Insta360 has announced their latest action cam, the Insta360 GO Ultra. This unit attempts to shift forward the Insta360 GO lineup from being less full-featured, to now having more higher-end features from their Ace Pro series.
This includes a bigger sensor size, increase to 60FPS in 4K, better low light performance, swappable microSD card, and tons more. In virtually every way, it’s a very substantial and solid upgrade. But, that’s only half the picture. You see, the price is now $449, the same price as the Ace Pro 2, and even more critically, now the most expensive action cam on the market, above even the GoPro Hero 13 Black & DJI Action 5. As such, one simply has to compare it against those camera, both in features, but more critically, image quality. And that’s where things unravel a bit.
Down below you’ll find all the chapters for my review video, diving into all those sections. Furthermore, this was not a good timespan for me and killing action cameras. I managed to kill 2.5 of them during the testing of this. One Insta360 Go 3S drowend, one GoPro Hero 13 Black lost at sea, and then I’ve seemingly also killed a GoPro Hero 4K that won’t turn on the display anymore after it’s most recent underwater comparison session.
In any case, here’s the goods:
0:00 Quick Overview
0:44 Tiny Action Cam Explainer
1:07 The Pricing
1:35 Form Factor Changes
1:53 Pendant Changes
2:03 New Tether Inbox
2:13 Killing an Action Cam
2:30 Increased Sensor Size & 60FPS
3:13 Low Light Footage & Comparisons
4:50 Ambient Light Sensor Added
5:20 Active HDR Added
5:39 Added MicroSD Card Slot
6:25 Changes in Waterproofing
7:00 Killing another action cam
8:08 Battery spec changes
8:20 Battery charging changes
8:35 Increased FOV
8:53 Added 2X Clarity Zoom
9:10 Added 50MP photos
9:25 Increased pop-up screen size
9:42 New Ring Remote Control
10:07 The Mounting Mess
11:18 Action Cam Season/Final Thoughts
With that, thanks for watching!
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The price might be a killer.
But they’re doing great marketing with the smaller GO, getting little kids to clip them onto hat brims.
I can wait, little too expensive for me.