Insta360 ONE R Photography (1 Inch Sensor Mod) - ULTIMATE Setup!!

hey everyone forest here with rocky mountain school photography and today we are going to do an ultimate setup guide for this little gem of a camera this is the insta 360 one r specifically with the one inch sensor mod now what does any of that mean what is the insta360 well first of all a little disclaimer it doesn't really matter for this video because this is just a setup guide but this was provided to me from insta360 for the purposes of this setup guide and a review that i'm going to be coming out with in a couple of weeks most people don't care about that stuff but i like to be super clear and uh open with you guys so i'm not receiving any money i just did get this camera for free and i have to say just right off the bat i've been blown away by it now real quick those of you looking for the setup guide i am going to take a minute and talk a little bit about what this camera is because i think a lot of people haven't really heard about it those of you who are just here for the setup follow the link in the description i've time stamped everything and skip ahead to the section of the setup guide that interests you the most i've broken it up into photo video and time lapse those of you who know nothing about this camera and who might be interested in purchasing it i would definitely wait and just watch the first part of this video again i am going to have a full review in a couple weeks this is by no means a full review i just want to talk about what makes this camera so unique and why i'm so excited about it the reason i'm so excited about this camera is because it is modular and that is something that gopro has tried to do over the past few iterations by offering their mods which are really just add-ons for the base camera and that's been really cool to see i'm really like a fan of gopro adding that kind of modularity to their system but this i'm sorry it's just so cool the camera is actually modular so let me give you guys a quick example right i can take the camera let me get it to focus there we go and pop the battery off okay well that's not super cool but i now have the camera and i have the screen well guess what those separate completely so now we have a screen little control module we have a camera module and they're all separate and you might be like well big whoop well the cool part is there's different cameras okay this is a 360 camera which means it shoots all directions at all times that's super sweet this little camera module has a one inch sensor that's over four times the area of the sensor in your gopro it's over like eight times the area of the sensor in your phone that's super awesome and that's a game changer in this size camera and all of this stuff works together to basically build a camera for your certain purpose today in my setup guide i am going to focus on the one inch sensor mod because i think for most people at least in our audience they're going to be looking for the best image quality in both video and photo out of this camera and hands down that one-inch sensor mod is going to provide that now the 360 i'm also going to make a setup video on down the line but today i'm mostly going to be focusing on the one-inch sensor you guys like i said a one-inch sensor is over four times the area of a gopro sensor well a larger sensor allows the pixels to be larger which essentially can't talk today which essentially allows with larger pixels you to collect more light collecting more light allows you to shoot at a lower iso and get higher quality results and the results really are like i wouldn't say astonishing but i would say notable like very obvious this in low light conditions compared to my gopro hero 9 is really not even a comparison this camera absolutely destroys and the fact that i can use the same camera and pop a 360 lens on this on the thing and have two 180 degree directional like spherical lenses and turn this into a 360 camera is just amazing but again not a review today we're doing a setup guide and we're going to focus on the one inch sensor mod now with all that said i think it's time to get into the setup the first thing i want to do is build this camera with the one-inch sensor modification so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my little camera module i'm going to take my sensor module and i'm going to combine them just by pinching them together like that sorry it's not a camera and a sensor module the camera module and the control module and then i'm going to take the battery and i'm going to clip it on the bottom and the battery kind of holds everything together also because i know some people will be wondering there it is powering on um this is all waterproof even with the modularity which is pretty fantastic so one of you right now this camera's all built you guys can see it's got the one inch sensor now it's all beautiful there's the screen on the back screen is kind of small stuff we'll talk about in the review i'm gonna pop this into a little tripod set it on my desk move this camera over so you guys can see and we'll jump into the setup all right let's get into the setup so the first thing i need to mention is ignore the camera over here that's just getting a good view of this screen we need to go over four main things today i want to go over general purpose settings video settings photo settings and finally time lapse settings again i've time stamped everything down on the bottom bar as well as in the description so if you're only interested in one of those things go ahead and jump ahead second thing i am not by no means at all a quick tips