What's up guys i'm ben from authentech

And this is the insta 360 ONER now I already reviewed the 4k and the 360 mod

You can check that video out later

But today we're going to be checking out this one-inch sensor that a lot of people are intrigued about now

Is it a game-changer? Let me spoil the ending for you and it's okay for certain people in certain

Situations the one-inch mod will it's gonna be awesome. It might be the perfect fit but for the average consumer out there

I'm not sure if it's worth spending those extra dollars

Let me show you why quick disclaimer no sponsorship here

but huge things to insta 360 for sending me these sample units to test all

Firmwares and software's are still constantly being tweaked nowadays

so if anything looks a little bit off on the 1r well

It might be fixed just around the corner who knows in this video

I'll show you guys side-by-side comparisons daytime and low-light photos and video HDR

stabilization audio tests slow-motion hyperlapse and more of the 1r one inch

versus the GoPro Hero eight and another quick spoiler alert

If you're looking for just an ordinary action camera shooting flat photos and videos

well

Then the GoPro probably is gonna be your better bet but and that's a huge but if you want to shoot 360 have future modularity

Potential reverse the screen for selfie shots wireless mic options. Okay, so you can see where this might be going

This is why there's always more to the story

So let's dive right in starting with the pricing as this as the context in step 361 our one inch Edition buy

Right now at five hundred and fifty dollars the GoPro Hero eights black

$400 that's actually a pretty big difference now. Let's jump into some daytime video comparisons

This is 5.3 K 30fps on the one inch and 4k thirty on the GoPro a few things

I noticed right off the bat the GoPro consistently has more contrast and saturation

Look some people like this some people don't the 1r allows you to turn on a color plus option which adds some new

Vibrancy and dynamic range to your shots in this one. I left it off so you can see more of the

Original video clip next to the default settings on the GoPro now

Sometimes I like the poppy colors and contrasts of the GoPro, but sometimes it does it a bit too far

For example, the shadows can be a bit too crushed and we can lose important details now one quick note

Remember how I said the firmwares are constantly getting pushed out for the one-inch right now

Well currently if I export a 5.3 K video file from the 1r onto my phone and then export it

well, it doesn't come out as

5.3 K res, but it's 4k now if I try their desktop app on the Mac, I can export the video and h.265

5.3 K res video, which is good

So for transparencies sake all my 5.3 K res files are gonna be scaled down to 4 K files

Which honestly they look really good and sharp

But this way we can actually see some good stabilization on the 1 inch since I'm pretty sure that stabilization is being processed

After the clip is recorded speaking of clarity. If you're exporting clips to the garbage compression. Let's say of Instagram

No one is probably ever gonna notice the difference from 5.3 K to 4k 2. Whatever

however

if you're watching this video in full 4k

You should be able to spot some of these nice little

Differences the 1 inch looks razor sharp and crispy if we freeze frame and zoom in you should be able to see what I'm talking

About it's not like it's jumping from sd up to HD

But it is a nice improvement and step up in the 1 inch sensor on a negative note. I notice there's a fair bit of

Artifacting on the 1 inch footage but again, I'm unsure if this is just a temporary compression issue

And hopefully we'll see a fix in a firmware or app update soon jump into stabilization, even though they both look pretty smooth

I think I'd have to vote the GoPro as a bit more buttery smooth the 1 inch isn't bad and honestly has a wider field

of view here

But man GoPro has really put some nice RND into their hyper smooth

Stabilization and it almost looks like it was shot on a gimbal which is always very impressive

instance flow state isn't bad at all and honestly usually really impressive especially when shooting in 360 but here the one

It looks like some firmware updates could help it out a bit

This is audio on the incent 361 are with the one-inch

How does the audio sound and this is audio on the GoPro Hero 8 black. How does the audio sound?

Now it's pretty windy out here down at the lake. Which one is sounding better

Now it's pretty windy out here down at the lake which one is sounding better funny enough

I think both receive like a b-minus here in one sentence the one R sounds better, but then the next GoPro sounds better

Audio test one two three four

Audio test one two and three four

Now the one R wins in two other big audio categories first

They offer this USB seat a three-and-a-half millimeter mic jack dongle for only ten bucks

So that way you can use any third-party audio microphone very sweet

If you're considering the go pro audio Bodwell, they're still not even out yet. And that's gonna cost you $80

That's absurd and way too expensive. I've been experimenting with the road wireless go microphones on the 1r and so far

I've been really pleased the second big feature that inste is saying is coming in February is wireless Bluetooth audio now

Imagine popping in your air pods or whatever. I'm recording audio directly from there to the camera wirelessly bluetooth

