Insta360 - Insta360 X3
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Last updated: Jan 1, 2026 Scoring
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"battery lasts me forever, I charge it once a week and I game every day."
"16 days battery life on my fenix. ... The other aspect I really appreciate about my fenix is the battery life. 16 days or so. With everything I have to change these days (laptops, mice, keyboards, headphones, watches, phones), I appreciate not having to worry about it too often."
"Oh, and the battery lasts days even when exercising a lot (weeks without excercise)."
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"It's also absolutely unbreakable ... I have it since 3 years, done ton of afters, street parties, beach parties, etc, with it. Saltwater, beers, dust, sand, falling on the ground, etc, nothing broke or deteriorated it the slightest, and I am a pro for breaking anything technological."
"will last you forever as they are absolute tanks"
"amazed how the quality resembles logitech g pro 1"
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"And it's ability to pick up everything above below, and a complete 360° radius meaning that I don't have to concentrate on any specific one thing and point and shoot allows me to keep my focus on the dive and those diving with me."
"I had my gopro 12 on my helmet and my x4 on my handlebars and as I was riding a car on the other side of the road hit another car and hit someone on the pavement, I swung my head round but missed most of it with my helmet cam, but the x4 caught all of it and that was used in an insurance claim."
"If you are videoing yourself while snowboarding via selfie stick, nothing beats the third person perspective of a 360 camera. ... I find it a lot more immersive than any traditional action camera because it gets my whole body and the selfie stick isn't visible"
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"Not having to frame the shot, being able to just put it on a tripod and let it run knowing it will capture everything is a huge factor. ... Imagine wanting to take a quick group shot or video. U don't even need to make sure everyone is in frame. Just press the shutter."
"You will get amazing 360 video and don’t have to worry about framing the shot or missing any of the action. ... My favorite part about this is you can actually enjoy the snorkel and worry about the video later."
"Love the ease of my insta360 x3. ... Just put it on and select everything afterwards."
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"Love the ease of my insta360 x3. ... Just put it on and select everything afterwards."
"Just awesome, stick it on and reframe later."
"U can use AI tools provided in the app to keep u in frame with a click of a button. ... With the 360 cam, U do not have to worry if u are in frame or not."
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"If I record for more than 14 minutes it will freeze and battery is already almost dead. This is at night night by the way so temperature isn't high."
"and they also overheat. It could be that I'm in Australia, but I've mounted my Insta in my car to record random stupidity and then find it's off and recorded a minute or two before dying. ... Just Google Insta overheating, and it's an issue they are 100% trying to hide."
"My hero 12 is unusable in Thailand due to overheating issues. ... I’m just sitting here thinking really one decade later they haven’t fixed this thing from overheating?"
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"I literally only got the Action cam because it was supposed to have the best low light but it’s just rubbish on my one, the fur has zero texture, you know?"
"X3 low light is just unusable."
"I have a GoPro 10 and it’s really really shitty in low light."
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"The software also would not stitch the 360 videos together the way I had hoped. ... in much of the videos it just would not stitch properly so you could almost always see this fuzzy line between the two images it was attempting to blend. ... Even after recalibrating it several times in the software, it would sometimes make it a little better, but never completely fixed it."
"editing beyond that is an absolute nightmare. ... To sit down and edit this would be a weekend event(not fun for me)."
"360 cameras are EASILY damaged, the ability at low cost and at home to change a lens is truly game changing and you will regret over and over not buying the X5 when you have to ship your X4 back to insta360 for repairs, both in cost and time lost with the camera (including the memories you failed to catch while it was gone.)"
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"And the biggest reason to avoid the Insta cameras is lens damage. ... The X5 just got a replaceable lens, and they carry on like this is genre-changing. Yeah, welcome to 2020 when GoPro did that."
"I have an X3 too and it always makes me nervous using it because I know if I scratch a lens it’s going to be a hassle to fix it myself or send it in."
"I had an X3 I had to send in and it was really expensive."
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"But you won't be getting any really good quality close-up shots with it. ... Oh yeah the 360 cameras are absolutely useless for any kind of a close-up shot. ... 360 lenses are so called 'fixed focal length' lenses so you'll never get good footage of something that is closer than at least a meter or two."
"First and foremost that the resolution is distributed over the 360 degrees and zooming in makes the picture still look funky"
"The camera is (of course) wide angle, so capturing small details is a bust."
Insta360 is the best we’ve used and the 360 has major benefits.
r/Karting • Action Camera Recommendations? ->Here's my take. Cameras like the X4 are great 'lazy' cameras. You don't do anything with them live - just stick them in place and let them do their thing. They are also 'you get what you get' cameras. Low light noise, visible stitch lines are part of what you get. Finally they are 'get it all' cameras with the 360 degree dome - even if the camera operator is unaware of something interesting happening - the camera will catch it. The post-processing on the app is also fun in the X4 with lots of novel shots available to you. If you're planning on using this for motorcycles - do you need more than 180 degrees? If not - then the X4 is not necessary. Get the best quality 180 degree camera you can get. Reminder - you can set the X4 into single lens mode and get better quality 180 degree footage too. I edit my videos - so I can handle the stitch lines and noise profiles easily. My favorite camera (out of GoPro, RX100VII, FX30, FX3, Pocket 3, X3, X4) is the X4. It's just goofy, easy, low-risk fun. My best camera is the FX3 (and the FX30 actually). My photo camera/daily carry is the RX100VII. The Pocket 3 proved less useful for what I do and unfortunately it gathers dust. The X4 was not really any kind of improvement over the X3 - which I believe was part of your question.
