3D Technology

During Bournemouth Academy's 3D Week, one of the highlights of the event was a visit to the ODEON Bournemouth on the morning of Thursday 18th November when Jim Slater, Editor of Cinema Technology, gave an exceptional presentation summarising the state of the art in digital cinema and 3D projection.  A copy of the presentation slides may be downloaded from here.

A copy of Jim Slater's 3D Week report article, which will appear in Cinema Technology, may be downloaded from here.

Colleagues at Sony recommend newcomers to 3D television production to check out and subscribe to the Sony Professional Facebook group at: http://www.facebook.com/SonyProfessionalEurope?ref=ts   Also Sony Professional's 3D Hub at http://www.sony.co.uk/biz/content/name/3D+HUB  which includes a link to download Sony's latest 3D wallchart.

Sony has published one of the best 3D system brochures available, with a summary of the history of 3D stereoscopy and of television technology. Download this full colour document from here (4.8 MB).

Finally you might also take a look at Sony Professional's Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/mysonyprofessional

The AG-3DA1 is Panasonic's full HD 3D camcorder that records to SD card media.  Weighing less than 6.6 pounds, the AG-3DA1 is equipped with dual lenses and two 1920 x 1080 2.07 megapixel 3-MOS imagers to record 1080/60i, 50i, 30p, 25p and 24p (native) and 720/60p and 50p in AVCHD.   It will record for up to 180 minutes on dual 32GB SD cards in Panasonic's professional AVCHD PH mode, and offers interfaces including dual HD-SDI out, HDMI (version 1.4), two XLR connectors, built-in stereo microphone and twin-lens camera remotes. 
Price around £15,000  For more information click here.. or try the UK dealers Holdan

A new lens from Panasonic which has a micro four-thirds mount, internal twin fixed lenses and diaphragms (F12) has been released.   Described as the world's first interchangeable 3D lens the LUMIX G 12.5mm / F12 (H-FT012) is designed for 3D shooting (35 mm camera equivalent: 65 mm). It has two optical systems installed within the diameter of the lens mount, creating stereo images from the left and right lenses, to be processed with a 3D image processing system. For more information click here.