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.
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