Samsung G360 has 3 buttons & a small GoPro style screen good enough to control the camera without a phone. But why is there a "rear" lens at all? The only real flaws with the hardware are lack of controls- 2 buttons is not enough.
Ricoh does a much better job hiding a similar seam.
90 degrees to the very obvious seam between the lenses, you'll probably notice the back seam cutting through the "rear" lens, especially in video. Looking up or down, you'll see two sphincter shapes at the photosphere poles. Nikon really failed on the JPEG encoding & controls. Mechanically, it's fantastic and the physical optics perform exceptionally but the output is poor. Hoping Nikon may fix the firmware: it's been done.
Current photo output is not professional and not class-leading. I still want to like the KeyMission360 but can't.
Full resolution still images come in at roughly 12-15 MB, depending on the scene and how much JPEG compression is automatically applied. A 07:30 video clip occupies 4.29 GB of storage (that's the maximum size for a single file the camera breaks up longer clips into multiple 4.29 GB files).
With two lenses capturing at the highest resolution, don't get too attached to the free space on your hard drive or mobile device. Shot with exposure compensation ( Click for a flat view).ġ/500 sec | F2.0 | Exp. That’s to be expected, but the darker areas appeared muddy. Setting exposure compensation to -1.0 helped blunt the sun’s light and bring more detail to the sky in the front lens, but lost detail in the darkness in the opposite lens. Shot with no exposure compensation ( Click for a flat view).ġ/125 sec | F2.0 | Exp. When I shot a sunset, the camera did a fair job of balancing the bright sun itself with the darkening light around the rest of the scene. The middle ground of lighting can create mixed results. Note: make sure the Youtube quality setting is set to "4K." It’s not going to win any awards, but it’s also not a completely dark smudge nor an off-kilter color nightmare (being under both fluorescent and blacklight bulbs). And yet, to my surprise, the image quality in that dark environment is acceptable.
+1.0 | ISO 1400 | WB AutoĮxposure compensation doesn’t apply to video footage, however. changes aren't reflected in the live view when you’re shooting from the app.ġ/25 sec | F2.0 |Exp. This was an example where the ability to adjust exposure compensation helped when shooting stills, even though Exp. I thought I would set it up for failure by taking it to a birthday party at a roller-skating rink: a notoriously terrible venue for photographic light. The KeyMission 360 also handles low light situations fairly well, thanks to its F2.0 maximum aperture and ISO sensitivity up to 1600.
Although some of the top-end highlights are blown out, the overall exposure is good and the color isn’t off. During a recent unexpected snowfall here in Seattle, I went for a short walk to see how it would fare with the snow on the ground, patchy sunlight, and white clouds. (It’s also more distracting because our eyes are adept at identifying humans, and don’t often encounter people looking like they’ve been folded-in on themselves.)įor a camera that captures everything largely in automatic mode, the image quality can be quite good. If you’re in the shot, for example, position the camera ahead of or behind you, rather than at your side where you’ll fall into that dead area. Some of this can be mitigated by smart composition. When nothing is in the immediate foreground to focus on, the stitching can be almost invisible. Objects that are closer to the camera are more likely to be obfuscated than those farther away: another reason to get the camera away from you or your subject. In most cases, the stitching isn’t bad, manifesting often as just a peripheral smudge. Since the cameras are physically separated by the body of the camera, the seam between the two images isn’t going to be perfect. To evaluate the KeyMission’s output, we need to look at two factors: how the camera stitches together the images from each of the opposing lenses, and the overall quality of the images.