Insta360 One RS 1-inch 360 Edition Review: Insanely High Video Quality Leave a comment

Insta360’s One RS modular motion digicam is one of our favorites. The skill to swap lenses—from a typical action-camera wide-angle lens, to a 360 lens, to a Leica-designed lens with a 1-inch sensor—makes it extra versatile than a GoPro. Insta360 is now constructing on that modular basis with the brand new One RS 1-inch 360 Edition.

The 1-inch 360 Edition sports activities twin lenses and twin 1-inch sensors coengineered with Leica, and builds on the system that One RS homeowners have already got. The core module is similar because the motion digicam, however the brand new 360 model provides a much bigger battery, a case to carry the battery and core module, and a lens unit with twin sensors and lenses that sit on prime, like ice cream on a cone.

The result’s a digicam that produces the best-looking 360-degree video footage I’ve ever seen. Insta360 additionally has a video editor that makes modifying the footage straightforward. If you’re all in on 360 video, that is the digicam to get.

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I ought to say that I’ve by no means been an enormous fan of 360 video. This is usually as a result of, properly, the human eye doesn’t have a 360-degree view of the world. Sure, there are VR goggles that to date virtually nobody owns or makes use of, however even then you may’t see it unexpectedly. The solely use case that is sensible to me is to seize a complete scene in 360 since you don’t know forward of time the place you wish to level the digicam. Later, you may edit the video into a standard view. This use case means you must have a great video editor. Insta360 is the one 360 digicam system I’ve used that makes modifying your 360 footage straightforward sufficient to make taking pictures it worthwhile.

But if you’re into 360-degree footage for its personal sake, this digicam is outstanding. The footage I shot is sharper and captures extra element than every other 360 digicam I’ve used, together with a number of of Insta360’s personal previous efforts. If 360-degree video is your factor, that is your digicam.

Between the 2 sensors, you get 6K video (a step up from the 5.7K that the earlier model’s 360 Mod is ready to shoot) and 21-MP nonetheless pictures. In mixture with the improved sensors, these lenses are rather more succesful than the a lot smaller lenses on the 360 Mod offered with the motion digicam. The high quality of video is noticeably higher than what I used to be capable of seize with the One RS. It’s sharper and has much less noise. This was particularly apparent when taking pictures in low gentle and zooming in to have a look at leaves, grass, or indicators.

6K video feels like a loopy excessive decision, and it might be within the regular digicam, however professional-level cameras taking pictures footage for the VR goggles nobody buys are sometimes taking pictures 10K and up. Still, 6K is a step up for consumer-level cameras. The readability right here is nice sufficient that if you happen to’re framing and reducing down to provide regular video, you shouldn’t discover a lot distinction in video high quality from footage shot with a 4K digicam. This is particularly true in case your video’s vacation spot is YouTube or TikTok, each of which closely compress video anyway.

This opens up the potential for utilizing the Insta360 One RS 360 Edition as a one-person digicam rig. Any 360 digicam can do that in fact, however the improved video high quality on the 360 Edition implies that the reframed footage doesn’t endure the lack of high quality you’d get doing this with most different 360 rigs.