P3D Re: Genlock Instructional Video

[Andrew Woods <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Jones <Campfire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Someone else wrote:
> >The twinning project could be done by someone with no camera 
> >or electronics
> >experience, if they had step-by-step instructions.  So maybe 
> >this would be of interest to others? What do similar videos cost?  Are 
> >they any good?  Is this a silly idea?
> 
> It isn't a silly idea, but it might be rendered at least semi obsolete by
> the NuView alternate-field adaptor for home video cameras. From all I've
> seen the adaptor works quite well, is very versatile, and replaces things
> like the Toshiba camera (current asking price somewhere between $5000 and
> the deed to your house) or bulky genlock systems.

OK, I'm confused...  were we talking about genlocking a pair of
video cameras (to enable generation of field sequential 3D video)
or twinning a pair of still photographic cameras....?

I would have thought genlocking video cameras would be much too complicated
to explain (with or without video) to the non-electronics literate.
I've genlocked (non-genlockable) cameras before.  That's what I did for
our underwater stereoscopic video camera.  The trouble is it would
be a different process for every different video camera.  Plus you need
microsurgery experience (to cope with surface mount ICs), a copy of the
service manual and some level of video electronics experience.

If the topic is twinning still cameras, I wouldn't know.  I guess the
problem would be a combined electronic/mechanical issue.

Cheers,
Andrew Woods.       http://info.curtin.edu.au/~iwoodsa


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