this is the insta360 one rs
hey my name is jake and i create content here to help solo creators on the go so i test lots
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something interesting consider subscribing now in the interest of full disclosure insta360 did send
me this camera to test and review but they're not paying for this video in any other way and
they don't get any input into this video before it's launched i've been working with the insta360
one rs for a few different weeks now and it is a substantial upgrade to the original insta360 one
r but what are some of those upgrades and is this the right camera for you
some of the biggest upgrades are coming in this new module here and the new brain and that is that
you get a half inch sensor at an f 2.4 instead of f 2.8 and a smaller sensor that was in the
original which means you now should be able to get better low light performance in my testing you
definitely can still an action camera so there's still limit but the low light performance the
performance of this lens overall in general is a lot better but one of the biggest upgrades is that
it now includes insta360s incredible flow state stabilization built into the camera which means
you don't have to work in post with the insta360 studio app or on your computer to stabilize the
footage it now comes all built in and you get three levels you can do low medium or high of
course you can also turn it off if you want to but the stabilization built into this camera is just
fantastic i mean it is really really incredible as you can see here this is an example of me turning
the stabilization on and off in the studio app just so you can see the difference that it makes
but now you get that same stabilization built into the camera and into the lens on the video
side you can shoot 4k up to 60 frames a second which can give you some nice slow-mo effects
and you can shoot 2.7 k up to 100 frames a second which gives you more of that really kind of super
slow-mo feeling plus you can shoot 6k ultra wide which is really interesting and gives you a very
cinematic feel um yeah it's really really a cool mode that this camera comes with now in the 6k
mode you can only shoot up to 25 frames a second you can't shoot 30 frames a second maybe that's
something insta360 will be able to change in the future through firmware another cool feature
they've added is now you can zoom on the app or via the screen live while you're recording so
if you want to be able to zoom in crop in punch in to get a little tighter shot you can do it
now you definitely do lose some image quality when you're doing that but i was surprised at
how good the quality remains throughout the zoom range generally action cameras for me have been
over sharpened but now you can go in and change the amount of sharpening in the camera from low
to medium to high to super high and the last big improvement they made to image quality is the new
48 megapixel steel mode now this is kind of like the air 2 when you have a quad bear sensor that's
half inch and you can kind of use the extra pixels to create a fake 48 megapixel still
but they do look good they have a fair amount of extra detail and i really like the pictures that
i've been able to take with it plus you also get things like hdr photos which turn out really nice
there's a lot of other upgrades as well the new battery is a lot longer runtime gives you about 20
21 more runtime and in my testing it sure did give me a lot more runtime i shot all this in one day
basically on one battery charge which was pretty good it also has a new and improved microphone
system which means you get better cleaner audio especially when you're talking to the camera
and of course you still get the options for all of the different noise canceling if you want to
work with the files in post and especially when you pair it with the new case which i really like
because it's super easy to push in clip lock you can take the camera out really quickly
swap the lenses if you want to put the 360 lens on there and put the whole system back together
and then slide it in and take the cover off of course and it's ready to go this system
is a lot faster and a lot better and so the way insta360s redesigned this mount is great
but this mount comes with a little bit of foam right here under the microphone and it gives you
really good really clean audio as you can see here this is the insta360 one rs i'm facing
the waterfalls behind me just kind of testing to see how the audio is if i go toward the waterfall
does that make it change at all um yeah the one thing that's always been cool about insta360 is
you're able to go in and post and process all the audio and post and make it like very clean
very focused on the voice get rid of a lot of extra noise or just leave it alone in natural
so one more thing that insta360 has done that i really appreciate is the fact that all of this
is compatible with the older the insta360 one r and the older modules from the insta360 one r
are compatible with this now you may not get all the settings all the frame rates and stuff uh
with those older modules using this but the fact that that stuff is cross compatible is great and i
appreciate the fact that they didn't redesign this in some way to make it so that you had to upgrade
you can use the 4k module the one-inch module the 360 module if you already bought the 361r you
could use these bits with it so you don't have to upgrade absolutely everything to get some of the
newer features now most of the upgrades and most of the really cool features have come with the new
4k mod but you can also get this 360 camera and so if you're looking for one camera module one camera
that you can shoot both 360 stuff with and 4k stuff with then this is a great option
the fact that it's modular it's waterproof up to 16 feet it's really incredible but when you
have the 360 module that's when you get some really cool things that you can do with this is
reframing in post being able to track your subject which works incredibly well through the app or
the insta360 studio software on your desktop tracking is really great and then you can run
that same clip through and get a whole different perspective but the fact that you can now run this
with just basically one camera and not have to run around with two or three different cameras
is really great another thing is the 360s done is redesigned their selfie stick now insta360
has made my favorite selfie stick for the last three or four years running i just the way it's
designed the compactness of it and the amount of length and and distance that you get out of it is
fantastic but the old ones you had to twist open and then lock it back in place and then twist and
push it closed and then lock it back in place and that worked fine except for me in the winter time
when i would get frost in there or in the summer when i'm running around the ocean and get salt
and sand in there we'll see how this one holds up but the fact now that you can just basically
pull it open it opens push it closed there's enough friction there to keep it locked in place
uh i really like this the whole invisible selfie stick is kind of a way that 360 cameras operate
period the way they seem or stitch the two camera angles together but the fact that you can get sort
of fake drone shots or or videos of yourself doing things without having to put a drone in the air is
really uh kind of cool and 360 cameras like for some of those bts stuff have become a you know way
that i really like gathering footage of some of the places i'm in and some of the things i'm doing
in fact i used this footage on some videos a while back just because i wanted that third party view
but i wasn't sure exactly what the angle was going to be like so i put the 360 camera up there stuck
in a snow bank and got some great third-party views of the location i was filming some stuff in
and one of the other upgrades is because the new brain the new insta360 core for the one rs is more
powerful you get much faster wi-fi transfer of the footage that you film with this so if you just use
your phone to create content you now get a really fast uh wi-fi link between this camera and your
phone to be able to pull the footage off be able to reframe it work with it in post and then post
it to instagram or twitter or wherever you post is this the right camera for you depends on your
use i think this is a great option for people who want to be able to shoot 360 video or shoot 360
video and then later reframe and post but also have the option to just use it like a regular
uh action camera with some really good stabilization built in then this is a great camera
for you because now you only need this camera the battery and uh you know one of the other mods and
you get all kinds of options you can add a mic attachment plus you get this you can get this
really sweet selfie stick which i use for a ton of stuff now pricing wise this comes in at 300 or
299 us for just this setup like you see right here if you add this on there then you're at 550 which
really is not bad considering the price of other action cameras on the market at the moment and in
16 you can add the selfie stick which i would highly recommend because this thing is awesome
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