All new, all hot, the new Sony firmware version 02 of Sony Nex-3 and Sony Nex-5 brings the shooting panoramic pictures …. 3D!
Firmware Update for Sony Nex-3 and Nex-5
Already available to download at Sony Europe, Sony Nex-3 and Nex-5 new firmware, the Sony compact interchangeable lens, makes several improvements such as reduced startup time, but especially the ability to take panoramic pictures 3D through a watered down version of the panorama scan now well known.Nex Firmware 2.0 thus provides:
- - The shooting of 3D panoramas
- - Improvement of 2D views by scanning
- - Startup time optimized in low light conditions

3D on Sony Nex-3 and Nex-5: How does it work?
Sony wisely exploits the capabilities of its capture developed Exmor sensor and turns the panorama function by scanning. Indeed, as we have seen on the Sony HX5 especially the panorama function testing by scanning the HX5, this is sliced shot that assembles the device thereafter. To create a 3D effect, the Nex-3 and Nex-5 will use the difference in perspective between the first shooting when you start the view and the end when you finish the rotation. This shift of perspective, passed through the mill by the processor of Nex, creates the 3D effect can be viewed on a 3D HDTVs Sony Bravia. Sony has bet big on the 3D models and 3D between flat screens, consoles and Blu-Ray and Playstation 3 in 3D shooting 3D on its aircraft, the supply begins to take shaping.

Updating the firmware 02 of Nex-3 and Nex-5 for the 3D version
The equipment you buy is already taking up the firmware 02, and then you will not perform the update. By cons, those who are in version 01. To check the firmware version installed in your device: [MENU] / [SETUP] / [VERSION]. Owners of Sony Nex-3 and Nex-5 recorded on the Sony site should receive an email informing them of the update.
The updated Sony Nex-3 is here that the Sony Nex-5 is here.


