In this video I'm going to be reviewing the Insta360 ONE X2.
So Insta360 sent me the camera, the bullet time bundle, which has the selfie stick, the
invisible selfie stick, and then the bullet time attachment thing that goes on the selfie stick and
it also came with the lens cap and a 64GB memory card.
In terms of camera settings I pretty much just left it as it was out of the box
which is 5.7K 30fps and auto exposure, and the color profile is Vivid,
and from what I've seen it looks pretty good with those camera settings so that's
pretty much what I shot all of the footage in whilst I was doing this test in this review.
I think the video quality is pretty decent you do have to be shooting in quite bright conditions for
it to not look too bad and for it to actually look pretty good, and the only thing I will say is that
obviously if you're in lower light conditions or it's even a bit of a cloudy day the footage does
look a little bit mushy and so what you want to try and do is just make sure that, make
sure that you're shooting in, yeah, on a brighter day so that your footage looks as good as it can,
and the other thing is if it starts raining and you get water droplets on the lens
it is going to make the footage the quality of the footage a little bit less as well because
obviously the water drops are getting in the way and,
but yeah otherwise the quality is fairly decent in general.
In terms of the audio quality, it's not great.
This is what the audio sounds like straight from the Insta360 ONE X2
I've also got it in Steady Cam Mode so I'm just using the one camera...
I would definitely say that you would need to get the adapter
and use an external microphone if you wanted to talk to the camera
however if you're just walking around and just getting footage whilst you're walking around
and you just want the ambient sounds then it's pretty adequate and it picks up the audio,
the audio quality pretty well. So yeah if you want to do any kind of vlogging with the camera or just
talk to the camera or talk whilst you're using the camera then definitely look at getting the...
I think there are some third-party ones but Insta360 also do the mic adapter and then you
can get a cold shoe mount which you can attach to the bottom of the camera and then attach something
like the Rode Wireless GO II or something like that, so that's one way of getting around it.
The battery life is pretty decent, and I think I was shooting for about an hour
just over an hour before the battery died but the good thing about it...
Just got a spider web go across my face. The good thing about it is the fact that it does
have... I do have a spider it's on my arm now. So as I was saying, the good thing about it
is the fact that you've got an interchangeable battery so you don't really have to worry about
battery dying and not being, then having to charge up the camera before you can use it again so
you just get a couple of batteries then you're pretty much good to go for the entire day.
in terms of features the camera has stabilization, it has a touchscreen which is really useful if you
want to shoot with the 150 degree camera so just the one camera, so then you can reframe yourself
you can see what you're doing and reframe your shot or reframe yourself, it's also waterproof to
10 meters, it's got four mics so it's got stereo sound which is good for picking up ambient sounds
whilst you're walking around, and you can use the invisible selfie stick so it basically looks like
you're not even holding the camera which is really cool, which I really like about that.
The camera itself has definitely got a bit of weight to it but
it's not heavy it just feels solid, it just feels really well made
and it's very rugged as well, I wouldn't ever worry about dropping it as such.
So, yeah, you don't, you don't really have to worry about that in that respect.
So as I previously mentioned you can use the camera as just a regular camera you don't have to
use it as a 360 camera which is one of the things I really like about it because if you put it into
Steady Cam Mode then you can just use it as a regular camera and that's where the touchscreen
is really useful to be able to frame your shot and frame yourself but as I said if you wanted to
vlog with it and you wanted to do that then you would definitely need to
look at an external mic and just kind of set it up in that way to use an external microphone.
The Studio app's really good. I think it's really easy to use both on mobile and desktop. It really
just allows you to reframe your shot so if you literally just hold the camera up
anywhere you can basically reframe your shots and get the angles that you want to.
What I will say is though when you're zooming into the footage if you want to get in closer to just
remove that fisheye look then the footage does tend to degrade a little bit the quality
becomes not so great so you just have to kind of be careful how much you're zooming it when
you're zooming in footage but yeah the mobile app's great I used it to do a story on YouTube
and I think that I'll mainly use the mobile app and use the Insta360 for doing short videos on
like for Reels and stuff, but the desktop app also works really well and it's just really
good to be able to set keyframes and just reframe the footage, so yeah definitely give that a try.
So overall as a, I guess an early review because I've only been using it for a little while
I do think it is a good camera and I'm going to continue to use it,
it'll be one of those cameras that I just chuck in my bag with me and take with me
because it's quite fun to use, I like this, I love the three, the 360, the 360 aspect
and because it is so small you can just chuck it in your bag and just take it around with you, so
I will definitely be using it more and you may see some more 360 footage on my channel and in
stories and stuff, but I hope this was useful if it was do give the video a like and subscribe for
more videos because I'm going to do more videos on the insta360 because like I said I'm going to
use it so I'll put together some, just tutorials and useful videos for you guys and more footage
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