Continuation from the first set of photos!

Grab your anaglyph glasses and take a look at these color anaglyph photos that are a continuation from the first set of 3D photos!

Working on the PC after the first set!

The 3D pictures that are now converted to anaglyph JPEGs are ready and capable to be viewed on any device that has JPEG support.  It is nice to know that I can burn a data CD-R or DVD-R and bring them with me to put in a Blu-Ray player because I can use it to do a full resolution slideshow on a high-definition television.  Then I realized I could bring a pair of glasses with me but viewers would have to take turns viewing the pictures inconveniently because of the lack of glasses.  So I started thinking about different ways to get around this problem but bringing the glasses with me seems to be the only current feasible option.  I felt a need inside me to want to get as many 3D glasses I could find so when I go to a party or even have guests over I could have everyone watch pictures simultaneously so I could get instant feedback. I tried to ignore this roadblock for the moment so I wouldn’t get mad about it.  I grabbed my W1 and went outside on a nice sunny day to take random photos to see what I can find that was good to look at.  Thanksgiving Day was approaching and was excited to take some pictures of food and anything relevant for that holiday coming soon.  I started converted more images and noticed that now I was going through 2 gigabyte cards like there was no tomorrow and using more than double the memory card from just converting the pictures on the computer.  I was getting a headache about thinking about how I was setting up subdirectories just for all of these files and the space I was using quite rapidly.  The reason I was using 2 gigabyte cards was to better memory manage the folders so It would be easier to transfer, organize, and back up for future usage.  I plan to use decent 4 gigabyte cards soon so I can take more pictures with this 10 megapixel 3D digital camera.  So now I needed a lot of hard drive space and a lot of 3D anaglyph blue and red glasses in order to do what I wanted to do.  The toll of having a 3D camera is starting to become relevant but still worth the initial purchase just because seeing the pictures in a new dimension was a unique experience.  I grabbed my flash drive and put some of the converted pictures on it and transferred to my Netbook computer to see how they appeared on it just in case I wanted to travel with it.  I enjoyed viewing the pictures on it and then the idea of perhaps an inexpensive picture frame might be a good idea in the future to travel with instead of the Netbook.

Just two color anaglyph photos from my first set of 3D photos!

Grab your anaglyph glasses and take a look at these color anaglyph photos of some recession (not like tall grasslands that are extreme recession) but now you can see some of my first 3D photos!!!  Please enjoy!!!

After my first set of 3D digital pictures!

It felt good knowing that I am now able to take 3D digital pictures of whatever I can find that is a good subject.  The big thing in the 3D world at this time is that in about 5 weeks from taking my first 3D digital pictures is that James Cameron will be releasing his “Avatar” and I have been following it for some time and had complete faith that the 3D was going to be awesome.  I remember reading that M. Night had to omit the Avatar title from his film “The Last Airbender”.  So the timing of being able to take 3D pictures at that time right before the 3D film explosion was going to take place was impeccable.  Knowing that you can get a preliminary affordable 3D computer(Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision being released almost a year prior to taking these 3D photos) plus the fact that 3D televisions were few and super expensive and not at major retail stores yet made me feel a sense of power in the palm of my hand.  Then I started to wonder how many other people in this side of the world actually purchased this camera as well?  I am sure a handful people had to because of all the 3D hype that was starting.  The question was how many between where I was and the major cities nearby.  I can’t imagine that the number was high because of the lack of reviews on the internet.  One of my family members approached me to see what I was so excited about and thought the camera was impressive but unnecessary and followed to ask me how I planned to show other people the 3D pictures.  That question kind of stumped me because I could create cool pictures but then what was I supposed to do with them.  I just can’t go into Target or CVS and put the memory card or the files on a flash drive and get 3D prints.  I started feeling like I had more research that I had to do and a lot of planning for the future.  The Fujifilm FINEPIX Real 3D W1 was the only actual 3D equipment that I had owned and no way to view it or print it or do too much with it.  I decided that it was time to see what was on the memory card so I put into the card reader on my PC to get a better understanding of what was happening with the W1.  I opened it up within my Windows XP pro high end gaming rig that was initially created to play the game “Crysis” on max settings and found the SD card and noticed a “DCIM” folder and opened it revealing the “100_FUJI” folder that contained a bunch of MOB files that also had the same left image JPEG files (I believe they are the initial left image).  I said to myself “what kind of files are these?” I had never knew about MOB files before seeing these type of files and wasn’t sure what to do with them.  Nothing happened if I double clicked them or tried to open them.  I started the “StereoPhoto Maker” software and went to file and opened one of the MOB files and saw that two picture of what I took appeared on the screen.  I then clicked on the block that looked like multiple red and blue blocks and it combined the two images into a one color anaglyph photo and I thought it looked familiar and ran to grab my “Spy Kids 3D” glasses that came with that DVD and used it to view the pictures.  I could see depth but the colors were only the blue and red and these specific anaglyph glasses had a strong red to them.  I opened some storage crates from my basement and finally found my “Time Traveler” PC game glasses that came with the PC CD-ROM itself and took another look at the picture and I thought it looked great with these glasses.  Then I remember Nvidia was nice enough to include two Nvidia 3D Discover anaglyph glasses with the W1.  I ran and got one of those that I kept in the original W1 box and saw how big these Nvidia anaglyph glasses were compared to the other anaglyph glasses that I had and put one on to view the picture and it was perfect!  I went to file and saved it out as a JPEG with a 100% target quality and I had a feeling this might be the only way to see this 3D pictures on anything else besides the camera itself.

