This 360 Camera Isn't Terrible #Helpful Post

heyguys is often 360 video is coming

whether you like it or not

make sure you might be used to standard

boring 2d video like this but with the

Ricoh theta s you have a camera that

fits in your pockets I can shoot full

360 video so there are a lot of 360

cameras on the market what I like about

the theta is that knowledge of the shoot

greats builds at least in theory but

it's small stuff like the Year 360 while

the great camera only works with a

single phone it's also a lot harder to

carry in your pocket so inside the box

the first thing we get is the actual

camera itself you know this kind of

reminds me of one of those old flip

cameras only difference is instead of

having one camera it actually has two so

no matter how you hold it you're always

in one of the cameras view so it's got

this nice soft touch material we have a

button up on front as well as a few

things on the side turn off Wi-Fi switch

between photo and video mode as well as

just turning on and off the camera on

bottom of the just standard tripod

thread as well as USB and HDMI so in

theory you can actually do livestream

with the theta however you have to plug

it in probably nightly be super useful

inside it's rocking eight gigabytes of

internal memory but there's no microSD

expansion so that means that while there

not a ton of space especially

considering stills are only 14 megapixel

in the video with 1080p you should be

able to get a fair bit onto the camera

but before we get too far into that we

get the wonderful Quick Start Guide

which does not look quick at all and we

also have a pouch so since this is a 360

camera it actually is important to keep

those lenses clean most compact cameras

will have some sort of like lens

covering or whatever but these are big

really wide-angle cameras so it actually

probably makes sense to keep it in the

pouch so the first step is to download

the app so that's actually one of the

nice things about the theta is that

while the gear 360 only works with a few

modern Samsung phones this should in

theory work with most everything oh wow

that looks like a thing okay we have

video so what do I do here this guy up

what is that image synthesizing I just

take a 360 photos myself okay well um

that's uh that's a thing that's

definitely an amazing shot um but still

looks really nice though there's no

artifacts or anything I'm sure if you

look close enough you can figure out

where it's stitched but today she looks

really nice

alright so with the live preview I can

get a good look of what I'm gonna get on

the phone which is super weird but when

ready 3 2 1 it's like the greatest show

denoise ever so once we actually get it

on the phone we can just swipe around

and see that's wow that's a little bit

disturbing um oh my gosh whoa wait a

second you can zoom it all the way out

to a sphere Oh interesting that's

actually really cool so honestly the

stills are kind of one of the cooler

parts of this camera but there is a

video mode as well we should be able to

see how amazing the world looks in full

360 video or how crunchy and low

resolution it is but probably amazing

right probably no this is bad I mean

sure I'm watching it on my phone and

it's only a 1080p image that's being

stretched for the full 360 frame but

pretty much usable here if you guys want

a full 360 video I'll be able to see a

bunch of samples from this there will be

a link in the description over on

Facebook which actually do a really good

job of supporting the 360 video but it

first minute it's not that so it's one

thing to use the fade in the office but

the real world test is the real world

something I really like about the theta

is just how portable it is so it'll

easily fit in a pocket and when you're

ready to actually take a shot hit the

power button and done I'm sure like we

didn't look like nerds or anything at

all there I really appreciate just how

quick it is to be able to transfer stuff

and turn on so those pictures we just

took I can pretty much immediately bring

it over to my phone and once it's copied

a little bit a little bit of hand action

there you can see it didn't quite

perfectly stitch it so I think one of

the things you have to kind of get used

to is holding it maybe just a little bit

lower so if those dual 12 megapixel

cameras we're getting a 14 point 4

megapixel stitched file and it looks

really nice even with the sort of I

would say pretty pretty harsh done in a

greens you can see above the building is

a little bit too Slone out but honestly

this is not bad-looking at all and if

you really want to sort of get the exact

shot that you want you do have full

manual control so it might just be

sitting on a bench right now however

where I'm actually doing is recording a

360 video so the quality isn't amazing

so yes you can be able to kind of look

around and get the full 360 experience

if you're watching this in 360 however

the issue is is that it's just not that

high resolution it works it's definitely

a cool effect but honestly I feel like

this still looks a lot better than the

video

however it does take some getting used

to so what I like about meseta is just

how easy it is to use it turns on

quickly

you just have a quick shot you can

transfer it to your smartphone and see

it there or of course a to a computer

edit it whatever you want to do now the

image quality I think is a lot better

than the video quality however if you

want to get 360 video a try especially

360 stills the theta is worth a look so

what do you guys think about 360

definitely be sure to let me know what

you think in the comments below and I

will catch you on the next one