settings kind of person i want you to learn and understand this camera so that you can set it up in the wide variety of situations you're going to have to shoot in i'm not going to be feeding you the best settings for everything because that doesn't exist there are settings that are good for some things and other settings that are good for other things so with that said this is a learning video i highly recommend that if this camera is new to you you sit back relax maybe get some note-taking materials and actually learn this camera it's the only way you're going to get the best results out of it and i can say with full certainty that a little camera like this when you know it and you understand it you can get so much better results out of it than if you're just shooting it on auto mode so with that said quick little disclaimer there not a quick tips video let's go ahead and dive into general settings all right to get into the general settings we're just going to turn on the camera and then we're going to swipe down from the top that's going to give us access to our eight general settings in here we've got something simple like brightness is the first one we've got lock lock simply locks the touch screen if you're going to use this thing under water you want to lock the touch screen if you want to lock the touch screen for anything else you can lock the touch screen all you do is tap to lock it disables the touch screen operations and then you can simply unlock it when you're done and that'll take you back to normal again we can swipe down to get back to those third thing is airpods one of the features i really like about this is it can sync up with bluetooth headphones they specifically say airpods but it works with any bluetooth headphones and use the microphone on the bluetooth headphones to be your microphone for video capture now obviously you're going through bluetooth so there will be some loss in quality there but i have found that overall it sounds way better using at least my airpod speaker or microphone than it does using the built-in one on the camera all you've got to do is tap that icon and you can go ahead and set that up now the screen does turn off quite often that's something we can fix in the other settings to turn it back on all you do is hit the power button and it'll come back alive setting number four is for the tally light that's the front and rear indicator light they're called tally lights in the industry so that's what i call them i always leave those on because i like to be able to look at the camera and visually see what's going on from there if we swipe over we've got four more settings this is simply for grid lines it's going to be really hard to see on my camera here but basically with that on it overlays a three by three grid over top of your image which is really useful for like composition if you're trying to use rule of thirds for composition or keep your horizons straight thing like things like that i like to leave that one on i find that that's a pretty helpful one this next one here in the upper right is rotation lock and that's simply there to prevent the camera from rotating to vertical mode or horizontal mode it'll keep it always on whatever mode you're on i leave that off because i'm really always shooting horizontally i don't really do vertical video and if i do i shoot wide and i crop in in post production this next one is voice control i find that annoying because the camera hears me when i'm talking about something totally unrelated and starts shooting but that setting is this bottom left and then finally and again you can see the camera turning off finally in the bottom right that takes us into the more advanced settings so let's go ahead and do that now there's a couple things i want to mention all right so in general settings the first thing i want to talk a little bit about is memory cards and i have a whole video on our channel dedicated to caring for your memory cards and i'll link it up there in the corner so you guys can check it out but if you really want to learn how to not lose your images you probably should watch that video and learn how to care for your cards but part of that is doing what's called routine formatting of your card now a quick disclaimer i need to get out of the way early formatting a card so when you hear me say format formatting a card erases all of the data on the card so don't think you can just go willy nilly like ooh i'm going to format i'm going to format every time you do that it erases the data but if you have your data safe whether it's in the cloud or on your phone or on your computer or wherever it happens to be formatting a memory card while erasing all the data also restores the card back to its factory spec and it's very healthy for the memory card to do that you also want to format all new cards and all cards that are new to this camera meaning if you take a card from another camera and you put it in this one it's a really good first step to format it so how do we format the card all we've got to do is go into our settings just like i showed before let me swipe over we'll go to the little gear and then if we scroll down there's a whole section for sd card right there and in there at the bottom there's a format sd card button i can tap that hit confirm and that will format the card super simple takes 10 or 15 seconds erases all of your data but it's really good for the card if you guys get in the habit of routinely doing this after each shoot after you've downloaded your footage go ahead and format the card your memory card's gonna last a lot longer and you probably will never get