I would still keep creating your photo spheres with your DSLR rig......you can not beat the quality of the final image that you are able to produce. Weather it be a big job or a low budget job quality has always been first and most important photography. just a thought.
Really all depends on what you are trying to capture. Right tool for the right job as they say.
For static scenes your correct you will get higher quality with better camera/optics but for a moving scene something like 360fly that is able to capture 360 degree in the horizontal at once is the only solution if you want to avoid stitching artifacts which will be unavoidable with moving subjects. For example, tell me of another camera out there that can capture a bird flying around the sky like in my video without having it disappear and reappear and other strange things happen to it as it crosses the sky?
I have bought a Samsung Gear 360 and the results are poor: stitching is visible, the exposure is different for each lens and the resolution is poor.
It is easy to use, but I can take higher quality pictures with my Samsung S7 phone.
Now I am waiting for a Samyang fisheye lens to use with my Olympus camera. Hopefully I will manage to make some quality photospheres with this combination.
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