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| Video: Trisio Lite 2 versus Ricoh Theta Z1 versus DSLR for 360 Virtual Tours | Video courtesy of Nathan Cool Photo YouTube Channel | 20 January 2022 | ||
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| Video: Trisio Lite 2 versus Ricoh Theta Z1 versus DSLR for 360 Virtual Tour | Video courtesy of Ben Claremont YouTube Channel Transcript Ben Claremont: Is this the best budget virtual tour camera in 2022? Meet the Trisio 2 Lite, a 360 camera that gives its closest competitors a serious run for their money, including the Insta360 One X2, and even the brand new Ricoh Theta X, but just how good is it, and should you buy it? You'll find out by the end of this video. Let's start with the price is $399, which I would say is the high-end of the budget category of virtual tour cameras, and the cool thing is the shots you can get from this camera, are so good that you could instantly make your money back on your very first shoot because of the very impressive image quality that comes out of the camera, even without editing. If you want to learn how to do that by the way, I'd strongly suggest enrolling in my virtual tour masterclass, which I'll link below. As you'll notice, the Trisio only has one lens, there's nothing on the back, and this is because it's got an inbuilt rotator. You put it on a monopole or light stand, and after activating it, it surveys the same to gauge the proper exposure, and then it captures for photos in all four directions, stitching them together into a fully spherical 360 degree photo. A photo that looks identical, if not better than many of the top 360 cameras available right now. Capturing side photos is extremely easy, there are two buttons, on, and capture, and that's about it, you can connect to your phone if you want, but you don't have to. The process of capturing photos with a Trisio takes about 10-15 seconds, and all the stitching is done automatically inside the app. Some downsides are at only shoots in JPEG with auto exposure, which obviously isn't ideal. However, just like the Theta X, the JPEGs out of the Trisio, are actually good enough. The photos from the Trisio are 32 megapixels, which is higher than most 360 cameras right now, and as a result, these shots look seriously shop, at least for a 360 camera. Stitching with Trisio is generally very good. As you can see in this shot, there are unknown noticeable stitch lines, even though you'd think there would be because it's capturing four different photos all with slightly different levels of light in different parts of the room, yet it blends them together seamlessly, even the nata, aka the bottom is captured pretty flawlessly. Now, because of the way this camera shoots, I wouldn't advise capturing any movement in your 360 photos because there's likely to be motion blur and stitching issues. I probably also wouldn't shoot outside because it's a rotator, and imagine if it was a windy day, the camera might move slightly, and that will obviously affect the stitching, it will be riskier shooting outside, it's not to say you can't, but this won't be a reliable camera outside. Now, to show you how good the images are from the Trisio, I want to compare it against two of its closest competitors. We've got the Insta360 One X2, which is the same price, and currently the best 360 camera in that price range, and we've got the newly released Ricoh Theta X at $799, which is my 360 camera of choice for photography right now. Here, I captured my new office using the inbuilt HDR functions of all three of these cameras, they all capture high dynamic range shots extremely well, and to keep it found comparing the final results straight out of the camera without doing any color correction. Let's do some zooming, and take a look at that. Wow. We've got the Theta X on the left, the Trisio in the middle, and the One X2 on the right. There's no question that two on the left look the best, but hang on a second. Theta X is 16 megapixels, and Trisio is 30. I'd even go as far to say as the Trisio look slightly sharper than the Theta X, that is very interesting. Zooming in some more, and it looks like things have shifted back to the Theta X, it's sharper here on this object, which is slightly closer to the camera than the rooftop was. Down here, I can actually read YouTube on the Theta X, and it's a bit of a blur with both of the others. I'd say my ZZ plant probably looks better also with the Theta X, marginally. My right speaker next to my computer, it's looking best on the Trisio. That is very interesting. We're getting different levels of clarity in different parts of the image, but so far you'd definitely say that the Theta X, and the Trisio are extremely close. Take a look at the textures on the back corner of my wall, and I'm going to give it to the Theta X. I've noticed consistently that Theta X has produced less noise overall than the average 360 camera, and it's doing really well there. Both the Trisio, and the One X2 are a bit too blotchy at this extreme level of zoom. But still, all in all, this is a really close race between the Theta X, and the Trisio. Next up with the three cameras side-by-side in a really tricky mixed lighting situation. Here in my own suite bathroom, the light coming through the window was so bright, that even my iPhone 13 pro max struggled to pick it up, then inside the rest of the bathroom, it was relatively dark, creating a high level of contrast. This would be hard for any camera to capture perfectly, let's see how