I usually don't comment. But I really liked the manner in which you make the videos. Very informative and looks gorgeous. Keep it up. Greetings from Russia)
Ok check this out in glad i saw this review, but with the venture case, or the new lens caps for the one x2 you can coat them with neverwet which is a hydrophobic coating and the drops and snow will fall right off. You can coat the top sheet for your board too its great for powder.
Really cool... I want to start getting into filming some of my boarding (Whistler). The footage handheld with no stick actually looks awesome! I have the same red Mind Expander :) Hotham used to be my fav mountain in Oz, this footage makes me want to ride it again!
Thanks! If it was a powder day, I would take the insta360 if I was trying to film myself, though every normal day I will have the osmo pocket with me. It is small enough that I don't notice when it is in my pocket, and the quality of the footage is so good. Also not being super wide angle, it is easier to film people without having to ride super close to them.
Also some follow cam tips with a fish eye you want to get as close as you can and at a low angle, with the follow cam footage through the terrain park you were wayy too far
Oh yeah I definitely agree, especially with this camera you pretty much need to be touching the rider to make it look any good, but it's a decent risk to the camera - I'm sure i'll take more as it gets older and I don't worry about it so much.
Hey Lachy, great review. sold me on a 360 cam for snowboarding. I have 2 questions - what video settings work best for the snow and what can you do premiere pro that you can't in the Insta360 one?
The Insta Studio has been updated now, so there probably isn't much/anything that you can't do in it now. It is more that I will be editing tons of footage in premiere, so rather than doing half the editing in Insta Studio then exporting to get it into Premiere, I find it easier to do it all in Premiere. I do use the lend curve setting in GoPro Reframe though, to get rid of some of the 360 cam look sometimes. I generally use 5.7k 30fps for everything, sometimes with log colour, though the basic settings all work fine. Being a 360 cam there isn't too many settings/need to change compared to any other camera, it does a pretty good job at most things. It does do a much much better job when the sun is out and there it plenty of light around.
I guess that is a good thing if there aren't many people selling them. I am pretty sure that their new one the One R does the same 360, but also can film GoPro style stuff as well, but it costs a lot.
Let me ask you. If I wore the camera on a 'chesty' can you just use in 360 mode so you can record in higher quality like 4 or 5k? Like a GoPro (straight ahead)? I see that the video resolution is only: Wide Angle (Steady Cam Mode): 2560x1440@50fps, 30fps. That's not true 4K. Thanks!
I am not sure about what the 2 can do, I only have the first version. In that case where you would be wearing it just to film forwards, I think that a GoPro in superview mode is going to get you better results overall, though maybe with the tiniest drop in stability.
