It’s almost Christmas! Last weekend there was (new) Christmas Market in Salo and I decided to make a visit. I had also my drone there with me.
Then on sunday we had sunshine! I made a short walk in Fiskars village and here is the result:
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I’ve had this camera now almost 2 weeks and I’m getting to know it better.
First video I made with this camera was only a short walk around the area where I live.
But I already added few AI Warp sections to this video.
Then after a long long time not been used I did try my RAM Mount Suction cup holder to my working car.
I also made a safety line so if the suction cup wouldn’t hold the camera would not fall to the ground…. But it didn’t need it! RAM Mount was working perfectly and I made this video:
After this video I had quite nicely material to make few AI Warps more! I was sharing them in instagram mostly… https://www.instagram.com/gozamite/
But I also made a video where I collected some of the best AI Warp edits that I have done so far:
I hope they will make few upgrades to this AI warp editor. The main thing would be the possibility to have only 1 filter in one video, now it has quite many and those are changing randomly all the time. The other one would be more seconds to those edited videos. Now the maximum is 4 seconds.
I found one video where the guy made 1 minute long video with only WI warp edited material. He told me it took 1 full day for him to make it! Here’s the video:
I’ve neen using Insta360 cameras now little bit more than one year. They are as good as DJI cameras especially when they offer also these 360 cameras. Those are definitely an update for everything there was before these interesting cameras.
I realized pretty soon that there’s no sense to have two separate 360 cameras so I started to look for a new action camera… And Insta360 had quite perfect timing when they released new Ace Pro camera.
I ordered it right away when it was published.
When I got the camera I made “UnBoxing” video to youtube (Only in Finnish):
And today I went first to Billnäs to make some video there, Then I visited in Hub Feenix and got some animals also to this video. I had my “old action camera” insta360 One RS with this new insta360 Ace Pro.
SO you can compare the picture that these cameras make in low light snowy landscape with 4K 30fps.
Pretty much the first snowfall came today! I was so much hoping that it would happen.
I wanted to go for a ride -The Light Snowfall Ride-
About on the halfway of today’s ride the snowfall started. You can even see it in this video.
I still have some of my old action cameras and I had this idea quite long time! I wanted to compare the old ones to the new ones I am using now. Finally I did it.
The old cameras that I have:
JVC GC-FM1 (pocket camera), but for this one I didn’t find the correct wire to charge it.
Sony HDR-AS30V Quite good camera already! It has even digital Steady Shot stabilizer.
My video of this camera here!
Sony FDR-X1000V was my first 4K camera, and I was so happy with this camera!
My video of this camera here!
And then I’m also showing (testing) the video quality of
Insta360 One RS 4K Boost lens, video is here!
Insta360 One X3, video is here!
I did also a short flight with my drone because they are also kind of action cameras…
Nobody had a drone 10 years ago!
DJI Air 2S, and my flight video is here!
The full video I made you can check here:
I made also another video where I’m shooting the video with Insta360 One RS 4K boost lens.
That video you can see here:
Finally got out with my bike and this interesting camera Insta360 was attached into it.
First ride I made a week ago. The camera was in handle-bar and I wanted to check only how it will look?
Editing a good video was quite easy (Ok, I dunno about good but it looks quite ok to me!)
Second ride I made yesterday. Now I had 2 cameras and my microphone with the wire (I couldn’t find my Rode Wireless!!)
My DJI Osmo Action was in the normal place (handlebar) and Insta360 was on the tip of the stick behind me. You can see it from this picture:
Editing with 2 different cameras is much more complicated than you first think! They have dirrent picture style and colors.
And my microphone with the wire mostly doesn’t work! I need to find my wireless mic -it has much better sound quality.
Here’s video from yesterday:
3 times in this movie there’s a cut from Osmo Action to Insta 360 when you should “understand” that this is the same place, same time and same ride. But if you don’t get it… It doesn’t matter! You can still watch the video.
Maybe I can adjust the cameras so that the picture will look more similar? And maybe I need to make more “sharp cut” to make it more obvious.
