(upbeat rock music) (motorcycle engine roars) - Now this is just some
of the very first shots I got with the Insta360 One R. A camera, that I'm actually
really excited about. I was able to get these shots by just zip tying a stick onto
the back of the motorcycle, and letting that 360 cam
hang off the back there. Really cool the type
of effects you can get out of these cameras. I made a first impressions video about it, but at the time, we
weren't allowed to share any of the footage that we shot just yet 'cause it was such an early prototype but now, I've been able to
take this all around Thailand, get all kinds of,
interesting shots with it. And let me give you my honest thoughts on, this new action camera. (upbeat rock music) They're the best competitor to GoPro, that's come out in a very long time. I'll say that for sure. And the main reason is
because of the modularity and the flexibility of this camera. So let's start off right
here, which is your 4K lens it's an F2.8 and 16.4
millimeter equivalent lens. This will just click in here like a puzzle and this is like your
standard action camera right? And then of course, there's the 360 module which has a lens on both sides. So both of them super wide. And with the two halves together, you have a full spherical image, so then you could do all
kinds of effects with it. I mean, until recently,
this was very difficult to access technology, and
now we have it very easily. And then finally, we have our 1"module, that's a 5.3K resolution. It's an F3.2 at a 14.4
millimeter equivalent. Now 1"sensor in the action camera, that's interesting 'cause that's bigger than what we're used to. Reasons why we like
the 1"sensor is because we should be able to achieve
better low light out of it. Also just better overall clarity and sharpness with that 5.3K sensor and also most the time we like having that shallower depth of field which you get out of a larger sensor, but in this case, it's a fixed focus. So that shallow depth of field might actually play
against us, but we'll see. Now let's start off with
the 360 module and Insta360. That's where they get their name. They've really killed it in the
past with their 360 cameras. As a matter of fact, my
favorite 360 camera till now, is the One X. I've made a couple videos
about this guy in the past. Very little 360 camera,
pretty simple to use. And then we also have the GoPro Max. And one advantage I did like about the Max was that it did have a screen here so you can kinda monitor
what you're recording. But the downside of it,
is that in 360 mode, there is no slow motion. That's kind of the biggest
deal breaker for me, so I generally stuck with the One X. But the reason why I really
like the One R's 360 camera is because the workflow. So what I mean by that is
with these two cameras, we would essentially shoot a clip, and after we shoot it, we would download the full 360 clip onto our phone and after that's downloaded
then we can finally go and edit it and then reframe
the shots or whatever and then export it which would
take another few minutes. So it's a couple different
steps with wait time in between. But the beauty of the new
One R, is that you can skip the downloading step because
when you wirelessly connect to the camera, you can
already start reframing and editing the shots while
it's still on the camera. Then once you figure out what
you want to do with the shot, you hit one button and then it does an
export onto your phone. So it kinda takes the
downloading and exporting process into one step. So if you shoot a lot of
360 footage I mean that, I think would probably cut
my workflow time in half, maybe even a third, 'cause I
always hated the process of going like okay, I'm going
to start the download, I gotta come back to
this in five, 10 minutes, so, I gotta go distract myself, Oh, I come back, it's
downloaded, all right, now I can finally edit and
then I have to export again and go wait another, it just takes time. So being able to simplify the steps alone is enough for me to recommend
this over the One X. Other benefits, it has a screen here, so you can actually
monitor what your shots gonna be like, and you
can look around just like the GoPro max could do
and also, it's waterproof and the One X wasn't. Now you can't submerge this underwater and expect it to stitch properly. I believe you need an
external case for that. But it's nice being
able to just go around, and film at the beach without worrying about it getting splashed and I put it underwater a couple times just for the hell of it and yeah. It's waterproof, I tested
it, it's good to go. The one advantage the One X might have is, notice the lenses are a
little bit tighter together opposed to the One R, so that may give us better stitch lines from the One X. Alright, so I'm gonna put
these two down right here, and I'm just gonna cross the stitch line. And I'm about arm's length
