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However, LG beats Ricoh both for top video resolution and top photo resolution – 2,560 x 1,280 for the former at 30 frames per second, and 16 megapixels (5,660 x 2,830) for the latter. So, on paper, the 360 CAM is a mild improvement over the Ricoh Theta S, particularly in the video department. It also avoids one of the slight limitations of the Theta S, in that it doesn’t rely on built-in memory, but instead offers a microSD card slot with support for capacities up to 1TB, which is close to the 2TB specification limit of SDXC. The 360 CAM uses an upright format as is the case in the Theta S, and is broadly similar to a Flip.
But with lenses on both sides there’s no built-in display, and there are actually even fewer buttons than the Theta S – just a power button on the edge and a record button beneath one of the lenses. There’s a hard casing included that the camera slips into for protection. Related: GoPro Hero 4 Black review LG 360 CAM – Controls, Wi-Fi and Smartphone App With so few buttons, the 360 CAM is virtually impossible to use effectively without a smartphone. But the control app is available for Android 5.0 or iOS 8 or later. The usual Wi-Fi connection is required to connect the camera to the app, but in this case, there’s no button to turn Wi-Fi off and on. Instead, the camera has an always-on Bluetooth connection that you use in the app to turn on Wi-Fi. You can then connect your smartphone to the 360 CAM’s Wi-Fi and return to the app for control.
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The process is a little convoluted, but the advantage is that Wi-Fi won’t be left on, draining power when you’re not using it. There’s a configurable timeout defaulting to two minutes of non-use, after which the Wi-Fi is disabled automatically. If the camera itself has kept controls to the bare minimum, the app has options aplenty. You can choose which of the two sensors is considered the “front”, and whether both the lenses (for 360) or just one (for 180) is being employed. For a single-lens shot, you can narrow down the angle of view to use the camera more like a regular action camera. In auto mode, there are four scene modes available: night, indoor, landscape and sports. But there’s also a manual option.
With this enabled, you can vary white balance between 2,300K and 7,500K. Exposure is configurable from -2 to +2EV, with 25 steps. The ISO can range from 50 to 2700, and shutter from 1/2 to 1/6000, and an auto-exposure level is available that effectively works as a shutter and ISO priority mode. LG 360 CAM – Viewing, Image Quality and Performance So, while the Theta S is also aimed at usage with the desktop software that can be downloaded from Ricoh’s website, the 360 CAM is intended to be used entirely with your smartphone. However, while you can upload videos and photos directly to Facebook within the app, these won’t be recognised as spherical, as they are with the Theta S – which is a bit of a drawback for share-a-holics.
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Related: ISAW Wing WiFi Action Camera review Also, to achieve the promised compatibility with YouTube and Google Street View, you’ll need to download the apps for these for your smartphone. I found that once you’ve transferred content from the 360 CAM to your phone using the smartphone app, both YouTube and Street View apps can then upload directly from the phone’s media gallery. YouTube automatically recognises video as spherical, and Google Street View can be told that the images you’re uploading are spherical.
So the LG 360 CAM and a smartphone can enable you to make your video and photos visible online. You can also watch the video and view the photos inside the smartphone app in spherical mode, where angling and rotating the phone will change the point of view. However, unlike the Theta S, you can’t view photos stereoscopically with a viewer such as Google Cardboard, although Street View does support this.
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