Insta360 Link, A Webcam That Actually Delivers On The Hype - LFC

[@Adamant_IT]

Like what you see? If you want to buy one of these, or anything else for that matter, here's my amazon associate link for it: amzn.to/3JVUZFX Thanks once again to Colin for funding this camera! Something I forgot to mention is that I strongly suspect that this camera actually does most of its processing in-camera, as opposed to simply doing a capture, compress, and stream over USB as most web cams do. I think this is how they're getting such a dramatic improvement despite being USB2 - by actually processing the image like a smartphone does. This likely contributes to the price as well.

[@shaunlee4122]

very nice peace of kit that picture quality is spot on 😶😉

[@hamradioop5777]

Another nicely informative video - thank you Graham. I've had this camera for a few months now and note a party trick that isn't immediately obvious and some issues with the Windows software, depending on what you use it for. The good is that the camera can be used effectively on a non-Windows device, such as a YoloBox Pro. In fact at a push, its the only camera you need to have with the YoloBox. Even the Insta360 Link's tracking functionality works for example. You mentioned that you didn't really note what HDR was doing. The HDR functionality works best if you have blown-out lighting. If for instance you have a window behind you and its very bright outside, HDR mode will attempt a sort of backlight function. Meaning that it tries to expose both the foreground (you) and some of the background. The not so good is if you use sleep mode or hibernate on your machine. The windows software will lose settings. You'll find you are in manual focus instead of autofocus, white balance will no longer be in auto and the camera sliders will all be at the far left. Likewise, unless you have the Windows App running, when you start-up the likes of MS Teams, you'll see your background but without you. Its like a magicians trick whilst the camera 'wakes-up' and you suddenly appear in front of the background, with what seems like a long wait. But its worse than that Jim... If you have multiple cameras of different types, you may find that MS Teams has selected the wrong camera as it hasn't seen the 'connected' Insta360 Link device (because the damned thing is off, in its stupid 'privacy mode'). The general way of correcting this is to unplug and reconnect the camera and make sure you are using the Insta360 Link software, but with preview switched-off.

[@mikes.2941]

Thanks!

[@sbrewski27]

I never thought I'd ever see you in 3D stereoscopic view. Not to shabby!

[@mikes.2941]

Great review. The details just kept coming. Thanks

[@mrj4264]

Wallpaper link?

[@Marcel1984nl]

Nice background wallpaper, anime

[@metrotechguru5863]

Really well done, Graham. A really thorough contrast and compare. Bravo!

[@telquad1953]

Excellent review.

[@geraldharkness8830]

excellent comparison really detailed thank you!

[@zebo-the-fat]

Very nice, I don't have a use for it ... but I still want one! One thing I noticed, in the 4K tests you seemed to loose lip synch, I assume because of the 30 fps.

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea I noticed it was a bit wonky in editing, but Vegas was _really_ struggling with the 4k content (my editing workflow is horridly inefficient, long story) so it was hard to fix. Considering it was like, 60 seconds I opted to just let it slide. The scene where I've got two 4k cropped streams and my face cam in the top-right was exporting at about 0.5fps 😅

[@qsens]

Great in depth review!!

[@TheGameBench]

The gimbal and the ability to be able to set up camera positions and use a stream deck, plus the added features and video quality, seems worth it to me. I would likely use it for the same thing you're going to use it for as well as some potential b-roll shots. You could place this on slider and track an object for cheap. The ability to do this with an SLR would cost more just for a motorized head, plus the cost of the camera and lens. Plus... the form factor is nice. Nothing come close to the compact nature of this. I think I'm convinced on getting one of these.

[@tony359]

pretty nice review and camera - I really like the idea you can have a desk cam and face cam in one place. One thing I noticed when you were moving around was some stuttering?

[@Tech-Relief]

Well, I recently bought a Panasonic Lumix G7 outfit for $600+ and I must admit it has so many settings that I am still fiddling with it and so far I am not impressed with its video quality. I think this web camera seems to sell for less than $300 in the US on amazon and seems like a better fit for my needs doing KZbin videos similar to what you do. I wish I had seen this video a few weeks ago...