away from both these cameras. So I'm on this side of the lens and now I'm on the other side of the lens. Does the blending look good or no? I'm gonna come a little bit closer. Honestly, I'm about two feet away now ish. And let's see how that stitch looks. Does it look terrible
if I slowly crossover? And then this is just really close. This is what, like,
seven, eight inches away. And I'm gonna start
here and I'm just gonna, make my way over to the other lands, and once again, I'm
gonna come over to here. I don't know how much of a
difference it actually makes. But you guys know, I haven't
seen the footage yet. So you guys be the judges. I don't like forming opinions. And one thing I will say
the GoPro has mastered, is wind noise and I've been amazed at how good the sound quality can be even at very high speeds on the GoPro Max. I took it on some roller
coasters and shockingly, the audio wasn't terrible even when we're going
60, 70 miles per hour. It's not perfect audio, but
it's still very well managed. And I believe they do that by having a bunch of microphones
placed within the camera and they just auto switches between the best sounding sources. Should we go do a quick little
audio test between the two? Let's go. Wanna take a quick break
and go on a motorcycle ride? - Yeah. - I would usually be like I don't know, it's kinda weird for us to
get on the same motorcycle but we did it all around
Thailand that I feel like it's not a big deal anymore. - [Sam] And I was wearing a helmet. - It's true. The only thing is I need you to hold two cameras while we're rolling. - Okay. (Motorcycle engine roars) And we're going 30. (wind blowing) (motor cycle engine roars) All right just talk to the
Insta360, what you think? - Feeling like a kite. (laughing) - It's a little different
from the scooters in Thailand. - Oh dude, that was crazy. As soon as you revved a little
bit, I started sliding up. I was like, "Uh!" (laughing) - Yeah, first you had a
very gentle like grasp, but then it very quickly was like. (laughing) Is your hair a good representation? - Yeah, Oh yeah, that's how I felt. That was nuts, I'm shaking a little bit. - You still can throw this on
that invisible selfie stick. And it looks like it's just a
camera levitating in the air, it's magical, you can get that
5.7K at 30 frames per second, 4k at 50 frames per second, and 3K at up to 100 frames per second, which is what I use for
that bullet time effect, make it slow motion, put it on a stick and twirl it around your
head, look super cool. Also loving the app for the One R, it definitely helps to have one of the newer phones out there, just because when you do this
much processing on your phone, faster the phone, the smoother
your workflow is gonna be. There's also the Hyperlapse feature, where essentially you just
record a regular video and you just walk around for a while and it makes this time warp effect and adds in this motion blur. And on this show I tested
out the AI function of it. So I actually didn't
frame this time lapse up, I just kinda let the app
decide, what to frame on and it's surprisingly smart. Obviously I would always recommend, manually punching in your angles and shots but, having that AI feature
could be nice sometimes. And they've told me
there's all kinds of other effects come into the app, so it's just gonna expand
the capabilities as it goes. And also, there's firmware on this camera being updated constantly right now. So things I say right now, might change, throughout the next
couple months, we'll see. Now let's move on to the 4k module, which is kinda your
standard action camera. What's interesting is
that, you can actually buy this as a pair, for currently $479, for the 360 module as well as this 4k and that is basically
called the twin edition. So $479 for that. But then if you wanna
just get the 360 head, then it's $449. So really only 30 bucks
more to get this head so, definitely suggest getting the pair. Might as well right? But if you don't feel like you
need the 360 module on here, then you could get just
this 4k head for $299. So 300 bucks basically this
is competing on price for sure It's $100 less than the GoPro Hero 8, if you just go for this module. Now let's slap on the 4k module, which is kinda like your
standard action camera. Looks pretty familiar huh? But there's definitely
pros and cons to both. First of all, what I love about GoPros is that they're so refined I mean, what is this? The eighth generation I assume? It's a really, really solid action camera. Everything about it just works and it's gotten improved
over time after time but first obvious fault of the Hero 8, is they made it so you
can't just replace this lens which is usually the first
thing to go on these cameras. They get scuffed over
time or gets cracked. I've cracked a couple of these, two of them from mounting it somewhere and it'd taken a hard hit and once we shot an
explosive bow and arrow at it and the concussion crack the lens, typical action stuff, right? - I just want to blow something up. We really wanna make some pie tonight. (loud bang)
