Insta360 ONE X

The only reason I gave it a 4 out of 5 is it's missing some features. If you want to export a photo with a spin view you have to share it with social media and you can just select saving to your album. Second when I export a video with freeform it looks really good. The stabilization is amazing although the colors are dull but that can be fixed in post processing. The biggest negative is when I try to export a 360 video it looks really blurry compared to the freeform. Not sure why that is or if I'm doing something wrong but I have exported the 360 video from the app and the desktop app but the result is the same. So until I can figure this out or they fix their software I will only be using this camera for freeform videos.

Been waiting for a while for this. I take a lot of photos with this awesome camera but it took too long to process each pic one by one. Pressing 8 buttons or so for one pic to be process and saved to phones library was insane! That’s all gone now with this batch processing update. So hats off to you at Insta360 for this and all previous updates since launch. You’ve set the bar high for similar cameras forcing all to up their game. So, nice going. Good on you, keep pushing new ideas, updates etc and a Big Thank You for making 360 photography awesome and so much fun!

Photo and video quality is good but not great. Having to sit through 10 seconds of advertising every time I open the app to use the camera is frustrating. If you’re into street view photography there are much better cameras available for slightly more money, check out the XPhase Pro, that’s my next camera. That being said, video stabilization on this camera is top notch, and dynamic range is quite good in well lit areas, which unfortunately brings me to another gripe, this camera is terrible in low light, this camera needs bright, well lit areas to shine. Overall after having used the camera for a few weeks I can’t recommend it for Street View but it is good for instagram, Facebook, and Insta360s proprietary platform.

This app works great and would get a 5 star rating except for one problem. When you are working with single panorama shots you can export it from the editing window to an online service or camera roll. Doing it this way the panorama retains all the meta-data and will work as a 360 Panorama. It works on Facebook and Google 360 x 180 pano. However, if you were editing a large number of shots as with a tour and then export them all at once from the thumbnail window they seem to lose some of the meta-data. They still are equirectangular but they do not function as spherical panorama’s. What this means is that I have to export a large number of shots one at a time it’s not really a problem it’s just a more difficult workflow.

So for the most part the app is pretty slick but I've had multiple occasions now where the app just plain crashed. I was editing a video I just downloaded to the phone and mid way it just crashed. Seems it is due to the smart capture stuff. The other issue I'm seeing and now sure if it's the software or the camera but when I am moving the camera from one view to another it gets really really fuzzy and the quality is diminished greatly. This is in 5k..still playing around with settings but 5k looks great on a phone or iPad but moving from a spot to another while camera is on selfie stick gets me very subpar results.