corrupted images or corrupted files on the card from now until you stop using this camera super awesome all right the next thing i want to show you guys is the screen turn off because it drives me crazy so we're going to go back here and we're going to scroll to screen auto sleep it's just a couple above memory card and we're gonna go to timer and right now it's on 30 seconds and i'm gonna change it to three minutes so that my screen will not sleep for three whole minutes i find that really useful you guys can obviously set it to your heart's content obviously the longer that's set to the more battery life it's going to use so keep that in mind i've found though that these batteries actually do really well so i think three minutes is a good bet for me from there i'm going to back out of general settings and we are going to get to the next section of this video which is the video specific settings for capturing really good video all right so when it comes to capturing good video we need to make sure we're in video mode so to do that we're going to get out of any settings screen you happen to be in tap in the lower left hand corner you've got photo mode video mode and then custom modes we're going to go to video mode which is the middle one and then we're going to swipe up or down to make sure we're not on time lapse or time shift that we are on standard video and if we select that you should have a little video camera icon in the lower left hand corner and that means we're in the right place now video settings photo settings and time lapse settings can all be changed on the camera or on your phone so if you don't want to worry about messing with this tiny little touch screen the app gives you full control over all of these things as well in order to change them on the camera all we've got to do first off is go to the lower right hand corner and tap so we can tap down there and that gives us a selection of frame rates and resolutions and that's the thing that i want to spend the first bit on today is what's the difference and when do we use which ones first of all now that we're in here we're going to be you might be on basic we want to go to pro mode pro gives us all of our frame rate and all of our resolution options so that we can make the best decision for our given use case now in the top here we've got our different resolutions and you guys can see it ranges from 5.3 k 4k 2.7 k 1080p is the lowest and then for re for frame rates on 1080p we have 2425 all the way up to 120. so what does that all mean well here's how it breaks down let's talk about resolution first resolution very simply is how many pixels are captured for every frame of video that you shoot so example if you're on 4k every frame of video meaning when you're shooting a 30 second clip that's 900 frames give or take every frame that shoots has 4 000 pixels across by about 2 000 pixels up 5.3 k has 5.3 x thousand pixels across by you know two and a half thousand up so on and so forth it's how big each frame of video is now what are the advantages of higher resolution well one of them is that it will look crisper your footage will look sharper look crisper look nicer it'll have that really professional looking look to it another advantage of shooting high resolution is that you can punch in you can intentionally digitally zoom into your footage to pull out certain parts like if you you know shot something a little bit too wide you could basically zoom in in your editing program if you shot at a high enough resolution you'd be able to do that without losing any quality that's awesome now why wouldn't we shoot at the full highest resolution all the time well there's a couple disadvantages the first disadvantage is that higher resolution means it takes up more space on your memory card means it takes longer to download longer to work with you need a faster machine to edit it on and on and on and on so with high resolution comes bigger files that are harder to edit and so we need to keep that in mind the second thing is with higher resolution comes more limited limitations on your frame rate as an example you can shoot the lowest resolution 1080p at 120 frames per second the highest resolution 5.3 k can only be shot at 30 frames per second so now that we understand what resolution is it's simply a number of pixels per frame of video and we understand some of the advantages and disadvantages let's look at frame rate frame rate is for every second of video that you shoot how many frames get captured and obviously one frame has the number of pixels that we set with our resolution so as an example if you set your camera to 30 frames per second at 4k that means that every second your camera records 30 still pictures that's actually what video is it's just still images shot really fast 30 30 still images captured and each still image would be 4 000 pixels by about 2500 pixels high that would be 4k at 30 frames per second well what's the advantage of more frames per second because this camera can shoot 60 or even 120 frames per second at 1080p resolution well the advantage is this the more frames you have the more you can slow things down let me give you guys an example right now i'm shooting this video in 24 frames per second 24 is a very slow frame rate in fact it's the slowest frame rate that videographers commonly use because it's as slow as you can go with things still looking smooth well why am i shooting 24 i'm shooting 24 because it looks really cinematic it looks really professional it looks really nice but what i don't have is any ability to slow this video down watch me slow this video right now you guys see how