- Oh my! - GoPros are durable but not
necessarily explosion proof. Whoa, this crack is making
a cool little effect here. But bottom line, I've
replaced these lens covers multiple times, and I can't
figure out why they thought, they should just make
it fixed on the Hero 8. I mean, I guess I kinda know why, they need to make it so that you'll need to replace your
GoPro after a couple years instead of just repairing your old ones. They don't make money off that, anyways, I hate the fact that you can't
just replace out this lens. Sure you could slap stuff
on top of it or whatever. Why can we just make it replaceable? So that has got to be my
biggest gripe, about the Hero 8. But on the One R, taddaa. I mean, these are action cameras, right? They're gonna get busted up. Whose idea was this, who, Ugh! So what are the things we
look for, in an action camera? Well, one size, they're
both pretty comparable. And then of course we want many
different ways to mount it. So this shares the same type of these. I don't know what you call these, its like the little things that go with the GoPro mount
essentially, this has it, so, anything that a GoPro can mount to this can mount onto it as well. We got good stabilization
coming out of both these cameras and the image quality out of this 4K lens, I'm definitely happy with. I've been using Just the
standard color mode on there, and of course, it's waterproof,
you could take it swimming and that's one of the things
that still freaked me out every time I take this
swimming, is because it comes apart so easily
snaps in and you're like, Okay, is this actually waterproof now? But it is, I've taken it
swimming a bunch of times and it hasn't given me any issues yet. Now the screen of the GoPro is gonna be, bigger and better but the
really big selling point of this One R, we're
gonna pop off the battery, we're gonna to pop this off, reverse it and we're gonna put it all back together. And now we have a selfie facing screen, which is awesome,
especially if you plan on doing any sort of vlogging. And also when you mount it in
all kinds of different places, a lot of times, you can't see your screen and with action cameras, I'm never really looking
at it very closely. So I don't really care that
much about the large screen. I usually just want to
reference like, what's in frame, and once I see that,
that's good enough for me. So if I could choose
between the bigger screen or the reversible screen, I'm 100% for this reversible screen. This one also has a cold shoe
up top, basically a hot shoe, but with no electrical going through it. And of course we need great audio, so we got this tiny little mic adapter that fits in right there and now we got a 3.5 millimeter
mic jack right there. So this right here
might be a killer little miniature vlog solution,
so let me pull the microphone off here real quick. I mean obviously this
microphone, way too big for a little tiny camera like this but, hey how's it look and sound?
I mean I love how compact and lightweight this camera is. And I also love that
with the selfie stick, I don't have to hold the camera up here 'cause I feel that's part
of what makes vlogging awkward sometimes, is you're going around holding the camera like this. But if you have your
hand rested down here, there's a little bit more natural I think. But yeah pretty decent image quality considering the size of the camera, you got your self facing monitor and the microphone up top
- Plane - So not, bad we got a
plane ruining everything, well that plane's going pretty fast. - You see it? It's going pretty fast. But yeah, I say it's not too bad, huh? Here Sam, what do you think? - On today's vlog, we're gonna talk about my feelings, hopes and dreams. - All right, let's say stuff
for image stabilization with a chase scene. (shouting playfully) I kinda feel like a rapist or something. (laughing) How stable's the footage
though, pretty good? - Stable Sam is what they call me. - I'm thinking one of
the smaller microphones would be awesome like the road video micro or that wireless go one, little tiny one, that would fit very nicely
on top of this camera, and you can hook the microphone onto your collar or something. So you get really good
audio quality out of that. So I'd say this is a pretty good solution, if you're looking for a vlogging
camera that's this tiny. Now after listening to some of that audio out of those kinda higher end speakers, I am definitely noticing that
the audio with this setup, with this adapter just isn't 100% there. There's something missing. There can be a couple different reasons, I mean, maybe it's because this
is an early prototype unit. It could also be something that could be adjusted in the firmware, or maybe this adapter
just isn't as powerful, as something that you
might find in others. So let me show you what I mean. So now we're switched
over to this microphone and we're recording audio
from this microphone through this camera. This is what the audio sounds like. Now I'm gonna take the
