Insta360’s new 360-degree action cam lets you replace damaged lenses

Insta360’s caller X5 enactment camera streamlines sharing videos to societal media. | Image: Insta360

Insta360 has announced a caller mentation of its 360-degree enactment camera that won’t instantly go e-waste should your utmost adventures extremity up breaking a lens. Last year’s Insta360 X4 introduced a removable defender to support its 2 lenses, but the X5 goes 1 measurement further with a caller hardware plan making its lenses user-replaceable should they get damaged.

The Insta360 X5 is disposable contiguous from the company’s online store and different retailers. Pricing starts astatine $549.99 for a modular mentation that includes basal accessories similar a charging cablegram and pouch, portion a $659.99 essentials bundle adds an other battery, a 45-inch agelong extending selfie stick, lens guards, lens caps, and a carrying case. A replacement lens kit costs $29.99, portion further batteries are $44.99 each.

In summation to the replaceable lenses made from a “new ultra-durable glass,” Insta360 has besides upgraded the X5 with larger 1/1.28-inch sensors — the quality to seizure much airy volition perchance amended the X5’s low-light performance. Further improving low-light show is simply a caller PureVideo mode the institution says uses “advanced AI sound simplification and dynamic scope optimization” to “deliver clear, vibrant footage successful debased light.”

Like the Insta360 X4, the X5’s video capabilities max retired astatine 8K/30 fps, adjacent erstwhile utilizing that caller PureVideo low-light mode. The framerate jumps to 60 fps with the solution reduced to 5.7K, and tin spell arsenic precocious arsenic 120 fps for capturing dilatory question video with the solution acceptable to 4K. That’s a tiny measurement from the X4 that maxed retired astatine 4K/100 fps. Still photos are inactive captured astatine 72-megapixels.

To marque it easier to instantly stock videos connected societal media without processing oregon editing, the Insta360 X5 has different caller mode called InstaFrame that captures 2 videos simultaneously. One is simply a level video that either follows a changeless absorption oregon keeps your look successful framework the full time, portion the different is simply a afloat 360-degree clip that records everything happening astir you.

Battery beingness has been improved acknowledgment to a somewhat larger 2,400mAh powerfulness battalion that’s removable truthful you tin support extras connected hand. The X4 maxed retired astatine 75 minutes of capturing 8K/30 fps footage, but the X5 bumps that to 88 minutes. Dropping the solution to 5K/30 fps extends the signaling clip to up to 135 minutes, oregon up to 185 minutes astatine 5K/24 fps.

Water-resistance has been improved to an IP68 standing allowing the Insta360 X5 to beryllium utilized nether h2o arsenic heavy arsenic 49 feet without the request for an further dive housing. And to marque it easier to commencement signaling successful situations wherever you can’t scope the X5 and it’s excessively noisy for dependable commands to enactment reliably, a caller Twist to Shoot lets you twist a selfie instrumentality backmost and distant to statesman capturing.