chuggy it looks as i move my arm back and forth this is 24 frames per second viewed at 50 speed it doesn't look smooth audio doesn't match up bad stuff right so the more frames you shoot the more room you have to slow things down if you shoot 60 frames per second you can slow it down half speed which is awesome if you've got a snowboarder hitting a sick jump doing something cool you can slow that down to one half speed so that they're like right moving all slow during the clip and that's awesome say you're a skateboarder and you want even slower slow-mo right you could go to 120 frames per second and run it one-fourth or even one-fifth speed to really slow down the kick flip you did or whatever like cool skateboarding jump you do why did i use that example well skateboarding moves really quickly and you kind of want to match your frame rate to the speed of the action if you plan on slowing things down now if you're shooting snowboarding and you're shooting a video of a snowboarder going down a hill and you have no desire to slow it down no reason to use a faster frame rate get the higher resolution so it looks beautiful and crisp but if you want to slow things down you've got to use a faster frame rate faster the frame rate the more headroom you have to slow things down now i say slow things down i always mean in post production that's something you do in the app the insta360 one app or in whatever video editing program you use so with all that said what are my recommendations well it's actually really straightforward let me go ahead and turn on the camera and we'll look at a couple examples here first of all would be your general purpose setting and i would say for most people you don't really know when especially with an action camera something cool is going to happen that you might want to slow down so in that instance i might go to the lower right here and if i was just going to leave my camera i'd probably leave it on 4k at 60 frames per second because that's going to give me a little bit of an ability to slow stuff down if something cool happens but i'm still getting the high nice crisp image that 4k has to offer now if you're going to use your insta360 just says like a vacation camera and nothing really cool is going to happen that's super fast what i would do is i'd go to 5.3 k at 24 frames per second because that's going to give you the highest resolution and that 24 frames per second is going to give you the most cinematic nice just good looking professional video the third option is what if you're going to do something super sweet with a lot of movement and you want to slow it down a lot in that kind of an instance i would go all the way down to 1080p and i would go to 120 frames per second and you guys this touchscreen is a little bit of a pain i mentioned that on the gopro touch screen too specifically with frame rates actually i don't know why it's such an issue here um but we can go to 1080 120 that would be for very specific instances when things are going to move incredibly fast 1080 is not high res so it's not gonna i mean it is okay video puris yes 1080p is high definition video but these days it's pretty low resolution as far as things are concerned so you're not going to be able to punch in you're not going to have that super crispiness to it but you can slow it down a lot for me personally i'm going to put my camera back on 5.3 k at 24 24fps because that's what i'm going to use this camera for most of the time i'm not an extreme sports athlete so for me it's just going to be a general walking around camera that was by far the most technical part of this setup guide was frame rate and resolution so hopefully that makes some sense the other video settings we need to worry about are gotten by swiping in from the right side not down like i just did there we go so we swipe basically to the left and we're able to set some more settings now what do these mean well you guys there's basically two modes of operation for your camera manual and automatic and we'll break those down in a minute but before we do that we need to go to this top one over here on the left column and talk about color profiles and zooming ratios a color profile is how much color saturation there is in the video that's coming out of the camera if you want your video to look super saturated and punchy as soon as you get it off the memory card you're going to want to go up here where to this top color profile mine says log and set yours to vivid vivid's going to add punchiness at intensity if you want it on standard standard's not going to add too much but it will add some contrast some saturation final option if you are a professional videographer and you're trying to apply your own creative color grade you really want to get into editing and all that kind of stuff i recommend putting this on log log is very flat very muted it does not have a lot of color but it gives you the videographer the headroom to add color add saturation add contrast to the level that you want to add it to so again super simple i think this is totally up to you as the videographer i recommend vivid or standard for most people but if you are trying to get the best results out of your camera and you want to edit you want to do post production log is going to give you that ability the second thing in here is linear it's not might not say linear for you it might say wide or ultra wide but this is your lens profile now i want to make something abundantly clear this camera does not have a zoom lens so it's not like the camera is actually zooming when you go from ultra wide to wide to linear all it's doing instead is actually