same exact microphone and hook it up to this camera,
the same mic, different port and three, two, one. And there you go, this is what
the audio quality sounds like when I plug that same
microphone into my EOS R. Sounds a little bit different right? And again, same exact microphone, but this time recording into the GoPro. Now if you look, you will
notice that the mic adapter, for the GoPro is much bigger. I wonder if that's why? Maybe it can serve more
power to the microphone or something, I don't
know enough about audio and microphones to explain this, but when you listen to it
on higher quality speakers or headphones or whatever,
you definitely notice some sort of difference. Another thing to know
is this adapter here, I think was like 50 or 60
bucks something like that. This adapter for the
One R is only 10 bucks and it's also a 10th of
the size so, there's that. It'd be really cool if Insta360 released kinda like a pro mic adapter, which sure, it's gonna be bigger and
more expensive than this, but delivers very high quality audio. That would be awesome. Now let's circle back to the
audio on the Insta360 One R and again, this is a prototype unit so, I'll see what they say, and if they send me a different
sample that sounds better, I'll put all the notes and
updates in the description. I imagine there's gonna
be lots of updates coming, so definitely go check that 'cause as I test out the updates, I will be updating everything down there. Now comparing some frame
rates we got 4K 60 on both, at 2.7K you can get 100 frames
per second on the One R, and 120 frames per second on the GoPro. In full HD, you're getting
200 frames per second out of the One R, and 240 frames per
second out of the GoPro, so pretty comparable, the GoPro
does have that edge there. Another thing I love about the
Hero 8 is how wide it gets. A lot of times I'll use
these action cameras as kind of POV cameras, so if I
mount it up here or down here, I want it to see every
everything I'm seeing. So I love being able
to get the widest angle I possibly can out of these cameras. So here's a couple shots you can compare, at it's four by three aspect ratio. So both of these cameras are
at its widest possible settings while still maintaining
image stabilization. And the GoPro definitely
wins on this front. But of course this is
with the 4k wide angle, which is the 16.4 millimeter equivalent. There is the 1"module,
which we'll get into a little bit later and
this is a 14.4 millimeter. This is actually wider
than this 4k module. Insta360 is talking about future modules, that we can plug and play into here. So who knows? Maybe they'll make an
ultra wide one of these, which is actually something
that I would like to request. I would love a super wide
angle, just action camera 'cause if I'm out using
my motorcycle helmet, I love just putting this on superview and it just captures everything. It's not bad with the One R, but I definitely notice everything
in a little bit tighter. Another thing I think GoPro's
done a really good job at, is handling noise. Now let's start with the GoPro, okay? I'm gonna switch the
microphone over to the GoPro. So now you are listening to
the sound from this GoPro and watch this, I'm just gonna kinda, handle it like I would,
I'm just kinda switching the positions of how I wanna hold it. I'm gonna rub it a
little bit on all sides. This is gonna probably sound
terrible no matter what. But you can generally hear
what I'm talking about. See, just like that, but for the most part,
it's not bad, right? All right, now let's switch
over to the Insta360. So now this is audio from the Insta360. You immediately notice the
audio quality sounds different but anyways, just a little
bit of handling noise, I'm just gonna kinda, switch
my hand positioning around. And there we go and of course we're gonna start rubbing at it, its gonna sound like a disaster,
but here's how it sounds. What do you guys think? How much are you hearing? Actually, I can't hear anything. So again, you guys be the judge of it. Another thing that's
different as of right now is the workflow at the
moment 'cause currently, the GoPro you hit record and it adds the stabilization in Camera, and when you pull the memory card, you have an MP4 or MOV file. Now this Insta360 currently,
has its own format and you have to actually process
it with either your phone or your computer to add that stabilization into the footage afterwards and then you can export
it into MP4 or MOV. They did tell me that in
a future firmware update, it is gonna be able to just write directly into an MP4 or MOV, so if
you're trying to do something with a quick turnaround time,
that's probably the way to go. But there are advantages to
that extra step in the workflow. One, you can adjust your
field of view afterwards. So it's almost like shooting
raw, you have your clip, and you could choose between, ultra wide and wide and narrow and linear. These are features that you would burn into the clip on the GoPro. So once you set it, you can change it. On here, if you decide, Oh, I wish I shot that
