Re: Lenticular & Tyco Color Cam

[P3D bob wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

|For AleXA-nticular, Gabriel, et.al.
|
|I noticed today at the supermarket, Wheaties had a trading
|card size (changing) lenticular on the front of their box.
|
|Last week Tyco Toys followed up their kiddie $99 black &
|white videocamera with a color version. The new  version
|TYCO COLOR CAM, comes complete with cables, storage
|bag and tripod, carries a $150 suggested retail.
|
|If you are going to buy two & make a 3D video, you had better
|hurry...because there are only 46 days left to enter the First
|Ever 3D Movie/Video competition.     
|
|
| 
| 

That's really amazing - I can't imagine that they are actually selling
these units to anybody at those prices. Also, the units I saw come very
close to being packaged with deceptive advertising - they LOOK very much
like a cam-corder (fake buttons on the side, etc) but of course they
are just a tv-camera - you have to use an external vcr/monitor with
them. 

Still, it should be interesting looking at the guts of them and seeing
what can be done. The big advantage is that with two identical units,
the interfacing problems are simplified. To just get a single relatively nice
color tv camera is pretty simple if you watch garage/estate sales.
I got a semi-pro Panasonic AG series camera at the Denver
camera swap last summer for $25. The guy there got it "by default"
at an estate sale where he bought a bunch of photographic items,
but had no use for it ("make me an offer! he says..."). Most people
these days aren't interested in just a camera.

I'm hoping that given the simple circuitry, the TYCO will just be 
gen-locked to the ac power line frequency, and the pictures could be
alternate frame flipped back and forth using a simple sync separator
IC as the trigger. But we shall see. (If anyone has any circuits like
this lying around, I'd be interested as it would save me having to
go do a bunch of searching in my files). Incidentally, I have a 
circuit that does the opposite - it takes alternating fields and
extracts them to two different monitors. That was developed to look
at NASA tv coverage where they have multiple video streams on a single
channel. It's pretty simple (the NASA satellite TV channel frequently
carries video like this on launch events).

THANKS

-BW

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