# The best camera Insta360 has ever made

Channel: Katie Steckly
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w8q5gC0bHo
Duration: 16 min
Language: English
Words: 3216
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[0:00] I think Insta360 might have just made the mini vlogging camera of my dreams. This is the Luna Ultra and with its gimbal, detachable screen / remote, and 12 times zoom, it feels like this camera was specifically designed to address the gripes that I had with the Osmo Pocket 3. Okay, but that's not to say that I don't love the DJI Pocket cameras. If you want to see a full comparison video between these two guys, let me know in the comments. But for now, I want to tell you about all the cool new features on the Luna Ultra and show you some of the footage from this camera so that you

[0:30] can decide for yourself if it's worth the upgrade. Thanks to Insta360 for sponsoring today's video and for sending me the Luna Ultra in advance of the release so that I could test it out thoroughly for you guys. So for all the cameras I've tried from Insta360 have been distinctly action cameras. There's nothing wrong with that, but when you look at the footage, you can tell they're action cameras. They've got a really wide field of view, very little depth of field. Like the footage from the Go Ultra, for example, is not going to compare to footage off of like a Sony ZVE1. Like it it just won't. think these

[1:00] cameras provide impressive results for their super tiny form factor. But I say all of this to set the context for why I was so impressed with the video quality from the Luna. The Insta360 Luna Ultra can film in 8K and up to 30 frames per second. It can also capture 4K footage up to 120 frames per second, which gives

[1:21] you really beautiful smooth slow motion. But as we know, it's not all about resolution, right? The Go Ultra can also shoot in 4K, but the 4K from this camera looks different than the 4K from the Luna. So the important thing you need to know is that this camera has a 1-in sensor and two lenses co-engineered with Leica. The main lens has a fixed aperture of f/1.8, and that's what gives you that beautiful blurry background that everybody wants. And even the telephoto lens has an aperture of f/2.0, which is still really good. It's this combination of the larger sensor and these beautiful lenses that really gives you that improved result. Plus, it's

[1:57] also got Insta360's pure video mode, which means it deals really well in low-light conditions. Like, you can basically see in the dark. I have been vlogging my life with this camera for the past few weeks across various scenarios and different lighting conditions, and I have been consistently impressed with how this footage looks. Look, guys, I know this is a sponsored video, and typically I don't try to shill too hard because I want you to know like my opinions are my own, and if cameras have limitations, I like to be honest about them. But, if I'm honest with you, I think this is my favorite camera that I've tried like in the past

[2:31] year. So, let's get into it. I really do think this is the best quality footage out of an Insta360 vlogging camera that I've seen so far. If I had one piece of feedback or critique, it's that when you film in the standard profile, this footage is very high contrast and quite high saturation. I also wanted to say that first, I had the sharpness set to high. Later, I turned that down to medium, and I find that that has like a slightly nicer look, but a lot of this comes down to preference. As I've said, I find the video quality of this camera really impressive, but it's the physical

[3:05] design features that I'm really obsessed with. I'll admit, when I first got it out of the box, I thought it looked a little goofy. It's definitely giving WALL-E for sure. It's bigger than the Osmo Pocket 3, which is what I was used to before this, which is a bit of a downside. Like, it's bulkier, but I think it makes up for that in its functionality. Obviously, it's got two lenses. That's one of the biggest things that makes it bigger. This part's so wide. But, this means we have a 12x zoom range. It takes us from a 20mm equivalent lens at the widest up to 240mm at 12x, and I just find that crazy for a

[3:42] camera of this [music] size. Okay, speaking of zoom, I love the buttons on this camera. Something that always annoyed me about the Pocket 3 was having to tap on the touchscreen to alternate the joystick between controlling the camera direction and controlling the zoom. But on a Luna, we've got so many buttons. And I don't know about you, but I love physical buttons. I get kind of annoyed having to use a touchscreen for everything, so I'm loving this. Okay, first we have the zoom rocker on the right hand side. So, this is a dedicated button to zoom in and out. On the top left, we've got the

[4:14] joystick. This is for repositioning the camera and it also has some tracking controls. We'll talk about that later. But obviously, this is the button. It also turns the camera on and off. Something that I'm really loving about this camera is the telephoto lens. Like the ability to do 2x, 3x, even up to 12x because I think you can just like capture so many tiny details that way that if you're stuck vlogging with just a wide-angle lens, you wouldn't have the opportunity to capture because then everything you film looks like from really far away. But this lets you really get those textures that I think make a scene come to life. Oh, we're not

