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Fuji Announces Real 3D W1, Groundbreaking 3D Point-and-Shoot

Real 3D W1

Real 3D W1

Fuji today announced quite the groundbreaking system: a camera, viewer, and printer all aiming to bring true 3D photography to the masses. The highlight of the announcement is the camera, the W1, which manages to perfectly sync two lenses through a 3x zoom range, or you can de-link them and take two 2D images with one click at two different focal lengths.

And it’s sexy. Look at it over there.

Is this a gimmicky camera? Oh my yes. Certainly. Am I gaga over it and expecting quite a few people to be interested in it, you bet. Whether 3D catches on or not will remain to be seen, but you can’t argue that this is one of the most sheerly innovative technologies to hit the compact market in a long, long time.

Word is it’ll come out Septermberish, we’ll have to wait until closer to then to see if we can get our hands on this. Stay tuned, dear readers.



Nikon D5000 Service Recall Begins Today

d5000-service-yar-har-2As mentioned earlier this week, Nikon’s D5000 has experienced a hiccup where a controlled serial number range appears to have issues with turning on. Nikon is holding true to their promise of fixing this problem swiftly, and they have a facility set-up just to handle repairs for those unfortunate few of you afflicted.

If you want to know if your D5000 should be sent in for servicing, check out their page below, where you’ll find a little widget where you can enter your serial number and it’ll tell you if you’re in the affected batch.

D5000 Service Recall Page

To the best of our understanding, this problem has been addressed and all new shipments of D5000′s won’t be afflicted by this issue, so new orders can be certain they’re getting the quality Nikon product they deserve.




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