ROCOH THETA

[Rikk The Gaijin]

We just got one of this beautiful toys in our office, this is a major break thought for people that want to take their own panoramic HDR!

https://theta360.com/en/

I really recommend it!

[glimpse]

That's a nice toy =) would be even more interesting if it could shoot multiple exposures
(like 0 +1 -1 +3 -3 +5 -5.. but I gues then the price would be way higher).

What are You planing to do with it (of course if not a secreat? =) or is just for testing, R&D purposes?

[suvakas]

Interesting little gadget. Could be cool for quick snapshots.
What's the image resolution?

That's a nice toy =) would be even more interesting if it could shoot multiple exposures
(like 0 +1 -1 +3 -3 +5 -5.. but I gues then the price would be way higher).

Multiple exposures is actually a software/firmware thing. It should not make the price to go higher at all.

Suv

[Rikk The Gaijin]

We are using it to capture our own HDR to use in Octane/VRay/our engine.
And there is already a hack to make the THETA shooting brackets with different exposures automatically

[suvakas]

Cool!
What's the image resolution you get from it?
Could you show one HDR maybe?

Suv

[Tugpsx]

There is an app for the iPhone that does something similar. Cycloramic

[Rikk The Gaijin]

Cool!
What's the image resolution you get from it?
Could you show one HDR maybe?

The image is about 4k in lenght, but the sensor is very small, so the image quality is not great (sorry I cannot show you any of our own), but it's good enought to make HDR.

There is an app for the iPhone that does something similar. Cycloramic

Not really... I have that app, but the iPhone doesn't have a fish-eye lens, so it doesn't capture a full spherical panorama, plus if something moves, you have the ghost effect. The THETA is one-click solution, everything is capture immediately, with no ghost.

[suvakas]

The image is about 4k in lenght, but the sensor is very small, so the image quality is not great (sorry I cannot show you any of our own), but it's good enought to make HDR.

4k isn't that bad at all for HDR that is used for lighting only and the quality is also not that important.
How many different exposures you can shoot with the hack? Can it do more than 3?

Suv

[Rikk The Gaijin]

The image is about 4k in lenght, but the sensor is very small, so the image quality is not great (sorry I cannot show you any of our own), but it's good enought to make HDR.

4k isn't that bad at all for HDR that is used for lighting only and the quality is also not that important.
How many different exposures you can shoot with the hack? Can it do more than 3?

Suv

I think you can shoot as many as you need (I don't have it on my desk, so I don't know for sure), but the hack consist in using a programmable remote with a custom script (here is the page, unfortunately is in japanese http://goo.gl/g3ueb4 and here http://goo.gl/LNDJm0), so I believe you can shoot as many exposures as you want.

[jagger]

could you upload some examples please?