just cropping in on the video so instead of seeing the whole what the whole sensor has to capture it's cropping in a little bit excuse me long video i'm going to make this super simple if you're going to use this camera as an action camera go to ultrawide ultra wide is going to give you that super fisheye cool effect where your viewer is super immersed in what you're doing if you're going to use this as just a standard like vacation camera i would go to linear linear will remove that fisheye effect keep things straight up and down and be a much more standard looking camera for me i leave mine on linear almost all the time because again i'm not doing action camera type things most of the time with this camera from there i'm going to hit the back arrow and now we get into the two modes of operation we either have auto or we have manual you guys i highly recommend that if you just bought this camera learn frame rates learn resolutions first get used to the zooming profile the color profile and then just set the camera to auto it's going to do a great job but as you start to learn a little bit more you might want to jump into manual and just start to understand what shutter speed does what iso does what white balance does because if you do you're really going to gain a lot of control over this camera and get a huge ability to increase your image quality so let's go ahead and do that first of all auto is right there so if you get like in over your head boop done set it on auto i'm gonna go to manual though and explain what these three settings do so you guys we've got three settings to work with here shutter speed is the top one that's this one right here we have white balance and we have iso now iso and shutter speed the top one and the bottom one both have to do with how bright or dark your image is white balance has to do with what the colors in your image look like i'm going to start with white balance white balance is simply making the whites look white in your final image and you guys can probably see that white balance by default is set to auto so the camera is set to manual but white balance is set to auto as i cycle through these you'll notice that the color of this table in the center of my frame starts to change you see there it's blue there it's getting a little bit warmer a little bit warmer a little bit warmer you guys these are just what are called kelvin temperatures and they're basically just controlling how warm or yellow or red or cool blue and green and those colors your final image is they are kind of pre-sety so like 5000k is really made for bright sun like daylight so if you're gonna go out on bright sun and you put it on 5000k it would probably look pretty normal 6500 is more designed for a cloudy day 4000 is more designed for like your specific types of light like when you're under candlelight or warmer light that's really what 2700k is for is like a screw in incandescent light bulb basically you can cycle through these and you can look at the preview in the back and the one that looks the most correct is the one that you shouldn't go with now here's a quick thing i recommend that if it is a sunny day you take the time to put it on 5000 kelvin why well auto for white balance means that the camera is constantly going to be adjusting and altering the white balance based on your lighting situation and sometimes if you have a lot of green foliage in your image the camera is going to see all that green foliage and it's going to try to it's going to think that the image is too green it's going to remove some of the green and throw some magenta in there making everything look really weird so i would get used to adjusting this and setting it manually it's not that complicated there's basically one setting for each type of light that you're going to be under right now it's a bright beautiful sunny day so 5000 k would be the right choice if it was cloudy 6500k would be where i would go um if it was uh a little bit more orange of a type light i would go to 4000k and then 2700k would be for like if i was shooting indoors at night with like a screw in incandescent light bulb that would be the good result there you know your standard like bulb bulb with a little wire inside of it that heats up so auto is fine but auto is going to change as the lighting changes and that can make your video look kind of inconsistent so for today i would put this on 5000k in fact i'm usually gonna be shooting on a sunny day so 5000k is like a good set it and forget it setting for white balance all right that brings me to iso and shutter speed both of these have to do with how bright or dark your image is going to get now i need to make something super clear if these are set wrong your image could be black and your image could be white so just keep that in mind as you're shooting uh you really don't want to mess around with this and feel like you're doing it you'll know you're doing something wrong right so just make the picture look good on the screen and then you know you're doing something right okay so let me take a look at that let's go to iso first iso is this bottom one you guys iso is your sensor's sensitivity to light the lower your iso if i go down to 100 down here the less sensitive your sensor is to light and you can see because we're making our sensor less sensitive the image is darkening back there so hopefully if you've got your own camera you can go to iso and start stepping it up and you'll notice with each step your image gets brighter sweet pretty cool right the problem is as you go to higher isos your quality goes down you start to get what's called noise which is this