the three cameras go. Now, here they are from the widest perspective, and the first thing I'm noticing is that the Trisio unfortunately is struggling with that light. It seems to be blowing out the entire room, and it's lacking the contrast that was naturally there in real life. I can see the One X2 is doing better here, but it's not as good as the Theta X. Zooming in quite a bit, and I think I'm seeing the cleanest lines around the window frame in the Theta X, but also the Trisio is pretty clean as well, it's just unfortunate that it's lacking the contrast in the black areas. Looking outside at the top of my neighbor's house, and it's just like before, the Trisio, and the Theta X look pretty much identical. In fact, those little beads of rain on the window how come it couldn't even be sharper with the Trisio? I think they are. Let's take a look around at some other things, and here is my toilet roll in case you were wondering. There's no debating, it looks the best by far with the Theta X, that's a good looking toilet roll. I noticed the Trisio is also prone to chromatic aberration, more certain than Theta X. Again, I'm seeing the cleanest, most consistent texture on the left with the Theta X, this tissue box, again, looks best on the left. When I move across to a less intensely bright area of the image, again, I'd say the Theta X has it here, I think it's because it handles those smooth surfaces so well, and the dynamic range is there, that it makes it feel slightly sharper. In conclusion of this experiment, in average lighting, and high contrast lighting, I think we can safely say that Trisio is on power with the Theta X, except when it comes to dynamic range. The superior dynamic range of the Theta X not only makes surfaces smoother, but it adds to the natural contrasts of the same that should be there in the final photo. It's seriously blowing my mind though how these two cameras are so similar, despite this one being double the resolution of this one, something's not right there. Maybe someone in the comments can explain that to me. I'm up to this point in the video edit, and I have a theory about why that is, because the Trisio is facing the center of the lens towards all four directions, it's capturing the whole 360 with the most amount of clarity. Whereas with the Theta X, is capturing the clearest part of the image at the front, and back, but not the sides. I suspect it might be slightly soft on the sides, whereas the Trisio benefits from having the center of the lens facing all directions. This has been Mr. Ben's editing theories. Another thing you need to know about the Trisio is it shoots photos only. Obviously it can't shoot 360 video if it has to rotate, and things don't sync up, that would just be a nightmare. It's Photo only. Also, it has eight gigabytes of inbuilt storage, which is not much at all. However, I have noticed on average, the file sizes are four megabytes, and they claim that you can shoot 1,200 photos with the Trisio before you have to wipe the memory, but I probably still would consider this a floor of the Trisio. It has a battery life of up to three hours, which is quite impressive, and above average for a 360 camera this size. Something else I do like about the Trisio is, it's got a really fast workflow because you're shooting in inbuilt HDR JPEGS with auto exposure, you simply download the photos to your phone, then you can air drop them to your computer or just upload them from there. Even though they do have a desktop software, you don't need to use it, everything is done in the camera, in the app, and you're good to go. Of course you're not going to get the same result as if you were to shoot manually with bracketing, but again, I don't really think that's for the target demographic of this camera. The final thing I'm going to add, and this one's going to be an obvious one, is that Trisio is not a well-known company. Generally, when you buy from companies like this, you're not going to get the customer service, the app updates, the firmware updates as you would with a big accompany like Insta360. That said, I think this camera is good to go if you were to buy it right now, and would be a really good investment even if it stayed exactly the way it is right now. With that said, I'm going to officially declare this as the best budget virtual tour camera as of early 2022. You saw those results against the Theta X, and they were seriously good, and to be able to achieve that with a camera that comes in under $500 is pretty cool. If you're starting to shoot virtual tours professionally, and you're looking for a trustee but not too expensive, 360 camera to get started with, then I think the Trisio is the perfect camera. It delivers the goods, it's easy to use, and it's affordable. Now, there will be other 360 cameras coming out this year that may take the Trisio's title as the best low-budget virtual tour camera, but I don't know of any, and I think it's probably unlikely. But if there is, Mr. Ben is going to let you know, so don't forget to hit that subscribe button to find out whatever that camera is. That's it from my review of the Trisio. If you're looking for something interesting to watch after this video, then I've got a free training called, my Top 10 Tips for starting a virtual tour business, which I'll link below, and it will help you get up, and running with a virtual tour business like that. Comment below your thoughts on the Trisio Lite 2, and I'll see you next time. |
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