That would be pretty sweet

I tried a quick ultra wide field-of-view test and surprisingly the GoPro superview actually looked wider

Plus, let's notice. My skin tones of the 1r is jacking up my skin pretty bad

There's a little bit too magenta in the blacks and my coat as well

The GoPro is far from perfect. But looking better in this shot. Here's a quick 4k 60fps

comparison and

Another win for the GoPro its field of view is wider

Which is nice and makes a big difference plus the stability and sharpness of resolution

I think it looks much better here as well with the one-inch. We can max out slow-motion 1080p

120 fps the GoPro can double this up to

240 FPS at this 1080p res now. That's a big win for GoPro in this sample

I'd say GoPro wins in terms of quality and I notice GoPros keep in a wider field of view again

Which I think is a pretty big deal when you're shooting slow-motion

Usually your subject is moving around very fast

And it's easy to cut the subject out of camera frame like I did here on the one arm another thing to know oddly enough

The sample clip from the 1r actually has some frame blending and motion interpolation

Processing so it's like we can slow the clip down even more. However, it doesn't necessarily look fantastic

But possibly better than glitching and stuttering like we can see here on the GoPro either way

I'd vote GoPro the winner in this slow-motion test one of my favorite mode

So play around with is hyperlapse and both the cameras offer this feature, though

They do it quite a bit differently on the GoPro before we hit record

we set the speed of playback from two times up to 30 times fast or my favorite I've talked about before there's auto mode where

the GoPro will

Automatically determine your camera movement and other factors and then speed up or slow down time which ends up creating some really cool shots

there's a button on the screen to enable real-time recording in the middle of the hyperlapse like you can see in this example on the

1r. It's slightly different

They instead approach the idea of recording the whole clip at normal speed which results in much larger raw file sizes

Then later in the app is where we can adjust the speed settings. This is nice on one hand

It allows us to change the video file multiple times over slowing it down or speeding specific spots back up

It allows us a lot more fine to control, which is nice on the other hand though

I sort of like the GoPro mode as well

It's a bit more hands-off just set it and forget it record your clip and that's it

No going back changing anything. The video is locked in but it's ready for sharing

There's pros and cons to each side in terms of quality, though

Both of these files are 4k and we can turn on or off that motion blur. You're seen on the 1r again

It's nice to have the option now for the big low-light video test and this is one area

I think the one-inch mod really blows GoPro out of the water

It's that larger sensor is going to help perform much better and lower light situations

At least for video now not only does it of course look a bit brighter

But even more importantly compare the amount of noise and grain between the two

The one our one inch looks clean while the GoPro looks grainy noisy soft and blurry

I also had a throw in the 1 ounce

4k mod into the mix and this is one of those areas people were really wondering is the 1 inch really worth paying the extra?

Money for well, hopefully this comparison can help you out in this low-light video test

We can clearly see the big quality bump from the 4k mod up to the 1 inch

Even I didn't know if there'd be that much of a difference but here it sure looks like it now

This is some low-light video and 5.3 K on the 1r with indoor

stabilization so they say it should help with some of the motion blur but the noise I'm guessing the ISO game is

Going up a little bit. So how did the two look and compare again?

The 1 inch mod is looking much better with brighter exposure cleaner image and less noise Plus that low-light

Stabilization checkbox actually seems to help as its stability and motion blur looks much better over the GoPro

This is a pretty big deal for some people out there. If you're needing an action camera in low-light conditions

well

the one inch model might be much better for you over a GoPro snapping a few low-light photos is very

Interesting and yielding some different results in this first shot GoPros white balance looks much more accurate with the comforter

It's actually white in real life zooming in 400% the GoPro looks the noisiest and pixelated

However, the 4k wide mod is in last place and the one inches. Okay, but not amazing

This next shot has some more the same results

Now if the one inch could produce better white balance and lean away from those strong red hues

Then I'd say it'd be a clear winner funny enough. Our phones are getting much better in low light photography

So I toss in a few iPhone 11 pro night shots

I've talked about this before the iPhone does not allow long exposure night shots and the ultra wide lens though

It does on the primary

Anyway here you can see the results and it's doing a fantastic job of bright exposure

Dynamic range and good noise control two more very low light shots and we can see them Genta glitch

I'll call it on the one inch though. It was a clean low noise image, which is nice

The gopro isn't terrible and actually producing a usable shot and the iphones night mode looks pretty good

This shot was almost in the pitch black and the one-inch basically failed GoPro

surprisingly wins with a nice long exposure and the iPhone is the

Brightest, but it missed focus or it's just way too blurry and that's sort of unfortunate

here's some daytime photo samples with some harsh contrast II lighting and my eye is

consistently drawn to the one-inch

Some of these are HDR some are just standard photos with color plus tone mapping turned on and these shots

