P3D Re: Stereo Digital Camera

["Ray Moxom" <raymoxom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In P3D-3381 Mark Dottle <markaren@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
>I believe I just read a photo trade journal introducing Minolta's 3D
>Digital camera this July. You may want to contact Minolta for details.
>One thing I am certain of....the retail pice was not listed in the
>article.:-)

The Minolta 3D is a different kind of 3D digital  camera to that which
we normally think about. To start with - it only has one lens. It looks like
a normal digital camera with some extra electronics.

Its application seems to be to sequentially photograph a solid object as
it is rotated on a turntable and then turn that object into a 'solid'
computer
model that can be examined on the computer screen. You could, I suppose,
take 3D pairs by 'grabbing'  or re-photographing the screen as the 'photo'
is rotated on the screen.

I assume that the application is in the Internet marketing area.
The object could be a DVD player that could be rotated on screen to
see the rear connections etc. I saw some info about this camera on the
web a few months ago, I assume that it was the Minolta site.

Ray Moxom



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