Why The Sony Smallest 3D TX9 Camera Is NOT Really 3D

When the first 3D cameras where released to the markets it seemed like there is a technological buzz around them. Each of the leading camera manufacturers hurried to show it has a 3D camera capability too. The first 3D digital camera was the Fuji W1, and then came the upgraded W3 model. Sony released the TX9 as the world smallest 3D camera. But it is not really a 3D camera.

The fact that the TX9 is not a full real 3D camera, does not make it a less good camera than it is. It has 3D abilities and they are used by thousands of customers around the world enjoying the new possibilities of 3D. The Sony TX9 is a superior camera to most of the competitors; it includes build in picture modes that can help even your granny take breath taking photos.

In order for a camera to capture real depth 3D, it needs to have two lenses at least. Just like the human eyes. The two lenses capture two different angles of the object they are exposed to.

The camera processor gets the two images and places them one on top of the other, or is able to place them side by side. Only two frames taken together can produce a real depth 3D image.

The Sony TX9 camera, has only one lens at the front, it is actually an advanced upgraded 2D camera, with some 3D picture effects abilities. Because the Sony TX has only one lens at the front, it cannot take 3D still pictures.

If you ask your friend to smile and take a still photo, there will be no 3D effect. There will be only one frame produced from the single lens, and thus there is no option to create a 3D image. Just like seeing the world with one eye closed, no depth perspective can be done.

The Fuji W3 camera (and the former W1 model) has both two lenses at the front of the camera; this means that with every exposure two frames are captured at once. The two framed needed to produce a real depth 3D image.

How then can Sony claim it has the world smallest 3D camera? Simple they have a clever feature that manipulates the scenery helping the camera to make 3D clips.

The Sony TX9 3D camera has a special “Sweep Panoramic’ mode, this mode means that when the camera takes a long panoramic sideways clip. Thousands of frames are captured and stored; the Sony TX9 then stitches those frames into a 3D clip.

How it can take 2D pictures and turn them into 3D? Since the camera was moved (side ways only) when taking the clip, each frame captured has a slightly different angle view of the object. Then the processor is able to place the frames side by side one on top of the other, to show a 3D video clip.

The new Sony 3D cameras have two lenses at the front. The Sony 3D Bloggie released and the Sony 3D camcorder both have two lenses. For most people, a 2D digital camera with some 3D effects is far more than they need to enjoy a good camera and 3D options.

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The Wireless IP Camera

The wireless IP camera is one of the many fairly recent products that came into fruition from the long promise of technological convergence between computers and telecommunication technology. It's one of the crowing jewel of the electronic product lines that far remove not only extended wires attached to security cameras, but it also has everything the digital world has to offer - encryption, data compression and web transmission.

In the early 90's, there was this long desire among technological vendors to merge the advancing computer technology with the current electrical or electronic devices such that you, as an end-user, will no longer have a hard time configuring whatever electronic devices and equipment you want to install at home. Some companies foresaw then the possibility that you as a consumer will be required to learn less the intricacies of the technology to use a particular product at home.

Thus, it is getting easier for you to make use of your basic computer skills to control everything that surrounds you using your very own personal computer or laptop for that matter. It's actually a win-win solution approach - the vendor getting more sales of their new product line and on the other end you, as a user, will have the easier way to manage all sorts of stuff you installed in your home thereby shifting in the mindset from the century-old analog to digital system the way you control your installations of devices or equipments.

Wireless IP camera is just one of these fairly recent products line that incorporates the use of the existing analog system, mainly the transmission between transceivers between the device and the router/modem used for internet connection. You don't need to learn much of the intricacies between the two communicating devices and could just concentrate more of configuring the equipment for your basic home needs.

The signal transmission between the remote camera and the computer are fully un-wired thus saving you the hassle of connecting the unit using the messy wiring. Thus, wireless communication saved you not only the hassle of wires running all over the house but also the danger of faulty wire connection which can lead to faulty wiring accidents which claimed loss of property or worse, lives.

In some countries, wiring electrical/electronic equipment usually requires you to contact professional installers such that when there are troubles around, there would be someone to refer to rather than the user who is maybe in danger of doing the wiring himself that could lead into insurance claims being forfeited. An ordinary household also is running the increased risk of electrocution if he is tinkering around the high voltage wires installed in the house.

Today, there are things that have been so far improved like for example the longevity of batteries and availability of solar technologies that can easily be integrated into the camera system hence improving the possibility of detaching an electronic unit from messy and undesirable home electrical connections when installing a device inside or outside the house and expected to last for many hours without recharge.

So the foreseen integration of electronics and computers into single one unit like this security camera came at the time when all other integrated parts are available or commercially possible.

Jorge is an IT guy who loves any new product lines that improve the lives of homeowners and ordinary users. For more information about wireless camera, you many visit his blog at The Wireless IP Camera or his camera review site at Wireless IP Camera Review

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