nasty speckly grossness in the backgrounds of your images so you want to keep your iso as low as you can and if you're shooting on a bright sunny day you should have no problem doing that so i'm going to put my iso at 100 because 100 while the darkest is going to give me the highest quality result in my final video product now you guys can see the danger here if we were on auto the camera could be jacking the iso up to 3200 and we wouldn't even know and we'd be capturing the super grainy noisy footage that doesn't look very clean so lowest iso is going to give us our highest quality image now you'll notice that my picture now is a little bit dark so we need to compensate somehow and that's where shutter speed comes in shutter speed is also a control of how bright or dark your image is and you guys can see as you go through your different shutter speeds your image is either going to get brighter or darker depending on the shutter speed you select okay so you guys can see if i go down to like 1 40th that looks pretty nice that table in my screen looks just like the table here in this room so 140th of a second at iso 100 would be a good choice in this room think about this if the camera had made that decision it might have made a different decision that resulted in the same brightness by maybe picking a higher iso and giving me worse quality so i really recommend taking a second to just set that and make it happen now couple quick disclaimers here number one if you're shooting under changing lighting conditions like say you're mountain biking down a hill probably doesn't make sense to be on manual because you're going to need to get brighter and darker depending on where you are that case i would shoot auto full auto on the camera but if you're shooting something where the light's not changing taking a second to do this can really get you great results second disclaimer you'll read online that the best video happens when your shutter speed is double your frame rate meaning i'm at 120 i'm at 24 frames per second so my best shutter speed is 1 50th the problem is 150th makes everything look a little bit too dark and on a bright sunny day it would make everything look a little bit too bright and the only way you can follow that rule is if you have neutral density filters that you can put on the front of your lens neutral density filters are filters that brighten or darken your footage i have one on this camera right here you guys can see as i twist it twist that around i get darker and brighter and that's so that i can maintain a constant shutter speed of double my frame rate on this camera long story short forget all that stuff really if you want to long story short it doesn't matter too much on a camera like this set your shutter speed to whatever makes it look good keep your iso as low as it can be now sometimes you're going to run into a situation where you set your shutter speed to the brightest one like 1 30 of a second here and then the image is still too dark and you'll need to go to your iso and bump it up a couple stops that's totally fine just try to keep your iso as low as you can that's a lot of information you guys that's a lot of stuff i hope you like recognize how much of a pro you're going to be that's really all there is to setting video all you got to do from there i'm going to go back to my settings that i think worked looked really good here is just close that little thing hit the check mark and then you just push the button to start recording push it again to stop and you're going to shoot some really quality video so i hope that makes some sense really it comes down to frame rate resolution those are gonna be the two most important and then if you want to you've got your field of view which is wide narrow tight linear those different options your color options for vivid saturated like vivid the saturated colors normal or log which is like the i want to grade it down the line and then you've got your shutter speed your iso and your white balance together they all go together to make this camera have a lot of really great options those are your video settings alright let's do photo all i got to do to switch over to photo mode is tap this little icon in the lower left go up to the still mode you'll notice there's standard hdr burst interval and night mode what we're going to focus on today is standard because i'm going to assume that we want to get the best results out of the camera the one exception of this is i will sometimes use hdr mode if i'm shooting on a day where my subject is not moving and i am outside in a situation with a lot of contrast so outside on a bright sunny day would be a great example however we're going to focus more on standard mode and getting a really good result just using the camera as a camera i'm going to go ahead and tap that and select it right there now from here in order to get to our settings we're going to go to the lower right and tap and we have a couple settings here first is for our aspect ratio i recommend always shooting 3x2 because that's the actual aspect ratio of the sensor so it's going to give you the most pixels if you want to crop in afterward feel free but 16x9 is kind of auto cropping and i don't really want to do that i want to shoot as many pixels as i can this next thing is just a self timer how many seconds do you want it to wait before it takes the picture if you're using a group shot like shooting a photo of you and some friends definitely self timer is awesome but for me i'm going to leave it on off for right now and hit the check mark now the other settings can be accessed just like video by swiping in