RICOH THETA Reviews

Using iPhone 7 and iPhone XR report cannot connect to wifi. Have called Ricoh support to no avail. Basically turning cam on and turning wifi signal flashing, open RICOHTHETA go t center shutter button, asked to register camera with serial number upon entering app reports cannot connect to wifi. I ... Show more just not kidding this is happening on two Ricoh z1 units. There's an obvious bug plz fix it or they are going back.

I spend so much time just trying to connect and reconnect to this camera that it is not worth it to have one since the useless app is needed to operate it.

I had hoped to get away from using Matterport for Virtual Tours bur cannot because that would mean relying on this useless app that cons... Show more tantly can’t make a connection and is always crashing.

Ricoh sells overpriced crap cameras. Can’t wait to return mine.

I can’t connect using WiFi. It’s the main way to connect using the camera, which means if you don’t have service, you have to choose between internet and controlling your camera.

When you do connect, it disconnects after 30 secs.

It has Bluetooth but it seems to be pointless and and I... Show more can’t do anything with it.

RICOHTHETA is clunky and not intuitive.

It very slow.

It doesn’t show live preview.

You can’t control the camera remotely with Bluetooth, you can barely control it with the WiFi.

There’s no way to reset WiFi pw

Overall I’m having an absolute terrible experience for a camera I just paid $1000 for.

Theta app doesn’t start up. All I get is the Theta logo and then get booted to the home screen. If I reinstall Theta app, I get additional prompts for Location services and Bluetooth permission. Then I get booted to the iPhone home screen. Tried iPhone XR and 6S and a Theta V - all on the latest... Show more versions and firmware. Other apps seem to work; I tried easy 360 for RICOH, RICOH Tours, and RICOH THETA HDR. I want to use the on-camera auto HDR mode, so these apps are not a substitute for the Theta app.

I have used RICOHTHETA using the google pixel as well as the iPhone XS and now the iPhone 11. Since my iPhone XS had already linked to the camera, it continued to work after updating to IOS 13. However, once I swapped out my phone to the iPhone 11, I can’t connect to my camera anymore. I tried del... Show more eting RICOHTHETA and reinstalling, restarting the phone, turning Wifi and Bluetooth off and on etc. Looks like the theta Z won’t work until a software patch is put out. Please let us know how soon to expect a software update!

FIXED
Reset the WiFi on the camera and then reconnect the camera. To reset the camera’s WiFi settings hold down the WiFi and Mode button. The lights will flash red and the camera will shutdown. After restarting the camera I was able to reconnect like I was adding a new camera.

Auto software updates for my seldom used Theta camera (with no model number on it) now can’t connect my camera to my phone. My camera profile doesn’t exist on RICOHTHETA any more either. The newest software only supports 2 models? Why would you update software and throw your existing camera owners... Show more under the bus? Looked for customer support on RICOHTHETA and website, there doesn’t seem to be any. Apparently there’s no money in supporting older cameras. Don’t tell me, I need a new camera!

Really wish I could choose to store my transferred photos in RICOHTHETA without cluttering up my Photos collection like the Theta m15 app did. (Why would I want them in the device’s photo collection when the Photos app cannot view them in their intended format?). Better yet I’d like the option to... Show more use RICOHTHETA as a viewer of what is on the Theta without storage in my iDevice. Since I am going to back them all up to a computer later, this would be a much better workflow.

Love the camera itself and full screen on the iPad is nice.

Today was my first day using RICOHTHETA with the camera to capture a 360 tour for a real estate client. I looked extremely unprofessional because RICOHTHETA kept disconnecting from the camera over and over again. Was standing within 6 feet of the camera! Touch the button to take a pic and then RI... Show more COHTHETA would disconnect from the camera. Very very unhappy with the performance of RICOHTHETA and hope will be fixed with an update soon.

The camera is amazing!! quality is great in most conditions but I have consistent connection problems. RICOHTHETA will disconnect and ask me to enter password. I don’t have a password so I just restart app a couple times till it doesn’t ask me and connects anyways. When I’m in live view the camera... Show more is very laggy seems like it takes a frame once every 4 seconds.

I have been using the Theta app with the Theta V camera since 2018. I noticed that images and videos dated 2019 or earlier are no longer searchable on the current Theta app from my 2020 iPhone or 2018 iPad. When I instead try to search for these photos in the iPhone Ricoh Theta album, I get the “... Show more Failed to obtain spherical image” message. (However these same 2019 and earlier images are viewable on the Theta+ app.)

Another note: videos that are viewable on the Theta app via the Ricoh Theta album search are a one shot event. I cannot search for more than one album video using the Theta app, because pressing the required “Cancel” button kicks me out of the viewing Album video process altogether. (Ricoh Theta album images do not have this “no searching” problem, however)

First of all, if you are looking to make a series of street-view images, Ricoh may likely be the ticket, I’m using the ThetaV and it’s better than expected..... RICOHTHETA on the other hand.

Dear Ricoh, Couple things, when the Camera start up in self-timer mode, please have it use the l... Show more ast setting, so that it would be possible to start up in self-timer shooting “HDR” “EV-1” as an example. Unfortunately it’s required to control the camera to use the same setting I always use :-)

Also, when shooting a series of images with EV correction, I frequently get only one exposure, even when I change the exposure for each shot. Not great. Basically the camera works best in auto ;-)

RICOHTHETA is nice and works well. It would be nice to have iPad support. It would editing and viewing much easier than my tiny phone screen. I typically take the phone with me for capture but prefer to edit and manage on a larger device. I import to my iPad and my cloud services take care of gett... Show more ing the images where I need them.
Since there is already an iPhone app, I know it is not much more development to add the screens and make it work properly on an iPad.

Omg, the Theta cameras are useless without RICOHTHETA , when will you fix it? I’m a professional real estate photographer and right now, 360 walk throughs are my most requested shoots! I cannot use the required app now that it won’t work, which is detrimental to my business. Angry!

Just got it so much better than GoPro fusion no needed to go to desktop, you can edited and send straight from the phone with built in software and free apps and pictures look great

Excellent app software again in this 2.15.0 version (a month old as of this review). I’ve been using Thetas professionally for 5 years now, and the Z1 is Ricoh’s best yet for photos. Operates flawlessly on multiple iPads and iPhones at least that long. Apple’s latest iOS 14 has a new option that wi... Show more ll prevent a WiFi connection to the Z1, without an error message to explain the repeated fails. So, you must manually Allow (slide switch to become green) in the Settings/Privacy/Local Network screen. For any other app you probably would never want it to see what else you’re connected to. But with Theta, won’t connect without it.

This application is very frustrating to use. The application is very slow and it keeps on disconnecting when I start taking photos? Please let me know what can be done to fix this issue.

Absolutely love this apple-It’s honestly amazing what it will do ❤️
Just make sure that you have some usable memory on your smartphone or iPad and it astonish you with the results!

❤️❤️ I am super grateful for how easy it is for me to take amazing pictures and video for my real estate projects.

It would be really cool if you could create files within RICOHTHETA to better organize the pictures.

I got this specifically to do 3D tours at work, but downloaded RICOHTHETA first . The capabilities were so so entertaining I just carry my Ricoh with me everywhere. I had no idea how easy it would be to use but I seem to do complex things with ease constantly . Love RICOHTHETA love the camera !!