Ricoh Theta SC2 White 360° Camera 4K Video, White

I really wanted to like this. It’s small enough to fit in your pocket if you wanted, looks nice the buttons are easy enough to use and understand. The app is garbage…. The range of the wifi is terrible. Transfer speed is amazing and then it just falls off to next to nothing. Randomly the app ant communicate with the camera. It advertises that it works with the street view app but… the photos are blown out white, you have to set the exposure as auto does not work there. And the real turn off…. Photo quality was junk…. All kinds of crazy ghosting and artifacts. I can almost use about 2 out of every 10 photos from my walk this evening. Sending this junk back…

While there's more expensive models from the same manufacturer, this product worked very well for my 3D house tour projects. It was fairly simple to connect to my iPhone, my first 3d tour session was finished in just 15 minutes. Before you hit the site, I recommend you study the manual and connect the unit to your phone in advance so you can start shooting 3D panoramas there immediately. Great panoramas. I recommend this product.

Ricoh Theta makes 2 versions of the SC2 which is the dumbest thing! there is a business edition that will take photos on each side at separate times so you can get out of the picture. THIS CAMERA DOESN'T.Be aware that if you're using this for Docusketch it does work and connect but it does NOT take the 2 photos at separate times like the version of this camera that is sold by Docusketch. that small feature is probably worth the extra $100.Note: I don't work for Docusketch but I am a contractor that uses this with their system.

I use this camera for listing rentals on Zillow etc It works great for uploading to their website. The app is easy to navigate and the photos make the places look awesome. Really gets those 360 shots and panoramas that your cellphone won’t get. Seems pretty durable. The price? It’s a little high but it’s money well spent if you get your place looking great and it rents fast right? Don’t forget to purchase a tripod at the same time. Pretty hard to use without one.

Ricoh? Who is that? Well, they produced the excellent 360 digital camera that I recently purchased. They also made the processor used in the original Nintendo (among other things).I already have a Chinese branded 360 camera that I purchased a few years ago. It was great however it had a few flaws. The battery life was not too great. The app was a little difficult to use and it was full of glitches. For some unknown reason, many of my photos and videos were not saved on the micro SD card. I guess that means that my old 360 camera was not so great.Now lets look at my new Ricoh Theta SC2. I decided on the blue color, mainly because I like blue. White would have also been nice but I didn't know if I would get it dirty. When I removed it form the packaged is that it was nice smooth look BUT it has some type of magical coating that is not slippery. When I hold it, it doesn't feel as slippery as my iPhone.The Theta SC2 is mainly operated by a single button placed over an OLED screen that indicates the operating modes: photo, video, wifi, etc. There is a power button on the side that glows when the unit is on. There is also a wifi button, mode button, and timer button. If you connect the Theta SC2 to your phone through wifi or bluetooth, you can also operate it through the app.Speaking of the app, it is extremely user friendly. It quickly transferred my pictures and video from the Theta unit to my iPhone's internal storage. Guess what? It actually saved all of my photos and videos! There were no lost vacation memories for me this time! I can view the 360 images or video using my phone's screen. You can also transfer pics to social media. I will probably do that in a month because I am quite bad at uploading pics in a timely fashion.The battery life seems to last pretty long. I didn't have to charge it during the day. Also it includes 14GB of onboard storage (no SD card) and I feel like this is more than enough. If I was on vacation for a week, maybe I would have transferred the pictures to my phone at the end of the day just to make sure I had enough memory for the next day.I received many compliments on my 360 camera on my recent trip to Star Wars Galaxy's Edge at Disney. I thought people would comment on my cool Adidas X Star Wars shoes but they liked the Ricoh Theta more. Oh well... I like the camera too!