1. A wide-angle video camera capable of emulating pan, tilt and zoom operations without mechanical assistance to produce multiple views, and comprising: a. circuitry preparing an electronically captured initial color image; b. intermediate buffer circuitry storing an intermediate high bit-depth initial color image, with circuitry processing the initial color image to include projecting multiple regions from the initial color image to generate multiple views and collect statistics from each of the multiple views; and c. circuitry incorporating multiple image color processing pipelines independently processing each of the multiple views contemporaneously, based on the statistics collected for each view, to output multiple independently processed views simultaneously; wherein the high bit-depth color image possesses greater bit-depth than the multiple independently processed views; and wherein the multiple views possess greater bit-depth than the multiple independently processed views.