Sary, thanks for the nice comments.
If you happen to talk to anyone at RICOH, please let them know that this forum is useful. We receive sponsorship of this forum from RICOH and it’s good to let managers at RICOH know which resources are useful.
If you buy in bulk from RICOH, there will be other official communication options open to you. This forum is a good supplement of community information. It’s not a replacement for direct official communication with RICOH.
The primary advantage of community communication is that it can be faster, based on informal testing. Other people that have the SC2B can also provide their feedback. The downside is that it could be less accurate. You should verify our tests on your own or confirm with RICOH official staff before making a big buy.
This said, I have both the SC2 and SC2B. I also talk to managers in businesses that use the SC2 to take pictures of the interior of spaces in high volume.
Here’s my personal opinion:
- The SC2 and SC2B are largely identical except for changes to the firmware and the color of the camera.
- as far as I can tell, the “room” preset of the SC2B is the same as the SC2 hdr _filter
- Your mobile app can either set the _filter on the SC2 to “hdr” at the start of every session (each time the camera is turned on and your mobile app connects to the camera) or you can save the “hdr” _filter to my settings to survive a reboot.
- the behavior of the SC2 my settings is slightly different than for the Z1 (which I don’t think you are testing). My Settings end-user (field staff) usage is documented here. https://support.theta360.com/uk/manual/sc2/content/shooting-photo/shooting_photo_05.html In the instructions, you can replace the “official mobile app” setup with the behavior of your own custom app. The official mobile app uses the same API