this is the insta360x3 and after using this camera for a month these are my eight favorite features
while insta360 did send me this camera for review they're not paying for this video they don't have
any input into it and they don't get to see it before I launch it I have to start with image
quality because insta360 put new half inch sensors in this camera you still get to shoot 5.7 K up to
30 frames a second but with the improvements you get 4k up to 120 frames a second and because the
new half inch sensors are a quad Bayer sensor you can shoot up to 8K time lapses 72 megapixel
360 photos which are really fun and really great to shoot and on the image quality one
of the best things that insta360 has done has given us the ability to control the sharpness
so you go into settings really easy you go down to video sharpness here and its defaults to high
I recommend medium or low because it just gives you a little bit better uh or a little bit more
natural looking sharpness and then you're set and ready to go my second favorite feature which was
the same with the insta360 X2 but with the X3 is that it's weatherproof and waterproof out of the
box up to 33 feet and I really like this because a lot of the conditions that I shoot in as you can
see here are not very friendly to most cameras if I don't have something that's weatherproof
or water sealed then it's not going to last very long but because this is weatherproof and water
sealed out of the box as it is like this with no nothing plugged into it then you get some really
good really durable camera and I have to say as far as durability goes I haven't had a lot of
time testing the X3 but the X2 I've had strapped to the outsides of helicopters and airplanes and
in one case it fell off of the airplane on takeoff fell down about 120 feet camera still works fine
none of the lenses shattered or anything like that now that was probably just more luck than anything
but the fact that it's still going strong a whole year and a half later says that these cameras are
actually very durable my next favorite feature is the new screen now I really like the old screen it
was round it was very responsive and worked really well even in pretty harsh and cold conditions but
this new larger screen makes it a lot easier to work with so you can easily switch between modes
you can easily get to the uh let me get back over here you can easily get to the settings and get
through the settings it's really easy it's super responsive and the fact that it's this large makes
it actually really easy to preview and see footage that you've shot if you want to go back and see
you know and just preview the footage you've seen but this larger touch screen is just much easier
to use and makes the camera a lot more fun to use now I do worry a little bit about it being from a
durability standpoint it's that much larger but overall this is just a massive improvement over
the X2 and actually because I use these kinds of cameras as a behind the scenes camera a lot when
I'm out filming and out shooting things here in Alaska the new single lens mode on this camera
is absolutely fantastic because now it works in 4k and it's really easy to get to they put a button
right here on the front that you just push and it switches to one lens if you push it again it'll
switch to the other lens and then all you have to do is push it again and then you're back in 3C 60
mode so that makes it really fast and really easy to switch and be able to capture those types of
shots as I'm running around whether I've got this mounted on my camera or I'm just running through
the woods and I just want a single lens mode to be able to capture a shot of something that's
going on in the moment the single lens mode and now that it's able to capture in 4k and actually
in pretty good quality 4K it makes it a really useful behind the scenes camera one thing I've
always liked about the insta360 X2 and X1 and the original insta360 cameras this one definitely is
the form factor because it's so thin because the lenses are so close together the camera lenses are
so close together you get a very minimal Stitch line and the insta360 X3 is no exception to that
this controls the Stitch lines really well even when I'm in extremely tight quarters like the
inside of a helicopter with this attached to my camera there are places you can see the Stitch
line when I'm super close to the camera but actually it worked much better than any 360
camera I've had up to this point Point well the X2 is pretty much on par with this but this I
think is definitely an improvement over that in controlling the Stitch lines and that makes it
a much more useful behind the scenes camera when you really don't want to think about what you're
trying to frame or what you're trying to film and you just want to put it on a camera or set
it somewhere and get good quality video out of it this camera performs really well plus I also
just like the size it's small it's compact it's really easy to carry with me and because it has
a good size battery the battery life is actually exceptional so it makes it really easy to just
throw it in my bag and have it with me as a behind the scenes camera everywhere I go the next feature
might not seem like a big deal but it actually is because they've made some pretty good improvements
to the audio quality the audio quality built into the camera with the four microphones that
are part of the camera is actually pretty good and very usable straight out of the box so this
is the built-in mics of the insta360 one X3 but you take off this little flap here and you can
plug in a little USBC adapter and plug it in external mic like the DJI wireless system or
something like that and then you get good quality audio from pretty much anywhere any distance from
the camera and this is using the DJI wireless mic plugged in with the insta360 1x3 overall though
being able to use this as it is like this with the four mics built in the camera does a great job of
handling audio straight out of it and the audio is an improvement over past insta360 built-in
audio mics filming with a helicopter today and also testing the insta360 X3 which is fantastic
just put it on top my camera running around taking pictures of the helicopter getting video clips
I think this would be a great way to test out and see how this camera does for kind of behind
the scenes stuff another great feature of the X3 is the new me mode now it is limited to 1080 up
to 60 frames a second but basically you put it on a selfie stick hold it out and if you keep
the camera level it's going to keep you in the frame regardless of what you're doing so it's a
really easy way to grab behind the scenes shots of you doing whatever you're doing or if you're
just running through the woods or something like that you get this sort of great invisible selfie
stick shots of yourself out running around the whatever you might be running around and
then when you're using the mode or pretty much any mode it's really easy to control the camera
because insta 360 includes voice control so all you have to do is say start recording
and the camera starts recording and then when
you're ready to stop the shot you just say stop recording
[Music] and the camera stops recording the voice controls work really well it makes it simple to
control the camera at a fairly close distance now if you're using the wireless mic you can control
it pretty much anywhere because the insta360 basically takes the audio input and watches
or listens for those specific phrases and for number eight it's actually not the camera but
it's some of the accessories that you can get with the camera which like this in this case
you can put this on attach it to your selfie stick put a wireless mic on here and then with
the USBC wireless mic adapter plug it into here and then you've got a wireless audio system that
the microphone receiver itself if you're right in the center here along the side like this then you
still get an invisible system so you don't see the microphone or the mic receiver in the shot
which makes it really nice I've always been a big fan of insta360 selfie sticks they've
always been really nice really easy to use I think they're the best selfie sticks on
the market but they've gone and done something even better and that's create this which is a 3M
or basically a little over nine foot long selfie stick which gives you the ability to
just go absolutely massive distances but it still folds up to really small a very small and compact
size so you're actually not losing that much space whereas before really big selfie sticks
were basically just giant carbon fiber poles but this selfie stick here has been really
fun to work with and really great and actually holds up really well overall especially in the
cold because it is carbon fiber it's small it's lightweight it's easy to take with me
so it wasn't a big deal to carry it with me in a lot of places but this really has been a lot
of fun and of course they have lots of other accessories like dive housings or a string so
you can swing it around you and get those Matrix like bullet time kind of effect shots and lots of
other accessories as well instant 360 has made some huge improvements on the X3 over previous
360 cameras that they've released and other companies have released but if you want to see
how this camera compares to others you're going to want to watch this video right here as always
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