Insta360 X4 Review - The 8K Era Is Upon Us
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 เม.ย. 2024
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Here I review the Insta360 X4, an 8K 360 degree camera. I go over features such as 8K resolution 360 video, 72 megapixel photos, slow motion, me mode, single lens mode and talk about the removable lens protectors (lens guards).
All footage and music in this video is my own.
I'd like to thank Insta360 for sending me the X4 for the purpose of making this review.
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UPDATE: I mentioned the overly short menu display time (that I talked about in my dislikes section) to Insta360 and a few days later they changed it back. It's great now.
Best review on this camera in YT. Absolutely no TH-camr mentioned the real resolution of the final cropped image , no TH-camr summarized it all so well, clearly and understandably. My respect!
Thank you very much.
This is the channel you visit to watch an honest review of a product you're interested in, Roo never disappoints! Thank you! 💯
Finally ONE review which shows photo details zoomed in.
Best review I've seen of the X4, clear, complete, deep, perfect examples and so helpful, thank you
Of course it didn't stop us, would anything? 😏 Can't wait to see more 8K excellence, and all hail the removable lens guards! 🙌
Im waiting for threaded lens easy to replace and keep some spare..so no need to send the unit for lens scratch repair
Please follow thru on his suggestion of time to select next mode.
10seconds to no time limit
@@nemesis851_ They did! The latest firmware changed it back to the X3 way.
Seems a whole lot of things stop Insta360. For instance, they couldn't admit the Evo wouldn't do long recordings, and when pushed about it, claimed chopping holes in footage was a feature. And this new model is stopped by a warm room.
"Peak influencer" is also an accurate comment. I'll admit I'm only halfway through so far, but the whole thing so far is advertisement with attitude, not review. And the affiliate links and preview units do nothing to improve that picture.
What about high speed SD cards for recording 8K, they are expensive and still not available.
You should have far more subscribers as your videos are brilliant. You actually get to the point with what we want to know about these cameras. Really great narration too, you should record meditation guides, very relaxing to listen to. Thank you for your hard work making these videos. 🎉
I really appreciate that comment. Thank you.
Having watched quite a few reviews on the insta360 x4, I have to say yours is definitely in the top two (of 10).
I think we need more pictures/movies of your friend in your reviews.
She really does add some class and color to your rather dry humor. ;_)
Really informative review! Great job!
Your review is one of the if not the absolute best I have seen. Liked and subscribed. Keep it up man. You are crushing it.
Thank you very much!
Really great quality review! thanks.
Top drawer footage and review. Liked and subscribed.
Those lens protectors are more exciting than 8k!
Yeah!
If your rear lens is damaged, did it really protect it?
Great review--I'll have to consider getting one of these once I start traveling again.
The best review!!
Great description.
@Roo Reviews, good comprehensive review as always.
Got mine on order and have been holding out since I bought the 1X or X1 in Dec 2018. Was hoping they would add a 1” sensor but the pricing would probably be another $200 more.
Anyhow, I think on your next review when you had more time with the X4, it would be good to talk about not having the 30min recording limit where the X3 turns off for about 15sec once the 30min recording is reached, while the X4 keeps on recording. From a user-ability standpoint, as a one man crew, this improvement was a selling feature and a big one for me, notwithstanding all the other improved IQ and additional shooting modes, frame rates, and improved features that was covered in this video.
I think the files are H.265 and so the file size are same shooting 8k30 in X4 as it is shooting 5k30 in X3. This is helpful to know for those who edit their workflow on a smartphone with limited onboard RAM as for example, Apple iPhones charges an arm and leg. The desktop has more affordable pricing for RAM storage.
Lastly, I think X4 can use a 1TB microSD card but I haven’t seen any reviews covering this point yet.
Great review!👌
The Bullet time comment about people thinking is so true lol.
Once again you are giving me a pain in the wallet... My chief interest is to see comparisons of X3 and X4 shots to see whether the extra resolution is worthwhile. In the lake shot, not that big a deal IMHO. In the test card shots, a radical improvement. Hmmm... Anyway, what an excellent and comprehensive review, as always!
I was surprised at how well the X3 held up in well lit outdoor comparisons after reframing. Comparing them in VR though, it's hard to go back to the X3. But few people are watching their footage in 360.
