Fujifilm ’s first spattering into pocketable 3D pic making , the W1 , was beset by complicated control and general first - generation clumsiness . With its successor , the W3,Fujifilm has lessen but not annihilate the headache both of making and viewing your 3D capacity .
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infix the photographic camera at the American Museum of Natural History last night , Fujifilm sound out that the coming of 3DTVs effectively put 3D in “ every home . ” That ’s far from dead on target . household 3D , and particularly home 3D creation , is still very much a fledgling engineering , and if you desire hoi polloi to buy a pocketable camera that shoots 3D , for now , you ’re going to have to give them a compelling silver screen to watch 3D on .
The W3 ( née Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D W3 ) does just that , stretching its 16:9 parallax barrier LCD to 3.5 inch . It ’s overnice and large and the 3D effect , especially when you ’re reviewing 3D lensman that you ’ve already exact , is convincing and pleasurable . No field glass required ! telecasting looks OK , too , alternating between satisfy 3D effect and a kind of holographic , phantasmal three dimensionality , but generally the LCD was too small to keep cart track what was going on . This on - the - photographic camera three-D experience is unanimous enough , but Fujifilm also added HDMI 1.4 for check out your cognitive content on a nice magnanimous 3DTV . It ’s here where you ’ll be reminded that you ’re no James Cameron .
While an aesthetic disparity has and will always exist between lensman who have the center — a sensory faculty of makeup , ignition , arrangement , bailiwick , etc — and those who do n’t , never has the optic matter as much as it does when you ’re producing things in 3D. The Fujifilm EXEC prompt us over and over , like schoolchildren who get word well through repetition , that “ astuteness , deepness , depth ” is the winder to making good 3D. I pick up one Fujifilm employee jokingly scold an older valet for not countenance the powerfully suggested six feet between the camera and the foreground subject of the photo .
And so , at least when you ’re getting start , the 3D stuff you make is a interracial pocketbook . A shot of Central Park I bust out the window take care okay — all of the building in the distance were basically on the same planing machine and the trees in the front were on another , like the exercise set of a high school swordplay that ’s presuppose to take place in Manhattan . A guesswork of a crowd of people was less successful , the multiple trenchant point of depth in the scene resulting in a kind of muddled quality . But a head - on crack of a mastodont , or some other prehistoric tusk wildcat , was like Night at the Museum in 3D. The tusks shot out of the camera ’s LCD swimmingly and ceaselessly , and the effect on the Sony 3DTV I plugged into ( with the Active Shutter crank , unhappily ) was even more impressive . “ That ’s a good one , ” said a woman standing nearby . My first successful 3D pic ! It felt good .
But the 3D 720p TV was kind of a wash , especially when catch on the TVs . At least in the museum setting , I could n’t quite notice any move subject that really made thing pop , and my clips were mostly confused and crowded . And it ’s worth observe that while shooting the videos — and , to a less extent , still photos — the LCD screenland does n’t quite show you the final product but some pre-3D - magicked mash - up of the images of the two lenses , so you ’re never quite sure how what you ’re seeing will compare to what ends up on your memory visiting card . For videos , this was particularly jarring , and trying to monitor what you were shooting on the W3 ’s LCD , before it was properly compiled for 3D , was at best annoying and at bad nauseating .
Of course , beneath the challenging 3D airfoil you ’ll find a even , mostly lousy 2D point - and - shoot . The W3 has thesame guts as the W1 — same 10MP CCD detector , same RealPhoto processor , same double 3x ocular zoom lens — though the body of the camera has been slimmed and streamline appreciably , made more round and less boxy . And it ’s espouse controls that are well easy to deal with than the W1 — similar to Fujifilm ’s non-3D point - and - shoots but still sometimes a bit confusing for some of the W3 ’s singular features , like advanced 2D where you could set dissimilar focus or ISO for each electron lens and snap two distinct photos simultaneously .
The W3 will be available in September for $ 500—$100 less than the W1 when it debuted last year . And while it ’s 3D is n’t a family ladder by any means , it can be very in force in the right situations , and the elbow room Fujifilm has packaged it in the W3 should make it as attractive as ever to a populace that ’s increasingly prosperous with dabble in the ( sometimes optically uncomfortable ) third dimension . [ Fujifilm ]
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