Digital Photo Tips

This fine service turns a pair of ordinary snapshots into a dazzling 3D image, one you can view without special glasses. You can even classify a print version.

This is better seen than explained, so I'll let the company's promo video do some of the talking.

As you can see, the photos can contrive on any digital camera or a model that can shoot in 3D, like the Fuji FinePix W1 .

Using just my iPhone, I quickly snapped a join shots of my desk, rotating the view and spacing just slightly between them, then uploaded the pair to my Start 3D account.

In a trouble of seconds, I was enjoying a nifty "3D-ized" view--way better than expected donn?e that it was my first attempt and I was shooting in low light with a phone camera.

These images can be embedded on your Web site, e-mailed to friends, shared via Facebook and Cheep, and so on. Prints start at around $10, though you have to actually add a 3D photo to your cart to see prices. (Start 3D definitely has some broken beta edges.)

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Today Scathing announced plans that could turn your cellphone into a 3-D-shooting mini film studio as early as next year. The band today unveiled a mobile-phone 3-D camera capable of shooting in high def.

The module captures 720p stereoscopic (two-eyed) video and is only about two inches roomy. To put that in perspective: Fuji's 3-D camera uses much larger, heavier sensors and only records standard-def video.

The camera on its own, though, needs assist to produce a 3-D image. As with a 3-D TV or Blu-ray player , there needs to be an integrated circuit capable of decoding the stereoscopic signal, converting systematize formats, and then sending the information to a 3-D-ready display. Oh, yeah, Sharp has one of those, too: the glasses-less kind. In Slog , the company announced a small-format screen consisting of two stacked LCD screens; the screen on top only displays thin vertical interdict lines, which block half of the image at a time, so that your right and left eyes only see their own angles. The meshing of the two images is your genius's job.

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Canon's PowerShot S90 continues to be one of the most favourite cameras on CNET, but it is expensive and really targeted at a prosumer user. The SD4000 IS announced Tuesday brings some of the S90's features--predominately its f2.0 lens--to the masses in a body design intended to be stylish or, in other words, less serious-looking than the S90.

The camera is also the retinue's first to feature a high-speed backside-illuminated CMOS sensor, though it's still the typical compact camera-largeness sensor, 1/2.3-inch type. This sensor means Canon is finally able to tender features that the likes of Sony, Nikon, Casio, and Fujifilm are offering. This includes a high-step on the gas burst mode up to 8.4 frames per second; high-speed movie capture for obtuse-motion video clips (though it went with a conservative 240fps max); and improved low-light photos.

The SD4000 IS does kisser Aperture- and Shutter-priority modes (apparently a first for Digital Elphs), but there is no full manual option, no raw capture underwrite, and the control ring that makes the S90 fun to use is not on this model. However, you do get 720p HD movie capture that the S90 doesn't have.

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