The Viewmaster was my first reaction too. $600? Meh. And you can't view the images in 3D on the camera? It will never sell.

The concept should really be that of a self contained digital Viewmaster. Instead of using photo discs, it would display digital pictures that you take.

To accomplish this, it simply needs a pair of LCD eyepieces on the top or bottom edge with a slight nose bridge contour in the middle, so the user can hold it like a pair of compact binoculars to view the 3D images. Give it a $199 price point, and sell the photo frame and fancy printer/ paper as accessories. The net result would be a competitive mid-range compact digicam with a super-cool trick hidden up its sleeve.
Think of the possibilities! [insert your perverted imagination here]

Fuji is missing the boat here. They're still thinking like a film company. They want to believe that everybody wants to print their photos, or uses a digital photo frame. They seem to overlook the whole email and internet thing, and the fact that most modern compacts and subcompacts have a built-in photo frame on the back.

jdoobluh is H1N1 free

Prepare yourself for a lot of very disturbing home nude photos. for every advance we also gain a horrible side affect.

Xeno

@dancekat1: depends on what you'll see the picture...

if you see the picture on a lenticular display then no glasses needed...

@Sean Ong: that is not stereo 3D

I wonder if there is two CCD or one

I'll do this with optical masks interlaced and one CCD

$600 is way to expensive, but it's something new... so... will wait 6 months to be ordinary and cheap

If this can record video in stereoscopic vision then would there be a way to set up two monitors or displays to watch home movies in 3D? That would be pretty interesting.

On a related note: How many gizmodians claimed to have videotaped themselves during coitus again?

Go to dpreview and search for 3D images. You don't need a 3D camera - only the ability to slightly cross and refocus your eyes.

sharkync

3D house of Ribs! OHHH Scary...

I bought one of these for $15.

But mine only came in red or bright orange.

Sean Ong

Here's the thing though. One day probably 20-30 years from now we'll look back and wonder why we didn't shoot everything in 3D. We'll all have eyeglasses with augmented reality displays for lenses and all of our computing will be in 3D. Looking at non 3D pictures will be like watching silent black and white movies. If anything I would pay the extra money for this camera so I could take pictures of my 5 year old. Even if I can't view them myself today, when he gets to my age he shouldn't have any issue viewing them.

SilasCroakster

ARGH! Now I can't unsee it either!

Soon to be a Pixar film.

(thanks a bunch)

Don't really understand why you would buy a 3d camera like this or how it would work. Can somebody else in the comments elaborate on the details of these types of systems? I went back and checked the link and "3D" didn't really seem to be the purpose. Panorama and dual video/photo shooting seem to be what this is about.

I guess it is a cheaper way to make the 3D porn the kids are raving about these days.

3D Glasses needed?
(apparently not if the older link is to be believed)

@shpe: Point well taken.