T3D Re: Realist's price

[Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Wier wrote:

> Well, to avoid silver based technology completely, you could go
> with two Nikon 950's (I think those are 2.1 megapixel) with
> 100mb+ memory cards - figure $1200 each on the US market.

Or perhaps a good bit less, depending how big of a memory card
or cards one wants. Even only a 64MB one holds about 130 of
"normal" compression images.

> I wonder if anyone out in Photo-3d land has tried this -
> such things as being able to mount it/them to get proper
> inter-ocular spacing (given it's rather strange form factor)

This part would be trivial.  I bought a single Nikon 950 for
my wife (although I probably use it more than she does, including
some stereo work).  Put them on a bar, with lens-end toward each
other, and flip one 90-degrees one way and twist the other one
the other way (if you know what it looks like, you'll know what
I mean by this) and the two lenses could be very close together
(or any further apart than that).

> and synchronization would be considerations. For max quality,

Sync would be a problem however.

> I'd certainly go for a system that would save in non-compressed
> formats (such as TIFF or PNG).

The 950 will do that (TIFF), but the jpg that Nikon uses is very
well done such that I don't even use the least-compression and
use the "second" (more-compression) level normally because it's
pretty much indistinguishable from even non-compressed.  It's
quite impressive.  However, I "can't wait" for jpeg2000 to become
popular which it should within the next couple years.

Mike K.