And the battery of Insta360 lasts much longer than DJI Osmo Action!
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Now the have promised that we will have 25 cm’s of snow! The legendary “Takatalvi!”
This I’ve been dreaming quite long time. Now I have it!
If you compare the size of the camera to any other action camera it’s not big! And it shoots pictures or video all the time to every direction! Then when you’re editing the video you can choose which direction comes to the final video!
Or you can make a 360° video where the person who’s watching the video can choose himself to what direction he’s watching -like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0t3UUaQci4
The editing is a little bit different because you have to think all the time which direction of the video is the best. For example when I’m going to make motorcycling videos with this there can be things happening in many directions! But luckily you can make many cuts where you’re using the different POV of the same file.
Me and my friends were skiing!! For me it was the first time in more than 10 years! Ahh it was fun! So I was testing what kind of picture this camera takes and how it is to edit the video… I didn’t know the the lights in the hill can have that bothering effect to the video that everything is flickering!! Unfortunately in this video it bothers… Next time I will use some other fps (frames per second).
Every now and then there is a question which navigation system is the best for Adventure riding?
I don’t have the correct answer but here are some features to check. Especially if you want to ride TransEuroTrail (Finland).
I’ve been using Garmin GPSmap 62, Garmin Montana 600, Last summer Samsung Active Tab 2 & Osmand App and now I have Garmin Montana 700.
I did a testride with both of these navigation systems attached to my motorcycle.
I also had my camera (DJI Osmo Action) attached to my helmet -this I didn’t have in a very long time.
And Rode Wireless Go II microphone was connected to my camera and the microphone itself was inside my helmet.
Here is the video:
I’m not saying which one is better. They both have some cons and pros.
Samsung Tab can be a little bit tricky to keep the batter fully loaded. It is very delicate part of the tablet this USB gate where you should connect the charging wire. I was using the magnetic type of wire where there is an extra connection just after the plug that you should push to the USB gate. The power that comes from my motorcycles alternator is not quite enough to keep the battery 100% loaded all day. But in novemeber when we were riding 9 hours it took only about 30% of battery power… So I could easily ride 2-3 days without recharging the tablet.
It has also a small problem about the maps. You can get along with them but they are not as accurate than the maps in Garmin Montana. Every now and then I was little bit confused with Osmand maps. Why this track or that road is not on the map?
Garmin Montana 700 biggest drawback (so far) is that you can’t change the thickness of the saved track’s line on the map! This makes it little bit tricky to see the line on the map that you should try to follow. The strangest thing is that it was possible in Garmin Montana 600!! (And also in Osmand App!)
There are a lot of other devices and other apps to use. Especially this whole Apple -thing! I know nothing about them.
But for android this Osmand is very good choice because it’s free or it’s not expensive to buy (full licence) where you can have unlimited amount of downloads (maps).
I hope this helps you to choose a good system that serves you the best!
We visited once again. It is always so beautiful and relaxing. The Seurasaari area has multiple museum areas and buildings -you need to buy a ticket if you wish to go inside those buildings.
But area has also a lot of hiking pats around the island and the most amazing thing is that so many animals are so used to the people and you can feed them from your hand…
You can easily feed bluetits, great tits, squirrels, mallards, swans and geese from your hand if you bring some nuts/ seeds with you.
Didn’t take too many pictures this time. I had my videocamera with me!
And then my video from Seurasaari island, enjoy!
We don’t have a lockdown in Finland. We are allowed to go out but meetings with more than 10 people is not ok. There was only 4 of us in a beautiful sunny weather and almost +10 degrees celsius. This time I didn’t choose any difficult tracks… and I finally made a video of this interesting route:
This was a narrow railroad in Finland and it stopped working in 1967. But the track has stayed and it’s kind of in use as a road. But for example now in spring it can be tricky if there is still snow (and there was!!)
Unluckily my riding ended with the flat front tyre in Karkkila (65 km’s from home).
I was lucky that there was one big bike (KTM 1090 Adventure) so I could take a ride with him back home and then I picked my bike with my big car…
GoZa Mite 