The next gimbal-mounted camera you imagined would make you a star TikToker may come with a faint-worthy price tag. With DJI’s popular Osmo Pocket stonewalled from sales in the U.S., Insta360 is pushing the ultimate vlogging device that may be almost too good.
Insta360’s Luna Ultra seems excessive even before you glance at its $770 price tag. Ignoring the twin gimbal-mounted sensors for a moment, the Luna Ultra features a large, 2-inch OLED touchscreen control that can detach from the main body to act as a remote control for the 3-axis gimbal-mounted camera. And that’s not even the most excessive aspect of this camera. © Insta360 © Insta360 The Luna Ultra includes a 1-inch Leica Summicron lens that maxes out shooting at 8K resolution as well as a secondary 1/1.3-inch telephoto lens with an f2.0 aperture. The telephoto sensor supports up to 6X lossless zoom and a 12X digital zoom. Essentially, Insta360 promises that whatever subject you’re trying to film will come out looking clear, especially with support for Leica color profiles and other professional color encoding. For the video editors out there, the camera supports 10-bit I-Log capture and Dolby Vision HDR. Sure, you may be wondering why anybody needs to shoot at 8K resolution on a single gimbal camera. That top 8K, 30 fps mode means you can take the footage and crop it down to something more manageable for Instagram or YouTube without losing picture quality. Otherwise, you can shoot up to 4K and 120 fps or drop it down to 1080p for a maximum 240 fps slow-motion filming. While the Insta360 Luna Ultra comes with 47GB of internal storage just in case you run out of space on your micro SD card, you’ll run out of space plenty fast if you’re only shooting in the highest resolutions.
