Nikon KeyMission 360 (26513)

Unlike the vast majority of direct competitors, the device for shooting spherical panoramas from the Japanese company Nikon is positioned more as an action camera. The all-protectiveness of the miniature camcorder clearly hints at belonging to this class — it is not afraid of falls from a height of 2 m, diving under water to a depth of 30 m and exposure to low temperatures down to -10°C.

Instant start

Starting shooting on the Nikon KeyMission 360 is very simple — to start video recording, you just need to press the large button located on the top of the camera. However, the instant launch function also has a downside — the key is easily pressed spontaneously, so some users sometimes find a video from their pocket or bag and a dead battery upon arrival at the shooting point.

sighting

Control of shooting parameters, as well as the transfer of footage, is carried out through the associated Nikon SnapBridge 360/170 application. But for some reason, it doesn’t allow you to look in the process of video filming — you will have to record videos blindly, because in parallel with the start of filming, the picture on the connected smartphone freezes or even changes to a black screen. When photographing, this problem does not arise.

4K video

By default, the camera shoots video in 4K format (3840x2160 pixels) with a cinematic frame rate of 24 fps. The same frame rate is supported in FullHD. Technically, it is possible to realize even greater speed, but then the "baby" would need a more efficient image processor. The processor installed in it generally handles well with its duties, providing good picture quality with an almost invisible seam at the place where frames from two lenses are glued together.

Without interference

The result obtained with the help of the camera does not require practically any further interventions — MP4 video files are immediately ready for uploading to social networks or video hosting, and JPEG photos can be easily opened in any viewer. And if you don’t need such a wide view of the world, there are a couple of models in the Nikon action camera lineup with a narrower field of view: Nikon KeyMission 170 and Nikon KeyMission 80.