Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Insta360 Go 2 Review: So Much Fun I (Almost) Forgot The Flaws”.
This video is sponsored by surfsharkvpn there’s a reason. I keep trying wearable cameras and no it’s not just to look cool even as smartphone cameras reach incredible new heights, it’s not always practical to shoot with a smartphone. Sometimes you need a self-standing camera for hands-free mementos. Sometimes you need to set it and forget it for a 20 minute time lapse, and sometimes you just need a camera that sticks with you. Even when you’re an idiot, i’m michael fisher, come see why the insta 360 go to has become one of my go-to’s in the mr mobile review.
Insta360 has always made interesting hardware back when i boated to that desert island to test battery packs a few summers ago. The insta360 one x is what made some of those shots possible. I didn’t end up making a video on it, but it was a fun camera to test back when 360 video was still on the rise, or at least the hype surrounding it was the go. 2.
Is not a 360 camera and in my book that’s a plus conventional 2d. Footage is much easier to edit. It requires less space and well so does the go to itself. This camera weighs under 27 grams and takes up scarcely more space in the hand than a usb thumb drive. You might think that’s too small, and when we get to talking about the battery life, you might have a good point there, but the miniature footprint is critical because it means the go-to can stay small, even when you’re using it with the magnetic accessories that come in The box, those include a pendant, so you can stick the camera to your shirt, an easy clip. That’S meant for things like ball caps, a pivot stand with a reusable sticky pad that mounts to pretty much any flat surface and the charge case, which is far more than just a portable power bank.
It’S a combination, battery tripod and remote control, complete with a tiny oled screen, anchored by a simple two button, interface mode select and a shutter or record key. When you’re done, you close the case like you’d close a clamshell phone protecting the camera within while it charges. It’S kind of like an oversized earbuds case. I’D say about 80 of my time. With the go 2, the camera stayed in the charge case. It’S a little awkward because you have to hold the controls away from you, while filming and you’ll get plenty of accidental derp face shots, but, like mr spock, you get used to it and holding the case is much more ergonomic than holding the tiny camera by itself. Haptic feedback is here, so even if you can’t see the screen, you can feel the buzz letting you know your photo or video is being taken, and the light on the case will flash when recording a similar led on the camera itself, serves the same function. To help discourage creeps on the bottom of the case is a usb c port, a quarter twenty tripod mount and a tripod of its own. These two stalks open up like landing legs to prop up the case, so you don’t need to carry a separate tripod. Well, not always, anyway, you can’t trust this on a windy day and even putting it down too hastily will knock it over.
These legs definitely need to be strengthened and widened on the next version. You can use the go to without its accessories. The camera has a single button that you can assign to different functions, or you can pair it to your phone and use the insta360 app as a viewfinder and remote control. But the accessories are such a central part of the go-to experience because they make it possible for this camera to go places.
Other cameras just can’t case in point. I love taking time lapses from airplane windows, but i usually just settle for a photo because it’s annoying to hold your phone still for 15 minutes at a time. Well, thanks to the pivot stand, the go 2 can just kind of stick on there for as long as its battery lasts ditto for long drives. You just attach the easy clip to the overhead press record and the magnetic pendant is great for first person stuff ranging from product unboxings at work to lazy walkabouts in the off hours. I used all three accessories to capture a short slice of life from the spring of 2021, starting with the upstate road trip. I had to take to get my vaccine through the adventures that vaccine made possible, starting a few weeks later, my first time back on a plane and back in a movie theater in 15 months, capped off by a weekend of scooter joyrides back in my virginia college. Town, those samples plus some of the go-to’s, less enjoyable attributes after the break advertisements, they’re a fact of life, this one included, but while they may be annoying, they shouldn’t be dangerous. This video is sponsored by surf shark which helps protect against those underhanded ads. You know those horrible pop-ups that take over your browser and try to trick you into risky clicks fun fact. Those aren’t legitimate ads, they’re more, like viruses, they’re as big a hassle to the sites they infect as they are to you, surf shark blocks adds in malware before they can even load that protects you from phishing attempts and cuts down on the clutter when you’re browsing Plus it comes along with all the standard security that a vpn typically provides to protect your privacy and preserve your access to the open internet, even in countries that try to censor it, hit up surfshark at this link and pay as little as 2.49 a month when You sign up for two years using the code on your screen thanks to surfshark for sponsoring this video. Thank you.
Thank you, hello. I absolutely love scooters and i want to do a video on them, but david cogan says i’m uh four years too late. For that he’s probably right but um come with me on a scooter ride anyway, ride in progress.
This good scoop here for the geriatric dinner special, that’s right, that was a fun road trip. But let’s talk about the negatives first off the pictures and videos aren’t exactly award-winning while the wide-angle lens and software stabilization each do a very good job. You don’t have to get far past sunset to see the grain and noise creep in even under a lot of artificial light.
Pro tip turn off vivid mode, so you don’t get the crazy over saturated colors. I did and turn off the watermark so you’re not giving free advertising to insta360 while you’re at it i’d say it’s like a smartphone camera. But honestly, most high-end smartphone cameras perform better with greater dynamic range and more options in framing between wide telephoto and medium because they usually have more than one camera. Now the go 2 is marketed as an action camera which makes sense, given its water resistant housing and slow motion recording options, but where a larger camera like a gopro hero 9 can last you from one to two hours of continuous filming with resolution. Going all the way up to 5k, this one maxes out at 30 minutes of 1440p video or time lapse thanks to its much smaller battery. Now the charge case extends that time up to about two and a half hours, but it does nothing to increase the camera’s storage, which at 28 user accessible gigs with no expandability is well just not enough. I found a single day of video and time lapse. Photography, while walking around town filled up the camera completely, and that meant i had to get the footage off the camera to make room which, on the road is painfully slow. It took me 45 minutes to move a day’s worth of video from the camera to the app and then even more time to export the files from the app.
So they could be shared all the while. The app is burning through the phone’s battery, because it’s got to maintain that bluetooth and wi-fi direct connection. It’S just too slow. Thankfully, you can transfer via cable directly to pc or mac, but you need to make sure to use the usb cable that came with the camera.
No other cable would work for either data transfer or charging in my testing. That’S not the only sluggish part of the experience. Every time i reconnected to the camera from the app i had to wait at least 10, and sometimes up to 20 seconds for the connection to establish the wait time for the camera. To connect to the charging case is only about four or five seconds, but that’s still enough of a pause to miss a shot. Oh and the initial setup can be rough.
I’Ve set up this camera four separate times, two different cameras with two phones, a piece and half those times. The process was so frustrating that i outsourced the job to my friend, david cogan. My advice follow the directions and be patient.
If that sounds like a lot of compromise for nearly three hundred dollars, you’re not wrong. This feels very much like the product before something truly great, so i have high hopes for the go3, but even with the shortfalls, what might save the go-to for some is one of my favorite words versatility. I’Ve just never used a camera that can well go as many places and therefore capture life from so many different angles and again, unless you want something wild like a pet collar attachment, you get all the accessories. You need to enable that versatility right in the box.
So if you’re an action, camera addict with the need for something smaller than a gopro, the go-to definitely deserves a look. This review was produced after approximately three months with two go-to units. The first was a review sample provided by insta360, which i promptly lost and the second i purchased both to finish the review and also because it’s a handy camera to have in your toolbox as a sometimes vlogger, not to mention a newbie scooter. As always, i don’t produce paid reviews, insta360 received no copy approval or editorial input rights and provided no compensation in exchange for this coverage. Please subscribe to the mr mobile on youtube.
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