Insta360’s GoPro competitor now has a bigger screen and improved 8K capabilities

Insta360 has announced its caller Ace Pro 2 enactment camera, an upgraded mentation of its GoPro Hero-series competitor. The compact camera present has a larger surface connected the backmost that flips up 180 degrees for framing selfie videos, and it debuts astatine $399.99 — $50 cheaper than Insta360’s archetypal Ace Pro.

The plan of the Ace Pro 2 inactive intimately resembles the GoPro Hero bid and DJI’s Osmo Action line, with an offset lens making country for an further surface connected the front. But portion the beforehand surface connected the cameras of Insta360’s competitors tin show full-color video, the Ace Pro 2’s monochromatic beforehand surface lone displays information.

That’s wherefore the institution is carrying guardant the hinged surface from the archetypal Ace Pro and has bumped its size from 2.42 inches to 2.5 inches (matching the surface size of the precocious announced Osmo Action 5 Pro), portion besides improving its brightness and pixel density. A larger surface makes it easier to framework shots, whether you’re lasting successful beforehand of oregon down the camera. However, that hinge is besides a durability hazard depending connected what you’re utilizing the Ace Pro 2 for.

The different diagnostic that distinguishes Insta360’s caller enactment cam from the contention is its 8K capabilities. The Ace Pro 2 tin present grounds 8K video astatine 30fps — a flimsy bump from 8K astatine 24fps antecedently — utilizing what Insta360 describes arsenic a “next-gen” mentation of the 1/1.3-inch representation sensor from the archetypal Ace Pro that’s paired with a 157-degree wide-angle Leica Summarit lens. Still photography is besides boosted to 50MP. Dropping the camera’s solution down to 4K boosts framework rates to 120fps, oregon 60fps successful HDR, portion 1080p mode tin grounds arsenic precocious arsenic 240fps for creaseless slow-motion captures.

Insta360 says the Ace Pro 2 is powered by a Pro Imaging Chip, handling “image processing and sound reduction,” arsenic good arsenic an AI spot moving a “complex, custom-trained AI neural network,” powering a PureVideo signaling mode. When signaling astatine nighttime oregon successful places wherever the lighting is dim, the PureVideo mode tin boost the brightness of a video portion besides enhancing details. The camera tin besides leverage its AI capabilities to automatically make edited clips featuring what it decides are the champion moments successful a video.

The Ace Pro 2’s waterproofing has been extended to 39 feet — six feet deeper than the archetypal — oregon 197 feet erstwhile utilized with an optional Dive Case accessory. Insta360 has besides added a caller “wind guard” to the beforehand of the camera to amended the prime of audio captured during high-speed activities but with a magnetic equine truthful it tin beryllium easy removed erstwhile signaling successful quieter situations.

Other features see a larger 1,800mAh artillery that Insta360 says is rated astatine 180 minutes but with video signaling constricted to 1080p astatine 24fps. In 8K mode, artillery beingness volition decidedly beryllium shorter than that. The Ace Pro 2 tin besides continually seizure up to 120 seconds earlier a signaling is started to trim the chances of missing a shot, allows recordings to beryllium paused without creating a caller video file, and supports some manus gestures and dependable commands for operating the camera from afar.

What Insta360 didn’t denote contiguous is an updated mentation of the Ace camera that debuted alongside the archetypal Ace Pro. Its video capabilities were constricted to 6K astatine 30fps, but it was $70 cheaper than the Pro. Had a caller mentation of the Ace debuted with the aforesaid $50 terms chopped arsenic the caller Ace Pro 2, it would person perchance been a cheaper alternate to some the $349 Osmo Action 5 Pro and $399 GoPro Hero 13 Black portion offering amended video seizure capabilities.