this is the insta 360 go 2 chase adventure all right
hey my name is jake and i test and review drones cameras lenses other filmmaking equipment here
in alaska i give you tips and tutorials on how you can use that equipment so that you can make
smart buying decisions and tell better stories now insta360 sent me this camera but they don't
get any input on this video they're not paying for this review and they don't get to see this
video before it put out it's put out there so just full disclosure that's what the deal is
uh when they sent it to me they just said test it out try it out see what you think and if you like
it put a video out about it and i gotta say i do like it it does have some shortcomings but it also
is a interesting and useful tool which we'll jump into here in a bit but for now let's talk
about the specs because i get you know everybody wants to know what the specs are so it will shoot
up to 1440p which is bigger than hd but not quite obviously 4k up to 30 frames a second it will
shoot hd video it will shoot hdr video it will shoot also a slow motion in hd up to 120 frames
a second which is actually pretty cool uh it'll shoot photos and it uses something called pure
shot which produces a pretty decent raw image that you can edit later in post which is pretty nice
and it will also create time lapses and hyperlapses which they call time shift and
that's actually pretty cool it comes with this charging case here which uh i really like it
way more than i thought i would the fact that you can cycle through you push when you open it up the
camera turns on automatically you push a button and it starts connecting to the camera and then
you can use this white button to cycle through all of the modes you can cycle through all the
settings you can start and stop recording basically all right here and this while the
camera has a built-in battery and 32 gigabytes of memory which is nice i wish it had 64 but you know
whatever and it it works on its own up to about 30 maybe 40 minutes depending on how you're using it
the case will recharge the camera several times over so you get a lot more shooting time with
the case which is nice the other thing that's kind of nice about the case it has a quarter 20 on the
bottom and it has these little tripod feet so you can set it on a table pop it out and do something
like that and then if you want to edit with the insta360 one desktop studio app you've got the
usbc here to be able to pull the info off the camera and also obviously recharge the case and
the camera at the same time so for the strengths i think this is a great pov camera doing things like
what you saw in the opening montage of me running up this mountainside because it's so small it's
so light it's really easy to put on you it comes with three mounts it comes with this mount here
which you like put around your neck and hang under your shirt and then you can just snap the camera
to it because it's magnetic or it comes with this which is meant to like attach to a hat brim or to
a backpack strap which is what most the way i used it i really really like this mount actually it's
my favorite and they're all magnetic i thought about trying this on the drone but i was a little
bit worried about because it's just magnetic and it's not super strong magnets i was a little
bit worried about the camera actually staying in there when i started doing some harder moves but
this mount is my favorite and then there's another mount that's on my car that you it's kind of a
sticky material you get it wet and it sticks to glass or other smooth surfaces that i use for the
hyperlapse and stuff like that it's uh pretty nice i wish i actually ordered a 3d printed version
but i wish they gave you a mount that worked with gopro type mounts because i have a lot
of gopro type mounts that would be pretty nice or if the camera had a a mount you know like
this that just had a some sort of quarter twenty built in the bottom that would also be useful but
you can always adapt stuff but then it does add bulk and stuff like that but going on to the
strengths i was actually impressed the image quality is pretty good for being such a small
camera in such a tiny case the image quality does good and the while the regular video just
has not great stabilization if you use the pro video mode it has the flow state stabilization
which is tremendous i mean you can even turn the camera 360 degrees and it will keep the horizon
perfectly level which is really cool and since the camera is waterproof you don't have to worry
about it being out in the weather in the rain or anything like that because it's waterproof
now you can remove these little lens caps and you want to make sure you get them tight so that
it keeps its waterproofness but it does work well so the microphone quality in this is okay
especially if you get it out of a case but as soon as you get wind it's not the best because it
just it just can't handle wind well and that's not surprising it's a tiny camera and the microphone's
right at the top but like i said the image quality is decent it's not bad especially if you're in
bright light this is not a low light camera it just won't work well in low light but it does
work well in bright light in spaces like this out in places like this because it has you know it's a
tiny sensor and bright pixels are happier pixels is what we used if that's still a thing people
say but the smaller the pixels the brighter the light the better they look and honestly insta360
has come a long way since the first camera they released their image quality is getting
better their colors are getting better i actually really like the colors that are coming out of this
overall they're pretty nice and one of the nice things is too that you can use their studio app or
the app on your phone to edit and tweak all these videos you can choose between you know wide field
of view all the way down a narrow field of view depending on the sort of look you want to go for i
for the most part for pov stuff i use wide a lot and because this camera's so small it really shows
off the tiny little spaces it can fit in but you might want to use narrow and you have that option
there are a couple of things that really bug me about this though and one is the fact that the
record light we since the dawn of time mankind has used a red light for recording to let people know
that things are recording instant 360 decided on blue i don't know why and it really has thrown me
for a loop a lot like i i i'm like is it recording is it is it not recording maybe it is recording i
can't really tell it's really hard to tell and so i wish that was a red record light oh well
it's not no big deal the other downside is it only has 32 gigabytes of storage built in and there's
no way to change that there's so once that storage is full it's full you have to offload that footage
on your computer on your phone and then you know format and start again i wish there had been 64
or 128 gigabyte option the only other thing that i really don't care for that much is the sound
quality and i'm not surprised like i didn't expect great sound quality but i do wish that it was just
a little bit better it would be nice and uh you know if they made like a foam cover for this
you could get away with a lot more in a lot more harsh conditions winds and stuff without losing
the audio quality that you do have on this little camera that's about it so if you go into using a
camera like this knowing what its limitations are you can use it for some really great stuff
like what i showed you on the way up here you can get some really cool pov shots which are
yeah i just never did it much because i hated the look of a giant gopro on me and it was just
you know the chest harness and all that and with this it's much easier to just strap to my backpack
straps stick on my hat and get some pov shots of be doing stuff so i am excited to use it in that
way the other thing that makes me excited about this camera is being able to stick it in tiny
little spaces that you can't put any other camera just because it is so small and you can use it in
any orientation so it's a really useful camera for stuff like that and the other use case scenario
that i'm really really excited about is fpv drones now i fly a lot of different kinds of fpv drones i
have little ones that i strip down gopros to where it's just the sensor and the circuit board so
they're about 30 grams this is about 26 grams by itself and then i fly really big fpv drones with
cinema cameras like red komodos and other cinema cameras on them and what i'm really excited to use
this for is putting it on the back of one of my big fpv drones and being able to capture behind
the scenes footage the pov shot with the whole drone the camera in there flying through an area
now i haven't been able to attach it yet because i'm waiting on a couple of parts and pieces
as soon as i do i will throw some of those clips out there on instagram and you might see them in
a future video on youtube that is something that i'm really i really am excited about this camera
for is being able to put this on things that you can't put a gopro on because it's just too heavy
whereas this is so small it doesn't really change the aerodynamics and it's so light it doesn't
really change the weight too much of the drone but you can still capture decent quality video
of those things now if you want to know how this stacks up or other action cameras stack up against
each other click or tap there i put together a small playlist i'll see you in one of those videos
as always if you have questions ask me in the comments below or join my live stream wednesday
nights at 4 pm alaska time 8 pm eastern i just have a few thousand feet to climb
down and a couple of miles to get home i'll see you again soon in the next video cheers