from the right and i always mess that up there we go just like that again there's different modes we can operate our camera on at the top there's auto which is just going to do full auto then we've got manual we have iso priority and we have shutter priority and all of those are going to operate a little bit differently again if you want to just use auto i highly recommend going to auto and then also going in and making sure your white balance is set to auto that way the camera will make every decision for you and it'll do a pretty good job it'll work in most instances the thing is i think a lot of us probably want a little bit more control and want to ensure that things work a little bit better now at this point in time i highly recommend that if you guys do not understand f-stops shutter speeds and isos you take a minute to go watch our basic exposure series on youtube i'll link it up there in the corner go watch that because you really need to understand how shutter speed f-stop and aperture all play together on this camera before i continue with the still photo settings now that you've watched that video you understand what f-stops shutter speeds and isos are now this camera has a locked aperture a locked f-stop it's always locked wide open at i think f 3.2 so we can't adjust our aperture but we can adjust our shutter speed in our iso and all we've got to do if we go to manual mode we right here have everything we need we have a setting for shutter speed we have a setting for iso and we have a setting for white balance and just like that we're able to control it now white balance if you go back and watch the video setup guide i talked a little bit about how white balance is the color of light and essentially if you just set it you can see it changing in real time behind here and you can just set it to a mode that makes the image not look too blue or too yellow in this case 5000k looks perfect this table looks gray and that chair looks gray in the background so that's awesome now shutter speed is set right here and you guys know if you watch that video i just i just linked that you can change your shutter speed and as you go to a faster shutter speed your image is going to get darker so if i go to 1 120th of a second here we can see that my image and i go to a little bit lower of an iso we can see that my image in the background is getting darker as i make those changes so you guys really we have complete manual control over this camera we can change the shutter speed and we can change the iso and the aperture is going to stay locked at f 3.2 all the time but with just those two controls we can control how bright and dark the image is now you got to keep things in mind like not making your shutter speed too slow to hand hold the camera little things like that but overall that's really powerful again we can also go to auto we also have iso priority that's where we pick an iso and the camera adjusts the shutter speed automatically to make that iso look proper same is true with the next one this is shutter priority we pick a shutter speed and the camera picks an iso to make everything look exposed properly really powerful controls here for me personally i'm gonna probably find myself leaving mine excuse me on something like shutter priority uh with a shutter speed of something fast enough to handhold so maybe like a 15th of a second something like that and then allowing the camera to pick an iso that will give me a properly exposed result again with white balance i'm normally shooting under a sunny day so 5000 kelvin is going to be my go-to setting i should point out that this camera does shoot raw in fact it shoots dng files out of the camera and it actually defaults to doing that so just by being on the standard photo mode if you take a picture and you look at it on the computer you'll notice that there's a jpeg and a dng written down every time you snap the shutter which is great you don't have to put it on raw or do anything extra it always shoots raw plus jpeg now if like i said before you are in a situation where you are wanting to capture images in very high contrast situations like on a bright sunny day what you might want to do like i said before is go to the hdr mode which again you tap in the lower left swipe up one and select hdr hdr will not work well with moving subjects so if you've got like a little kid zipping around it's not going to work great if you're shooting like a motocross race it's not going to work great but if your subject is stationary and you've got high contrast this can be a great way to make images happen there will be a couple seconds of processing time because the camera is actually shooting multiple images and stacking them together but your final result will be really nice so that is photo mode again i'm sorry to say go watch that other video but you really need to understand f-stop shutter speeds and isos in order to set this camera up properly alright we made it it's time to talk about time-lapse settings now a couple quick things time lapses for those who don't know are great ways where your camera shoots a bunch of still images and puts them together into a video clip and what it does is it takes long like events that happen over a long duration and it compresses them into a really short digestible video clip they're super super awesome now with time lapses all of the settings we already talked about with video completely apply to time lapse so watch the video setup section first and then watch this one the only time lapse specific setting that we need to worry about that doesn't apply to video is what's called a capture interval a