[4:47] even done. We've still got two more buttons just below this screen here. And get this, these are custom programmable buttons. Music to my ears, okay? I love a button that I can set. Especially when you use a camera a lot, you want to be able to customize how you use it to fit your workflow. So, I have these buttons set to toggle between filming in selfie mode and filming uh front-facing. So, you can really quickly go between like

[5:15] vlogging and then shooting your b-roll. This other button I have set to toggle between the various focal lengths. [music] So, instead of having to like slowly wait for it to zoom, I can just press this button a few times and jump between the different zoom settings. Of course, you can do all of that just using the icons on the touchscreen, but personally I find it a lot nicer to use the physical buttons instead. And if you thought all of that was cool, we are just getting started because all of the buttons and the touchscreen are removable from the camera. You just press in these two red buttons on the

[5:48] side and you can pull the remote away. This is such a useful feature, especially for solo vloggers, because it means you can set up the camera on a tripod in the general area where you need it. Then you can detach the remote from the camera and you can actually adjust the shot while you're in it. You can use the joystick to reposition the camera, you can zoom in or out, and you can press record all without having to actually be in arm's length of the camera. And once you hit record, you can

[6:18] use your remote as your microphone. What? I know, right? I thought this was such a clever feature because if you need to be holding the remote anyway to control the camera, then it might as well be a microphone. And this is what it sounds like, by the way. That being said, the Luna is also compatible with Insta360's new Mic Pros. These are the mics that have the really fun customizable e-ink screen, so you can set it to be your own logo or brand color. If you saw my last camera comparison video, then you'll already know that these mics provide really

[6:47] crisp, high-quality audio. Unfortunately, I found them to have some connectivity issues to both the Ace Pro 2 and the Go Ultra. I'm happy to report that these connect seamlessly to the Luna Ultra and sound as they should. And actually, [music] while I've been in the midst of working on this video, I just saw that Insta360 released a new firmware update for these mics that is meant to improve their connection with

[7:12] all the other cameras like the Go Ultra. So, I'm glad to know that's [music] been fixed up. They connect perfectly to the Luna Ultra and you get really great, high-quality audio. You don't need to use the receiver, you can connect these directly, and you can connect two of them, which is great if you vlog with a friend. I wanted to do a quick audio test for you, so here is what the audio on the Luna camera sounds like straight out of camera, no mics connected. Here's what the audio sounds like on the Luna when I have the Insta360 [music] Mic Pro connected. Of course, it's going to

[7:42] sound the best when I'm holding it near my mouth. So, for those of you who get angry every time you see someone holding a lav mic, this is what it sounds like when I have it clipped to [music] my shirt. And for my next trick, this is what the audio sounds like using the microphone on [music] the remote, the detachable screen and remote panel. It

[8:00] has a little microphone on top. Obviously, I'm not that far from the camera [music] and the on-board microphone, but this is to give you a sense of what it sounds like when I'm far [music] away from the camera, but I've still got the little remote with me that has its own mic. The Luna Ultra comes with a quarter-inch screw handle, which means you can attach it to any tripod. But, the handle also comes with these really handy little flip-out tripod legs, which means you've

[8:22] basically always got a tripod built in. This camera's got 4 hours of battery life, and it's important to note that both the remote and the camera have their own batteries, so you want to make sure they're both charged up. And it has built-in storage of 47 GB [music] plus a microSD card slot. Okay, so another fun feature of this camera is the color profiles you can pick from. They're basically built-in filters that give you

[8:45] a filmic look straight out of camera. You've got three built-in Leica looks, like a natural, like a vivid, and Leica Chrome, as well as Insta360's typical range of filters to pick from. What I really love about the Luna is you can actually adjust the intensity of the filter, so you can still add like an adjustment to give your footage a little bit of a filmic look, but it doesn't have to be like Instagram filter intense, you can tone it down. And Insta360 has even taken this customization a step further with the recipes feature. Okay, so check this out. You can set all of your custom parameters from white balance to

[9:21] exposure compensation and the color profile. And then, after you film a clip with these settings or take a photo, you can go into the preview, tap these three dots in the top right-hand corner, scroll down, and tap share recipe, and then share to phone. Now, you've got this really cute QR code and image saved, which anybody with a Luna camera can scan, instantly use that same film recipe to give their footage the same look. Then, of course, you can save this in the camera, so you can have your own

[9:49] list of custom recipes to choose from. Obviously, you've seen you can do some pretty extensive color adjustments right in camera, but you also have the flexibility to color grade in post when you shoot in I log 10-bit. Log profiles are essentially a really flat and desaturated way of capturing videos. You preserve your highlights and your shadows, and it also gives you more flexibility to color grade in post to really give your footage the look that you want to give it. So, whether you want to give your footage, your color adjustments directly in camera, or if you want the flexibility to color grade later, the Luna Ultra gives you both

