Hey what's up everybody. It's your boy Huge here from CreatorUp
Today I'm in the beautiful Santa Monica Pier and it's right that way. With me here
we have the Insta360 Pro 1 camera and pro 2 also have a Kandao
Obsidian on my hand today I got do some camera comparison between all three of
cameras and I got a finally do my first official review of the Insta360 Pro 2
to tell you why I like about this camera and what I don't like about this
camera you cannot wait to the end to watch this full review and just want to
find out what I think the best for you. So I can tell you that if you have
documentary filmmaker or independent filmmaker that you are always on the run this
def a great and affordable camera to invest. If you like me like high frame rate
production meaning filming dance contents or sport contents that's also great option
if you want to know why I said that? Keep watching...
To keep it short and sweet I break it down 10 points
you need to know before you decide to purchase the pro 2 if you are using the
camera for video work. What I'm going to tell you will be very different from
what you heard from their marketing or other paid media or reviews. I had three
months hands-on experience with the camera both in commercial jobs
documentary filmmaking and my personal passion projects dance music videos
number one the image quality you are now watching a side-by-side comparison
between the pro one and the pro two cameras during sunset in Santa Monica
both in manual mode exact same setting with ISO 100. The pro 2 captured 120
megabit per second per lens and the pro 1 is around 40 megabit per second and as
you see here the image quality is a dramatic increase from pro 1 let's punch
in 50% and look at my face and the sunset I really enjoyed the new color
science of the pro 2 as you see my skin color is less red-ish compared to the pro
1 look at the tree in front of the Sun which is the highlight area you can see more
of the tree in the pro 2 if you look at the tree behind me which is the shadow
area you can see more detail instead of just black compared to the pro 1
how about sharpness if you punch in 100% and look at the Santa Monica Ferris Wheel
and the rollercoaster in the far distance you can clearly see more in the
pro 2 for the pro 1 it is just a blurry mess. You can also see digital noise in
the shadow in pro 1 which pro 2 in regular mode has a nice and crunchy
black. In conclusion to put it in an easy to understand 2D video term if the
pro 1 is 720p in 360 then the pro 2 is 1080p in 360 the
quality differences is very significant what about the comparison between Kandao
Obsidian? Here is the side-by-side comparison all three cameras are in
iso:100 shutter:1/60 in 30 frames per second the perfect setting which you
don't really get in VR by the way just a shooting tips: golden hours is the
best time of the day to shoot VR which you get perfect exposure and 1 / 60
shutter speed. The Obsidian footage is straight out of the Kandao studio as you
can see the color looks a lot nicer more saturated in the Insta360 pro 2.
The Obsidian look very purplish and less saturated they are both in auto white
balance also the pro 2 has a nice contract as well and this is why I said
that Insta360 Pro 2 is great for run-and-gun documentary filmmakers
and news reporters like my friend from NBC who use Pro 2 - the idea behind
Insta360 Pro 2 regular mode is to make it simple and easy to use with
minimal post-production. The footage you saw can be directly upload as final
products with high volume production like documentary and news this is very
important: time is money if I don't need to hire a colorless to
color grade, I save money and time. Let's punch in 50% and check the highlights
and shadows you notice the red sunset color in the highlight is lost in the
Obsidian footage it seems like the dynamic range of the Insta360 Pro 2
is better than obsidian but i still notice more detail in the shadow
in the Obsidian. It is really hard to compare the dynamic range in regular
mode luckily both cameras has a logarithmic mode a.k.a. LOG mode. Number 2,
Insta360 pro 2 comes with an impressive i-Log. We all
know the pro one flat mo is useless not a true logarithm mode. But the new i-Log
is very impressive. Here is the side-by-side comparison
between the Kandao Obsidian LOG mode and the Insta360 Pro 2 i-Log. Both
in ISO 100, 1/60 shutter speed again the i-Log already comes with a very nice
base color especially the sky nice a rich blue. The pro 2 also has a better
highlight fall off as a point out here. Let's punch in 50% in both cameras we
can see the bright red Sun usually it wouldn't be able to if you are using a
consumer camera like GoPro fusion. I attempt to do some color grading but I
still cannot get that rich blue the Insta360 pro 2 has. Let's jump to
distant objects like the Ferris Wheel. The pro 2 looks a little bit sharper
than the Obsidian but again this is not a fair comparison as I only have obsidian
s which only do 6 K in 3d I will need the obsidian R which to 8K in 3d to
have a fair resolution and sharpness comparison. When I throw a LUT in both
camera I can see the shadow in the obsidian is still a little bit better
sharper and less noise this can be caused by the stitching software in
general the Kandao Studio Stitcher is better than the Insta360 Stitcher
in Depth Mode. You will see in the actual 3d 360 video in VR headset which
I will provide the link in this video. But Insta360 does come with
three months free Mistika VR subscription which can easily solve the stitching
issue for this tutorial. A lot of user complained about the stitching quality
of this camera but let's face it Insta360 is not a software company
their camera maker is unfair to rely on perfect stitch on a camera manufactory
but you can actually get perfect stitch by doing the work and I mean learn how
to do it with Kolor AVP or Mistika VR. Also I want to point out for all of
those complaints about stitching Kandao Obsidian S captures 3,000 x 3,000
pixels for a single lens. Insta360 Pro 2 if you shoot in mono, it is
actually 3840 x 1920. Stitching is going to be tough.
