Insta360’s X4 Air is a smaller and cheaper version of its 360-degree X5 action camera

The caller Insta360 X4 Air besides has a larger sensor than the older X4. | Image: Insta360

Insta360 debuted its caller X5 360-degree enactment camera conscionable six months ago, but it turns retired that the institution inactive has plans for its predecessor. Today, it announced the Insta360 X4 Air, which is simply a lighter, smaller, and much affordable alternate to the $549.99 X5 that inactive offers 8K signaling capabilities, but starting astatine $399.99. It’s launching contiguous astir the satellite done Insta360’s online store successful graphite achromatic and arctic achromatic colour options, but availability for the US and Canada is inactive “coming soon.”

The X4 Air offers akin signaling capabilities arsenic the original X4, with 360-degree 8K videos maxing retired astatine 30fps. But driblet the solution to 4K and the framerate maxes retired astatine conscionable 50fps, portion the X5 and X4 tin bash 4K astatine up to 100fps for capturing dilatory question clips. You’ll request to usage the X4 Air successful single-lens mode astatine 1080p to boost the framework to 120fps. The X4 Air besides has reduced capabilities erstwhile capturing inactive photos. It maxes retired astatine 29 megapixels, portion the X5 and X4 some seizure images astatine 72MP.

Despite the flimsy show reductions, the X4 Air features a brace of 1/1.8-inch sensors that are somewhat larger than the 1/2-inch sensors utilized successful the older X4 that Insta360 says should assistance it seizure “better item and much vivid colour consecutive retired of the camera.” But they’re some inactive smaller than the 1/1.28-inch sensors successful the Insta360 X5, truthful if you program connected shooting successful low-light conditions, past it mightiness beryllium worthy the splurge and drawback Insta360’s newest exemplary instead.

The existent entreaty of the caller X4 Air is its size, although, contempt its name, it’s not that overmuch smaller than the X4 and X5. It’s astir 10 millimeters shorter than the different models astatine 113mm tall, and astatine 165 grams, it’s 30 grams lighter than the X4 and X5, perchance making it a spot much convenient to transportation astir each day. Its smaller assemblage does travel with the compromise of a smaller 2,010mAh battery, with artillery beingness falling determination in-between the X4 and X5 astatine up to 88 minutes erstwhile signaling astatine 8K / 30fps.

The removable lens guards introduced with the X4 are inactive disposable for the caller X4 Air, but it besides comes with user-replaceable lenses that tin beryllium swapped retired successful seconds which was 1 of the champion features of the X5. The X4 Air is besides waterproof to depths of up to 49 feet similar the X5 without the request for a dive housing, and includes that enactment camera’s hands-free signaling options including gestures, dependable control, and the enactment to twist a selfie instrumentality backmost and distant to statesman capturing.