For many students, the brand of Garmin almost equals the sports table in the impression, but the company's product line covers a wide range of sports. Some students may not know that Garmin still has a sports camera. Garmin launched the VIRB and VIRB Elite sports cameras as early as 2013. VIRB X and VIRB XE, released in 2015, laid the design style of the entire VIRB product line, but the most amazing Or last year's VIRB Ultra 30, the volume is very small, the integration is quite high. Not long ago VIRB 360 panoramic motion camera was officially released. The configuration of front and rear dual-lens + 4 microphones is very attractive, although other companies have also launched similar products, such as Theta S of the previous year Ricoh and KeyMission 360 of Nikon last year, but the former is suitable Home, the latter is slightly inconvenient to use due to lack of LCD screen. By the way, GoPro also unveiled its own Fusion panoramic motion camera, but from a variety of sources, its out-of-the-air capability is general and it requires a certain amount of post-editing to produce a film.
This time, from Garmin, I got a play on the VIRB 360's engineering machine. It feels pretty good. Here's an open box. If you can go to Lhasa as planned at the beginning of next month, you should bring something to come back with
My VIRB 360 is my engineering machine, so I only use a white box for my packaging.
Take out a brain, the left two are the base, the middle is VIRB360 and charging line, the right is the handle tripod
The pedestal is very firm, and it is hard to shake it out. Press the release button to remove it. Installation and disassembly can be completed instantly.
In the top view, VIRB 360 is small, but it is equipped with an LCD screen and four physical keys. The top three are used to control the menu. There is also a dial button on the side to open the video. mode.
Side connector and memory card slot
On the other side of the video button, you can see the microphone radio ports on both sides.
One side of the camera, the lens filled with most of the area, looks adorable, there is a kind of small yellow people's sense of sight.
The other side of the camera. In fact, the orientation of the LCD screen can be expressed with front, back, left, and right, but I personally feel that VIRB 360 does not have true front-to-back or left-right orientation in use. Therefore, deliberately obscuring this point is actually to say that you just use this machine. Do not control anything.
From the three pictures above, it can be seen that there is a microphone sound hole next to the two cameras, that is to say, the VIRB 360 has four-direction radio capabilities, and an LED status indicator is also provided next to each camera.
Because it is a construction machine, the bottom is affixed with a lot of labels. The lid opens to the battery compartment.
Like the previous VIRB Ultra 30, the VIRB 360 has a very high degree of integration. Basically, the battery occupies a large part of the body space. From this perspective, it feels that the camera is a battery in addition to the camera, and the space arrangement is very compact.
The battery capacity is 1250mAh, which is the same as that of the VIRB Ultra 30, but the voltage is slightly higher, and the appearance of the two batteries is also different. Therefore, it cannot be used universally. It is recommended to buy another spare battery, which is really not enough. Now Garmin China official website has opened pre-sale VIRB 360, presented a battery + charger, very practical.
The handle that you saw before can be unfolded into a tripod. It is very texture, and the non-slip lines are very comfortable to feel. The bottom of the bracket is equipped with rubber pads to provide anti-slip and anti-wear effects. And you can stand on a horizontal table without starting up. If Garmin can launch its own three-axis stable PTZ, it would be nice.
Hand-held effect as above. The length is just good and it's very handy.
Put on the shelf effect. Still quite adorable.
Let's take a quick look at the control interface.
Although the Ultra 30 color touch screen is not used, the monochrome screen is sufficient to adjust the parameters and save power.
Adjustable parameters are rich, such as adjustable camera and video mode, can be connected with Garmin heart rate, cadence and other accessories, of course, control with a watch is also a standard feature. Remember that Ultra 30 can be controlled by voice? VIRB 360 can also, and supports many languages ​​including Chinese, still use OK Garmin as a call password.
You can preview the shooting content in real time on the mobile phone APP. Because VIRB 360 can directly synthesize the panoramic effect in the camera, so we are most concerned about the effect of processing the joints in the two shots of the scene.
The left picture shows a slight deformation of the splicing part; the middle picture shows that the tripod below the camera is basically swallowed; the right picture is displayed more directly with the keyboard, you can see the tripod just below is swallowed and swallowed. How much, the numeric keypad tells us that it took about 3.5 keys to swallow.
This effect has been quite good for real-time splicing in a dual camera, although it will swallow some parts, but it is actually a small part from the whole panoramic video, and the deformation of the splicing is not very obvious.
Take VIRB 360 above the head and take a picture of this panorama. The effect is also obtained after the video is exported. However, in the APP, you can use the somatosensory or finger sliding method to preview the panorama effect. This is due to the limitation of the transmission speed. The effect is very good except for very low resolution. If you want a clearer effect, you can dump the video into your computer and preview it with Garmin VIRB Edit.
In the panoramic preview mode, it can be seen that there is no visible wide-angle distortion at the edges, and the look is very comfortable.
VIRB 360 has built-in GPS, barometer, accelerometer and other sensors, so it can superimpose real-time motion data dashboard on video, which makes it very professional.
The experience part is written here. There are no beautiful scenes to take. When you have the chance to travel, you can take a picture and pass it on Youku. Youku supports panoramic video.
From the appearance point of view VIRB 360's design style some Fenix ​​sports watch taste, walk is also a tough line. Not many random accessories but the handle is very good and very necessary, after all, it does not have a lens like the VIRB Ultra 30, only from the bottom to minimize the damage to the picture.
From the perspective of practical experience, VIRB 360 has a good user experience with direct panoramic video. Unlike thetas, it does not give the visual impact through strong wide-angle distortion, but instead restores the realism based on panoramic stitching. Perspective.
I still remember when I was in college I first bought a digital video camera and later bought a digital camera because I borrowed a DV when I went to visit Jiuzhaigou after the college entrance examination and then brought the recorded tape into a video. Stronger than photographs, and the camera can get very rich information by shaking the lens, which is unattainable on this point. Although mobile phones now have built-in panoramic photo features, the same rich information does not come with an on-the-spot feel. With the panoramic video camera VIRB 360 shooting travel videos, viewers can more freely observe the world of his time. Moreover, this kind of device is more suitable for people who are less likely to use DC and DV. It is no longer necessary to consider how to compose pictures and take pictures. Even the direction of the lens and the height of placement do not need to be taken into consideration. This will certainly be the future development trend, but it does not mean that panoramic photography will replace traditional photography. The traditional way is more like art creation, and the panorama is closer to the public life.
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