Insta360 redesigned its compact action cam with a bigger battery and swappable storage

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The Insta360 Go Ultra enactment camera floating supra its Action Pod charger.

Insta360 has announced the adjacent mentation of its compact Go enactment camera, which helped the institution differentiate itself from established competitors similar GoPro respective years ago. As Insta360 teased earlier this week, the caller Go Ultra not lone breaks from the numbered naming normal of erstwhile iterations, but it besides ditches the camera’s distinctive pill signifier for a rounded quadrate plan with an offset lens.

It’s not the steepest terms summation for the Go bid – the Go 2 launched astatine $299 portion the Go 3, which introduced a charging distant with a screen, was $380 – but the caller Insta360 Go Ultra is $50 much costly than last year’s Go 3S astatine $449.99. It’s disposable present successful midnight achromatic oregon arctic achromatic done the company’s online store and Amazon, oregon arsenic portion of a $499.99 Creator Bundle that includes accessories similar a mini tripod and a speedy merchandise mount.

The achromatic and achromatic versions of the Insta360 Go Ultra camera connected its own.

The Insta360 Go Ultra measures 1.8 inches connected each side, portion the pill-shaped Go 3S was somewhat longer but a spot narrower. The caller exemplary is besides astir 14 grams heavier than the Go 3S (not counting its screen-equipped Action Pod accessory that adds different 109 grams), but the Go Ultra is inactive a overmuch smaller enactment camera than alternatives similar the DJI Osmo Action 5 Pro and adjacent Insta360’s ain Ace Pro 2.

It features a caller 1/1.28-inch sensor that’s considerably larger than what the Go 3S uses (and the aforesaid size arsenic the sensor successful Insta360’s X5 360-degree enactment cam), which, alongside a caller ambient airy sensor, should assistance amended the look of footage captured successful low-light situations. The Go Ultra’s video capabilities inactive max retired astatine 4K, but astatine 60fps, which is treble the maximum framework complaint of the Go 3S. Reducing the framework complaint to 4K/30fps enables an “Active HDR” mode, portion dropping the solution to 1080p boosts framework rates to 240fps for capturing slo-mo footage.

Close-up footage of a kid eating seen connected the Insta360 Go Ultra’s Action Pod’s screen.

Even with the lens located successful the corner, the Go Ultra’s quadrate plan could marque it a small much challenging to find erstwhile the camera is capturing footage successful scenery versus representation orientations. The erstwhile pill signifier made that a batch easier. But the caller plan has country for a overmuch larger 500mAh artillery that Insta360 says is bully for up to 70 minutes of signaling oregon up to 200 minutes erstwhile paired with the Action Pod, but astatine 1080p/24fps and the surface off. At 4K/60fps signaling times connected a afloat complaint volition perchance beryllium shorter than that.

Two images of radical connected bike’s utilizing the Insta360 Go Ultra attached to a selfie instrumentality and a motorcycle helmet.

Instead of built-in storage, the Go Ultra present features a representation paper slot supporting microSD cards up to 2TB successful size, truthful you tin swap successful replacements arsenic they capable up. It’s besides inactive waterproof to depths of up to 33 feet. Accessories see an upgraded magnetic pendant for wearing the camera astatine thorax level and a chapeau clip designed for toddlers, but the backmost of the Go Ultra is besides magnetic, which means it tin beryllium mounted straight to galore metallic surfaces.