The current landscape of action cameras basically breaks down into three main players. While Cycliq, and now Garmin, have options for what amount to dash cams for a bike the options for a quality general purpose action camera come from GoPro, DJI, and Insta360. They each have their own unique take on what an action camera is and you can see their strengths, and weaknesses, reflected in our list of the best action cameras available.
Among the primary action camera options, the brand that has gone all in on 360 filming is Insta360. Its cameras allow you to shoot your whole environment at once and offer unique capabilities. Also, like its competitors, it continues to innovate and release new offerings regularly. We’ve covered the Insta360 One RS in the past but an update to the Insta360 One X2 has now landed and it’s a compelling vision of what you need in an action camera. The capabilities are a unique offering from a unique company and it might be perfect for you. If you love the idea of sharing your two wheeled adventures with the world keep reading to see what the Insta360 X3 offers.
Design and aesthetics
GoPro started the market for action cameras and it did it with a pretty tiny package. The idea is that professional content creators can have a highly capable camera that’s small enough to mount anywhere and rugged enough to go places a DSLR wouldn’t last for a moment. Turns out that the rest of us fancy ourselves professional content creators too, and the idea of a little box to document our adventures was a hit.
Insta360 took the whole idea a step further and created a modular version of the little box camera. The idea was that as technology marched on you could upgrade pieces of the camera without needing a new one. Along with that modularity it has a 360-degree lens that you can swap in and out of the whole system. The current version of that camera is the Insta360 One RS and it’s a very capable camera.
The problem is that a lot of people aren’t professional content creators. You’ve seen all the amazing content out there and you think that you’ll strap a little box to your bike and turn out amazing content. Then you try it and realize your life actually requires a lot more hand held filming and you rarely need something as small as the Insta360 One RS. That’s where the Insta360…
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