First set of photos from the W1

The little heavy brown box was opened and I was extremely ecstatic.  I began to charge the camera with the ac cable.  The W1 did not have a separate battery charger like most digital cameras do.  I was slightly concerned because I prefer to charge the battery separately just in case any surge of energy could possibly cause injury to the camera.  I began reading the manual to prepare to turn on the camera.  I noticed the button interface of the camera was slightly awkward and definitely unfamiliar.  I noticed that in the instructions that one of the first questions after language, time and date the firmware will ask if the camera should be set to an easy mode.  I generally think these easy modes are more difficult than easy so I always never select these modes.  I am beginning to see these types of questions appear on Blu-ray players and other multimedia technology.  After the setup was complete I saw the Fujifilm 3d icon appear and I was amazed by my first auto stereoscopic experience!  The front of the camera has a sliding mechanism that must be moved down in order to power up the camera and to begin shooting.  Holding the camera seemed a little bulky and very fragile.  I felt like if this camera gets dropped it will break like a glass vase.  The body of the camera had a unique feel to it and a questionable one as well.  I quickly fed the wrist strap through the hole and vowed to always use it.  I began to hold it up to see some decorations around my living quarters through the screen and was more amazed with what I was seeing in real time then what I was actually doing.  So I clicked away at a few test shots just to feel how the button was.  The button didn’t seem too different than any other camera I used before but everything else was different.  I noticed two new symbols one was a slanted cube which had the functionality to switch from 3D to 2D either during the shooting or viewing process.  The other symbol is an image of two circles slightly overlapped horizontally referring to the parallax controls to move either the left image or the right image.  I don’t recommend using the parallax controls because you shouldn’t have to unless you are experimenting with some kind of image.  I realized that these two symbols might be the standard symbols that one might see on future 3D technologies.   I then realized that there was only a little over an hour of daylight remaining plus it was nearing the end of October and that it was time to go outside for a little adventure to take some 3D photos.  I walked away from my home looking for something that was 3D worthy and then I saw an area of recession that had some fully matured unwanted plants and began clicking away.  A man came out of the house next to the land that I was currently vacating and asked me what I was doing with vigilance.  He thought I was there doing something unnatural or undesirable.  I explained to him about why I was there and once he saw the camera he started to get a little excited.  He then showed me pictures of designs that he created for trucks that were 3D but designed to look like a fish tank or animal actually with depth on the entirety of a truck like an optical illusion.  He then followed to explain why he was alarmed because he said that his wife being a lawyer spent many years in court fighting people that tried to turn that area into a street that could cause nothing but bad occurrences.  I apologized to the man and I was on my way home after accomplishing my mission!

Deciding factor for the W1

First let me explain the main confliction and what ultimately caused the impulse to order the W1.  I started reading as many reviews that I could find on the W1 to understand the camera a little better.  There weren’t too many reviews on the Internet about the W1 (well in English anyway) but I was able to stumble across different experiences that seemed to have its ups and downs.  I was worried about viewing the pictures from the W1 and what I was supposed to do with them.  One of the reviews that I read had some anaglyph converted pictures of some geese on a lake.  I don’t remember where I saw the review but I grabbed my Time Traveler (PC game version) anaglyph glasses that came with the game and was able to view the pictures in 3D.  The picture itself wasn’t the greatest but the way the water looked was phenomenal.  I read some other reviews and found out about specific software that people were using to view the pictures on the computer.  It was “StereoPhoto Maker” and “SteroMovie Maker” which was genius software created by a person in Japan.  I downloaded that first and installed it to see if what it was about and it was an early version of the software from mid 2009 being that there is now an updated version. I opened it up and it ran but of course I did not have any 3D photos to try. I also downloaded the user manual for the W1 just for curiosity. Having the software on the computer and the manual caused me to say to myself “Screw it” and I went to the Nvidia website and ordered the W1.  I could of ordered it off of other websites but I only wanted the camera and I planned to order items in the future anyway from Nvidia.  A few days later I got a phone call from my credit card company because they weren’t sure about the charge but I told them it was okay! A few weeks later the package arrived!

The Fuji W1 was the first

I have decided that in October of 2009 that I wanted to begin experimenting with 3D digital photography with the ability to shoot low-end 3D video.  I ordered the Fuji W1 from Nvidia and eagerly awaited for it to arrive from japan.  I already had previous experience shooting with video and film from Bolex 16mm cameras to Digital SLRs.  I remember when the first digital camera came out in retail for a thousand dollars and I actually used it for a few weeks.  It used floppy disks and was very very bulky.  So when I discovered that Fuji Film was releasing a preliminary 3D digital camera I wanted to emulate the same experience as I did with the first digital camera.  I got a phone call from MasterCard about the transaction because they thought it was fraudulent do to it being foreign in nature.  I knew in my heart that it wasn't!
So a few weeks later a little slightly heavy brown box appeared at my door and I screamed with joy!!I opened it up, began to charge it and I loaded up the pdf manual from the manufacturer's website.  I noticed that the camera was very bulky and the button layout was totally unfamiliar!  I turned it on after a few hours and saw the autostereoscophic screen and was blown away!! I set up the time and language and was ready to shoot my first 3D pictures!