The Insta360 Flow is a phone gimbal with all the trimmings
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#6A9XV)
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Insta360 is getting into the smartphone gimbal market with a device that aims to make it easier to film slick, stabilized, and well-framed video with your smartphone's camera. The Insta360 Flow is a $159.99 gimbal with three-axis stabilization that's available starting today across the US, Europe, and Japan.
The obvious competitor for the Flow is DJI's $159 Osmo Mobile 6 lineup of smartphone gimbals. And on paper at least, Insta360 has made a decent effort to match DJI's features spec for spec. DJI includes a tripod in the box with the Osmo Mobile 6, so Insta360 has built one into the Flow. DJI has its ActiveTrack 5.0 automatic subject tracking feature; Insta360 has Deep Track 3.0. The Flow even has a built-in 215mm (8.5-inch) selfie...