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Is 3d the future for still photography?
Keith Crowley, Photographer
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Hudson | WI | USA | Posted: 3:12 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> This looks interesting. I'm not sure it has a direct application in sports photography, since it seems like it would only work with relatively static scenes. But then, I'm not sure I understand the technology used to create 3d images in the first place. Maybe someone can educate me?
http://www.utah3d.net/panoramas_5/big-cottonwood.html
more 3d panos here:
http://www.utah3d.net |
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Jerome Davis, Photographer
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Rochester | NY | USA | Posted: 4:16 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> 3D? Am I missing something? It just looks like a 360 panoramic image to me.
When I think of 3D I'm thinking about something jumping out at you like you can almost touch or grab it.
When I think of 3D photography , I think of David E. Klutho.
http://www.sportsshooter.com/education/book_profile.html?id=759
Thats 3D. |
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Erik Markov, Photographer
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anywhere | IN | | Posted: 4:38 PM on 01.07.11 |
| ->> I agree with Jerome about the 3D aspect. Tho I think a 360 pano does have some relevance to sports. If someone has enough guts (and $$$$) I think using one of the cameras that is studded with lenses over the whole surface of the sphere (dont have an example of one to post right now) would be way cool. A 360 pano of a big play in the endzone of the superbowl would be awesome. One of those cameras with the lenses means you could shoot the pano all at once. Fans players etc. Come on SI, step up! |
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Keith Crowley, Photographer
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Hudson | WI | USA | Posted: 4:44 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> To my eye, there is a definite 3d quality. It's not like wearing the dopey glasses at the theater, but it's not a flat image either. The pano of the village probably shows this best.
http://www.utah3d.net/panoramas_5/heritage-park.html |
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Jerome Davis, Photographer
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Rochester | NY | USA | Posted: 5:14 PM on 01.07.11 |
| ->> Keith I see you point, but I think that the case because of the lighting. I think thats the goal of any picture, with the proper light to produce and image that doesn't look flat. But I just don't see that reach out and touch factor thats associated with 3D. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 7:21 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> It's still two-dimensional, it's just two spherical coordinates in (angle up, angle to the side) as compared to two cartesian coordinates (up/down, left/right).
3d would allow you to see distance to an object, requiring a radial dimension (spherical) or depth dimension (cartesian).
That said, it still looks pretty cool. |
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Michael Fischer, Photographer
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Spencer | Ia | USA | Posted: 8:59 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> If the image is displayed on a panel, then 3D is a option. As I sit in my hotel room in Las Vegas, nursing some sore feet after pounding the hallways of the Consumer Electronic Show today, more than ever 3D is going to happen imho.
Maybe not today, but sooner than you think. Laptops, displays - Panasonic was showing a movie camera for consumers that shot and displayed in 3D.
The elephant in the room on 3D are wearing the glasses. There are technologies that uses active and passive display glasses. Then there was one manufacturer that showed aprototype panel product that used NO GLASSES and produced a 3D image that I saw today. Was it as good as the glasses product? No but there were scenes you could easily perceive depth. But this product was VERY prototype with them saying that it would be 4th quarter before it would hit the market and I'm not sure I'd hold my breath then.
Bottom line? 3D is going to come to tablets, laptops (saw laptops today with 3D) and virtually anything that can produce an image. The printed page will be the one area it won't happen unless you use lenticular material. |
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Sam Morris, Photographer
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Henderson (Las Vegas) | NV | USA | Posted: 9:07 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> I'm holding out until this is available:
http://tinyurl.com/ybahrj7 |
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Butch Miller, Photographer
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Lock Haven | PA | USA | Posted: 10:09 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> I'm not sure if 3D will be the next new wave in the business ... but I do think what we will see transpire on the technology front in the next 10 years make the past decade look like the Dark Ages by comparison ...
If in 2000 when I picked up the Nikon D1 for the first time you told me what would be capable with a DSLR today, I would have had my doubts ... but we know better now ... anything is possible given the resources ... |
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Alan Look, Photographer
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Bloomington/Normal | IL | United States | Posted: 11:06 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> I'm soooo dizzy.... Man, that should be posted with a warning to move your mouse slowly.
Is pretty cool. |
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Andrew Fielding, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 11:50 PM on 01.07.11 |
->> Any 360 panorama shoudl have a 3d effect because images are created with the camera shooting from a different angle you can sort of simulate the effect of 3D with two lenses.
As for the future, I doubt 3D is within 10-20 years of being accepted for photojournalism. First print will have to die and then 3D electronic technologies will need to be good without glasses (meaning not the stuff that has been announced at this years CES). |
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