r/Insta360 • Is the X4 really that bad? ->I’ve had ONE X2, X3 and now X4. Only downside was the X4 was larger and heavier but I quickly got used to that. Depending on how you use it, it might not be a big deal. It is missing some bracketing photo features earlier models had. If you don’t use them, no big deal. Check out many side by side video comparisons. I record them when I get a new X camera to decide if the upgrade is worth it.
r/Insta360 • Is the X4 really that bad? ->I have never owned a GoPro, but started 360 photography in 2005 with a mirror-ball add on for a digital camera. I’ve owned 360 cams from Giroptic, RICOH, Kodak and now have Insta360 and DJI. While my RICOH had better photos than the ONE X2, I got a ONE X2 because it had better software and was more fun. I instantly used a "worse" camera more than any of the other models I had. As I moved from X2 to X3 to X4 to X5, each comparison always had some things I thought the earlier model did better. With my DJI Osmo 360, I got it specifically for low light, hoping it might be my "go to" for low light situations, and the X5 for everything else. I’ve already seen alot of footage comparing it to other cameras, and some things look better on the Max 2, and other things look worse. Personal preference is a b-tch ;) What do you expect the niche of the Max 2 to be? What are the things that GoPro does better?
r/gopro • What will the GoPro Max 2 niche be? ->I have the x3. Same perks, honestly, but it peaks at 4k. I use it for my motorcycle rides. It's effectively my dashcam. Only downside I have in that use case, is I really need to carry a spare battery and an external battery charger, as it dies after about 1-2 hours of riding. I went for a 4 hour ride, and it died in the middle. The most exciting parts I missed entirely due to the battery life. I have a USB to charge my phone on the bike, so it would be easy enough to plug in the spare battery while I ride and then swap when I need to, but I don't know they have an external battery charger.
r/Insta360 • My honest review of the X5 as someone who doesn't like to carry "stuff". ->I have the insta360 one X3 and if it’s in good lighting it’s fine. For normal scuba (up to about 8-9 meters) I prefer the colors of GoPro. But check the reviews for the new action cameras (DJI/insta Ace Pro 2, they’ve come a long way). There’s scuba related reviews (Matthias Lebo or Dive In).
r/gopro • Go pro hero 13 or instamax360 for scuba? ->I just bought a like new X3 on eBay for like half the price I could find an X4. There's your biggest argument. The X4 isn't twice the camera. Some things to consider: Batteries for the X3 are cheap. I bought 2 for £20 and it's not a big job to swap them. You may be able to use AI upscaling software to improve the X3 past the native quality of the X4 if you can find the software for "free" The X3 is lighter which is a bonus when it's hanging off the back of your bike on a selfie stick. You can buy tempered glass lens covers on AliExpress very cheap for the X3 and you would always want them on so not really a bonus on the X4 Don't compare the colours and of people comparing stock footage. It's incredibly easy to change in the app. The two cameras have the same sensors so I don't imagine low light footage would be much better on the X4. Honestly if I had the money to spare I would have just got the X4 but the X3 is a really good camera and a better deal (for me anyway)
r/Insta360 • Is the X4 really that bad? ->The Insta360 ski pole mount is awesome. I have had an X3 for a couple of years and ordered an X5 on Black Friday. But it is more for piste skiing, not off-piste. Off-piste you need a head/chest mount. I wouldn't use a non-360 camera for any sort of POV footage now, the ability to reframe it is gold. The follow-cam footage and pieces to camera in these reviews are shot with an Ace Pro and the POV is all X3. Looking forward to testing out the X5. [https://www.youtube.com/@Aussieskier/videos](https://www.youtube.com/@Aussieskier/videos) This video is a good example of how well-stabilised a 360 head cam is: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1yJGZxs5GQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1yJGZxs5GQ)
r/ski • GoPro vs Insta360 for skiing ->I have an Ace Pro, X3 and just got an X5. Remember that the X5 resolution is spread out over the entire sphere so you’re nowhere near 4k if you crop your field to a typical 16:9 action cam focal length/POV. So it’s horses for courses, if you want a conventional hi res camera, Ace Pro 2 is the right tool, but if you want an infinitely reframe-able, stabilised view then X5 is amazing
r/Insta360 • Do you need Ace Pro 2 when you have x5 ->You want action or 360? If you need 360, that's not one camera, it's 2. It's affordable. It's 4k - but clumsy. Really needs phone/desktop software to work, and that's kinda clumsy. I've had 3 360 cams. - ricoh theta sc (ok, old, can do one button image or long press video.) - moto z phone with 360 cam addon (amazing? The moto z 360 addon was going for $50. Decent quality, but bring party of the phone made the interface amazing.) - insta 360 x3 - current. Had accessories like lens protectors (important!) interface on the camera itself is great. Can shoot RAW if you want to attempt processing the image yourself. I looked at the Kodak and considered it, but paid the little extra for the 360. Usability is worth it. None of these give great video, but the images are quite nice. VLC can open either. The 360 x3 video was a nice bump, but if you don't need 360, a regular action can will give better video.
r/Cameras • Does anyone have experience with the Kodak Pixpro SP360? ->Same here. I use my X3 a ton and didn’t see a big need to go to X4. But looks like a no brainer to go to the X5 for low light alone. X3 low light is just unusable.
r/Insta360 • Several reasons why I will not buy X5 and will keep X4 ->A 360 is cool too. I use the Insta360 X3. I’m intrigued by the new DJI 360 though. I’m a big an of DJI stuff. Just works well.
r/trailrunning • Best Bodycam for running? ->Agree regarding the lenses. I keep the covers on my X3 and use it for specialty shots and then the Osmo4 for most stuff, which does have a replaceable lens. …and when stuff happens, I add it to the pile of smashed action cameras and gimbals:)
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