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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
05-16-2016, 04:00 PM
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I believe I read somewhere in this thread that viewing the images on a phone via the Theta application degrades image quality. The advice was to not view images on the phone if one wanted to later do a thing or two to them on a computer.
I can hunt this comment if needed but thought I would skip that step and ask if anyone knows much about this...
I might understand that the images transferred to the phone for viewing may have quality or image size reduced for viewing on the phone. IQ will have been degraded.
However, surely the images on the Theta itself are not degraded.. If images are copied to the phone rather than moved, surely the image on the Theta remains unmolested... How/why would things be any other way?
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
04-30-2016, 11:16 AM
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The behavior of the self timer is great for me. I am not an app person and it should save battery as well.
I am not much for video, either. I have taken a few, though, with the p/s camera and these were to illustrate things like driving through a 1-lane tunnel or how scooters dodge people in some souks.. weird stuff.
I can think of several times I would like to have had a camera like this.. so, I think I will get one for travel. I am pretty selfie-resistant so I may have pack a Groucho Marx mask to disguise me.
Thanks for the quick reply
I now live on the left side of the Rockies in Colorado...!
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Forum: Ricoh Theta 360° Cameras
04-30-2016, 05:43 AM
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while balanced on a spinning plate.. nothing but net.
I have become interested in this thing. I regularly by things I can get by without but this would be a thing I truly do not need. Still, I can see it as a fun thing to use in a few train stations I have passed through... other stuff..
I have a couple questions..
I have been hunting the internet and found some notes at Imaging Resource. Are you aware of other reviews?
Do you think any version of PS Elements could edit the file to clone you out and not break whatever it is that makes the image be read as spherical? I have v10 or so..
> > When using the self timer available with the new firmware update, must the phone app be used each time or is it possible to set the self timer, have the camera remember this even when turned off, and so not have to 'app up'? I think it would be faster to operate without having to connect the phone to the camera to set timer... I could see this being an often used mode to allow time o duck out of sight.
I read that it is possible to reposition video camera 'view' after the fact just as it is possible to scroll around for different view of a still image..
Is it possible to just record and later decide which part of the sphere to use for the video? Is it possible to move/scroll around while the movie is later replayed..?
++ I found another element of the review at IR and it is possible to scroll around within a video... so, I have answered my own question.
If so, this would have been very fun to use while walking through crowded souk with scooters and carts and other stuff. Not that I would hold this thing over my head while walking.. not there. Oh, I could attach the camera to the bottom of an umbrella and everyone would think I am a guide. Prb solved !
I lived in OP 10 yrs and often made a triangle driving btwn there and Boonville and Springfield for work. + I see you have a Rokinon fish eye. I recently purchased a little 4/3 camera as an upgrade to a point/shoot. I have a kit zoom and a Rokinon 7.5mm FE. I have wanted a FE but I really try to keep weight down when I travel so the larger 8mm? version was not interesting..
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