Why i regret buying the Insta360 X3

Hello, welcome back to a new video. So as

some of you may know, I recently bought

this Insta360 X3 action

camera with 360 video recording

capabilities. And I have to say that after

using it for about a week during my trips

in Vietnam, I don't really like it that

much. I mean, it's okay as a camera, as a

camera, it films pretty decent looking

video footage, but it's just kind of heavy

and bulky. And it was kind of annoying

having my phone in my right pocket and

having this in my left pocket, I felt like

my trousers were going to fall down

because of all this added weight in my

trousers. And what you get in return for

having this added weight and risk of your

trousers falling down and your panties

being exposed isn't really that great in

my opinion. Now, I was able to get some

interesting looking footage on my trips in

Vietnam, which I might show a few clips

here and there during this video if I can

be bothered. But I don't really feel like

I really needed the 360 functionality.

And I found myself actually going back to

just using my iPhone 12 mini for filming

stuff, because number one, the iPhone 12

mini is much smaller and kind of easier to

hold and much lighter than the Insta360

X3. And also you get extra abilities with

the iPhone 12 as a video camera. Number

one, when you're shooting video with the

iPhone 12, you can pinch to zoom in. I've

got 3x optical zoom. You can't really zoom

in with the Insta360. So sure, you can

zoom in and crop into your footage when

you're processing it, when you're editing

it, but it's not really the same as iPhone

12's zoom. So with the iPhone 12 zoom,

you can kind of blur out the background,

have a bokeh effect. You can't really do

that with the 360 camera. There's no way

you'll be able to blur out the background

using this lens. There's just no way.

Also, in low-light situations, the iPhone

12 is so much better. So for example, I

went to a night market in Vietnam and I

took footage using my iPhone 12 and the

Insta360. I will show both of those

footages now, and I think it's pretty

obvious which one's which because iPhone

12 just blew the Insta360 out of the

water when it comes to low-light

performances.

Sử dụng các loại cán bộ, kế hoạch,

giải quyết các án xuất khẩu, nhập khẩu,

tài sản, vận chuyển, sử dụng trái phép cá

nhân và cá sấu xử lý các hành vi vi phạm

liên quan đến cá. Thành viên sử dụng các

loại cá, các cá trái phép từ triệu đồng

đến hai mươi triệu đồng, xử phạt đến mười

lăm năm tù về tội sản xuất, buôn bán,

tàng trữ, vận chuyển trái phép cá với lợi

ích của đề án phát triển ứng dụng dữ liệu

về doanh nghiệp xuất khẩu cá nhân xử lý

các hành vi vi phạm liên quan đến cá.

So those are my 2 footages from a Vietnam

night market, and I think it's pretty

obvious which one's which. In case you

couldn't tell, the first footage was from

the Insta360 X3, and then the last 2 clips

were from my iPhone. Now the only thing

that's bad about my iPhone is a little

lens flare when there's a lot of light

sources coming in. The iPhone does have

this bad habit of popping up a load of

lens flares, little, little light circle

things that pop up on the footage, which

looks pretty bad. The Insta360 doesn't do

that, even though it has this very bulbous

and round lens, which you would think the

rounder the lens is, the more of these

little lens flares are going to pop up.

But I don't know why the iPhone has such a

problem with it, because my other phones

don't have this problem. It's just like an

Apple thing, I guess. But I do prefer the

footage from my iPhone more And I also

enjoyed the ability to be able to zoom in

onto certain things and also have the

flexibility of being able to go from

wide-angle lens to standard lens and also

have a selfie lens if needed. Now the

Insta does have all those lenses built

into basically 2 lenses. You can do

selfie, wide, you can also do kind of

cropped in, but there's no zoom with the

Insta360, which you're going to have to

accept unless you want to do like a

digital crop in on the editing app. Which

is also— it's fine, I guess, but it

doesn't really beat having a proper

optical zoom. Now this thing cost me £450,

and I'm not really sure if I can justify

spending that much money on this, which is

basically just a glorified GoPro with 360

functionality. And I don't really use the

360 effects that much. I don't really care

about the tiny planet thing. I don't

really care about using a massive tripod

or selfie stick and flinging it around my

head and doing like a fake drone shots or

putting it in my mouth and doing that like

an up nose shot. I don't really care about

these gimmicks. They're just very

gimmicky. I just want something that films

well, that's easy to hold, and isn't very

in your face. Now, one of the main reasons

I wanted to buy a 360 camera was because I

don't like pointing my camera at people.

I want to film street footage and people,

but when you're just pointing a camera at

someone, they're gonna notice that you're

pointing a camera at them. And some people

don't like being filmed. Some people get

very upset about being filmed for some

weird reason. And I get very scared of

upsetting people. I don't wanna upset

anyone. I don't want anyone throwing

punches at me or being angry at me because

I'm trying to film them. And the good

thing about the 360 is that no one knows

what you're filming. You could be pointing

these lenses at completely different

direction and they'll think, oh, he's just

filming over there, he's not filming me.

But little do they know, I am filming

literally everything. I'm filming

everything because it's a 360 camera.

Nothing is out of film. I can just reframe

it later. And if I want to film like an

angry-looking man at a banana shop later

without pointing my camera right in his

face, I can do that. With the iPhone, it

is very obvious that I'm zooming in and

filming someone's face because I'll be

pointing the camera directly at them. And

that's very nice and everything, but I

don't know if that's worth £450.

I could just be be a bit braver and point

my camera at what I want to film, because

99% of the time people are not going to

say anything about you filming. And I do

just walk around some street markets here

in Thailand as well, which is where I'm

currently staying at, and I do just take

my iPhone and I film a vlog, and no one

really cares because filming stuff is

pretty normal. Other problems I have with

this are kind of nitpicky. For example,

after using it for about a few minutes,

the device gets very hot around this area.

It gets really hot, like you almost boil

an egg on it. And also the battery life is

not that great. It lasts about— I think I

can do about an hour. Or actually, I just

realized earlier when I was transporting

my footage from this to my phone, I

accidentally pressed the record button a

few days ago and I have like 40 minutes of

footage inside my bag. I don't know how it

accidentally started recording, but it

seems like it can only record about 40

minutes before the battery dies because

this was fully charged. So it was just

filming inside my bag and then it finished

filming around 40 minutes. So 40 minutes

of battery is not very good, is it? Now

kind of conflicted right now if I made a

good choice buying this. I don't really

know how I can use it in the future. I

guess I have to go to more markets and try

and find more ways to use it and maybe get

a selfie stick. I don't know if I really

want to get a selfie stick for this

because it's already quite chunky. Adding

a selfie stick onto this is just going to

double the size of this and it's going to

be even bigger. I don't know if it's worth

carrying this in my pocket when I go out

on my travels. I'm thinking of maybe

trying to sell it. I don't think I can

refund it because they said that I can

only refund it within 7 days and it's been

like 2 weeks now. So I might have just

completely wasted my money buying this and

it was completely unnecessary to buy this.