Nikon announces 360-degree video action camera

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http://www.nikon.com/news/2016/0106_camera_05.htm

Still kinda trying to get my head around this. It's obviously a challenger to the GoPro cameras. But I'm not sure how you're going to view the output from this thing.Best I can figure is it's gonna be kinda like Street View on Google, where you can scroll up/down/left/right and change the view -- except with video. Does this mean you can pretend to record your kid's Christmas program but actually scroll around the gym checking out the hot moms in the audience? I can see that being useful.

Sounds pretty groundbreaking to me, but I'm not too up-to-date on this stuff. Not a lot of information available at this time.

[Flysmallie]

Yeah It was just announced so nobody knows for sure what it will do or how it will work. I doubt it will be that much competition for GoPro, probably geared more towards the serious film makers and I bet the price will be pretty steep as well.

 

 

 

[ness]

Yeah -- two lenses, and they look to be kinda serious ones if each captures 180-degrees? It'll be interesting to see how these things work. Gonna piece two 180s together without distortion? Probably not a $300 camera.

I did read up a little this morning, and it looks like this is aimed at the Virtual Reality headset wearing dudes. Which kinda makes sense now. Here's a video:

 

[Flysmallie]

Probably another flop for them. They should really stick with what they know. And I'm a Nikon guy.

But it's probably just a marketing strategy just like 4K on the GoPro. If you are shooting 4K to post it on Youtube you have just wasted resources.

[ness]

Well, who knows. I know my life isn't exciting enough to record video of, especially the stuff going on behind me. And, I don't care to watch much of others' adventures in 2D when it's through a fish-eye lens, much less through some contraption on my head. I guess I got my fill of that at Disney World.