360 cams

[Alex Furer]

Hi all, I hope it's ok to post this question here.

I am about to buy a compact 360 cam mainly for photograpphy and to be able to offer more affordable VR-Tours. Maby some of you have experience with one or the other model?

I am considering:

- Ricoh Thetz Z1: seems a good choice because of sensor size, app on the phone and the Lightroom integration (except stitching which I would do in PTGui)? Have not yet exactly figured out the plugins thing they offer...

- QooCam 8k: more resolution, better video quality, seems to have fixed the falring problem of the predecessor but still quite heavy chromatic abberation?

- XPhase X2: super resolution but stitching problems and heavy chromatic abberation and flares?

Thanks and please feel free to tell me it's not a good place to ask such questions.

Alex

[Philip Chong]

I have the Z1 and I use PTGui to stitch it. Ricoh now have the stand alone stitching and no need LR.  I also use the Dual Fish Eye plug in.

[野本夏俊]

I have QooCam. QooCam is easy to use, but not enough for my needs, and the HDR can only be set to auto, so I need a lot of color correction.

Here are some examples of my work with QooCam.

https://www.360cities.net/sets/image_sets/zuga-kohsaku-and-kuri-eito-art-exhibition-emergency-stairs

https://www.360cities.net/image/yuji-nishijima-horizontal-vertical-dot-line-plane-time-space-distance-viento-arts-gallery-2-japan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe-Tpzjiyks

2021年9月2日木曜日 1:47:34 UTC+9 fullfram...@gmail.com:

[Ricardo Feres]

Hi,

Could you send us some links with photos made with the Z1, please?

Best regards,

Ricardo Feres

[Philip Chong]

Got reviews and samples DNG there for the Z1 :

https://360rumors.com/ricoh-theta-z1/

[Philip Chong]

You can also join the Z1 group (just search) on FB.  Lots of photos samples there.

[Alex Furer]

Sorry for the late reply. .I decided to get a Thea Z1. Thanks for all your input!