[MMVIII]

Maybe this is a legal thing, that it isn't allowed to take pictures of surroundings and people without permission.

Could be, but why would it be permitted if connected to a 5.2G high power base station?

[Mistral75]

According to Nokishita Camera a few accessories will be announced together with Theta Z1:

デジカメ噂メモ|軒下デジカメ情報局

• Semi Hard Case TS-2
• Lens Cap TL-1
• Lens Cap TL-2

[Zygonyx]

If 1" and 20 Mpix this is becoming serious.

[taktoon]

I've made rough size comparison in Photoshop (same size of shutter button gives also same overall height - still i think it is a long shot). 1" sensor looks possible

[BrianR]

Turns to dust if exposed to direct sunlight perhaps?

Or turns to dust if exposed to Godzilla's atomic fire breath?

[Mistral75]

I've made rough size comparison in Photoshop (same size of shutter button gives also same overall height - still i think it is a long shot). 1" sensor looks possible

Thank you for this comparison. Theta Z1 is a bit larger than Theta V, thicker and its lens is bigger. The bigger lens confirms the larger sensor (said to be 1"). The extra thickness could be related to heat dissipation: 5K instead of 4K?

[taktoon]

Thank you for this comparison. Theta Z1 is a bit larger than Theta V, thicker and its lens is bigger. The bigger lens confirms the larger sensor (said to be 1"). The extra thickness could be related to heat dissipation: 5K instead of 4K?

Bigger sensor ==> extra thicknes, as the sensor surface is perpendicular to the lens.

[Mistral75]

Ah! I didn't realise that the sensor was unique and horizontal in the Theta cameras. I thought there were two back-to-back vertical sensors, one behind each lens.

[BrianR]

Ah! I didn't realise that the sensor was unique and horizontal in the Theta cameras. I thought there were two back-to-back vertical sensors, one behind each lens.

Neither did I, that's pretty neat:

You Tube

You Tube

[Mistral75]

Thank you for the video. So there are two vertical sensors but perpendicular to the outer part of the lenses; the larger the sensors, the thicker the camera.

[texandrews]

A lot of goodness can come out of those 1" sensors as Sony has shown. Please, please have this thing made compatible with the dslr cameras as was demonstrated several years ago: a demonstration showed a Theta riding on top of the flash shoe, and high res still images could be embedded into the Theta capture in some way, so that you could have zoomable and discreet details of the scene. This would be a killer real estate app, and I could use it in one or 2 aspects of my museum documentation work----potential killer app there too.

You Tube

You Tube

[monochrome]

Or turns to dust if exposed to Godzilla's atomic fire breath?

Thermonuclear Death Breath. Like my college roommate’s only visible.

[ebk]

this year Pentax will be 100 years old!!


untill now they present updates of older camera's.


hoerah

[mcr360]

Looks like a hinged cover at the bottom. Hopefully for a removable battery.
And weird how they've added an IR blaster. Could be useful to change TV channels tho

[Mistral75]

Nokishita Camera just published detailed specifications:

【噂】リコー「THETA Z1」の特徴|軒下デジカメ情報局

- Two 1.0-inch BSI CMOS sensors with about 20 million effective pixels
- Multi-level diaphragm mechanism, aperture can be selected from 3 values: f/2.1, f/3.5 and f/5.6
- High resolution 360° still image equivalent to about 23 million pixels
- 4K 360° movie, 3,840 × 1,920 at 30 fps
- Highly powerful shake correction performance from 3-axis correction (pitch, yaw and roll) during movie shooting
- Fastest shutter speed: 1/25,000 second
- Highest sensitivity: ISO 6,400
- Built-in 4-channel microphone supporting in-camera 360° spatial audio recording
- 0.93" OLED panel at the bottom of the camera to display shooting information
- Supports RAW file format
- Together with the new Fn button the OLED display allows for switching between "Normal Shooting" and "Self Timer Shooting", switching among three types of plug-in, turning off, switching to mute mode and more
- Built-in large capacity memory of about 19 GB
- Still image resolution: [RAW] 7,296 × 3,648 pixels, [JPEG] 6,720 × 3,360 pixels
- Size: 48mm x 132.5mm x 29.7mm (24mm when excluding the lenses' protrusion)
- Weight: 182g
- Scheduled release date: late March, 2019
- Street price: ¥126,900 including 8% Japanese VAT.