Fujifilm Finepix Real 3D W1 gets the hands-on treatment

Fujifilm's Finepix Real 3D W1 may look like a fairly standard (albeit dual-lensed) compact camera in its official shots, but as the folks at Stuff.tv discovered when they unboxed theirs, it's a slightly different story in person. While not exactly a deal-breaker, the camera looks to be considerably harder to just toss in a pocket than a regular compact camera, and it weighs about as much as the non-compact Olympus E-P1. That said, it does apparently deliver the goods when it comes to capturing 3D movies and still images, and it'll even work with macro shots, although that apparently requires a bit of practice. Hit up the link below for a closer look.

[Malikye Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:47PM]

links says :

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[minceyfresh Posted Jul 31st 2009 3:46PM]

Seems like the entire Stuff.tv site is down... Hrm...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:48PM]

Awesome concept.

[Donut Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:49PM]

I think its pretty gimicky...

[SirNoDroin Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:53PM]

agreed. special paper? gross. its also not 3d..its 2 and a half d.

[SirNoDroin Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:51PM]

the color that it gets from the reflection of the table gives it that weird 80s brownish electronics color...

actually i wish it was that color

i miss that color

you know the color im talking about?

i like that color.

[ehisforadam Posted Jul 30th 2009 3:40PM]

Screw the brownish electronics color, I want fake wood paneling stickers on mine.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 1:53PM]

Talking about 3D, I'm shocked Engadget aren't all over Sky's announcement of a 3D channel next year O_o

[jengabean Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:07PM]

It's not 2.5D it is 3D. If your argument is based on being able to look "around" an object, that is not what signifies true 3D. Having true 3D depth is what signifies 3D. This camera uses 3D in the exact same way that our eyes do. We see in 3D no more or less truthfully.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:08PM]

I really hope this camera will produce red/blue anaglyphs. That's all I ever wanted.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 7:33PM]

Even if it doesn't produce them for you, it will take two pictures that you can combine a tool like photoshop to make the anaglyphs.

[Joshua Przygocki Posted Jul 31st 2009 4:09AM]

@doelcm That ruins the fun...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:11PM]

HEY

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 30th 2009 2:28PM]

links broke :(

[me2 Posted Jul 30th 2009 4:29PM]

this might be finding a way into my xmas stocking...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 31st 2009 1:23AM]

Can't wait for this. Been using 3D Camera on the iPhone and having a blast creating 3D stuff. I think it's the next evolution after HD.

[lemonsoju Posted Aug 11th 2009 10:32PM]

I've posted some 2D samples from the Finepix W1. Very interesting to see the noise at ISO200. None of that noise is visible when viewing in 3D though.

http://lemon.soju.co.uk/3d/finepix-w1-hands-on/