Is that the future of Ricoh cameras? Ricoh just launched the Theta 360 degrees cameras and all the details and image samples can be found at https://theta360.com/en/about/theta/. So, after Sony’s QX LensCamera we now have a second extremely innovative product this week. But will this Theta become a hotseller? Hard to say, on paper I like it!
By the way, the Ricoh G3 just got the first $40 price drop via .
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It left us speechless, eh?
Yikes. All I can say is I hope it isn’t going to be very expensive. (I couldn’t find pricing info either on the website or on Amazon.) It’s a one-trick pony, and while the trick is cool, it’s very limited: The images can be viewed only online or with special software. And while it was hard to be sure from the release info, there doesn’t seem to be any way to share them except by posting them to the special Theta website. The sample images struck me as extremely grainy, dark, and lacking in detail — I wouldn’t want to use them for, say, a virtual museum tour or a real-estate walk-through, which otherwise would be natural applications.
Or… Nobody cares…
Which would b sad actually.
Its a cool gadget. Hopefully it comes with a cool software to utilise the files.
Next stop… Put two of these and a good software and make an ultimate 3D worlds.
Although it could lead to super boring 3d shots from every douche who thinks his life is worth documenting.
Who’s that idiot designed the USB port next to tripod mount??
And I though (hoped) that Ricoh will bring something interesting …
How in the heck do you keep yourself out of the picture if using it’s shutter button?
It also looks like one of the tech devices Buddy Pine used to look for Mr. Incredible hiding in a cave in the 2004 Pixar animated movie, The Incredibles.
who needs that??? a flop…
where is the645Dmk2?
@admin it’s not mirrorless, but the new nikon P7800 with EVF is interesting)
The french website “Focus Numerique” also played a bit with the theta, sample images can be seen : http://www.focus-numerique.com/ricoh-theta-des-photos-spheriques-360-399-euros-news-4479.html