The Meta Two
Versatile & powerful
Made for VR creators by VR creators
We used the Meta One on a lot of shoots and it quickly became obvious it needed a partner in crime. The lenses on the Meta One make it 6kg in weight, not ideal on drones, cables or dollies. Also, the lens arrangement is great for most situations but not if you are in really cramped interiors like cars.
All this pointed us towards the Meta Two. Stitching the 'Two' is a dream in Mistika.
Finally there is cost to consider, those sexy lenses on the Meta One come at a price...
Key Features
Pin sharp lenses
We love these iZugar pancake lenses on the Meta Two, they are 200 degrees, light, small and help get that parallax right down. With these lenses the Meta Two is just over 2Kg, significantly down on its big brother the Meta One's 6kg.
Having such small lenses means you can place the sensors back to back and have the lenses facing outwards, perfectly opposite to each other, this means an easier stitch and less post production.
Also, the lenses have aperture control, so you can manually change them from between f2.8 and f11 on the new slider feature at the top of the camera.
Low Parallax
On the Meta Two the two lenses are literally back to back, this is the optimal position for two lens stitching, just look at Insta's One X or Ricoh's Theta and think about how nicely those stitch. Crucially now you can stitch in closer environments, however, there is less overlap, so you need to know what you are doing!
This is one of the main differences between a Meta Camera and a 'rig' that someone may build from multiple cameras - the camera bodies prevent the sensors getting close - more problems during stitching.
One Stitch Line
The less lenses the better when it comes to stitching 360 footage and you can’t do much better than two lenses!
This also means that you can get incredibly close to your subject on either lens, which is particularly nice for 360 video content.
No Hyperbole
RESOLUTION
The META Camera is 5.5k. We don’t need to sell crazy resolutions that we know won’t even playback on any computer or headset. Rather we have optimised the camera to be the best possible per pixel quality on all screens and HMDs.
Our 5.5k camera looks better than any competitors higher res footage on headsets, online or on mobile. Even if you up res it to 8k it looks better than native 8k competitors.
Footage
THE PROOF IS IN THE PUDDING
Everything on this page is shot on our camera. We’re tired of taking leaps of faith and looking at examples from sun drenched locations that would suit even an action cam. These are real world examples, download the footage, have a stitch, have a play.
We shot this one at 120FPS at Goodwood Festival of speed, it's a great example of the sharpness, colours, dynamic range and full set of options you can bring to bear with the Meta Two.
Shot with only candlelight and in challenging conditions, here you can see how the camera deals with noise. Shot in low-noise mode and in H265, we've chopped off the top and tail for you to download below. All 10 bit and graded to Rec709 above.
Gallery
