Review Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W3 - Night Shots
In this part of the review I would like to give a brief overview about the quality of the camera in respect of photos at night. Sample video recordings at night you can find at this link at this site Fujifilm & Other Download Links. Please look at the bottom of the page.
The Fujifilm REAL 3D W3 provides at auto settings the possibility to set ISO ranges up to 400, up to 800 and up to 1600. The means the maximum used ISO value will be up to these limits at the auto setting. In addition you can select specific IS0 values and assign them for instance to a program position at the selection wheel on the upper right side.
The shutter speed at the setting Auto can be in the range of 1/4 to 1/1000 seconds. At the setting Manual the range is 1/2 to 1/1000 seconds. The lowest shutter speed is 3 seconds at the program setting Night (Tripod). For more information about this please download the manual of the camera at the top menu link More Info.
The following photos will show you the quality at night. But first one remark. 3D is not really made for night shots. If you use red/cyan glasses look first at the picture in 2D mode as shown below and then at the same picture in 3D mode - as always you can click on the photos to enlarge them. You will see almost all the colors are gone and in addition the photos get very dark. You will have the same with a 3D monitor but the colors will be better then.
Here the settings that were used for the photos above:
ExposureTime - 1/60 seconds
FNumber - 3.70
ExposureProgram - Normal program
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
Here the settings that were used:
ExposureTime - 1/60 seconds
FNumber - 3.70
ExposureProgram - Normal program
ISOSpeedRatings - 800
Here a complete list of the EXIF information the software IrfanView shows for the above 2 photos:
Filename - DSCF9215.JPG
Make - FUJIFILM
Model - FinePix REAL 3D W3
Orientation - Top left
XResolution - 72
YResolution - 72
ResolutionUnit - Inch
Software - Digital Camera FinePix REAL 3D W3 Ver1.01
DateTime - 2012:02:12 09:54:49
YCbCrPositioning - Co-Sited
Copyright -
ExifOffset - 300
ExposureTime - 1/60 seconds
FNumber - 3.70
ExposureProgram - Normal program
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExifVersion - 0230
DateTimeOriginal - 2012:02:12 09:54:49
DateTimeDigitized - 2012:02:12 09:54:49
ComponentsConfiguration - YCbCr
CompressedBitsPerPixel - 4.00 (bits/pixel)
ShutterSpeedValue - 1/64 seconds
ApertureValue - F 3.73
BrightnessValue - 1.87
ExposureBiasValue - 0.00
MaxApertureValue - F 3.73
MeteringMode - Multi-segment
LightSource - Auto
Flash - Flash fired, auto mode
FocalLength - 6.30 mm
FlashPixVersion - 0100
ColorSpace - sRGB
ExifImageWidth - 3648
ExifImageHeight - 2736
InteroperabilityOffset - 1326
FocalPlaneXResolution - 5952
FocalPlaneYResolution - 5952
FocalPlaneResolutionUnit - Centimeter
SensingMethod - One-chip color area sensor
FileSource - DSC - Digital still camera
SceneType - A directly photographed image
CustomRendered - Normal process
ExposureMode - Auto
White Balance - Auto
SceneCaptureType - Standard
Sharpness - Normal
SubjectDistanceRange - Unknown
Maker Note (Vendor): -
Version - 30333130
Quality - FINE
Sharpness - Normal
White Balance - Auto
Color saturation - Normal
Flash Mode - Auto
Flash Strength - 0.00
Macro - On
Focus mode - Auto
Slow Sync. - Off
Picture Mode - Auto
Unknown - 1
Sequence mode - Off
Unknown - 0
Blur warning - No
Focus warning - No (Focus OK)
AE warning - No (AE good)
Dynamic Range - Standard
Here a final night shot with ISO set to 100:
Of course not all shots were good. But the camera should be mostly good enough for some quick holiday shots. In respect of 3D - I don't like night shots because mostly our current 3D display options do not make them better. Okay - for instance Samsung has a new and cheap 3D display solution without shutter glasses. The display will be not so dark but you will lose half of the horizontal resolution at this technique. These dark 3D displays are not a problem of the camera but of 3D and the display units we have at the moment. And so the colors are not perfect and the pictures get too dark or/and the resolution will suffer. There are options to avoid such problems. For instance you could use 3D prism glasses. They are very inexpensive but not really comfortable to use at least from my experience. The other downside is that you have to display the left and right picture side-by-side. So you will lose half of the monitor display size.
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Review Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W3 - 02/2012
Last update 10/2012
Last update 10/2012