![]() ![]() The Farsight system uses your phone or tablet (in this case, my iPhone 6S) and hooks it up to a receiver that boosts the signal range to control the camera significantly. Chief among these features is the Farsight monitoring system, a transmitter and receiver combination that can give the Insta360 Pro 2 insane range over standard Wi-Fi, which is the way most 360 cameras are controlled. There are some other features that give this an edge for production work over a consumer grade camera. It’s something Insta 360 has always excelled at in its cameras and it’s no different here. The amount of fine control available from the app means you can dial in or bracket an exposure exactly as you would with a DSLR, and get a live preview (except with long exposures, of course) as to how things would look.įor video shooters, FlowState stabilization, a feature that was missing from the earlier Pro model, is now included in the Pro. Here’s another shot from Holy Land USA that has some tricky highlights and shadows, but looks great after processing the DNG file: Image quality is going to be the primary reason to step up to a Pro 2. The files themselves have a lot of dynamic range, as I was able to dig into the shadows and recover highlights in a similar fashion to a good APS-C or Micro Four Thirds camera. Still images have a lot of pop to them, and the ability to shoot raw files (in the DNG format) makes editing easy. I haven’t had the chance to try a Titan yet, but short of bundling together several DSLRs on a custom rig, this is about as good as it gets. Footage looks awesome and can be shot in both 2D and 3D modes. While this adds a bit to post-production, there’s no denying that the 120-mbps per lens bitrate and extra work pays off here. At 8K, the Pro 2 sits comfortably above most other cameras, and footage on a monitor looked clear and crisp (and you can also view this in a headset at this high resolution with Insta 360’s proprietary Crystal View 8K 3D playback software, which works some computational and software magic to pump high resolution footage to lesser devices).Īdditionally, the big upgrade for the Pro 2 over the Pro 1 and many other 360 cameras is the use of a memory card capturing video from each lens because of the very high bit-rate. While 4K video may cut it for 2D imaging, with 360 video, more is always better. But it’s the other features that pull the Pro 2 away from its entry-level brethren and most of the other competition out there.įirst, with 360 footage, you’re wrapping a flat image around a sphere. To some, the image quality is close enough it might not matter, especially with the compression that’s apparent in most ways to view 360 images on the web. I compared the Pro 2 to the Insta360 One X, which I consider one of the best sub-$1000 360 cameras out there (and I’ve used many, many brands) and while it holds its own, the Pro 2 definitely provides a lot more detail, dynamic range, and resolution. If your computer is beefy enough to handle the full 8K here, it looks absolutely amazingly detailed and crisp, and even downscaled, it looks great.Īnd if it’s still photos you are after, the extra resolution and better stitching from six lenses versus two are readily apparent in photos.
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