My suggestion is even you only need mono, shoot at stereo 8K which give you
3840 x 2880 per lens, which is a lot more horizontal coverage. Still not as
good as Kandao Obsidian S, but at least close enough to eliminate some of the
stitching issues. Number 3, high frame rate production. I already
make a video explaining the advantage of high frame rate of the pro 2 I highly
recommend you go check it out in VR headset and I'm not gonna repeat myself
here. Number 4 low light production. Believe or not
if you shoot in i-log and can control your ISO below 800 you can actually
shoot low light. Yes the result is nowhere compared to a DSLR like Sony or
Panasonic GH5s, but Insta360 pro 2 shoot stereo 3d 360, your low light rig
does not, or very expensive to do. Just look at the footage here with simple 360
post-production including the denoise & vr sharpen the pro 2 low light
footage looks very impressive. But I have to be honest, if a majority of your
production is indoor low light then building in low light rig is a better
option. Here is an example. Number 5 HDR video. Insta360 Pro 2 is the first
ever 360 cameras can do HDR video in both mono and stereoscopic 360.
I am NOT an HDR video expert and you cannot really see HDR the true HDR video
without an HDR display, with 1000 nits and
above with 10-bit color depth. I did some HDR video during sunset let's
take a look and compare even without an HDR display you can tell the highlight
is even better with even richer color the beautiful California sunset with the
burning red is truly captured in its original form. In HDR display this might
look even better I hope but it does come with a price as you see the shadow in
the palm tree is highly compressed and losing details noise is introduced let's
switch to candle obsidian for comparison which captured at the exact same moment
and a glass the Kandao Obsidian LOG more with color grading actually looks better
you need to know with HDR you are losing the ability to manually adjust ISO and
shutter speed meaning that you are losing all those power to color grade in
post. Let's punch in and take a closer look. The sunset, a.k.a. the highlight no
doubt about it the HDR looks a lot nicer than the blowout Kandao Obsidian. So
much highlight detail are captured in the HDR mode, like the clouds are lost
in Obsidian. Let's punch in a little bit more like a 150%
and we will look at the light in the ferris wheel and the restaurant I
believe is the Red Lobster underneath it. You can't even notice those lights in
obsidian but in Pro 2 HDR they looks amazing, well at the price. Look at the
close-up palm tree on the side of the PCH which is moving by the ocean breeze
they look all bury with high amount of digital noise. Same as the shadow in my
opinion HDR video is not ready yet even though I wanted to work so bad and it is
a great leap foreword by Insta360. In conclusion,
HDR video should not be the reason you purchased the pro 2 as there are still
too much question marks around the HDR features in general to capture HDR video
need at least a 10-bit color depth camera for example the Panasonic GH5
or better, red cinematic camera. Insta360 Pro 2 can only capture 8 bit. Unless
there are some untold secrets in China that can generate true HDR video with
such a low spec I would not base on this feature as my purchasing decision. Thank
you for watching this review of the brand new Insta360 Pro 2. As I
mentioned I have 10 points and I only cover 5 here in the next part I will
focus more on usability innovation like the FarSight and the FlowState
stabilization we will find out if this features delivers their promise or not
We will also go over live streaming which is an essential part of video
production for clients I will also go over points that I don't like about this
camera and things that drive me absolutely crazy on set so subscribe to
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you to the next level in 360 production until next time stay creative
my friends!