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Insta360 X4 8K 360° Action Camera Adventure Bundle on sale for
$399.99.
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Bundle Includes:
- Insta360 X4
- Type-C to Type-C Cable
- Standard Lens Guards
- Lens Cloth
- Protective Pouch
- Thermo Grip Cover
- 2x battery
- 256 GB Memory Card
- 114cm Invisible Selfie Stick
- User Guide
Product Details:
- Powered By 5nm AI Chip, Insta360 X4 Delivers 360° Video in Stunning 8K Video
- The Invisible Selfie Stick Automatically Disappears from Your Footage and Helps Capture Incredible Third-person Shots
- Flowstate Stabilization Delivers Smooth, Quality Shots, No Matter How Intense Your Adventure
- Waterproof to 33ft
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I mainly use it when I go on vacation trips. I think it's totally worth it even tho I only used it about 4 trips.
The best thing about it is that you can just leave it on 360 view recording while you do activities and then go back to the video and edit/clip the moments. Like for conventional recorders, you need to point/manually focus the attention to the action and hope to capture all of it but with the 360cam, it just records everything around it. So it basically captures all those action moment in the 360cam without you needing to personally look for it during recording.
Highly recommend using the pc software for better range of mouse and keyboard editing. tho the phone app is not bad but I'm just more comfortable with pc setup.
Accessories I recommend you getting:
- Get the 2 or 3 extra battery. This enable you to have near full day uptime on recording without worrying to recharge. There's a bundle pack that comes with like a 1 or more batteries + charge station
- Get one or more 1tb micro sd card. I got one that I almost fill up on my 7 day vacation. I was nearly recording every moment.
- Get the official insta extendable selfie stick that can turn to tripod option on the handle portion. It's great to have when you want to leave it at place and keep recording while you do things and don't need to hold on to it.
- Get the waterproof case if you plan to go into deepwater (more than 10m). It was great for me when I went snorkeling underwater and during whale shark tour in Philippines.
optional:
- The audio is pretty good on the camera but the sound capture will origin from where the camera is located. So incase you want to capture clear audio from like a interview setting, you want to get that insta audio adapter that can plug in external mic. Then I recommend to get the wireless Dji mics
- There's those floating extendable selfie stick for water activities or just get the Camera Wrist Strap, Adjustable Nylon Hand Wrist Straps Lanyard with a 1/4" screw to attach it to that original selfies stick it comes with.
- There's those typical camera mounts packs, like to backpack, head mount, chest mount etc if you want hands off but the selfie stick is still the best route due to the ability the camera can make the selfie stick turn invisible in the recordings.
It does cost quite a bit. Think around $600~, after all the extra accessories I bought. But I think it's worth it because all the precise moment it captures without me needing to worry about focusing the camera/attention at x times. It just let me turn it on and record 360 and then later edit the videos to find/clip the moments it capture.
I wish I have the X4 because it came out like 1 year after I bought my X3. The X3 is only 4K max on the 360 but the X4 can do 8K. The video resolution is so good that you can make still frames and use it as camera shot. It's still has crisp and clear due to the 4K for my X3. But with the X4, it can do even better, at 8K.
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I mainly use it when I go on vacation trips. I think it's totally worth it even tho I only used it about 4 trips.
The best thing about it is that you can just leave it on 360 view recording while you do activities and then go back to the video and edit/clip the moments. Like for conventional recorders, you need to point/manually focus the attention to the action and hope to capture all of it but with the 360cam, it just records everything around it. So it basically captures all those action moment in the 360cam without you needing to personally look for it during recording.
Highly recommend using the pc software for better range of mouse and keyboard editing. tho the phone app is not bad but I'm just more comfortable with pc setup.
Accessories I recommend you getting:
- Get the 2 or 3 extra battery. This enable you to have near full day uptime on recording without worrying to recharge. There's a bundle pack that comes with like a 1 or more batteries + charge station
- Get one or more 1tb micro sd card. I got one that I almost fill up on my 7 day vacation. I was nearly recording every moment.
- Get the official insta extendable selfie stick that can turn to tripod option on the handle portion. It's great to have when you want to leave it at place and keep recording while you do things and don't need to hold on to it.
- Get the waterproof case if you plan to go into deepwater (more than 10m). It was great for me when I went snorkeling underwater and during whale shark tour in Philippines.
optional:
- The audio is pretty good on the camera but the sound capture will origin from where the camera is located. So incase you want to capture clear audio from like a interview setting, you want to get that insta audio adapter that can plug in external mic. Then I recommend to get the wireless Dji mics
- There's those floating extendable selfie stick for water activities or just get the Camera Wrist Strap, Adjustable Nylon Hand Wrist Straps Lanyard with a 1/4" screw to attach it to that original selfies stick it comes with.
- There's those typical camera mounts packs, like to backpack, head mount, chest mount etc if you want hands off but the selfie stick is still the best route due to the ability the camera can make the selfie stick turn invisible in the recordings.
It does cost quite a bit. Think around $600~, after all the extra accessories I bought. But I think it's worth it because all the precise moment it captures without me needing to worry about focusing the camera/attention at x times. It just let me turn it on and record 360 and then later edit the videos to find/clip the moments it capture.
I wish I have the X4 because it came out like 1 year after I bought my X3. The X3 is only 4K max on the 360 but the X4 can do 8K. The video resolution is so good that you can make still frames and use it as camera shot. It's still has crisp and clear due to the 4K for my X3. But with the X4, it can do even better, at 8K.
My primary use case is action sports that I either do solo, or don't want to bother ever asking someone else to film me. For example, for snowboarding I have it mounted on my helmet with the lens position extended about 8 to 10 inches in front of me. The footage I get is best described as having a wide angle drone 5 feet in front of me all the way down the mountain. Gets some incredible footage. I get a lot of questions about the unicorn setup and the weighting took some getting used to, but it's all second nature now.
Other good use cases are parties, events, or even small family outings where you want to capture memories but don't want to be bothered with framing and timing. I'll just set it up somewhere in the room, give it a power source, and let it run. I'll just scrub back through the output video later and clip out the memorable moments.
Editing is the big pain. A 1 minute snowboard edit from a couple hours of footage might take an hour or two of scrubbing and keyframing. I understand Insta is like Gopro in that the best editing experience is on the phone, and I can attest to that. My iPhone 13 mini is about the weakest phone I can edit this footage on, but it has no problem.
Putting the unedited 360 videos into a VR headset is amazing. Someone already mentioned this, but it's like going into a Time Machine.
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Here's a video I shot from the top of a fire tower in the Adirondacks in NY:
https://youtu.be/IHOFZdRt8j0?si=
My use case is go to into rooms and data centers/closets for surveys so having a 360 view done in one shot will save alot of time compared to bunch of shots on a nromal camera or taking a video on phone and turning 360
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