in a wider field of view, you have that option. And then if you wanna do
stuff like adding color plus, which is its more vibrant setting, you can always add that in later. But then you feel like, oh,
I don't like how it looks, then you could remove it. So you have more flexibility, with the way the One
R is currently set up. But again, it's simpler on the GoPro. But when Insta360 is able
to just write straight into an MP4 or MOV or whatever, then this is probably gonna
have the workflow advantage because you'll have the
option of shooting either or and one feature I am excited about that's coming in a future
firmware update is, to be able to connect
this to Bluetooth devices like Air pods, so you'll essentially be able to just throw these
on and record audio into here, which I think would be really cool. I honestly don't know
what the audio quality out of these earbuds are but let me just try this out real quick, so, I'm recording a
voice memo on my phone. So yeah, we are using the
microphones outta here right now. Does it sound any good? Is this an acceptable level
of microphone quality? If I'm just wearing these, 'cause if that is that's pretty sweet 'cause literally you just have these on and there's your vlogging
setup right there. As I just listened to the audio
quality coming out of these into my phone, no I didn't sound any good. I don't know if it's able to capture better audio than that, but maybe Air Pods just
are not the way to go, there's probably some better
higher quality microphones that you can hook this up to wirelessly. Another thing is, they both
have quick start options, so if I press the
shutter, they both turn on and start recording automatically. And I like that the GoPro
has a real fast boot up time. So let's see how many
seconds it takes, ready, zero, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven. So you can see the GoPro
kicked online much faster. So overall, I would say I
really appreciate how refined, the Hero 8 is, it does
a lot of things right but if I could only have this or this, I'd probably go for
the One R, specifically because of how modular it is
I can switch it out for that 360 camera or let's try
out this 1" sensor now. So this big old thing fits on just like you would the GoPro and
yes, it is also reversible, so you can attach that
screen either in selfie mode or just kinda regular camera
mode is what I'll call it. So now that we have the 1" mode on there, let's do a little side
by side with the GoPro, which one looks better? Insta360 1" with the
1"sensor, or the GoPro? The 1"sensor is recording 5.3K, so we're getting a higher
resolution and also, should be better in low light as well because of that larger sensor. I got my nice studio lighting
on right now but let me bring this down a little
bit, now we're getting dark. Is it looking good? Now how are we looking over here? Getting some more intense
lighting, and let's turn off this backlight too, now
it's getting pretty dim. It's actually really dim here. Let me bring up this
key light a little bit. Just give me a little bit more exposure, and you can just see. As I gradually bring up
the light, you can see, kinda the low light
capabilities, how's it look? Let's pause here and take a closer look. 1" sensor, clear winner here right? Smaller sensors usually
need to, do notice crazy and losing a ton of detail along the way. So the beauty here is the amount
of detail that is retained opposed to just kinda
getting mush together into a big blurry image. So definitely a good step up
in the action camera world and if you compar it
to the wide angle lens on my iPhone 11 Pro Max, huge,
huge difference there so, there is that big advantage
of carrying around that 1"sensor. If you take a closer look at the bricks, you could immediately tell how much of a difference in
detail there actually is. But you also have to remember
that all these action cameras do use a digital image stabilization. Which means during the daytime
when it's nice and bright, they all perform great, but
when you get into low light, each frame is gonna have
some motion blur in there. So the more you move, the more you're going to
recognize all the blurriness in your shot every time you move. So my advice when shooting at night, try to keep that camera nice and stable. Try not to treat it so
much like an action camera, hold it nice and steady, you'll get some pretty
good results that way. Now, one of the reasons why
we love larger sensors is for shallower depth of field,
you get part of the shot in focus in the background all blurry and all that looks more
professional, it's cooler. But on the other hand, when
you have a lens like this, that's a fixed focus, that
means you can't really push your pull focus. Then this generally tries
to get everything in focus as much as possible. So then all of a sudden
that shallow depth of field no longer becomes a good
