RICOH THETA X vs RICOH THETA Z1 for Virtual Tour With Untrained Staff

This video is a comparison of the Z1 and X for a virtual tours of commercial real estate spaces.

The comparison is for this situation:

  • the person taking the pictures is an untrained photographer. The person is likely a building manager, real estate agent or property administration
  • The workflow uses only JPG images as the person taking the pictures may not want to use the stitcher for DNG
  • timeshift is used to eliminate the photographer from the scene automatically
  • HDR is not used as it increases the time taken for the workflow
  • X uses 11K JPG. Z1 uses 6.7K JPG

The tours are available for side-by-side comparison.

X is on the left. Z1 is on the right.

X is on the left. Z1 is on the right.

X is on the left. Z1 is on the right.

X is on the left. Z1 is on the right.


Related Video on Workflow

The video below is related to the comparison as it has information on the time taken for each camera to be ready for the next shot.