My first day with an Insta360 x5 camera

At this time of year my normal style of photography is curtailed by the very late light nights where dark doesn't arrive soon enough. And when I do stay up late to take advantage of dark skies, I end up with a sleep deprived hangover the following day. And not wishing to walk around like a forlorn zombie for a day, I decided it was time to bite the bullet on a 360 degree camera, the Insta360 x5.

I have bought this camera primarily for work purposes. I conduct building surveys for garage workshop developments and this camera will be quite useful going forward.

The Insta360 x5 is also quite a useful tool for leisure purposes too!

This post isn't intended to be a long one with me waffling on about photos as usual. It's more of a test post to see if I can upload content from the Insta360 desktop app. Here goes....

Sherwood 360

I took a trip in to Sherwood Forest with the new camera. I'm lucky to live right next to the infamous/ famous forest and it's reputation for robbers in the wood still apply today in my home town which would have formerly been part of the forest too.

This is a "tiny planet" view from a 360 degree photograph. I positioned the selfie stick on a small tripod and hid behind a tree, out of sight. I fired the camera remotely from my phone and found the range to be quite good at maybe 15 mtrs away.

The file size on this image is 10,000 pixels across so I've had to reduce the pixel resolution somewhat to make it fit here:

This is where it's all been going wrong....

Hopefully the reader of this post will be able to see this YouTube video I made earlier. I've been trying to link this to FB but a thumbnail will not appear in the FB post. I find FB very frustrating and another reminder why I keep coming back to Hive!

If you can see this video, please comment below and let me know if it appears in 4k. Thanks!!

Sherwood Rotate!

Since this YouTube upload thing appears to be working on Hive, here's another experiment. So far first impressions of the Insta360x5 are good, I just need to get to grips with the software and exporting! The camera itself and the iPhone app are easy to use and capture images, just the exporting bit is a little tricky!

About me:

I usually specialise in shooting lightpainting images but occasionally dabble in landscape, urbex and artistic model photography. I like to collaborate with other photographers and occasionally shoot outside my comfort zone.

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