In testing the camera in both modes on a bike ride, I found the camera's built-in stabilization to be excellent, almost making the need to use Pro Video mode irrelevant. There’s also a Pro Video mode that can use the company’s “FlowState” Stabilization” through its desktop and mobile software. The camera’s increased memory, 32 GB versus 8 GB for the original, helps store all of that footage. In FPV mode, the camera can record for 30 minutes, and with basic stabilization applied, it’s 15. The biggest spec bump in the video department is recording time. While not a 4K camera, I’ll take very good-looking Full HD (and more, in this case) footage any day.Īs before, colors are vibrant, images are sharp, and motion is fluid and clean-looking even with the compression from the camera. It’s a small improvement in an area in which there were already no complaints. Image quality was quite excellent on the GO already, but the GO 2 ups the ante with a larger 1/2.3” sensor. Resolution gets a bump to 1440p at 30 fps, an improvement over the 1080p Full HD of the original camera. Let’s start with just the basic specs that have been improved in every way.
Even on the outside, the body features a removable (and replaceable) lens, as well as better weather-sealing. It may look like its predecessor, but under the hood, the Insta360 GO 2 is a vastly improved camera. The camera combines the best bits of the original Insta360 GO and combines them with the best bits of a GoPro in a portable, versatile package that can (generally) do more than either of those cameras. It’s a wholly different and wonderful experience. It becomes a camera that almost always comes with me, and I’ve discovered some uses that I didn’t even think of in the process. The Insta360 GO 2 has fixed all of those problems and added features I didn’t even know I wanted.
The Insta360 GO, for all its promise, ended up in a drawer in my desk, unused. Using it resulted in an insane amount of overheating that made it difficult to even hold the camera, and to even use the footage, you had to run it through the app on the phone. It was clear that FPV mode was a hasty addition to the camera.
The biggest was that while the camera excelled at time-lapse/hyperlapse shooting and interval shooting, video clips topped out at 60 seconds, initially, and then 5 minutes after a firmware updated bestowed “FPV” mode on the camera. While I originally purchased it with the idea of documenting protest coverage and other situations where I needed to record body-camera-style footage to keep myself safe, it didn’t pan out that way for several reasons. I have owned the original Insta360 GO for a while.
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