In November 2010 I bought a neat little camera - the Real3D W3 stereoscopic beastie from Fujifilm - and it's been really, really fun to play with. It's the first camera I've grown fond enough to take with me everywhere I go for no other reason than I can. Even though I have a couple of other cameras on me at all times - my N95 phone from Nokia and my iTouch - I never bother with them because, well... they are just so ... meh.
There is something very cool about 3D photography. It takes a little more work to get a really good 3D image, and I'm still only used to using idiot mode on the camera because there is so much you can fiddle around with. But all in all, I'm getting good results already and I'm improving bit by bit as I go.
Shame it is so hard to share your 3D work with others...
For a couple of years now I've been the proud possessor of a kick-ass 3D TV and Blu-Ray setup. It's stunning to watch most 3D Blu-Rays on, fun to play 3D PS3 Games on... And that's it.
I can view my 3D snaps on the TV via my camera and an HDMI cable, which is all right, I suppose. Or I can import them into Playstation Play Memories and view them that way. But it would be nice to be able to chuck 'em on a USB stick and take 'em to (say) a local TV store, and show them to others. Can't do it. Samsung TV's - in all their stupidity - won't recognize the .MPO file format that has become the de facto standard for 3D images these days. Nor will they correctly process the 3D AVI movies that my camera can record. In fact, there is no official way you can show any 3D still image on a Samsung 3D TV in 3D.
There are painful, long-winded ways of viewing 'non-standard' 3D files on a Samsung TV if you are prepared to fiddle around with file conversions and manually futzing around with the 3D viewing settings on the TV. If your file is the correct width and height and ratio... maybe.
My next 3D TV will NOT be Samsung... believe it.
(This rant comes after a long and eventually futile attempt to find a quick way of previewing stereoscopic Poser or 3D Max renders on my TV. NOT IMPRESSED. AT ALL. SERIOUSLY.)