P3D Fuji DS-7 Digital Camera

[jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gabriel Jacob)]

Mike K. writes:

>P.S. I've got a digital camera coming in the mail (a cheap $174
>Fuji DS-7 640x480 model aimed for web home-page use coming from
>auction house www.onsale.com). 

I fooled around with one last summer. It was alot of fun to use
and it took pretty good pics with very good color rendition. The
scenic shots were on the fuzzy side though. Focussing is very hard
to judge, since you only have an LCD display. BTW the LCD display
is kinda useless (hard to see) in the sun. Also be prepared for
some major battery current consumption! It seems to take much
more juice than my videocam!

>Maybe I should have ordered two? 

I only had one camera to play with, so I had to do the
cha-cha (or was that the cho-cho? ;-) ) to get my 3-D
shots. For the cheap price you mention, getting two sounds
like a good idea. I don't remember it having an external
sync. for the "shutters". 

On a similar note, Joe Safferson last week asks:

>Have binoculars ever been used to create a telephoto
>stereoscopic camera? Or has anything of that description
>ever been commercially produced?

In regards to traditional stereocameras I don't know, but
with the above Fuji DS-7 camera, I did put a 10x25 binocular
in front of the Fuji DS-7 lens and shoot some 2-D telephoto
pics. They came out very well and the coverage was adequate.
Check out an example of the same scene taken with and without
the binoculars at:
   http://www.generation.net/~jacob/example.jpg
Note, the images were resampled to a smaller size and placed
side by side (640x240, 32k).

Gabriel




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