[@whatsappsings1513]

Hey i had a question,i recently built a pc with the Lian Li lancool 2 case and the Msi b660m-e motherboard , the problem is the motherboard only had one fan header so i bought a pwm fan hub but the motherboard also dosent have a argb 3pin header ,so do i need to buy external argb fan controller?

[@mm0077]

Thank you for sharing.

[@dejanpetkovski8761]

That,s why you have an option for ON and OF for Gsture it depends what you are using for.

[@NotThatGuyJD]

The whiteboard features might be valuable for the workbench, placing the stickers for the camera focus so you know what your shot limits are and depending on how the autofocus goes might be useful to keep track of items in movement. Really great cam and the 150-200 for the gimbal can be well worth it but still plenty happy with the Brio I picked up not long ago although like you said this is objectively the better product.

[@digihorse6730]

Excellent thank you.

[@fredrikwestlund4740]

Wow, you got yourself a nice digital cameraman. ☺

[@mitchyk]

Insta360 camera makes it look like you are wearing a bungle onesie. So thumbs up for that! lol

[@VanderJamesHum]

So when you always talked about you were still finding the best way to review products and you reminded us to expect some experimentation on your part in terms of the what the product reviews would look like. And what your saying Graham with this video is that this is the fruit of your labour so to speak.

[@Adamant_IT]

Kind of, this was a very off-the-cuff review, as I wanted to get it done before I procrastinated and it became another video in the 'this has become an obligation not an interest' pile. But also smashing videos out without over-thinking them is a big hurdle for me to get past with reviews, so it's a good thing.

[@VanderJamesHum]

@@Adamant_IT The fact you started with a new intro animation and music, combined with your confidence in knowing what makes a good webcam tick, it just oozes quality my friend, it oozes. And without the huffhuff hurrah of other tech channels. Solve this for me though, i use an old 480p webcam over on my music reaction channel. Today i tried using an iphone and all my pimples and blemishes are now noticable. But 480p my skin is beautiful.

[@VanderJamesHum]

I use a Microsoft Lifecam VX-1000

[@QuentinStephens]

Great review. With regards to the relative qualities of the recordings I first noticed your spectacles - specifically the stairstepping present on the Brio - then the clarity of zip and tag on your jumper of the Insta360. I was intrigued by the capability of having multiple devices but I wonder how the tracking will cope? Or say you want one camera in whiteboard mode and another tracking you. Here's hoping their next version does 4k 60 fps, hopefully with a larger sensor. Keep up the good work.

[@NebukadV]

Since you brought up the USB 2.0 topic again, think of it this way: USB 2.0 has a throughput of 480 MBit/s. For reference, KZbin's 4k30 suggested bitrate is around 40 MBit/s. So even USB 2 provides TWELVE TIMES the bitrate you need for this sort of stuff. For 1080p30 it's just 12 MBit/s, so yeah ... On the other hand, uncompressed 4k30 Video would give you about 6 GBit/s of data, 1080p60 about 3 GBit/s. So that is an amount of data, you could send over USB 3 (USB 3.1 Gen 2 for the 4k stream). But this is not an amount of data, that you want to constanly be going though your IO, Memory, etc.

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea I've been thinking about this, but can't reconcile it. Other high-end cameras tout USB3 as enabling higher quality - for example, the BRIO won't do 1080p60 on a USB2 port, but it will on USB3... hence why I've been assuming there's a bottleneck there. Either way, the Link being USB2 proves that more intelligent compression/streaming of video is all you need.

[@chrisverhulst5476]

I can't wait to see a next video from you dude. I find it always fun to watch, and also i lirn from you.

[@MrNeilypops]

I would have thought you would be shooting in 1080p 50fps in the UK...but maybe I am missing something. Nice review thanks.

[@fu1r4]

11:38 The Logitech was fast to focus on your face, but that was because your face was already in focus before you removed the circuit board. It was not able to focus on the circuit board at all and that make this comparison not fair. Maybe you where too close to the camera and that was the reason it failed to focus?

[@winstonwoof732]

I would imagine "whiteboard" mode would also work well with a "greenboard" especially for creators

[@TheGameBench]

Yeah, you would just have to do a slight crop to get the stickers out of frame.

[@bornagain2641]

Does it have motion sensor that detects movement and turns on computer left on sleep or standby and record the sensed motion/intruder?

