![]() It’s the company playing to its obvious strengths. Besides the higher resolution, the Garmin features a bevy of sensors to measure things such as speed, altitude, distance, and location. So what’s it like shooting with the Garmin? Wonderful and frustrating at the same time. The camera also shoots on Micro SD cards. The Garmin fits the mold of most other consumer/prosumer cameras, using two sensors and lenses sandwiched back to back to form a 360-degree image. At this price point, few options (other than perhaps the Vuze 4K 3D 360 camera) that use more than two lenses exist. All of the modes are 30 fps except for the 3.5K, which is 60 fps. You can also shoot lower resolution 5K, 4K, or 3.5K. The landscape for sub-$1,000 cameras that can shoot decent quality is remarkably thin, and even though GoPro's touted its Fusion as the best camera in this space, it’s nowhere to be found at press time and the Garmin shoots higher resolution anyway (5.7K versus 5.2K). This made me a little nervous with a client shoot coming up, but I pulled the trigger and hoped for the best. The camera was so new that I couldn't even purchase an extra battery for it at release time in June. Much more expensive than the Gear 360 by about $640, but if it had extra resolution and stitch lines that didn't move, that was enough for me. It had 5.7K video in a package smaller than my first and for $800. The Garmin VIRB 360 is available from and I’d now fully recommend it if you want the best 360 camera for video.The camera had just launched. ![]() Granted, most of these features should have been available when the camera first came out, but it’s good to know that Garmin is listening to its customers and making improvements all the time. I’ve never experience a device that’s had such an expansion of features after its been launched. Now I’ll be able to do it in half the time with way better accuracy! ![]() I had to stitch this one manually, and you’ll see its not that accurate. Here’s a video I shot just the other day in 5.7K. There is a night time photo mode, which alters the shutter speed to allow for better low light photography, improved stitching and more time lapse features. ![]() The ability to auto stitch 5.7K video would have been enough for me, but VIRB have also added a broad range of new features to the camera itself via a firmware update. It’s a great feature that’s difficult to achieve on most editing programs, but VIRB edit makes it easy to do. This allows you to take your 360 video and make a 1080p video that you frame using the footage. Again, I can’t stress how much of an improvement this is, it pretty much confirms that the VIRB 360 is the best camera for 360 video.Īlso included in the VIRB Edit software update is a Hyperframe Mode. It also seems that stabilization and augmented overlay are also available for 5.7K video, which was not the case before. The 5.7K 360 video shot with the VIRB looks amazing, but I hardly ever used it because I know how much work it took to get it working, now I’ll be using it all the time! Now the VIRB edit software can do the stitching for you automatically, cutting the workload significantly. Previously, shooting in 5.7K would require you to stitch the resulting video manually, which was difficult and took far too long. This is a significant update that makes the VIRB 360 a far easier to use camera. This, along with several other improvements in a camera firmware update, finally makes the VIRB 360 a contender for best 360 camera under $1000 Unfortunately I was left disappointed, until now! Garmin have just released the latest update of their desktop video software, which can now stitch 5.7K video automatically. The specs suggested it was way ahead of the competition 5.7K video, waterproof, shock resistant chassis, spatial audio. When the Garmin VIRB 360 was announced I was confident that it would be the best consumer 360 camera ever.
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