DJI has introduced the corporate’s first 360-degree motion digital camera designed to compete with the Insta360 X5 and the growing old GoPro Max (which the company is planning to replace soon). The brand new DJI Osmo 360 barely edges out the X5’s recording capabilities by capturing 8K movies at 50fps as an alternative of 30fps, and encompasses a design that’s each smaller and practically 20 grams lighter than the Insta360’s. We simply don’t understand how a lot the Osmo 360 will price as a result of DJI hasn’t revealed when it is going to be coming to the US.
The Osmo 360 doesn’t function swappable lenses, however not like the X5, which makes use of solely a part of its rectangular 1/1.28-inch sensors, DJI’s 360-degree digital camera makes use of all of its new 1-inch square-shaped HDR sensors. The corporate says that this “reduces pointless bulk” and helps hold the digital camera compact and lightweight at 183 grams. The Osmo 360 additionally captures 10-bit video, which gives extra inventive freedom when shade correcting footage afterward, whereas the X5 is restricted to 8-bit.
The digital camera’s 1,950mAh battery is barely smaller than the two,400mAh one within the X5, however DJI says the Osmo 360 can constantly report at 8K/30fps for as much as 100 minutes on a full cost with out overheating. Body charges will be boosted to 60fps when dropping the decision to 6K, or go as excessive as 100fps at 4K, however its slow-motion capabilities are barely edged out by the X5, which might report 4K video at 120fps. When capturing with only a single lens, you’ll be able to push 4K recording to 120fps on the Osmo 360, and you may change forwards and backwards between the digital camera’s two lenses with out stopping recording.
The Osmo 360 can seize 360-degree nonetheless photographs at 120 megapixels, which is almost twice the 72-megapixel decision of images captured by the Insta360 X5. However if you wish to seize HDR photographs so you are able to do extra post-processing, you’ll must drop the decision to 30MP.
Different helpful options embody each voice and gesture controls for beginning or stopping recording remotely; DJI’s HorizonSteady and RockSteady stabilization, which might easy out shaky footage with out eradicating dynamic movement; and the flexibility to trace and hold individuals, autos, and pets as the main target of a video when exporting clips from the DJI Mimo cellular app.
The Osmo 360 additionally options 105GB of built-in storage and may concurrently join to 2 of DJI’s popular wireless microphones and report two separate audio tracks with out the necessity for a receiver. Non-obligatory equipment embody a Battery Extension Rod that extends 8K/30fps recording by an extra 180 minutes, clear lens protectors, and a number of other selfie sticks that connect to the Osmo 360’s threaded tripod mount, together with one which extends to over 8 toes lengthy.
Though it received’t launch within the US, the Osmo 360 can be obtainable in all the opposite areas the place DJI already sells its merchandise. In Europe it should promote for €479.99, whereas an Journey Combo, which provides equipment like a selfie stick and a multifunction battery case, can be €629.99. Canadian pricing, which is listed in US {dollars}, is $430 or $580 for the Journey Combo, however DJI says that doesn’t mirror what the Osmo 360 will price when obtainable within the US.