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Viewing 3D pix in 2D?

novox77 said:
I've never seen optics on a cell phone camera justify more than 2 mpx image resolution. Assuming your shot is in focus, the print quality will be the same whether the image is 2mpx or 5mpx. The limiting factor of cell cameras is the optics, not the number of pixels on the sensor.

For example, I typically shoot 3mpx on my dSLR. I can print 20"x30" no problem because the optics are so good. If I shoot at 10mpx, the 20x30 could be sharper, but that's because the optics can provide that degree of clarity. On a cell camera, at some point, cramming more pixels isn't going to do squat, and in my experience (as a semi-pro photographer), 2mpx is sufficient to match the optics.

The rest is all marketing gimmick. 8mpx on the current Evo is a joke. The images are bigger than the ones from my dSLR and they look much worse.
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That's one of the most informing posts I have read in a while. Thanks!
 
There is a handshake that takes place over the internet and it requires a sci.filter. There is no sci.fltr then a 2d pic will be sent. The same goes if you own a EVO3D and you are send a 3D picture (sci.fltr+) then EVO 3D will display the downloaded photo in 3D. The same will go for any device accessing YouTube 3D. You can watch the content on YT3D on a non 3D device and only see 3d effect in 2d. EVO3D with the (sci.filter)enabled hardware through the snapdragon processor will render in true 3D .
BSOD.
 
Is it too much to hope that there's an option that, when you take a photo, captures a 3D image and immediately afterward a 5mp image?

Interesting point about megapixels though, my "proper" camera has a variety of options up to 10mp, but if I set it to capture at HDtv size it drop to about 5 I think. I need to try out some images at the different MP sizes and see how they compare.

It's all too easy to think higher MP = better picture. If you're going to crop and zoom then it's worth it, but I bet most photos could be taken at a lower resolution and still look great on a monitor or HDtv. Food for thought (and something to do over the weekend!)
 
partridge said:
It's all too easy to think higher MP = better picture. If you're going to crop and zoom then it's worth it, but I bet most photos could be taken at a lower resolution and still look great on a monitor or HDtv. Food for thought (and something to do over the weekend!)
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That's exactly why I only shoot at 3mpx on my dSLR. The vast majority of my photos end up getting sized way down for web viewing. But the 3mpx is still large enough for me to print 8"x10" at very high quality. Unless I'm doing prints at 20x30 or greater, there's no reason why I ever need a source image at 10mpx or higher.


And for those of you who didn't know: 1 megapixel = 1 million pixels. If your source image is 800x600, you literally have 800 (times) 600 pixels = 480,000 pixels. That's roughly 0.48 mpx.

1080p resolution is 1920 x 1080 = 2,073,600 pixels = 2.0736 megapixels.

Has a photo you've taken with your cell phone ever looked sharper than a blu-ray frame on a 1080p screen? Probably not. And that's because the optics in front of the sensor is not physically capable of capturing such a sharp image through such a small aperture.
 
BlueScreen said:
There is a handshake that takes place over the internet and it requires a sci.filter. There is no sci.fltr then a 2d pic will be sent. The same goes if you own a EVO3D and you are send a 3D picture (sci.fltr+) then EVO 3D will display the downloaded photo in 3D. The same will go for any device accessing YouTube 3D. You can watch the content on YT3D on a non 3D device and only see 3d effect in 2d. EVO3D with the (sci.filter)enabled hardware through the snapdragon processor will render in true 3D .
BSOD.
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Just want to be sure I'm understanding this correctly. When we cut it down to the basic.

If I were to take a 3D pic, send it to family members...for those that have a sci.filter, on whatever device they're viewing the picture, they'll see it in 3D, but if it's a device that doesn't have a sci.filter, it'll be 2D?
 
drexappeal said:
Just want to be sure I'm understanding this correctly. When we cut it down to the basic.

If I were to take a 3D pic, send it to family members...for those that have a sci.filter, on whatever device they're viewing the picture, they'll see it in 3D, but if it's a device that doesn't have a sci.filter, it'll be 2D?
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Connect the thing to a supported 3D TV or computer, it'll come out in 3D. Picture files - we'll see how those are encoded once this thing is out. Doubtless they must have some concept of interoperability so as to gain market acceptance.

I believe this is an earlier version of the sci.filter -

YouTube - "Turbo Encabulator" the Original
 
For those who are tl;dw on the Turbo Encabulator...the new EVO 3D will apparently be indestructible and they even think it could be the next iPhone killer.
 
is there a way to cut off the 3d... i have the 3ds and u can play in 3d or not and it would be nice if the evo 3d could do that to
 
Yeah you can do that on the Evo 3D, their is a selector switch on the side of the phone that allows you to change from 2D to 3D or vise versa.
 
steam374 said:
Yeah you can do that on the Evo 3D, their is a selector switch on the side of the phone that allows you to change from 2D to 3D or vise versa.
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I thought that switch was just for a change on the fly of the camera for taking pictures??

Although there will be an option to shut the 3D off.
 
steam374 said:
Yeah you can do that on the Evo 3D, their is a selector switch on the side of the phone that allows you to change from 2D to 3D or vise versa.
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That is for photos and video only.

I would guess that games may have an option within their settings to disable 3D.
 
The switch is for the camera 2d/3d only - other ideas about it are rumor holdovers.

There are a few PC programs that convert 3D pix into 2D - they essentially just strip out one of the two images and serve that up. 3D pictures files are pretty well standardized, so that's not difficult.

We'll have to see if the phone offers that or not - if not, no doubt some add-on app will come along for that.
 
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