Honestly, look just as good as the HDR once now on the GoPro

I use their new super photo mode and in almost every shot. I prefer the one-inch

Well, except this last one they both botched up my skin color pretty bad now

Let's switch over to a few other categories of comparison there sometimes or just as important as image quality for mounting options

I think I like the GoPro better

And here's why at least they give you these

Mounting fingers built right into the body they fold in if you want makes it nice and flush portable

But then they fold down you can slide it into the standard GoPro mounting system even though it's so annoying

I wish it was quarter-twenty tripod mount but there we go

You're up and away with the 1r with the one-inch mod

We have to screw this whole front glass off

Slide it into the mount clip that on

it has the mounting fingers here for standard GoPro mounts and then screw this thing back on and

Then reverse it for every single time you want to take it off. It's just super inconvenient

I really wish the 1r had a quarter twenty tripod mount built right in now

I did see they have that extended battery pack coming out soon with the mounting fingers like the GoPro

That looks like a nice module to have but until then

GoPro wins right now for mounting convenience two quick things to mention. Look at the boot up times. There's one arm

Go

after

GoPro is up and ready to shoot and there we go

So the GoPros faster to boot up and then as for screen brightness, well, it's sort of hard to tell out here

But we're in the bright sunlight and honestly the 1r does a nice job even though it's screen is much smaller

But they're both fairly bright

In daytime so we can see sunlight

For exposure and tweaking settings. So both screens are nice and bright

However, the GoPros is much larger

Which is nice but on the other hand and it's a big win for the 1r

We can simply break it apart

Flip the screen around and now we have a selfie screen if you want to do that on the GoPro

Well, you're gonna have to shell out the pretty penny of

$80 for that media mod and then another $80 on top of that for the display mod, so

$160 just for that feels a little steep for durability

well

I don't have the guts to be dropping these from great heights nor do I have the money I sort of baby these things like

My firstborn but I do say that the 1r, it feels tight and rigid when it's all clicked together and it's modular

So if something were to break down the road I can replace just that part and the GoPros

Well, its biggest fail this year was taking away that replaceable glass protector that they had years ago, honestly

It's a big deal breaker for many it almost seems like they're trying to get us to pay for that extra GoPro a plus

Replacement program another big deal that compared our mobile apps and workflow now, don't worry. I'll keep this one short and sweet

It's a big win I say for the in so 360

I love their mobile app way more than GoPros in so offers way more editing features

Plus it's faster to connect smoother and more efficient to scrub through the files over Wi-Fi

trim edit export and share now funny enough on the flip side of that insta 360 is recording these video files in a dot I

Nsv file format. I think it's their proprietary file either way

They're not in dot MOV s or mpegs and this could be a really big deal breaker for a lot of people out there

So if you're editing just simply on the mobile not a big deal

But if you're like me and you need a copy these files over to your computer for final cut editing

Well, then it has to go through a whole transcoding compression converting process, which is super inefficient

And I really dislike it

I might have heard some rumors that insta 360 is pushing on an update down the road to fix this

I'm not sure if you know any news drop a comment

So I guess that's the irony of it all if you want the best mobile editing experience sharing right on the go

Well, then insta might be your better bet

however, if you're sort of old school and you need to edit in Final Cut or premier well

Then you might need to go with GoPro at least until insta fixes out that issue

And another big complaint I have is the minimum focusing distance

On the one inch it might be a deal-breaker for me if I'm holding it here

They say it's about one meter minimum focusing distance

Well, I might be out of focus and then everything behind me is in focus sort of ruins the shot

So if you're gonna be vlogging you have to make sure it's held up far enough so that you're in focus

Just keep this in mind at the end of the day

these are fun cameras and gadgets that are all but tools and toys helping us to capture memories and

Moments to share with family and friends and clients

now if the tool gets in the way of creation

Then it has failed at its job for some people the one arse modular design

Future expansion and sweet mobile editing workflow that reversible screen that great audio options

It might be the perfect match for you. And then maybe consider this one inch mod

If you need some solid low-light performance

Or that extra bump up in resolution and clarity if however you just need something simple and easy and old-school

durable run and gun shooting flat and only flat photos and videos

well

then the GoPro Hero 8 black still performs fantastically well in a lot of

Situations plus that price point isn't horrible

If you don't care about external audio or a reversible screen or replaceable lens, its photos and videos look smooth

And it's punchy and it should be able to capture some beautiful moments for you now

Let me know which one you lean more towards and why down in the comments and drop any questions you have

I'll try my best to respond until I see you next time. Let's live authentic