Comparison of 360 Cameras on Mapillary

Posted by 2hu4u on 8/28/2022

The following is an incomplete list of 360 camera sequence examples by model on Mapillary, along with some comments, with respect to the image quality and price of the camera. This will be an ongoing work in progress.

CameraExampleComments
GoPro Fusion2hu4uImage clarity much worse near stitch line between hemispheres but overall quite good
GoPro Max360ms; ademturkmenVery similar performance to Fusion
NCTECH LTD iSTAR Pulsarzaf3kalaProfessional quality 11K spherical images, price unknown but assumed to be very high
LG Electronics LG-R105yoeltCheap option, offers OK results but a lot of text illegibile
HUAWEI VOG-L29lehestenerInvalid spherical image?
Insta360 One X2jkingsleyaImage quality doesn’t justify price of camera
Ricoh Theta SCadam2 
MADV/Xiaomi Madventuregness 
Garmin VIRB 360max93600 

Please feel free to help me add to this list and share your insights using the Google sheets link below. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ajTm_0fRKLHiGJS2TW0CNscbW4NItuyjkJxzU_kbLXg/edit?usp=sharing

The Mapillary GraphQL API can access metadata for camera make/model, however it is an undocumented feature and lately I have been getting “access denied” error even when using my API token. If anyone knows a workaround please comment.