Panasonic’s 3D Lens Makes Third Dimension Dabbling Painless [Cameras]

We\’ve seen Panasonic\’s 3D camcorder, but the company is usually releasing a standalone lens which will allow otherwise stock still cameras to shoot 3D.

It\’s a lens of Micro Four Thirds proportions, built specifically for the LUMIX G line of cameras…though the nature of the Micro Four Thirds standard signifies that this lens may o.k. work on similar cameras from Olympus as-is, and even brands like Samsung with proper adapters. Impressively, it manages to shoot 3D content even onto a single CMOS chip without retrofitting the internals of the camera. That\’s good news in that, although you don\’t like 3D, at the very least the industry knows better than to require a complete new camera to have it.

We don’t have any price, and in the case of a date, all we know is that it\’s coming by the year\’s end. And sadly, rumors of each lens coming with a non-public-sized bucket of blue body paint are still unconfirmed. [Panasonic via CrunchGear and DigitalCameraInfo]

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