Thank you very much.

Im waiting for threaded lens easy to replace and keep some spare..so no need to send the unit for lens scratch repair

Please follow thru on his suggestion of time to select next mode. 10seconds to no time limit

@@nemesis851_ They did! The latest firmware changed it back to the X3 way.

Seems a whole lot of things stop Insta360. For instance, they couldn't admit the Evo wouldn't do long recordings, and when pushed about it, claimed chopping holes in footage was a feature. And this new model is stopped by a warm room. "Peak influencer" is also an accurate comment. I'll admit I'm only halfway through so far, but the whole thing so far is advertisement with attitude, not review. And the affiliate links and preview units do nothing to improve that picture.

What about high speed SD cards for recording 8K, they are expensive and still not available.

Thank you very much!

I really appreciate that comment. Thank you.

Yeah!

If your rear lens is damaged, did it really protect it?

I was surprised at how well the X3 held up in well lit outdoor comparisons after reframing. Comparing them in VR though, it's hard to go back to the X3. But few people are watching their footage in 360.

@@Roos-Reviews I don't know whether you will see this now, but I have become obsessed with the X4 sharpness setting in the last few days. No, I still haven't got one, which is why I am asking your expert opinion. I saw a short reference to the sharpness setting in another review recently, and it showed side by side video stills of a quite distant building with brick-faced walls. In low sharpness, the bricks became a fuzzy red surface. In medium, the bricks were clearly bricks. In high, there was really no obvlous difference compared to medium. Now it seems to me that the typical 2.7k reframes from the X4 would need all the help they can get to look crisp and detailed, and the medium setting would therefore be pretty essential to avoid the X4 looking like the X3 despite the 8k capture vs 5.7K - and also, typically the X4 would not be being used for portraits or other images where you might want to soften the image for flattering results. And it seems to me that if bricks (for instance) are being captured with low sharpness and turned to mush, that no amount of post production sharpening would bring them back. Any views on this? Maybe this is the reason why I have often been underwhelmed by many X4 samples as low sharpness seems to be very much in fashion these days with all cameras, but maybe the nature of the X4 simply doesn't warrant that setting.

Would it help you if I were to record a clip beside a brick wall with the X3 and X4 and send you the original insv files to analyse? Do you have a Dropbox or Google drive?

@@Roos-Reviews Thanks for that offer - at the moment I am having to stay at a house 50km from my PC and I only have a chromebook and Quest 3 here - so I wouldn't be able to do much with the files. That's also why I'm still not the proud owner of an X4, as currently I wouldn't be able to do much with it ... maybe when I escape back to my own home I will contact you again. (And I suspect I don't have much capacity on Google Drive anyway). But again, thanks for the thought!

I wish for that too, but that would require the camera to have two 8K sensors and a new generation chip to handle so much data without burning up. I think that's quite a few years away. Maybe the X6.

Fun fact, Insta360 adds considerable dynamic distortion by their stabilization software. Natively cameras of this kind would only have the challenge around the stitch line, which is heavily marketed as a feature where it edits out the selfie stick (along with bits of the hand holding it). On the other hand, people have some funny expectations for "looks flat", including arbitrarily rejecting wide field of view images because their screen is too small.

In this video where you see the lens protectors on I shot those parts the first day I got the camera, before I recorded any footage with it. And I had them on incorrectly. Whoops! I did not record any footage with them on the camera though. By the way, if you forget to choose the correct protector setting in the camera, you can select it in the software later when exporting.

Yes, you can select dewarp in the camera or even in the software after recording.

All so called 360 cameras must compensate for lens projection ("dewarp"), though they cannot target rectilinear "flat" image; it simply doesn't work for extreme fields of view (approaching 180 degrees, and dual lens spherical must go over to have some overlap). In a single lens mode it could do similar recording but this is cropping to a smaller part of the sensor.

Yes, on the first day (when I was filming the shots of the camera after unboxing) I had them on wrong. I see some others making the same mistake. For anyone reading this, the dot should be at the bottom, not the top left.

The RX100 doesn't have a full frame sensor.