@@Roos-Reviews I don't know whether you will see this now, but I have become obsessed with the X4 sharpness setting in the last few days. No, I still haven't got one, which is why I am asking your expert opinion. I saw a short reference to the sharpness setting in another review recently, and it showed side by side video stills of a quite distant building with brick-faced walls. In low sharpness, the bricks became a fuzzy red surface. In medium, the bricks were clearly bricks. In high, there was really no obvlous difference compared to medium. Now it seems to me that the typical 2.7k reframes from the X4 would need all the help they can get to look crisp and detailed, and the medium setting would therefore be pretty essential to avoid the X4 looking like the X3 despite the 8k capture vs 5.7K - and also, typically the X4 would not be being used for portraits or other images where you might want to soften the image for flattering results. And it seems to me that if bricks (for instance) are being captured with low sharpness and turned to mush, that no amount of post production sharpening would bring them back. Any views on this? Maybe this is the reason why I have often been underwhelmed by many X4 samples as low sharpness seems to be very much in fashion these days with all cameras, but maybe the nature of the X4 simply doesn't warrant that setting.
Would it help you if I were to record a clip beside a brick wall with the X3 and X4 and send you the original insv files to analyse? Do you have a Dropbox or Google drive?
@@Roos-Reviews Thanks for that offer - at the moment I am having to stay at a house 50km from my PC and I only have a chromebook and Quest 3 here - so I wouldn't be able to do much with the files. That's also why I'm still not the proud owner of an X4, as currently I wouldn't be able to do much with it ... maybe when I escape back to my own home I will contact you again. (And I suspect I don't have much capacity on Google Drive anyway). But again, thanks for the thought!
My first 360 cam was the one from LG...it was great and tiny, but awful quality. Fun though!
I see the advantages of a 360 camera but I'll only buy one when the exported video is actually 4k and processed image looks flat without the distortion.
I wish for that too, but that would require the camera to have two 8K sensors and a new generation chip to handle so much data without burning up. I think that's quite a few years away. Maybe the X6.
Fun fact, Insta360 adds considerable dynamic distortion by their stabilization software. Natively cameras of this kind would only have the challenge around the stitch line, which is heavily marketed as a feature where it edits out the selfie stick (along with bits of the hand holding it).
On the other hand, people have some funny expectations for "looks flat", including arbitrarily rejecting wide field of view images because their screen is too small.
Please Insta360 replace (or repare) his x4 (min 2:35) 🙂
I too, just scratched my lenses. I was bike riding using Insta360's power stick attached to my handlebars. A "warning" to anyone doing the same thing. Their power stick at the bottom where it is threaded is GLUED ON. Not threaded. A very poor design. So, glue cannot hold where selfie stick was threaded on, so stick/ camera falls to the ground. So, IF you have their power selfie stick, only use it while walking. Don't ever attach it to anything. IT WILL NOT HOLD. (I'm referring to the very bottom of the stick that holds the 1/4" thread).
From all the videos I watched, I'd say you have the removable lens guards on the wrong way (most of the time). The colored dot is supposed to be at the bottom and the camera uses it to identify that and what kind of lens guard is on there (in the auto mode)
In this video where you see the lens protectors on I shot those parts the first day I got the camera, before I recorded any footage with it. And I had them on incorrectly. Whoops! I did not record any footage with them on the camera though.
By the way, if you forget to choose the correct protector setting in the camera, you can select it in the software later when exporting.
Does it have the capability to film without the barrel or fisheye distortion like the GoPro can?
Yes, you can select dewarp in the camera or even in the software after recording.
All so called 360 cameras must compensate for lens projection ("dewarp"), though they cannot target rectilinear "flat" image; it simply doesn't work for extreme fields of view (approaching 180 degrees, and dual lens spherical must go over to have some overlap). In a single lens mode it could do similar recording but this is cropping to a smaller part of the sensor.
I use a Best360 backpack with my insta
If you like bendy trees and buildings in iPhone 6 quality then the x4 is for you 😂
And what is the price difference 🤔 x3 and x4
Any review where they give you the hardware for free is immediately suspect.
The earpods sound rather horrible, I'd say better use other specific Bluetooth microphones to assure proper sound quality.
You got your lens protectors on wrong
Yes, on the first day (when I was filming the shots of the camera after unboxing) I had them on wrong. I see some others making the same mistake. For anyone reading this, the dot should be at the bottom, not the top left.
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Still the 8k quality sucks - loses against any 8 year old sony rx100 with full frame sensor.....reminds me of the GoPro Marketing
The RX100 doesn't have a full frame sensor.
Why aren’t my images being saved to my iPhone album in 360 images format after I chose export as 360? It’s just flat images doesn’t save with that 360 symbol and FB doesn’t support 360 images no more ?