P3D Digital video and Nu-View

["Harold Baize" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian David Phillips wrote:

>Do you use a digital camcorder with a firewire 
>attatchment or are you going analog?  The former 
>shouldn't lose information but the latter will
>lose a bit.

Use caution and test digital cameras before you buy if you
intend to use them for alternate field stereo video. I bought 
a Sony TRV103 Digital8 and returned it the next day for a 
Hi8 model because it did not work with the Nu-View adapter. 
Christoph Bungert explains why in his review of the Nu-View. 

I quote:
 
>"...[digital uses] progressive scan CCD. The camcorder plays to the 
>rules of the current TV-systems by recording 50-60 half-frames a 
>second, but it seems to scan the two half-frames (which represent 
>one full-frame) at the same fraction of time, thus eliminating the 
>usual time-gap between half-frames. 

I still wonder if the TRV103 might have worked. I really like the 
advantages of digital video. Sony does not provide detailed technical 
information on how their CCDs aquire an image or which models use an 
averaging or progressive scan technology. I think it would be good for 
3D-Video, Inc. to provide a list of camcorders that are know to be 
compatible, and a list of known incompatibles. It might save 3-D 
consumers time and money. I must admit though, I e-mailed 3-D Video 
and they warned me that the TRV103 might not work, but I still 
wanted to try for myself.

Harold


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