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walter.sk

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Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« on: January 27, 2020, 06:28:24 pm »

I was asked by a friend if there were any digital cameras with 2 lenses (and probably 2 sensors) that would be able to take 3-D images, much like the old Stereo Realistic film cameras.  I've searched on Amazon and B&H but couldn't find anything I could recognize except for 3-D VR cameras.  Anybody know of such beast?  After listening to my friend I'd love to try one, too, if they're out there.
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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2020, 12:25:00 pm »

There's a phone app for that called Google Cardboard. In new parlence it's known as VR
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.cardboarddemo&hl=en_US

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walter.sk

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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #2 on: January 28, 2020, 01:49:44 pm »

There's a phone app for that called Google Cardboard. In new parlence it's known as VR
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.cardboarddemo&hl=en_US
Thanks for the link.
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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2020, 09:01:22 am »

There's a phone app for that called Google Cardboard. In new parlence it's known as VR
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.samples.apps.cardboarddemo&hl=en_US

WARNING!  DONOT TAKE THE ABOVE LINK!

It behaves suspicious.Instead, Go to your App Store to find it.
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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2020, 12:25:40 pm »

WARNING!  DONOT TAKE THE ABOVE LINK!

It behaves suspicious.Instead, Go to your App Store to find it.

It looks fine to me. What gives rise to your suspicions?

Jeremy
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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2020, 03:49:28 am »

It looks fine to me.
I see no problem either. It's a link to Google play.

I think there may have been a low res 3D digital 'snap' camera (just announced/planned/imagined ?) around at the dawn of digital compacts, but it may never have reached production. It certainly didn't catch on in any significant way.

You could just put a pair of digital compacts on a bar and get stereo pairs, if you really want to play with the idea.
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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2020, 09:12:26 am »

I believe that GoPro made a system that had a special mounting set up (two cases side by side) for two GoPros and software to create the stereoscopic image/video from the sync'ed output of the cameras. 

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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2020, 01:02:09 pm »

You could just put a pair of digital compacts on a bar and get stereo pairs, if you really want to play with the idea.

Yes, that works fine. And for stationary objects, one can use a single camera on a slide bar, or with some practice by balancing on one leg, and then on the other one.

For Windows users, the following free application can be used to convert/tweak/align/rotate stereo pairs for different output viewing options:
StereoPhoto Maker
http://stereo.jpn.org/eng/stphmkr/index.html
« Last Edit: February 04, 2020, 01:05:14 pm by Bart_van_der_Wolf »
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Re: Are there any digital stereo cameras?
« Reply #8 on: February 27, 2020, 12:58:12 am »

You were looking at them, they're the VR180 cameras. 

2 lenses:
Insta360 EVO
Insta360 One R with VR180
Kandao Qoocam
Vuze XR 3D
Z Cam K1 Pro

Multiple lenses 360:
Insta360 Pro / Pro2
Vuze+

You can setup a Google Cardboard to view the images, I have the EVO and shoot a fair amount of VR180 video.
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