🛩️ Which Camera Is Best? | Runcam Thumb vs Runcam Thumb PRO vs Insta360 GO2 

One of the most useful comparisons I have seen. Thank you.

Yours is a very underrated channel, you should have had lot more subscribers and viewers by now. Very detailed content.

Excellent review and comparison, dude! Thanks a lot! 😃 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

I've been playing around with the Thumb Pro for a bit, and noticed a lot of the same things you did here. (I hadn't tried 1080/60 though, will now! lol) I bought the camera with the set of ND filters as well, so right from the start I was using those. When I stabilized the footage I was getting the strange blurry bits seemingly all mixed in at random... Thinking about that, I guessed it must be the motion blur showing up in the video, as the camera was moving around objects in the frame were moving relative to the camera, so getting blurred as you'd expect. Once the video was stabilized, those objects were now still in the video frame, and the motion blur was obviously still present in the recorded video. So I put all the filters back in the box and set the camera to 2.7K/60 to shorten the shutter speed as much as I could, and that problem was gone. I did see a little bit of jello show up with the faster shutter speed, but to me it's the lesser of two evils... lol I didn't expect better image quality from 1080/60 than from 2.7K/60, but know that, I'll change my camera settings before the next flight. Thanks! I too like the FPV mode for the audio. I usually use a bunch of filters and processing in post to get usable audio from some of my other cameras, this one spits out audio that's ready to go, so all the time saved I can spend in GyroFlow. ;) FYI, I found I get better results by adding (many) more than 5 sync points and extending the sync time for each from 1s to 2s or even 3s. It takes a relatively longer time to process the data, but on a fast PC it won't be that big a deal. For a 5 minutes clip I went from about 3 minutes to about 5 minutes. Speaking of clips... I noticed that there's a second or two of missing gyro data at the start of each clip after the first one. I tried letting the camera run as long as it can for each clip, or setting it for 5 minutes clips, didn't change the missing data. Overall I'm happy with the camera for what it is, considering the size, weight, and cost. Personally I think the 360Go is a better camera, but still hard to justify the cost given it's limitation on recording time. Sorry for the novel! lol

Thank you, a very good comparison.

An awesome very well tested comparison. If you were to do any follow-on testing, it would be interesting to see how the original Thumb WITH an appropriate ND filter for brighter light compared to the Thumb Pro, when the Thumb Pro was restricted to 1k recording. Think the value of investing in a set of ND filters might outweigh the value of the feature differences (audio, low light) that the Thumb Pro offers. I don't think any ND filters used in the testing here (?) ... not that we should expect, but like the colour grading, the difference in results could be very significant. The original Thumb seems to be overexposed (little contrast in bright areas), while the Thumb Pro underexposed (loss of contrast in dark areas). Recovering contrast in dark areas is much easier, as as overexposed bright are just lost. Wonder how the Thumb Pro stabilized 4k 30fps video (28:12) would look if was subsampled it down to 2k, or 1k before applying a stabilization algorithm? The issue is that individual frames have very different amounts of motion blur something that gyroflow is not able correct as the effective resolution changing on the fly with the amount of acceleration. IMO: the 30fps is poor choice, unless recording in bright light.

Great review. Both companies need to subsidize your cost with a camera and future product at least. Regardless of your sub or view counts. Anyone seeing this review knows enough to make a good decision based on their needs. Thanks you for all the work and attention to detail. Thanks for sharing.

Great conclusion, thank you.

I bought a thumb a few weeks before the Pro was announced and was kicking myself. Thanks to your tests Im now patting myself on the back. A few tweaks to the text file settings and the Standard Thumb can actually look pretty good.

+1👍detailed indeed; thanks Giz 💪

Changed my mind on getting a Pro. Will invest in a basic Thumb instead. Very through and detailed review Giz. Also your quick build video on putting Inav on a Sonic F1 wing got me into flying fixed wing with Inav…appreciate you🙌🏾.

Thanks for the great video ... content like this saves us all from wasting money!!

best review so far! mainly because it's aimed at flying fixed wing. I have got the thumb pro and really liking it. flying at low light isn't something I'm going to do , so for me it's the best choice. did you try to enable the "low light image enhancement" option? Also changing the lens made a big difference for me, the fov of the original lens is a bit narrow.

Great video! I wouldn't mind having both the Pro and the GO 2. Both are great cameras in my opinion.

I think the word on the street is to replace the thumb pro lens with a ratel one?

When you get into the very high FPS, such as 120, there is less time for images to be processed, and you will get the blur seen. It is precisely why 120fps is a lower latency than 60fps with things such as the DJI Goggles when used for FPV, although it seems counter-intuitive at first.

Idk how to dial in the camera settings with the thumb pro auto mode sucks. Thinking I might try out the manual mode on my phone camera with the ND filter in front of the lens so I can copy the settings.

Good review of all 3 cameras. I think you should have used a 5 star rating instead of 3, then your Pro would have come up first!

The oversaturated image from the Go isn't great for anyone that would want to edit the footage, as someone who is looking at buying a Go 2 I am annoyed that I think Pro was a better image in most of the comparisons. I wish that the Go 2 had the option for an SD card.

25:00 you need to set Dynamic zooming to not see the black bars

This was a great explanation of there various pros and cons and the practicalities of them, I’ve got two Peanuts but I’m waiting to see how the new GoPro 11 mini stacks up, I can take my peanuts anywhere but I’d use the gp for cinematic👍 might pick up a thumb now as well

Good 👍

I picked up one of those insta360go cameras when they first came out, but I was somewhat disappointed. After what was not even a crash but just a rough landing it locked up and would not function. I sent it back for repairs paid another $35 of import fees to get it back into Canada and then it still wasn't fixed it was just all locked up and I basically threw it in the garbage. I didn't really care for the quality of the footage anyway.

I wonder what these random numbers in the upper right corner mean?!😜 Somehow they are speaking to me to write them down … 😌

RunCam PRO can be powered via a power bank ?

Came here for the cam comparisions, stayed for that awesome tattoo1 27:35