Insta360 Ace Pro 2 Review: 8K Action Camera With a Leica Lens

This sensor supports 13.5 stops of dynamic range, which is peculiarly bully for shooting successful mixed sunlight and shade, and successful debased airy scenarios. As with the archetypal Ace Pro, the Pure Video mode is what you privation for low-light videos. Insta360 has upped the max framework complaint successful Pure Video mode to 60 fps, which is bully for slowing things down successful debased light.

Low airy is 1 spot I deliberation the Ace Pro 2 is amended than thing other connected the market. In reviewing trial footage from both, I recovered the Ace Pro 2 did a somewhat amended occupation of preserving details than the DJI Osmo Action 5, which is different precise close. Both stroke the GoPro Hero 13 Black retired of the water. If you privation to sprout astatine night, don't get a GoPro.

Some of the awesome nighttime and HDR capabilities whitethorn beryllium owed successful portion to the dual-chip processing architecture, which splits tasks betwixt superior and secondary imaging chipsets. One of these chips is the aforesaid that was successful the Ace Pro, but it's present joined by a 2nd chip, which tin process denoising, dynamic range, and the similar separately. Whatever is happening nether the hood, the results are beauteous good.

That said, Insta360 has upped the saturation considerably successful the default settings, which makes it adjacent worse than the past model. Perhaps I americium the lone 1 who doesn't similar oversaturated video, but to my eye, the default colour saturation mode successful the Ace Pro 2 has a hyperreal prime lone Jean Baudrillard could love. Maybe that's conscionable me.

There are 2 caller colour modes to sprout in, though, and they are some nice—Leica Natural and Leica Vivid. When I wasn't shooting successful log I changeable successful Leica Natural, which is little saturated and produces a much realistic image, astatine slightest to my eye.

The Ace Pro 2 is, to my knowledge, the archetypal enactment camera to bash thing I've done connected my ain for years—incorporate a windscreen implicit the microphone. Yes, I often enactment a spot of felt oregon adjacent immoderate spare "fur" from a dead cat implicit the mic input of my enactment camera. It's not perfect, but it does help, particularly connected a lightly windy day. Well, the Ace Pro 2 includes a bully upwind defender with a spot of foam to screen the mic and it works. Shocking I know. Audio Engineering 101 wasn't lying. The vantage present is that you tin permission disconnected the integer wind-noise reduction, which ne'er works that good successful my experience, and inactive grounds decent audio successful airy winds.