{"id":9255,"date":"2014-06-08T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T21:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2017-05-30T21:00:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T01:00:57","slug":"ricoh-theta-takes-the-entire-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougbardwell.com\/db\/ricoh-theta-takes-the-entire-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricoh Theta – takes the entire picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Theta360\"<\/a>Did you ever feel like you were missing something when you took your photo. Like maybe your lens wasn\u2019t wide enough? Well, unless you are shooting with a 360-degree camera, you are<\/strong> missing something\u2026actually you\u2019re missing a lot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ricoh Theta<\/h1>\n

Ricoh can fix that with their new Theta 360<\/a>.\u00a0 This is the most elegant way of shooting 360\u2019s that I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure of using.\u00a0 In the past, I\u2019ve shoot multiple frames and tried stitching them together with a varied degrees of success.\u00a0 I\u2019ve also tried the panning and spinning technique which is a problem holding level horizons.\u00a0 With the Theta360, its one press of the shutter and it\u2019s done. Couldn\u2019t be simpler.<\/p>\n

For this magic to work, the camera has two semi-spherical lenses \u2013 one on either side of its slender case. The shutter fires both lenses simultaneously and instantly stitches the results together into an interactive panorama that you can zoom and spin to your heart\u2019s content.<\/p>\n

A free app for your smartphone connects wirelessly to the camera for both remote shutter and for reviewing the photos.\u00a0 The camera is too thin for an LCD, so without the app, you wouldn\u2019t know what you captured.<\/p>\n