Our last gadget purchase for our trip to Western Australia – and not a moment too soon too! I’ve been keeping an eye on 360 cameras for some months now, but held back picking one up on account that while the technology itself is stable and reliable, the resolution and stitching processes on consumer-level models still don’t do that great a job. And they can be quite costly too, with models from Ricoh, Nikon, LG and 360fly costing easily of half a thousand and more.
Samsung has two 360 cameras now, with the 2017 edition that was just released a month or two ago offering a number of improvements from last year’s model. Even more interesting too is that the Samsung Gear 360 (2017) retails for significantly cheaper at SGD340 – and if that that price point was not attractive enough, I found a mobile accessory shop selling it for SGD280.
So, a quick first shot of our balcony using the device. It was mounted on the Sirui T-024X tripod, so its legs are pretty visible if you pan the camera right down. The image below might also take a while to load, as it’s essentially an out of box full-sized JPG composition from the Gear 360.
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