thing and you actually want to capture as much of it
in focus as possible. So this does have an ultra
wide 14.4 millimeter angle and an F3.2, which should
capture a lot of it in focus, but inevitably part of the
shot will be out of focus. So what we're looking at here, is how close can Sam get to the
camera before we lose focus. So this is about a foot
away from the camera. It's a bit uncomfortably close, but you'll probably notice
that if you look closely Sam's a little bit out of focus and the background is pretty sharp. Now let's go to about two feet
away, something like this, how's that look? And probably about three feet, I think this is about the
minimum focusing distance. So if you have a stick
like this, it's pretty easy to hold it out at that distance, I mean, that's probably where you want to vlog, if you're using the 1"sensor. Holy crap this video
already 20 minutes long. So let's just try to wrap this up here. Final thoughts if I could
only have a one action camera, it would definitely be this, because this essentially replaces
a couple different cameras I mean, you got your action camera here, you got your 360 camera here, you got a 1"sensor for
low light environments. The price is right, and
between the modules you can do, a whole ton of stuff. They are also working on
firmware updates as we speak, so this camera is only gonna
get better as time goes on. If I had to choose I'd
definitely get this 360 module and this 4K head and
I like this one a lot. Got a 200 frames per second and all that. The one which also does
have some slow mo features and they're pretty decent but
not as good as the 4k module. So yeah, for a majority
people I would say, this is the way to go. Now how about GoPro, this
obviously can't pull all the fancy tricks and be all modular, but it is just such a well
polished action camera. It only does one thing but
it does it really well. Which is exactly why I'm using the GoPro, for this helmet mount. Hate the fact that you
can't replace this screen but I'm planning on just
leaving this on my helmet. And if this gets scratched up, that means I probably
crashed my motorcycle so that'll be bad news anyways. I know exactly what I want
out of it, I just want that super view wide angle and
also the mic adapter is much bigger and a bit more expensive. But I do like the quality
of audio that this produces and it's a stereo signal. So I have it fed out to here,
where you can see there's a right and a left signal so, it's recording two mono
channels essentially now. I got one microphone
right here by my mouth so I can talk while riding and the secondary microphone
up here by my earpiece. So if I have my intercom
on, we can kinda listen in on what everyone's talking about. And it records that stereo
signal, one mic on each channel so I can easily just cut one microphone out in post production. So my personal plan for
my motor vlogging setup, I'm using the GoPro, for everything else, I'm probably using one
of these modules here. Oh, another reason to go for
this Insta360 One R though, is the future modules
that are going to come out one that I'm most excited
about, is the drone module. I was able to play with the
prototype for a split second but I cannot wait for the final production unit to come in. I wanna make a whole video about it. Essentially you got your drone,
you have one lens up top, one lens down the bottom and then you use the same brain as this. You fly the drone around
it creates a 360 video and it erases out the drone,
I mean that's gonna be epic. I cannot wait to do
more testing with that. Anyways hopefully this has been helpful, I'm gonna throw some links down below to where you can check out,
this camera as well as the GoPro or whatever you want to try to buy. Use my links so I get commission, but let's wrap this up few
comments from my last video which was all about the C500 Mark II, which is this beast right here. Let's see what you guys had to say. First things first I asked
if I should make a video, about this versus the EOS R or
should I just focus on making more videos on affordable cameras and basically 96% of you want
to see C500 Mark II vs EOS R, so guess, that'll be the video
I'll start working on today. "I've absolutely no interest
in this camera at all. "But I still watch the
whole video, great video. Great video, Mr Jet." I mean, that's crazy. I mean that video was 20 minutes long and this video over 20 minutes long, but if you guys are
sticking around anyways, even if you have no interest
in buying this camera then I appreciate that. But I'd still appreciate it more if you use my affiliate links
down below and bought stuff. "I can just imagine Buddhist monks sending "up memes to Gene." Jared says, "Hey, you're
a year older than me. "Joining you in the 30's club this March!" Well, congratulations. There's a lot to look forward to. You want to take lots of naps,
you get tired all the time, you crave snacks that are unhealthy. (upbeat pop music)
