Among its four-camera lineup, Z CAM offers just about every solution for professional 360 VR capture, including 360 VR 6K recording and streaming, cinematic 8K 360, and stereoscopic 3D 360, and the professional world is on board. Z CAM V1 Pro was used to shoot Elton John’s farewell tour in stereoscopic 360. The V1 Pro is also the camera on which the award-winning short film, Dinner Party, was shot. The New York Times journalistic VR film, The Land of Salt and Fire, filmed in the hottest place on earth—Danakil, Ethiopia—was shot on the Z CAM S1 with no issues of overheating. Assimilate pairs the S1 with its SCRATCH VR software in a comprehensive 360 VR bundle. And so on.
The original in the lineup, the Z CAM S1, features four glass fisheye lenses and up to 6K/30 post-stitching output. The lenses are positioned close to one another, resulting in shorter safety distance between the camera and subject, and the four sensors are precisely synchronized to ensure simultaneous recording. The housing is fully metal, and this allows for improved heat dissipation and, hence, longer continuous recording. Video is recorded to an SD card, and four HDMI ports are also available for 1080p60 image transfer. An Ethernet port is provided for live streaming, as well as remote control via a full-set open API. Furthermore, the camera is designed with special algorithms that auto-coordinate white balance and exposure of all four sensors for more consistent images.
The main advantage of the follow-up Z CAM S1 Pro is that it has even better lenses, providing for less chromatic aberration, less diffraction, and optimal clarity; and the iris on them is adjustable to allow you to find the sweet spot for every shot and further evade artifacts as much as possible. Plus, the S1 Pro offers superior low-light sensitivity and dynamic range for cinematic 360 capture.
The Z CAM K1 Pro is a dual-lens cinematic 360 camera that supports the Google-certified VR180 format, outputs 6K/30, captures stereoscopic 3D, and offers built-in Wi-Fi and an Ethernet port for live streaming and control.
Then there’s the powerhouse Z CAM V1 Pro cinematic 360 camera, which has a total of nine MFT lenses (8 + 1 on top) and outputs up to 8K/30 mono or 7K/30 stereo images. Each sensor records individually to a separate SD card, and then you can offload all the footage to a computer via a single Ethernet cable (there’s a 10 Gigabit router built in). Once the footage is transferred, the Z CAM WonderStitch software will stitch everything fully automatically.
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