- Today, I get to finally answer the question:
what would happen
if a camera company
decided to make
a webcam?
And Insta360
sponsored this video
to have a look at this
because I've
I've never seen a webcam
quite like this one as a solution.
And I'm excited to see all their camera engineering
that they've done over the years.
What that means
in a more simple camera device
that the average person would use,
like a webcam.
Wow.
It's very small,
but it has a gimbal.
Okay.
Soft touch boxes
in soft touch boxes
means friction is not your friend.
So we have some stickers.
So they included a type C adapter.
if your laptop doesn't have type C in it,
which is nice.
And then I assume this is a C to C cable.
Yes.
Okay and oh, this looks actually,
like, pretty decently long.
That's good for a webcam
'cause you want to be able
to place it exactly right
for your computer or your desktop.
I think this is mostly for desktop users
but I'm sure it'll work totally fine
on a laptop as well.
And then we also have a,
oh,
is this a little,
a little cleaning cloth.
Okay and then they also included these,
there's only three of them.
I don't know if they're supposed to be four of them.
These little four stickers are
for a whiteboard.
And they will allow the gimbal
to track
a whiteboard's content.
And so,
because this thing has a gimbal,
which is a really cool feature of it,
it moves around and follows you.
And it has a bunch of other different modes
that kind of use,
utilize the gimbal's specific
benefits.
We also have
this mini two-in-one tripod.
It's your standard action cam mount,
seems nice enough.
Pretty basic.
There you go.
Put your camera on here
and you can kind of put it wherever you want.
And then I've seen this mounting bracket before.
It's pretty common on other,
like, suction cup devices.
I don't know
how often I would personally use something like this,
but it's nice to have.
I think this is an optional accessory.
I don't know how much it is,
but it,
probably is in like the
$50
or a little bit above or below that range.
Oh that's cool.
So then you can extend it.
Oh you can kind of actually even use it,
like, you can use this camera selfie-style.
(laughs)
That's actually,
I wonder if that would work.
The camera's pretty small, which is really nice.
Like it fits in the palm of my hand.
And
it is 4K
F 1.8.
It's actually using a half inch sensor.
Now if you guys watch my previous video
on the Xiamoi 12 S ultra,
I talk about,
in that video,
one inch sensor,
half inch sensor,
neither one is actually one inch or half an inch.
But considering the size of this camera,
that sensor size is still larger.
Ignore the literal naming of it.
Just know that
if it's a one inch sensor
or half inch sensor,
it's still big.
Even though it's not physically one inch or half inch.
It also has face detection auto focus,
which is really cool.
It's the kind of thing
that you only see in professional cameras.
Like all of our Sony cameras have face detection auto focus
and it is
superior
and usually more accurate and quick
than contrast-based auto focus.
So if it just like, I have my laptop here.
Sits on top with the standard mount just like this,
look at that.
Okay, we got a blue light indicator.
Oh and the gimbal is calibrating.
Wow.
Just like that.
I haven't even set up any software.
I wasn't actually gonna test this on my laptop
but just to give you guys a sense
of like what it would be like on your laptop,
actually I think you can see one
of the features of this thing right off the bat.
After 10 seconds of inactivity,
this thing goes into privacy mode.
So a lot of people are always concerned
with stuff like this
especially one that can,
like, track you
and move
with you.
Obviously you don't want your webcam watching you
at all times of the day.
So whenever you're not actually using it
it just points straight down.
It's a nice built-in feature
and it's on by default.
Like I haven't done anything to this.
There's not even software installed.
So,
that's very good
on Insta360's part
to implement something like that.
All right.
So the last thing I wanna mention
before we actually move over to the desktop
and try this thing properly on a desktop setup,
is this camera is 4K
up to 30 FPS.
So I'm really
curious to see
that the quality of the 4K,
because a lot of things have 4K,
but Insta360 has made cameras for a while now.
So I actually think
that their 4K will be pretty good for a webcam.
This looks good.
Like to be very clear,
this is basically as
an ideal a setting
as you can make.
We have a light here.
We have a nice ambient top light up there.
Let's test some of these modes.
So this thing has
a lot of different gestures
that it can follow.
As well as an HDR mode,
a desk view mode,
an overhead mode.
We already talked about the privacy mode
but there's a lot to go through here
and I wanna try everything at least once.
So I'm in the link controller software.
Pretty simply laid out.
I've never looked at this before,
but it seems intuitive enough.
Buttons are big.
Man, guys, I can't get over how good this is.
Let me see if,
does it track my hand?
Wow.
And that's actually a pretty good minimum focus too.
So minimum focus on the camera is four inches
which I actually think is excellent.
You could hold up,
here actually,
let's hold Mr. Shiny Boy.
And is it gonna pick this up 'cause it's,
oh, hey, there we go.
And back to me.
And here.
And, see okay, guys that's face detection auto focus.
That's really cool.
And I'm impressed by the auto focus.
You can also have exposure compensation here
so I can lower the exposure.
So I think the auto exposure
it's exposing mainly for my face,
which is really good.
'Cause obviously that's the most important part
of the image when you're using a camera like
this generally speaking.
But you notice
that
you can also change your brightness contrast saturation.
I'm not going to touch that stuff
'cause I feel like the default is probably fine.
We've got gimbal control here.
Wait, let's see what this does.
Oh, that's cool.
Well, that's actually, that's smooth too.
You can see the stabilization of the gimbal really working.
'Cause this feels very
robotic, but in a good way.
'Cause that's basically what a gimbal should be doing.
Keeping it this steady.
And then I can reset it.
Oh!
(laughs)
Oh you have, and then you can have preset positions.
Okay, so this is my position one.
