Hi
yeah, as GSV is a lossy video format (it is not MJPEG), so it looses details. Also it is less resolution than single picture mode on the Pilot cameras.
Creating still pictured from a (already lossy) video format does reduce quality even more, as the picture mode is also lossy.
Adding the “guessing” feature of the (lossy) video format, which renders/guesses in between images between two fully rendered/saved pictures. Read more on this about h.264 and h.265 video formats.
If a camera cannot do single pictrues in 7fps, how should the same system process the same amount of data in video format in 7fps in the same quality? (is always a good question to see the limits of a system).
Also mapillary has a filsesize limit of 20 MB, if the picture extract from video (or single picture mode) do create pictures above 20 MB in filesize (which the Pilot cams do), you need to reduce filesize, aka do another manual step in workflow.
Over all: GorPro has less resolution, but works flwless and does costs a quarter of the Pilot One.
I do not pay 2k+x for a more manual, more lossy workflow.
If the Pilot one COULD save 8K pictures in 1sec timeframe, I would think about the 2k Euro, but not in 1 every three sec.
So, over all, a Pilto One for the same price as a GoPro Max, sure, why not.
Price/value does not suite me currently, which is why I stay with GoPro Max.
(oh, 2k only for the Pilot one, adding extra mount material, extra battery…)