capture interval controls how long between still frames should the camera wait as it's capturing those stills that it will then put into the video i'm going to make it really simple for you guys you want in an average time lapse to capture about 900 pictures why 900 well i find that most people want their finished time lapse to be about 30 seconds long i think that's a really enjoyable length for a time lapse where you can see what's going on you have enough time to enjoy it but it's not too long that it bores your viewer so if you're going for a 30 second time lapse you're probably going to want that time lapse to play back at 30 frames per second well 30 frames per second times 30 seconds is 900 pictures so we need to take 900 still frames in order to build a nice time lapse so what you can do is estimate how long your event is going to be so let's say that you're shooting an hour long event which is what 120 no that's two hours 60 minutes long right well 60 minutes there's 60 seconds per minute that's 3600 seconds you can do some math basically if you break down the math you can figure out how many seconds per image in order to get 900 frames by the end of the event just to do the math super simple if it is an hour long event i'm going to get my phone out here and my calculator if it's an hour long event that's 60 minutes which is times 60 3600 seconds and if we want 900 pictures in that 3600 seconds we take 3600 divided by 900 and we can get 4. that means we want to wait take four every four seconds we want to take another picture and if we do that over an hour we're going to end up with 900 frames so that takes a little bit of math but you guys it's really easy if it's an hour long event and it's four seconds if it's a two hour long event then you're going to want it to be a little fuzzy in front of me you're going to want it to be twice as long or eight seconds so you can base your interval off of how long the event is going to be all right so how do we set all of this up well first we need to put our camera into time lapse mode in order to do that i'm just going to tap in the lower left you might be on photo mode already we're going to go down to video and we're going to swipe in order to put ourself on time lapse you'll notice there's also time shift and this is a cool feature but this is one of those more advanced camera features we might make a video on it down the line for now normal time lapse now again all of the other settings are just like normal video mode the only thing that's unique is we're going to swipe in from the right we're going to go to the top one and you remember before on the top one we only had color and the field of view well now there's another one that is our interval and you guys can see it right now mine's set to 10 seconds i would set this to whatever i just calculated again in order to get 900 pictures in the duration of whatever event it is you're shooting if you're driving across the country for 12 hours you're gonna have a really long duration here let's go ahead and do that so let's say we're doing 12 hours well super simple math 12 hours times 60 minutes per hour is 720 minutes multiply that by 60 to get how many seconds 43 000 seconds in 12 hours well we want 900 frames so we're going to divide by 900 and we're going to find we want 48 seconds per picture so we want a picture and then 48 seconds and then another picture so interval here we could go to 30 seconds we have a 30 second option which is awesome or we could go to 60 seconds 60 seconds is going to give you a shorter time lapse in the end it'll be a little shorter than 30 seconds long 30 seconds is going to give you a longer final time-lapse so you can kind of decide how much detail i'd probably go 30 seconds right there and call it a day and now my camera is set up for 12 hours of shooting obviously you'll need batteries you'll need you know whatever you need to do that but at least the settings are there so all the rest of the time-lapse settings are all just like video so watch that section there for the full overview all right you guys with that we are done that is the setup guide there are other modes of operation in this camera but that's the general overview we've talked video we've talked photo we've talked time lapse general purpose settings you guys are pros now you should hopefully understand your camera get out there and shoot the biggest thing i can say is play with this stuff there's a time and a place for auto for sure but there's also a time and a place to maximize the quality coming out of your camera and whenever that's the time i highly recommend watching this video again to fully understand everything really start practicing it and hopefully this stuff will start to make some sense if you guys liked this video it did take a lot of time to create it so i would really appreciate you hitting that like button if you got some value out of it if you didn't like it you know what to do if you guys have a question comment leave it in the comment section down below and lastly hit subscribe down in the corner to stay up to date with future videos we will be posting a review of this camera versus the gopro hero 9 in about a week so you guys should definitely subscribe and stay posted for that if you're interested in learning more about whether i think this is actually a viable camera for most people hint it is but we'll get more into the details when we do the full review thanks guys i appreciate it i'll catch you in the next one

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Length: 41min 28sec (2488 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 09 2020