this is an Insta360 EVO comparison with other VR 180 and 5.7 K 360 cameras
including GoPro fusion, Insta360 One X, Rylo 5.8K, Vuze XR, Yi 360 VR, Kandao
Qoocam and Lenovo Mirage. keep watching because there are some surprising
results. so let's start out with the Fusion. so on the left side we have the
Evo in standard mode not HDR and then the right side you have the GoPro fusion
with the 5.2k resolution so you can see that the Evo has a little more
detail than the fusion for example you can see that in the basketball court
there's a net around it you can see the net just barely here and here whereas
with the fusion you can't really see it although you see a little bit of like
gridlines here on the other hand the fusion appears to have better
highlight range so here for example the buildings have a little detail whereas
on the Evo they're totally blown out and then when I compare the exposure here of
the shadows here it looks like they're about the same so this isn't a
difference in exposure it's really better dynamic range from the fusion the
other thing is the colors here of the the leaves it's not just that they're
more saturated or anything but they seem richer I'm gonna do some more tests but
this is what I'm finding so far now you may know that the fusion got a major
update in January 2019 that increased the resolution to 5.6 K and so
let's take a look at what that looks like so here now we have the fusion with
5.6 K on the right side and now you see that the fusion has a little
more resolution here there's more it's more noticeable here you'll see that you
start seeing the net whereas you couldn't see them before in the 5.2K
version so this brings it a lot closer to the EVO so
much so that in terms of detail I would say they're almost the same for detail
now but at the same time the fusion has better dynamic range still it didn't
lose any of that so I would say the fusion at 5.8K has better
image quality than the Evo with a non HDR mode so
the Evo does have an HDR video mode maybe that would improve it is it good
to catch up with with the dynamic range well let's find out
so here we have the Evo with the standard mode on the left side and on
the end with the HDR video mode on the right side and you can see in terms of
dynamic range there's no contest at all the HDR video mode has vastly superior
dynamic range you can see there's far more of a highlight detail over here
these buildings also far better shadow range like here for example in this and
these bushes but look at the detail on the left side the standard mode you can
see the net around the basketball court whereas on the HDR video mode you can't
see the net anymore so seems that the standard mode has a
little bit better resolution than the HDR video mode except for the fact that
you know like you might lose some details here like highlight details here
but if it's within the dynamic range of the standard mode it it looks like the
standard mode is sharper than the HDR video so you may want to consider that
in choosing whether to shoot in HDR mode. please note that I zoomed this
as much as possible on YouTube so in the real world you may not notice as
much of a difference in their resolution so what about the Insta360 One X let's find
out I'm gonna lets compare to the Insta360 One X with HDR video mode so just like
the Evo standard mode, the HDR video mode has a far better dynamic
range but it also seems to have a little bit better detail so for example the
netting here you can't totally see it but you can kind of see gridlines here
and there so it seems to hold the detail a little bit better than the HDR video
mode so here's the Evo HDR video mode again can't see the net at all and
here's the Insta360 One X HDR video mode so could it be that the One X
actually has better image quality than the Evo well let's find out how they
compare with the standard mode so this is the Insta360 One X on the right
side in standard mode and it's compared to the Evo and to me they look pretty
similar at first glance but check it out like over here now parts of the net
can't be seen anymore whereas with the Insta360 One X you can
still see them so it seems that the Insta360 One X -- oh the other thing is the
dynamic range check it out look here totally blown out whereas on with the
Insta360 One X it was able to capture at least some
the highlight detail so it seems to suggest that the Insta360 One X actually
has a little bit better image quality than the insta360 evo this was a
surprise to me because i thought they used exact same sensors and video
processors but maybe it's just a matter of tuning will see i'm gonna find out
from insta360 so next here we have the Kandao Qoocam on the right side no
surprise at all the insta360 evo has far better detail in terms of dynamic
range well they're about the same the buildings at the back are both blown out
alright so this is the Lenovo Mirage another 4k vr180 camera and as
expected the Insta360 Evo has far more detail on the other hand let's look
at the dynamic range check out the buildings used to remember
these buildings are blown out and the Evo with the Mirage you can see those
details to highlight details so it's not no not completely
oh one possibility is there's a there's a difference in exposure but if you look
at the tone of the the leaves here and this basketball ring that's pretty
similar to the tone for exposure of the leaves here and on the basketball ring
here so it seems that this is not just a difference in exposure it does seem that
the Lenovo Mirage has better highlight range then the insta360 Evo on the
other hand you look at the shadow if you look at this seat here it seems
to have a little more detail than the seat here in the Lenovo Mirage so it
seems that the lenovo mirage has less shadow range
next is the Rylo at 5.8K now this was surprising to me because the Rylo has
a lot of detail so much detail check it out like here you could see the
net very easily here and here whereas with the Evo they're almost gone not only
that but the dynamic range the highlight range is far greater or it looks like it
right here you have a lot of detail you can even see the wall here now the if
you look though at the exposure they seem to be different so here I looked at
the different part of the scene slightly different part you can see that the
shadows are darker than the Evo and the leaves are darker than Evo
is just simply darker so it seems that this could be a difference in exposure
in any case the Evo appears to have much better shadow detail than the Rylo
so you can see here there's much more shadow detail here compared to the
crushed blacks over here in the Rylo but nonetheless still a very impressive
result for the Rylo so this is the Vuze XR so the Vuze XR looks like it
doesn't have as much detail as the Evo so because you can't see the net I mean
you can see a little bit of you know like here these grids a little bit but
not really on the other hand the Vuze is better highlight range so you can
see here the building at the back has much better shadow or highlight detail
compared to the Evo shadow detail is somewhat similar you could say there's a
little more shadow detail with the Evo compared to the Vuze XR next is the
Yi 360 vr so the Yi 360 VR has less detail than the Evo Evo clearly has
much more detail on the other hand I was surprised with the dynamic range because
the Yi 360 VR looks like it was able to get more highlight detail at least in
this log mode but if I look at shade of the leaves and again the
shadows it looks like the Yi 360 VR just chose a lower exposure compared to
the Evo so it's not necessarily the case that the Yi360VR has better dynamic range.
did any of the results surprise you let me know in the
comments meanwhile here's how to do your own comparison is the ultimate 360
camera comparison tool on 360 rumors go to 360 camera buying guide and then in
the table of contents go to video compare any two cameras for video with
them we're gonna be able to compare them side-by-side let's click on the playlist
select the camera that you want to test and then the second camera that you want
to do for an a/b comparison and let's say this one then you pause the video
you zoom in to full screen then you can use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in
then you can also change the resolution to the highest resolution available
then you can zoom out I'll do the same to the other side thanks and I'll see
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