Panasonic says it has produced the world’s first consumer 3D camcorder, the HDC-SDT750, which allows 3D images to be recorded at home. Incorporating Panasonic broadcast technology, the 3MOS camcorder lets users create their own 3D movies, something only professional image producers were previously able to do. Combined with a VIERA 3DTV and Blu-ray DiscTM player/recorder, the SDT750 makes it possible to record and 3D movies.

THE SCIENCE BIT
The user needs to attach the 3D conversion lens that comes with the SDT750 to record 3D images. In natural vision, people see slightly different images with their right and left eyes, this difference is called visual disparity. The brain uses visual disparity to perceive spatial depth and the appearance of solidity. This visual disparity is artificially produced for 3D images so that the brain will interpret it as depth and solid-appearing objects.
The SDT750 comes with a 3D conversion lens that records right-eye and left-eye images simultaneously through its two lenses. The right and left images (each with 960 x 1080 pixels) that enter through the lenses are recorded using the side-by-side method. By connecting the SDT750 to a TV that is capable of side-by-side method 3D playback, vividly colorful 3D images can be viewed at home.

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