you may have seen some online footage of action cameras that have some crazy looking angles to
them and you're probably wondering i was in the beginning as how on earth did they manage
to capture that kind of footage was probably with one of these this is the insta 360 one x two now
the one x two is a 360 degree action camera so that's how they were probably able to get that
kind of footage it has a camera at the front and the rear of it and with them combined using
software it can then give you a 360 degree view of everything which is very handy for just capturing
wherever you want so it does have flow state and stabilization with it so it's very steady
you got a selfie sticks that can also be invisible so you don't even see them in the footage so you
might have seen that too as well where someone looks like they could be holding something but
you can't even see the selfie stick it's probably one of these in the box you'll
find a pouch a cleaning cloth some stickers some paper work and a type a to type c cable
the one x two has a 150 gram weight and you can see compared to a gopro hero 9 here uh it is a
very different size so it's a little bit longer but thinner and weight wise they are very similar
and we've got the little screen on the front of the gopro where there's a little screen
on the back of it here too so both of those cameras combined give us that 5.7 k 360 degree
resolution so that is why it is different and well really good compared to say a gopro
that's only looking straight here with an ultra wide camera and then these of course have two
ultra wide cameras built into them so on the front here we do have a button there to start stop our
recording there's also voice commands you can use with it status led and it's a little touch
screen this one i'll get onto that soon but here you'll see we've got these little covers now they
have gaskets around them of course to retain that ipx8 water resistance with it so down to 10 meters
and that's our type c port behind that and here you'll find the battery compartment while the
battery is actually part of it when you pull it right out there's the gasket around it and then
just inside is where you'll find our micro sd card slot right there so build quality is
excellent and you just press these in you hear it clipping sound and there's a little you can see a
little indicator there that if it's not clipped in properly it'll show yellow there because it's
important if it isn't and then of course it won't be waterproof and you don't want to jump into a
swimming pool or into a river or something without it properly clipped in it's a very rugged design
and the rubber around the outside means it does have a bit of shock proofing to it and then we
have your standard mount there so you can put this on a tripod or onto the different various holders
for an action camera such as this now due to the design of it these cameras sticking out like
that and then the lenses are very susceptible to being scratched because if you place this
down at a table it's going to be the lens right in the middle where it's going to be
sitting on top of that table so they do sell this which is a lens cap that is optional for
it and it's basically just a tpu cover and that simply goes over the top really good fit to it
and then you're not going to have that problem at all of this being damaged you could of course use
the pouch that they do include in the box but this does offer a different level of protection and
a little bit more specifically for those lenses which you really do want to protect from scratches
so you can record any angle you want because it's a 360 degree camera which is very convenient to be
able to just edit this later on in post so you can just hit record whenever you want you don't need
to worry about holding it level either there's no problems with that because it's using a gimbal
gimbal in there and a gyro so you can see that i can now just select any scene that i want to
show you here i do have it mounted on the selfie stick which is invisible and i can even hold it
right up and away from me now as i walk around you can get some very interesting perspectives
here now the audio you are listening to is the built-in microphones that it does have
where i am filming here is just on the coast of denia it's a place called las
rotes and i often film here with my e-bike reviews and i'm currently actually just testing out
an e-scooter as you can see now i can jump and the stability not an issue at all for it thanks to the
the gyro and all the tickets got in there i can show you anything i want here this is very
convenient so let's have a look now at some other scenarios where you could use the insta1 x2 here
so recapping here this is a very versatile action camera certainly if you want to get those
angles that you just cannot with other action cameras for example like a gopro which i do
also own then you're stuck with just of course the same wide field of view but with this camera here
you can choose with the software to scale around and look at whatever point you want that when
you're recording that means it's very convenient that you can just simply hit record on this
and get that kind of footage that you want and you could have missed out on something
with other action cameras it could happen to the side or behind you imagine that this will
be able to capture now the audio quality from the four microphones i did find at times wasn't that
good that's a common trait and the con of a lot of action cameras even for example my gopro i
don't particularly like the audio quality on it i do see with this one here with the footage even
though it's a 5.7 k resolution i have noticed that when you of course grab a segment that you want
and you want to be pointing at a certain angle and in that direction that when you crop on and
you take a look at that footage there's a lot of noise to it and it's just lacking in resolution
a little there so i would like to see future models with if possible a much higher resolution
that way we could export a certain section of it at a higher visual quality like something
like 4k would be better a bit sharper and they could i hope improve on that quality there now
the accessories you can get with it they sent me out a few of them that i haven't shown you
all of them but the selfie stick for example this one really good high quality telescopic one that
you can just pull out in an instant so that's great you can hold that above you and that's
how i managed to get some of these shots that i showed you here with my sample footage so it is
definitely a versatile action cam very good build quality to it and so far my time testing it out
which has been now a couple of weeks getting some of the footage it hasn't frozen up on me
once which is really handy because my gopro can't say the same about that the gopro hero 9 and i've
also heard the hero 10 does the same thing though they often freeze up when you need them the most
this hasn't so thank you so much for watching my video here on the insta 360 1x2