Sony’s breathtaking brush underline already works surprisingly well, giving you good panoramas only by hitting a shutter as well as swooshing the camera across a scene prior to you. Now, with the firmware refurbish, a brand-new mirrorless NEX cameras will do a same, usually in 3D.

The firmware refurbish is available for a NEX3 as well as NEX5 cameras, and additionally brings faster startup times in low light, the improved 2D pano-sweep as well as “decreased energy empty when the camera is switched off” (which I pretence equates to that the Sony operative looked up the word “off” in the dictionary).

But a exciting bit is the 3D scenery function, that will let you perspective the photos in 3D upon a 3D Bravia TV, or any other 3D-capable set. How does it work? Sony fails to enlighten us, though it’s flattering easy to work out. Normal stereoscopic photos are taken by mixing two images, customarily snapped by dual lenses as well as noticed by apart eyes. Sony’s cameras have just one lens, so a little digital trickery is compulsory.

When sharpened 2D panoramas, the camera fires off the array of frames as you brush a camera over the stage. To add an additional dimension, a camera most expected uses a camera’s accelerometer combined with picture data taken from dissimilar angles (in a frames you have only shot) to work out what a eyes would see from different points. These can then beget the 3D image.

We’ll be interested to see only how good a outcome is, though if it is anything similar to as seamless as a 2D panoramas, afterwards this could infer to be some-more than only a gimmick. It is additionally giveaway, if you have the camera (and the 3DTV). Available now.

Sony NEX 3D firmware refurbish [Sony]

3D update for Sony’s NEX-5/NEX-3 cameras Free firmware adds 3D Sweep Panorama sharpened [Sony]