[@Adamant_IT]

It doesn't, no. This isn't intended to use as a 'surveillance camera'. It would be interesting to see it connected to a system for that, but it doesn't have the functionality to detect and start/stop on its own.

[@triplexdread]

have you tried the ObsBot tiny 4k?

[@highchiller]

Big shoutout to Collin!

[@colinreece3452]

I asked this once before but going to ask again. Have you had any more thoughts on selling some of your PC builds online yet? I'm sure there are plenty of your veiwers including myself would be very interested, also a a few refurbished laptops as well would do well.

[@TRD_2zz]

I feel like at that price I would put my money towards a DSLR or mirrorless camera to use as a webcam. The tracking part would be handy for some though.

[@surgingcircuits6955]

Not sure if you mentioned the 1/2” Sensor, but that's a "big" deal. Thx 4 The Vid

[@Adamant_IT]

Tbh, size of the sensor really doesn't mean a lot. The Elgato also has a 1/2" sensor, and it's garbage compared to this camera. I guess it does increase the potential for a good picture, but it's not a sure thing.

[@surgingcircuits6955]

@@Adamant_IT , in the camera world, it's very important ...but... yes, how you handle and implement it can be like all else ... junk or treasure. Cheers.

[@barmymagician2970]

looks like a competitor to the 4k tiny obsbot cam

[@LKattest]

The L gesture is not really an L on the icon of the program... Nice gift from Colin

[@winstonwoof732]

have you changed your mic or audio setup? sounds a lot clearer.

[@Adamant_IT]

Not specifically, but this video involved a lot of speaking directly at the camera (and by extension, directly at the mic) which makes a big difference to quality. Usually I'm looking down at the desk, which diminishes the audio pickup a bit. It's always a balance between having the mic as close as possible, but not having it in the way where it'll constantly get knocked.

[@bornagain2641]

they will install a smaller cam in the actuating looks down but smaller imbedded cam still keeps a face shot. 🤷🏼

[@Kentish9494]

seen a review on this on Techseed channel a few days back. No doubt its impressive but the price is extreme. Certainly good for streamers or peeps that use Webcams alot but for the rest of us i think there needs to be a significant price drop before im in the market for it

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea not worth it unless you're a content creator or you need to seriously impress people in a conference call IMHO. Home users and streamers, just get a BRIO if you want a premium web cam, it's still a very good camera by web cam standards.

[@jasonhutson8552]

I really don't see enough differences to convince me to spend that much more money

[@jimstand]

I liked the Logitech BRIO .

[@JamesMCrutchley]

I have exactly one type C connection on the back of my pc. I get super pissed when I get type c to type c connectors. I end up on amazon either buying another type c to normal usb cable or buy an adapter. I love the idea of a universal connector but until motherboard manufacturers start putting more than one type on the back of a board It is so much hot expensive garbage.

[@Adamant_IT]

That's why I liked the inclusion of the adaptor. Defaults to the newer port, but includes an adaptor if you don't have a spare Type-C port.

[@JamesMCrutchley]

@Adamant IT I just wish it was actually universally used and not this hodge podge of various connectors. Maybe in another 5 years if we're lucky.

[@2009numan]

they could have quite easily included a 2 meter cable with it for the price you pay

[@Adamant_IT]

Yea I would've liked to see that. But then if you're a content creator, you're probably going to want something even bigger anyway. Both my main cameras have 5m and 3m thick braided cables, because they're mounted on mic stands that I move around - it's not reasonable to include the kind of cable I'd actually want in the box.

[@GlishaSo]

bro i love every your video but you must admire you are nerd to heaven and back :D hahahaha Love

[@SlyDive700]

My wallet just twitched.

[@spacecy]

😂

[@UKSCIENCEORG]

Well done Colin 👏

[@jaro6985]

ya colin

[@beagle_250]

Nice pc bg

[@gazzertrn]

I can see every hair on your beard, lol .

[@boojiela]

however

[@stevetaylorftw]

No Linux, no sale.

[@simmo1024]

What was that on the screen? Learn electronics with waifus?

[@sugargliderdude]

felt like watching an advert... not that interesting...

[@Ben24-7]

You look really pale on the intsta , you need to get sunlight on ya skin bro , maybe a skylight in you work area would help.

[@mykolarusanov73]

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