360° camera with excellent picture and video quality! Finally bought this camera and I’ve been testing it few times. The first ride with motorcycle I did about week ago and the video is in Youtube:
I’m very happy that this camera has now the possibility to record 2 audio channels at the same time (same as AcePro 2). But there’s a prolem if I have them both with me and if they are both connected to my helmet phone! But that problem is sorted if I just unconnect the other one (probably this X5 will not be connected). On the next day we made a longer ride in Kiikala area! Now I had both of my cameras with me.
First time making a longer ride with a small group of bikes (in 2025). All the bikes in this ride are totally different! 1. BMW G650XChallenge (my bike) 2. CF Moto 450 MT 3. Suzuki V-Strom 800DE 4. Husqvarna FE501 And we had a blast!
This decloration of Christmas Peace is 700 years old tradition in Finland. The original idea of this statement is about possibility of stricter sanctions for infringements committed throughout the Christmas time. The original Christmas peace time was 20 days starting at noon on Christmas Eve. The oldest event takes place in the old Great Square of the city of Turku. This christmas I visited this event in Turku. I took the train to Turku and after the decloration I took the train back home. It’s nice to live so close to the railway station!
The video is shot with Insta360 AcePro 2 at the tip of the 110cm tall selfie stick.
My first video that I published was about testing the the camera with the microphone (helmetphone) and also about testing the video quality.
And I also made a remix video of the same ride (No talking and POI is always forward)
And I made a video with both of my cameras so that you can compare the video quality (and sound quality) between Insta360 Ace Pro and Insta360 X4.
With Quick Capture mode you can turn the recording on with one button but one big minus is that you can’t stop the recording with one button!!! I hope they will change this in future updates! But after been using this camera now for awhile I can say that I’m very happy with the video quality and the sound quality. Thank You Insta360!
This year MotoAdventureDays took place for the fourth time! I missed the first year, but I was one of the the group leaders the second year and now it was already the third time for me. Each year has been an improvement so the challenges for next year’s event are getting pretty big (when/if there is still room for improvement?) Here is my compilation video of the 2024 event:
It feels like spring is very late late! But actually i’ts quite normal that only at the end of March the weather is warm enough and the roads are free from ice and snow. I was able to ride gravel roads yesterday (at least here in the most southern parts of Finland) and it felt so good!! The 90km’s route I made was like this:
And ofcourse I had Insta360 Ace Pro attached to my helmet and I made a video!
I bought myself a new GPS device. The main reason was that my Montana couldn’t get the power anymore from the original motorcycle holder. I already removed the wires and I was thinking that I will charge it only with USB wire but that ofcourse brings more problems. And when I realised that I had the opportunity to buy Garmin Zumo XT2 I decided to take it. I hear the XT2 has same kind of problems with the power connection so now I’m waiting to have the same peoblems soon. Hopefully not in this summer yet!
This is mind blowing! It’s revolutionary. Until now everyone who wanted to talk to the video while riding a motorcycle had to install either a mic with the wire (so called Lavalier microphone) or somekind of wireless microphone inside their helmets. I was using one of the best ones (RØDE wireless Go II) and I did find a place for the microphone inside my helmet but then there was the problem of the reciever and the adapter on the side of the camera.
The sound quality from this RØDE microphone was very good! But because of the rain I did brake 1 mic adapter last summer. Then on december 2023 they released this new Insta360 Ace Pro camera and it has bluetooth connectivity!! I didn’t even realize this when I bought it. But about in the same time when I got this new camera the DJI Osmo Action 4 shared new firmware update that allowed it to be connected to DJI Mic 2. That was the first time when I knew something quite important was about to happen! In DJI’s version you still need to install this microphone inside the helmet. Only few weeks later Insta360 released new firmware that had already more than 5 different helmetphone Brands and models that was supported by Insta360 Ace Pro camera!! I had Sena 30K and it was not on the list…. So I sold my helmetphone and bought the new one! It was Sena Spider ST1 and to pair it with Insta360 Ace Pro you do like this:
I knew that when you are using helmetphone microphone they have this “Advanced Noise Control™” that will block all ambient sounds (sounds from the outside of your helmet). So I started testing how can I easily disconnect the helmetphone from the camera so that camera’s own microphone will record all sounds when I’m not talking to the microphone. It can be done but it’s not very easy.
Finally today (3rd of february) it was so warm weather so I decided I will install the battery to my bike. And because my bike’s engine started like it was not winter at all… I decided to go for a ride! And ofcourse test how this Sena Spider ST1 will work as a microphone in insta360 Ace Pro camera. Here is the video:
As a result I can say that yes, you can hear the engine sound on the video. But it’s not too loud. Actually if I will use music on the video it will cover pretty much all engine sound… So I will try to remember to disconnect the helmetphone (microphone) when I don’t want to talk to the video. And when I want to talk again I need to stop recording and connect the helmetphone to the camera again. And start recording again (Sounds little bit complicated here! But it isn’t.)
I have a promo code for you to buy insta360 Ace Pro Action camera! Unfortunately they do not offer any discount but if you use this link it gives some benefits to me – Thank You!
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