[10:22] options. In addition to having stabilized footage, one of the primary benefits of cameras on gimbals like this is the tracking capability. The Luna is no exception. It's equipped with Insta360's deep tracking technology, and I found it actually really easy to use. So, to start tracking, you can just tap on the tracking button on the left-hand side of the screen, and you can tap and drag to draw a green box around your subject. This is great for tracking literally any object, whatever that you want to film. If you want to just track your face, the easiest way to do it is just by pressing in the joystick once,

[10:54] because then the camera will automatically detect a face [music] in the frame and start tracking it. So, now, no matter where I move around the room, I'm going to stay in frame. However, if I want a slightly different look, if I don't want to just be centered in the frame all the time, I can tap on the grid icon on the left-hand side, and I'm going to choose the like middle right box here, and then press the check mark. And now, as I move around, I'm still always going to be in frame, but I'm going to be centered around that middle right quadrant of the screen. So, you can kind kind on more

[11:30] creative framing and maintain that even as you move around, which is really cool. Then when I want to stop tracking myself, I can just press [music] in the joystick button, it'll cancel the tracking and then I can actually double click the joystick just to [music] re-center the camera to put it back to its default spot. This actually also works in zoom mode as well, so I'll start tracking myself and then [music]

[11:53] we will zoom in a bit. And if I go way back here, it's still going to keep tracking me even at a distance. It's always going to make sure that your subject stays in [music] frame. So I've always liked these gimbal tracking features for tracking myself as somebody that films myself by myself all the time. I find that very convenient, but since I've been using the Luna, I've also found it very fun to use the tracking on other objects like a building or a tree or a fountain or whatever. When I'm out and about filming, it just means that I can track something, get a little bit of

[12:25] interesting camera movement, and easily keep that subject in frame without having it to kind of pilot the gimbal myself. Also, I'm so impressed by the zoom tracking. That's a really fun feature because you can get these cool telephoto shots of yourself while you're moving around without having to move the camera. It's quite a novelty for someone who's used to working with just a camera on a tripod. And the tracking software seems to handle it very well. So who is this camera for? This might just be the ultimate solo vlogger camera because there's so many features that specifically make filming yourself by yourself so much easier. Like if you've

[13:01] ever struggled to frame a shot because you're the subject and you can't quite tell how it's going to look once you're in frame. With the Luna, you can set up the camera in the general spot that it needs to be and then you can grab the remote and position the camera from where you plan to be in the shot. In my opinion, this is the best way to be both the on-screen talent and the camera operator at the same time. Like the

[13:22] little remote makes it so convenient. And And you struggle with your footage being shaky when you're walking and talking to the camera, then then the Luna Ultra is really great for stabilizing it and making your footage look nice and smooth. And if you wanted to film yourself with some camera movement, but you always film by yourself, the deep track feature can

[13:42] basically act as your camera operator. As you've seen throughout the video, the quality of the footage from this camera is really quite good. I wouldn't necessarily put it on par with like Sony cameras, for example. Let's just do a really quick test shot so you can see the equivalent. I'm holding up the camera right next to my Sony lens, and this is what it looks like on the Sony camera. Here's what it looks like on the Luna. However, I really want to emphasize how impressed I was at how good these clips look. I have tried many Insta360 cameras at this point, and don't get me wrong, they're each good

[14:15] [music] for what they are. Cameras like the Go Ultra or the Go 3S provide really quick, good results in a very, very tiny form factor. But, the quality of the footage from the Luna is leagues ahead of the Go Ultra, in my opinion. The Go Ultra is a wide POV action camera-style vlogging camera. You can wear it around

[14:36] your neck, you can magnet it anywhere. Obviously, there's a lot of benefits to having a camera that small, but there's also some trade-offs in terms of quality. The Luna Ultra is obviously a lot bigger, but it's also way more powerful and packed with features, and the quality of the footage definitely demonstrates that. I'm really curious to hear your thoughts about the Luna Ultra in the comments below, especially what you think of how the footage looks. I am planning to put this camera head-to-head with the new Osmo Pocket 4 as soon as I get my hands on one. So, you can tell me if that sounds interesting in the

[15:04] comments, too. Having this camera handy the last few days has really inspired me to vlog my life more often, and I just think that's always the best review of a camera when it makes it fun and easy to film. It means that you're going to film more often. And so, no matter the quality of the footage, it's better to have something than nothing. And yeah, I've just I've really enjoyed using this little Wally guy. He's fun. You can pick up the LUNA ultra for yourself at the link in my description. As always, thank you so much for watching. I hope you're having adventures and following your

[15:32] dreams, and I'll catch you in the next video. Bye.

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