QooCam 360° / 3D 180° All-in-one Camera Review
4K camera QooCam that not only shoots 360 video and photos but also supports VR180 mode with the unique rotatable design.
The different Qoocam settings modes are:
QooCam also offers more than 180 hours shooting battery life and good audio quality, F.2.2 Shutter speed 60 secs to 1/4000 ISO 100 to 3200.
The Qoocam comes with a nice and very stable cap holder, a soft bag to carry, chargeable cable, monopod 32X75 cm with 3 legs mini stand. You will need to get a mini SD card (up to 256GB).
Most of the post-production process could be done directly from the app to your phone or tablet. Depending on your capacity you can also process the images/video on your PC/Mac by downloading and installing Qoocam studio: https://www.kandaovr.com/download/ The Qoocam studio is very easy to use.
Here is the video I made for you with some 360° raw samples in different lighting conditions:
The camera’s ultra-smooth stabilization is very impressive. Here is a video showing how the stabilization works:
Photo Quality Boost with Kandao Raw+
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First, you need to download Adobe DNG converter and the Kandao Raw+ software from https://www.kandaovr.com/download/.
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Take pictures in DNG8 mode, the camera will do a burst shot and capture 8 DNGs. (Note, the eight DNGs were taken in an extremely short time and with the same exposure level, this is the biggest difference between Raw+ and Bracketing.)
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Then, find the sequence of eight DNGs and drag & drop them into Raw+ software. The Raw+ will auto-recognize the sequence according to the file names.
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Select the sharpest DNGs from the eight, and drag it into the top of the sequence list.
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Click Render, then the software will use it as a reference photo and combine the rest of seven into a better, clearer DNG file.
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The final step is to fine-tune and adjust the new DNG in Photoshop (It will open automatically as a RAW file) and stitch it into a 360 with Qoocam Studio.
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Yuqing’s hand to hand DNG8 webinar: https://youtu.be/Yu9_fMhQCBU
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User experience blog: https://www.kandaovr.com/2019/01/how-to-push-the-limit-of-kandao-qoocam/
Facebook–Ready 3D Photo
Using 3D 180-degree view, QooCam allows users to tap on the subjects in a different distance of a photo to create a bokeh effect, shoot first and refocus later. Based on the same tech, QooCam is the first VR camera that offers a native way to post 3D photos to the Qoocam Facebook timeline making the memories pop up. Before that, only users who have an iPhone with a dual-lens camera are able to create this effect.
More about our feature and how-to can be found here: https://www.kandaovr.com/2019/01/31/qoocams-killer-features-and-how-to-use-them/
The basic principle of these cool features is the depth mapping that can estimate the distance of subjects in a picture, while Qoocam makes it much easier to connect to Facebook’s existing workflow.