From South Africa, Dual Cameras Offer “Stereoscopic HD”
On July 18, 2012
- TV History
What Do You Think?
This photo from South Africa shows dual Sony cameras televising World Cup Soccer and the caption said “in stereoscopic hdc”. Unless this is a 3D broadcast, I just don’t get it. I’ve never seen regular broadcast cameras slaved together for 3D, but maybe that’s what is happening here. What do you think? Time for the real engineers to weigh in!
HDC 1000 3D – not very practical
What sorta -D effect do you get from so so far away??? why bother? looks more like a Home and Away cams….. But that’s just me,a simple camera guy
The model number on the closest camea is not readable, but the lens has an embossed HD, and looks like a Fujinon. The problem with 3D is that when you zoom, the angle between the two cameras has to change to keep a 3D effect, and both lenses would have to be tightly synchronized to maintain equal image size.
Look closely at the viewfinders. The images are 16×9, and the images look identical, indicating to me that they are attempting a 3D thing, and not stitching, unless the images shown on the viewfinders are a back feed of the stitched image.
Selon toi Serge, quel viseur le caméraman utilisera-t-il ? Tu sais qu’au bout de chaque “rig” 3D, il y a après le BCC un “stereographer” qui doit remettre en foyer les 2 images selon la focale utilisée. Ça commence a coûter cher en personnel tourner en 3D. D’ailleurs, nous devions tourner l’ouverture de la nouvelle salle de l’OSM en 3D avec Jocelyn Barnabé mais l’idée fut vite oublié par manque d’espace physique pour l’installation des caméras et, surtout, pour l’ensemble des coûts de productions VS le nombre de téléspectateur qui auraient regardé cette production en 3D..
This looks similar to camera stitching that Sony tested at the Carrier Dome when I was a student at Syracuse. Here’s a blog post I wrote about the demo they gave us: http://blog.ryanbalton.com/2011/01/sony-tests-camera-stitching-equipment.html
Sony has produced a cool looking camera!
I am not too familiar with 3DTV as we don’t have it here in South Africa. All I know is that you have to have two lenses harnessed together.
But if you were to produce 3DTV with lenses that long, wouldn’t you have to have the lenses much further apart?
As I understood it, this is how they were 3DTV in 2010 during the soccer world cup. I never saw the setup as I was doing other work. I was told by a colleague that this was the method of doing 3DTV.