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!
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