Insta360’s GoPro competitor now has a bigger screen and improved 8K capabilities

Insta360 has announced its caller Ace Pro 2 action camera, an upgraded type of its GoPro Hero-series competitor. The compact camera now has a larger surface connected the backmost that flips up 180 degrees for framing selfie videos, and it debuts astatine $399.99 — $50 cheaper than Insta360’s original Ace Pro.

The creation of the Ace Pro 2 still intimately resembles the GoPro Hero bid and DJI’s Osmo Action line, pinch an offset lens making room for an further surface connected the front. But while the beforehand surface connected the cameras of Insta360’s competitors tin show full-color video, the Ace Pro 2’s monochromatic beforehand surface only displays information.

That’s why the institution is carrying guardant the hinged surface from the original Ace Pro and has bumped its size from 2.42 inches to 2.5 inches (matching the surface size of the precocious announced Osmo Action 5 Pro), while besides improving its brightness and pixel density. A larger surface makes it easier to framework shots, whether you’re opinionated successful beforehand of aliases down the camera. However, that hinge is besides a durability consequence depending connected what you’re utilizing the Ace Pro 2 for.

The different characteristic that distinguishes Insta360’s caller action cam from the title is its 8K capabilities. The Ace Pro 2 tin now grounds 8K video astatine 30fps — a flimsy bump from 8K astatine 24fps antecedently — utilizing what Insta360 describes arsenic a “next-gen” type of the 1/1.3-inch image sensor from the original Ace Pro that’s paired pinch a 157-degree wide-angle Leica Summarit lens. Still photography is besides boosted to 50MP. Dropping the camera’s solution down to 4K boosts framework rates to 120fps, aliases 60fps successful HDR, while 1080p mode tin grounds arsenic precocious arsenic 240fps for soft slow-motion captures.

Insta360 says the Ace Pro 2 is powered by a Pro Imaging Chip, handling “image processing and sound reduction,” arsenic good arsenic an AI spot moving a “complex, custom-trained AI neural network,” powering a PureVideo signaling mode. When signaling astatine nighttime aliases successful places wherever the lighting is dim, the PureVideo mode tin boost the brightness of a video while besides enhancing details. The camera tin besides leverage its AI capabilities to automatically create edited clips featuring what it decides are the champion moments successful a video.

The Ace Pro 2’s waterproofing has been extended to 39 feet — six feet deeper than the original — aliases 197 feet erstwhile utilized pinch an optional Dive Case accessory. Insta360 has besides added a caller “wind guard” to the beforehand of the camera to amended the value of audio captured during high-speed activities but pinch a magnetic equine truthful it tin beryllium easy removed erstwhile signaling successful quieter situations.

Other features see a larger 1,800mAh artillery that Insta360 says is rated astatine 180 minutes but pinch video signaling constricted to 1080p astatine 24fps. In 8K mode, artillery life will decidedly beryllium shorter than that. The Ace Pro 2 tin besides continually seizure up to 120 seconds earlier a signaling is started to trim the chances of missing a shot, allows recordings to beryllium paused without creating a caller video file, and supports some manus gestures and sound commands for operating the camera from afar.

What Insta360 didn’t denote coming is an updated type of the Ace camera that debuted alongside the original Ace Pro. Its video capabilities were constricted to 6K astatine 30fps, but it was $70 cheaper than the Pro. Had a caller type of the Ace debuted pinch the aforesaid $50 value trim arsenic the caller Ace Pro 2, it would person perchance been a cheaper replacement to some the $349 Osmo Action 5 Pro and $399 GoPro Hero 13 Black while offering amended video seizure capabilities.