Insta360 RS 1-inch 360 Review for 360 Virtual Tour Photography

Thank you Nick! Can I use this camera with Ricoh 360 tours?

I appreciate your hard work in making the content (I have subscribed) but please be conscious of your lip-smacking.

Very helpful detailed tutorial. I bought an Insta360 X3 camera and was frustrated with the outcome of my photos. Using these guides i have been able to take better photos

Have you got any examples of how it performs in dark rooms? From past experience with any photographic equipment, it is rooms with dark decor /lighting issues that tend to have problems/noise etc. Sometimes with single shot 360s you are limited because there isn’t any practical way to add flash in that situation.

Thanks for the great video, first one I find where manual bracketing for virtual tours is explained. Thanks!!

Hi Nick, is this finally the camera that would be suitable for normal tours, leaving the Dslr for high end jobs? Hope you are well!

question about how the photo files are stored onto the camera. Let's say I got 12 rooms to do, can I store each room in different folders inside the camera?

This one does take great photos for its size. I was positively surprised at the quality, especially after shooting video with it first.
We bought two of these for a 360° video production and after trying them in the studio and on set, I have to say that they are NOT professional products for video. It's not just the poor image quality it shoots, reliability is the biggest issue. We had overheating issues shooting inside a climated studio after half an hour which get worse if you try to charge them while recording if you don't want to run out of battery after 60 minutes. The final nail in the coffin was both cameras failing to respond to input during recording on set where we only had one take to get the shot we needed (airplane take-off and landing). Big waste of money if you're trying to use this in any professional video capacity.

so you recommend taking each shot with different exposer like your own bracketing ? that must take a lot of patients but I can see how it would be better .

Nick, I just bought this camera for an upcoming trip to Hawaii. This video is EXACTLY what I've been looking for! Great technical content and I appreciate your focus on photography. BIG THANK YOU!

Enviable video! I have a brand new one in my hand right now for the new biz, but am returning it cause I need to buy a new phone or tablet of equal cost to the camera to operate it. Too bad...would have been cool :( Maybe later.

Hello Nick.
Can you make a similar Video for Affinity Photo Editing Workflow ?

How do you take the photos without including yourself? Do you move to another room? Is there is an option to shoot first front and then back camera so that you step off?

Great video Nick. If you had the choice of the insta360 one inch edition or the higher resolution (72MP) but smaller sensor size X3, which would be your preferred?

Yo disparo en hdr 5 , luego las 5 imagenes raw las compongo en hdr con lightroom y ajusto...luego topaz sharpen.

Thank you Nick. Have you found any issues with Topaz products causing a seam in your tours when the panoramas are loaded into 3DVISTA? I've been reluctant t0 use sharpen and mostly use Denoise which includes a sharpening function. I sense the Denoise sharpening has a tendency to produce less artifacts.

Nice breakdown of the actual use for a workflow, we've been watching your videos since 2019 :)

Great camera so far as an upgrade from our trusty old Theta SC2. We have noticed that there seems to be some leveling issues (possibly with the unit we have), even after recalibrating the gyroscope. These can be mostly corrected in the Affinity Photo workflow though. This might be a dealbreaker for us as we often have to batch edit for construction photography updates in large quantities and cannot spend 2-5min on each pano x100 every week. Have you noticed any similar issues so far?

Is this good enough to replace your Sony setup? I've always considered getting a 360