Indicates the camera status. Lit in blue: The camera is ready for shooting. Flashing in blue: The camera is starting up (when the lamp flashes slowly). File conversion is progressing (when the lamp flashes rapidly). Lit in white: The plug-in installed in the camera is running. Flashing in red: An error has occurred in the camera. The lamp also flashes during the the power-off process of the camera. Lit in green: The self-timer function can be used for shooting. Unlit: Shooting is not possible as the camera is in the sleep mode, no more images can be captured, or no more recordable time remains. The lamp is also unlit in the light/sound off mode or during shooting. Various settings such as the exposure mode and white balance can be set to suit the shooting conditions. Obvious basic general instruction there but not really simple information like: the difference between green and what blue color lights on front and side of the unit.. How to be sure and recognize: when wifi is Off is ON and when is searching and how to be sure its properly connected you need to play with it to find out and it’s more fun when Screen is too small to see the wifi icon all the time and you need to press buttons which may do other things instead of showing you wifi status… EXR can be selected from the file format, but it cannot be used in later processes because there is no metadata. Please select TIFF.

Step 6: Here is the tedious part. You manually must find 5 control points (corresponding points in each lens). Ideally, the 5 control points should be spread evenly around the image circle. Image processing has been improved for video conversion, and the differences in brightness in stitched sections of the image have been reduced. In July 2019, Ricoh updated the desktop software to improve the Theta Z1’s video stabilization. Here is a comparison by Naoto Somese that shows the dramatic improvement in stabilization performance: Here is a two-part in-depth look at the Ricoh Theta Z1. In Part 1 of this video, I discuss the Theta Z1’s features for image quality and workflow. Then I compared the Z1 to popular 360 cameras for virtual tours including Insta360 One X and Ricoh Theta V:In addition to Lightroom, it is now also possible to stitch the Z1 DNG Raw photos with PTGui, which added a Z1 stitching template in version 11.3. PTGui supports a variety of imaging formats for import, including TIFF, PNG, Photoshop PSD format, OpenEXR, HDR Radiance, and of course JPG. In addition to supporting more formats than Ricoh Stitcher, I also found that PTGui’s stitched files have a higher nominal resolution, although in my comparisons, the Ricoh Stitcher photo yielded slightly more detail. Theta Stitcher mobile DNG workflow HDR-DNG: this takes multiple shots and merges them into an HDR photo in Raw. It can merge up to 9 shots, at 1EV intervals. The result is a single HDR Raw file. This feature has deghosting, and can be used even when there is movement. Ricoh has achieved something remarkable with the Theta Z1. It uses much larger 1-inch sensors than regular 360 cameras to offer the potential for much better image quality – but it’s achieved this without making the camera significantly bigger. We look forward to testing the Theta Z1 properly when it’s finished, but in the meantime it looks like a very exciting step forward for affordable 360 imaging.

The Theta Z1 has spatial audio but it is susceptible to wind noise, and the workflow for spatial audio takes several steps. Here is a spatial audio sample: If you are looking for an all in one 360 camera for shooting high quality virtual tours then the Theta Z1 is still the camera I recommend. The Z1 is capable of shooting very high quality images which can be further improved if you utilise the Dual Fish Eye Plugin. Considering the cost and ease of use this is the camera I would go to if I needed to create high quality virtual tours at volume. More red remains than when using [Incandescent light 1].) Daylight color fluorescent light: Adjusted for shooting in daylight color fluorescent light. Natural white fluorescent light: Adjusted for shooting in natural white fluorescent light. White fluorescent light: Adjusted for shooting in white fluorescent light. Light bulb color fluorescent light: Adjusted for shooting in light bulb color fluorescent light. CT Settings: Adjusted with a specified color temperature value in the range 2500 to 10000 K. Tap in the upper right-hand corner of the screen during shooting to turn on [CT Settings].You really need to test Z1 camera in a field. It comes with all this crap that also present in their V model with recording GPS position with precision.

I have just bought Z1 and tested out of the box taking 5 panos over a 15 meters long path. All 5 have came out with exactly the same location recorded. Hugin can export stitched JPG at the same time, but the exposure was not appropriate. In the case of Hugin, jpg and HDR export are only run twice in the end, so this time we are processing individually using images already out of HDR-Merge. When the HDR-converted EXR is re-processed with Luminance HDR, the stitching process will not be misaligned.Shooting condition settings are retained until the power is turned off or the settings are reconfigured. Connecting a Wireless Display Adapter to a TV Connecting the Adapter to the Camera Viewing Captured Still Images and Videos• + Transferring to a USB Storage Device