I test every 360 and action camera out there — good, bad and ugly. (Well, they’re all rather ugly to be fair.) For a long time now, Insta360 has made the best 360 cameras you can buy, totally dominating that side of the market.

The closest competitors from GoPro and Ricoh top out at 5.7K or 4K maximum resolution. That means when you reframe the footage in 16:9 for YouTube or 9:16 for social, you can only hit 2.7K or 1080P resolution exports, although it’ll be even lower if cropping into frame. Meanwhile, Insta360’s last two cameras (the Insta360 X4 and X5) top out at 8K/30p, for up to 4K exports.

The Insta360 X5 is a simply outstanding camera, following on from an only-slightly-less-outstanding predecessor. And for a few months, nothing else could come close: the X5 experienced its honey

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