{"id":6634,"date":"2017-08-18T17:43:17","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T17:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vr-room.ch\/?p=6634"},"modified":"2017-09-17T18:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:24:58","slug":"test-samsung-gear-360-2017-mit-vr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vr-room.ch\/en\/2017\/08\/18\/test-samsung-gear-360-2017-mit-vr\/","title":{"rendered":"Test: Samsung Gear 360 (2017) with VR"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Gear 360 was already available in spherical form with an additional mini tripod. Less portable was the size of the first spherical Samsung camera. Compared to its predecessor, however, the new one for 240 francs in a stick-shaped design only offers two 8.4-Mpx eyes instead of two 15-Mpx sensors. In addition, there is a drop in light sensitivity. While the 2016 version comes with an aperture of f\/2.2, this has shrunk to f\/2.0 on the 2017 model. Samsung Switzerland was kind enough to give me last year's model for the holidays for comparison, after I had already bought the Gear 360 (2017). Why I now regret my purchase and will swap the new camera for the old spherical snapper straight away, you can read here.<\/p>\n

In the picture: left: Gear 360 (2016); right: Gear 360 (2017)<\/em><\/p>\n

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The photos and videos, for which you don't necessarily have to reach for your smartphone to release the shutter, are generally a little less sharp than those of the predecessor. If you ask me, no 360-degree camera has yet been able to convince me with dark pictures. In pictures, the difference is quite noticeable due to the lower number of pixels per lens. You don't even have to put on VR goggles to see this - you can also see it when uploading to a social network like Flickr or Facebook. You can see clear noise in indoor shots. Like here, where I'm standing in the middle of the Guinness Beer Museum in Dublin.<\/p>\n

Click into the picture for the 360 degree view<\/em><\/p>\n

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The new HDR mode does not bring any real added value. With this mode, you can now take two consecutive pictures at different ISO values, whereas before you could simply take several pictures one after the other. The photos are also still a little grainy in bad weather conditions.<\/p>\n

Click into the picture for the 360 degree view<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Grey in the Rush<\/h2>\n

Not much has been improved in terms of video quality. The resolution is now 3840 x 1920 pixels (at 30 frames per second) instead of 4096 x 2160 pixels. In rather quiet scenes - by the way, I highly recommend a mini tripod for floor placement to all new users - the deterioration in quality of the 2017 model is still forgivable. When there is a lot of movement, for example on a bus ride, the result on a Gear VR<\/a> but can quickly trigger the urge to vomit. Note: Even more so for later VR enjoyment, you should never walk around with a 360-degree camera, but simply place it on the floor and film in at least 4K. Whether placed on the floor or not, blurred contours in moving images are clearly noticeable in these examples that I uploaded to YouTube.<\/p>\n

360-degree video: Click and hold for different angles<\/em><\/p>\n