And then say I was like,
co-hosting at some point or somebody jumped in,
you could be like,
and this can be like the designated area
that they jump in from.
Bell, come over here.
So I'm talking to the camera,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And then Bell comes over
and
bam.
Right there.
And it goes right to him too.
That is,
and then it went right back to me.
Okay, wow, that's really cool.
- [Bell] Amazing.
- All right, let's see what else we can have fun with.
It gives you the gestures in the
software which is actually nice.
So if I press L,
it will in theory,
zoom.
Oh, okay, so it's like,
let's try this,
L and then I'll push it up.
Zooms me in.
And then L
down, zooms me out.
That's pretty responsive.
It's a little bit of noise,
but not un-
like not unpleasant noise and
I think this is one of the sharpest focus I've ever used,
that's for sure.
You also can do manual focus.
So if you know that you don't want it
to leave focus and you want like,
okay,
I'm moving something
and I'm gonna do something over there,
I wanna turn something off
and you, you roll back over.
Oh,
and it's not in focus perfectly.
So you could be like doing something privately
that you're dealing with on your phone.
And even from here,
they wouldn't see what you're doing.
I dunno, just, just an idea.
I mean, that's cool.
Like if you don't want your focus
to just constantly be changing
and you know you're always gonna be at one point
and,
or,
if there's something wrong with the auto focus
considering your location,
you can just set it.
That's nice.
So you can tell our light back there.
Very bright.
I'm gonna use that as like a fake window light
in this instance and check the HDR mode.
So in order to get the HDR mode to work
you have to go into 1080p.
I'm gonna start my recording on the camera again.
So we're in 1080p now.
Honestly,
the 1080p still looks pretty good.
HDR mode.
Cool.
Okay,
so you can clearly tell
that the image is slightly less saturated
and the highlights and the blacks are kind of shifted.
But,
that being said,
I can see the diffusion
now,
before we couldn't.
So you actually can see detail in a light source like that.
And I'm sure you could actually edit.
If you had to, if you wanted to take the recording
from the actual Insta360,
you could probably edit
to have a little bit more saturation in the video
and kind of compensate for
how much flatter it is overall.
You can also mirror your image
which is a nice standard feature.
I'm sure that a lot of people
will use depending on their situation.
There's an anti flicker setting here.
And our TV is flickering back there.
So this is at 50 Hertz
and this is at 60 Hertz.
Oh, the TV,
right here
was flickering
previously.
And now it is not,
now that I set this to 60 Hertz,
that's nice.
One of the coolest and probably most used features
of a webcam that is set up like this
on a gimbal
is auto tracking.
So,
you just palm gesture
like this.
And then you'll notice that the LEDs on the camera flashed
and then now,
whoa,
it's, it's tracking me actively now.
I'm over here.
Wow!
That's pretty fast.
So you really could be moving around a lot
and this thing's going to do
a really good job
both keeping you in focus and in frame.
So there's a couple other things we can try.
There's a
desk view mode.
So Bell has provided me
with this very well-written,
important document.
And if you wanted to show that on your desk,
nice.
So the camera goes at a 45 degree angle, I believe.
And it just compensates
the view,
which is very cool.
'Cause typically if you just took a camera
and you were pointing it directly at this,
it wouldn't give you a top down feeling view.
They're clearly cropping the view
in order to give you
this perspective on it, which,
hey, it works.
Look at that.
Like I clearly can read this.
If you are showing somebody
like a literally a legal document,
you could probably read it
through this camera.
Overhead mode.
So this gives you a actually top-down uncompensated view.
Also a stabilized view.
So you could like,
totally
use this,
for,
say you're doing like a cooking stream.
Now you have a top-down camera
that can kind of move with whatever you're doing.
For those of you that stream,
if you stream on TikTok or Instagram live,
this streamer mode basically gives you a
50 to 60 FPS, depending on what you need,
vertical video output on the camera.
So I'm in OBS right now
and we've actually made the Insta360 camera
one of the sources.
And as you can see the camera
has turned itself vertically
and you're hearing them right now,
but this is what the dual recording mics
on the Insta360 sound like.
So I'm gonna talk directly at the camera.
So you guys can get a sense of what it would be like
if you were talking on a stream
with only using the mics on this camera.
Now often I'm sure a lot of you
will have your own streaming mic set up,
but if you don't have it
or you're in a pinch
and you're like in a coffee shop with your laptop,
this is what it sounds like.
The last feature that I want to test
out is the whiteboard mode.
Okay, so we have our whiteboard set up.
Let's see how this works.
You give it a peace sign as your hand gesture.
And then I believe it'll just navigate itself
over to the whiteboard.
So say you're giving a lesson or something
and you wanna talk about something on the whiteboard,
it'll find the whiteboard.
And then look at this.
It will zoom in on just the contents of the whiteboard.
And so you throw up the piece symbol again.
I think you have to do it.
It comes out back to you.
Okay, so let's try that full.
So I'm talking blah, blah, blah, giving a lesson.
Now look at this whiteboard.
I'll let the camera find the whiteboard
and then it'll lock on to the four points that we have.
And bam,
you are looking at only-
So
you can point at specific things
on your whiteboard,
gesture,
taking it all information
for the people on the lesson,
and then give the peace symbol one more time.
And the camera will go right back to you.
That's pretty cool.
So obviously guys, this is not a review.
Insta360 just sponsored this video
for us to check this thing out.
And then this is only my first impressions
but, that in consideration,
my first impressions are I'm impressed by this thing.
I like it a lot.
Here's the price that we got from Insta360.
And I think that despite the price,
you're kind of getting a pretty all-in-one solution.
So,
if that's something that you're looking for
if you want a low profile camera
and you're in the market for it,
consider this as an option.
Thank you guys for watching.
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