The invention provides a complete
system for three-dimensional (3D) (stereo) still photography in a digital format. This includes capturing the image or photo, viewing, printing and projecting it. Intermediate steps would include downloading images to a computer, editing, enhancing or modifying, saving, recording photo images to other storage medium, and the printing of still photos. This invention is a significant advancement of the traditional analog film stereo slides, in that the digital format will allow viewing of the image in the camera in 3D, prior to, during, immediately after
exposure and at any other time after
exposure. With significant
computer processing capability after
exposure in editing, enhancing, color correcting, adding text and art, the images are further improved. The
system includes the ability to view images, in 3D (stereo), in the camera, in a
hand held viewer, on a computer screen on a standard
television set as well as printed pairs or in anaglyph formats. The images can also be viewed with conventional digital projectors using conventional polarized glasses. The camera is also a significant advancement over the standard digital still cameras because it provides the three-dimensional
image capture in a digital format. It also retains the full 2-dimensional capability of digital photography.