This is a timelapse 360 video shot in my backyard. You can see the stars moving in the night sky. The thing that looks like the sun rising is actually the moon rising.
Having some fun with the Gopro Omni rig. Its a bit amazing that this camera system from gopro sold for over $4000 just 3 years ago. I bought this rig on ebay for $240. Yup. Its depreciated to almost nothing. I think this is a strong statement that this rig was hard to use. Newer 360 cameras still cannot exactly compete with it under the $600 price point in some ways, but in other ways, they are radically better.
I have the Insta360 One X, which does an absolutely amazing job of stitching images together where you never really see a seam and you dont have to put any effort into making the 360 video. The Omni setup on the other hand is very hard to use. Just downloading each card to the computer is a pain from 6 cameras. The software is extinct, so you need to get your key from the seller or use some other software. Even with the software, I find that its near impossible to avoid many stitch lines. If you can place the camera where nothing is within 6 feet, its not bad though.
The quality is nice at 8k. Its clearly sharper than the One X, but the time it takes to make a video and the stich results make it a bit of a mess with all the stitching lines. If you want to do photo timelapses, they screwed up the firmware and never let you force a base ISO on this thing, so at night, it jumps up to 800 iso and you cannot change that. If I could force ISO to 100, I could get an amazing low light 360 pano, but you cant. In their time lapse mode, you only have options about the shutter speed. Its sad because shooting indoors for stills can always use base ISO if you are doing simple interior photos. Not being able to pin your base iso causes the quality overall to suffer. Its an amazing oversight for an option that seems so simple. In daylight, it does a fine job of picking the exposure and it does use an ISO that makes sense. So, sadly, only due to the firmware faults, you cant really get great clean photos. The resulting 360 photo is 11,000 pixels by whatever, so, its really high resolution, beyond an 8k image which is nice. Its heavy and stitching anything near the lens is horrible, so you aren't going to want to hold a stick with this thing anyways.
For the price, it does have some uses, given it can produce higher resolution than almost any consumer grade 360 camera at this point. I just wish they allowed you to force the iso for stills. The omni uses firmware that does not match the hero4 black camera, so while the hero 4 black moved on in firmware updates, the omni firmware you need to use did not move on. They also did not allow you to use the 4k video mode while shooting, which is a shame as the 4k setting would produce a mind blowing resolution for video. I know the hero 4 can do 4k genlocked because I have another rig that does that. At the time, I think they thought 4k video from 6 cameras was overkill. A good 360 video really needs 8k, which this can do, so it has value, and for the money, it is great.
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