What's up guys? This is Ben from Life in 360 and welcome to Episode #2 of VLOG
in 360! So I've just pressed the record button on my brand new Xiaomi Mijia Mi
Sphere for the very first time, so in this episode I'm going to try to show
you the footage, what it looks like and I'll put it in as many different situations
as I can. It's a cool little camera and it's probably going to be the biggest
competitor of the Ricoh Theta camera. I know those are strong words, those
are fighting words, but this is good in low light, it's got good video, what I'm
shooting now is 3.5K, that's pretty cool for a little Chinese camera that no
one's heard of. The first thing you'll notice is that this footage is super
smooth I'm walking around I'm not really even trying to make it stable, shaking it
around like crazy yet it's relatively smooth, that's cool, it's got inbuilt
stabilization just like the Insta360 Nano. It's really handy for handheld
shots like this. I've always thought about what I would call a camera if I had my
own 360 camera and it probably wouldn't be anything like the XIAOMI MIJIA
MI SPHERE - when you think about marketing and branding you need to create
something that's memorable that's short catchy and something that people are
going to remember. The Xiaomi Mijia Mi Sphere, I'm sure maybe in China that
could be like the coolest name ever, the most catchy and memorable name for a camera
but to an english-speaking audience you'd think they might have anticipated
that a bit better and shortened it a little bit to like Mi Sphere or the
Mijia cam, 360 cam or whatever so I have to think of a better nickname for it I
think I've got it mounted to my favourite Manfrotto
selfie stick so I'm going to raise it up as high as I can and this selfie stick goes
super high so you get a bird's-eye view of my environment from the Mi Sphere
all right how does it look I feel like I'm holding up a fishing rod with very
very expensive bait! I'm just on my way to the gym I thought it's time to get out
of the house clear my head a bit I've been in front of a computer way too long
I've become a zombie and in front of my smartphone screen unfortunately I think
I'm developing a smartphone addiction because every time I look away from it
I'm thinking of it! It's like 'oh is someone trying to contact me, do i have any YouTube
notifications Facebook Instagram' it's nonstop it's been really cool having a
lot of success with life in 360 and building a bit of an online following
but it does mean my phone is lighting up every three seconds someone's asking me
to solve their problem or they just want to say hi or they want to show me their
work and I love that but it's very demanding it zaps all my time and can
sometimes mean I'll spend a whole day responding to messages and get nothing
done and I just can't have every day like that because then I won't be able
to make videos so I'm I'm really conscious of getting out of the house
clearing my mind and managing my technology addiction and not letting it
get out of hand because technology is amazing but if you're spending every
minute in a dark room with a bright screen in front of you then you're not
going to get the time away from the house that allows you to collect your
thoughts and be better in front of that bright screen in the dark room and often
it's when I go for coffee when i go to the gym that i'll have my best thoughts
and insights and i then put those into videos and make them straight away and
those are the things that have really brought me success okay now let's see
how the camera handles me tilting selfie stick I'm going to put near the ground
now like i'm holding metal detector now let's see how stable it is I'm sure it's
still going to be stable but can you still see me is there a loss of
resolution is it any shakier, is it less shaky?
Done! Now i'm just enjoying my protein
shake and winding down playing a little bit of Pokemon Go. Oh, is that a Magikarp? It is! I know
it seems like a waste of time catching four hundred candies worth of Magikarp
but you've got to put in the hard yards to get the big rewards
Low light! Had to do it.. How does this look? This camera is going to be
one of the better low-light performers from what I've heard and seen so far
which is one of many reasons it's going to be competitor to the Theta S. Theta S
is the only good low-light photo camera at the moment so I'm very interested to
see how this footage looks and I'm pretty confident the low-light photos are going
to look amazing because you can do a 32 second exposure which means you can
bring out stars in the sky! Okay so I've just finished editing the
video up to this point and a few observations: firstly that footage looks
amazing when I'm walking it's so damn smooth it's like I've got a gimbal
underneath the camera yet there's nothing that is amazing also the dynamic
range the clouds were so clear the highlights the shadows they were all
perfectly exposed I was really happy with those two things awesome this is
going to be an amazing camera there are some issues though and I'm still getting
to the bottom of them things like unlevel horizons seem lines when you can
see heat lines around them and a few others I'm actually having Wi-Fi
connectivity issues which will probably delay my review that's going to be
coming out really soon so I will get that to you as soon as I get through
these issues so so far so good but do stay tuned for my official review
because I'm going to go through all the strengths and weaknesses of this camera
because it's not going to be perfect but it's going to be damn near perfect so
stay tuned for that. Subscribe if you haven't already for the next episode of
VLOG in 360 and if you want to learn the art of tiny planets, I wrote an ebook
about it that will teach you absolutely everything you need to know to do cool
shit like this like what you've just seen very quickly and easily with ANY
360 camera so feel free to check it out. Alright until next time keep living your
life in 360 this is your boy BC coming at you from this home town home planet
of Sydney, Australia and I'll see you in the next episode. Bye!