P3D Re: Minolta 3d1500

["Ray Moxom" <raymoxom@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Wier wrote:
>I ran across an interesting site while looking for a price on the 3d1500...
>http://www.how2scan.com/
>(Minolta, of course, but it's a nice quick course on slide scanning).
>I've not been able to turn up a price - in fact, not even a dealer. Anyone
have more info?

These are my three references on the Minolta 3D-1500. I hope that they are
of some help.

http://www.metacreations.com/
http://www.metacreations.com/products/metaflash/
http://www.minolta.com/dp/3d1500/overview/index.html

For those who have not come across this unusural digital camera, 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.

Ray Moxom