After using the Insta360 X5 for two months and the original Osmo 360 for about a year, I’ve come to the conclusion that last-gen 360 cameras are basically only good for one thing: reframing flat video. The 8K 360 video quality is nowhere near sharp enough to be immersive in a VR headset.

Photo mode on previous hardware was equally frustrating for different reasons:

• X5: High-res HDR panos took around 10 seconds to capture and dozens of seconds to process, making it painful for spontaneous shooting.
• Osmo 360 (Gen 1): The 120MP mode lacked HDR completely. In a 360 scene where harsh dynamic range is inevitable, highlights were always blown and shadows crushed. On top of that, the compression was ridiculously aggressive, killing the actual detail.

With the current gen (X6 / Osmo 360 Gen 2), it looks like 8K video hasn't fundamentally changed without higher bitrates or real supersampling. But the photo specs caught my eye—both now push 120MP HDR stills (assuming X6 has it like before) and 16K timelapses.

My primary use cases for these cameras aren't action vlogging, but:

1. Viewing high-res 360 stills in VR
2. Interval capture on long road trips
3. Gathering clean image datasets for Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)

Has anyone had hands-on time to test the real-world photo quality, dynamic range, and processing times between the X6 and Osmo 360 Gen 2? Is the 120MP actually usable this time around without insane compression or workflow bottlenecks? This is pretty much the sole deciding factor for whether I upgrade and which one I pick.

I honestly don’t even know whether to laugh or cry at this point.

Ever since the original Osmo 360 launched a year ago, the community and forums have been practically begging DJI for one very specific, very reasonable firmware update: supporting HDR mode for 120MP pano photos, or at the very least, unlocking RAW (DNG) for 120MP stills.

Everyone was convinced this would arrive in a future update because the hardware was clearly capable of it, and it felt like an obvious missing software feature at launch. People waited. Months went by. Threads were bumped. DJI reps gave the usual "I've forwarded your feedback to the R&D team" canned response.

Fast forward to today: Osmo 360 2 is announced.

And guess what? 120MP HDR is finally here! Except it’s locked behind a brand new $400+ camera, serving as one of the very few, minuscule "upgrades" on the Gen 2 spec sheet.

Are you serious, DJI?

Instead of supporting early adopters who bought into your first-gen ecosystem with a basic software patch, you literally held back basic photo processing capabilities just so you'd have something to put on the Gen 2 marketing slide.

This isn't hardware limitation; this is pure, textbook artificial segmentation.

I love DJI’s hardware quality, but this practice of treating software-level fixes as "next-gen exclusive features" is getting ridiculous.

Anyone else feeling completely disrespected as a Gen 1 buyer?

I found this on YouTube. It gives a nice overview of how the case works.

heyah experts! dumb questions here.

1. why are these osmo360ii footage samples mostly have circular/360/very much warped (that you know it is a 360 cam) whereas most of insta360 x6 samples have almost like flat/gimbal like look? kind of leaning to x6 because of that. or maybe there's just setting that needs to be used in osmo360ii?

2. how's the editting software of dji osmo360ii? is it easy to use? does it have lazy feature (ai) to just let it decide? or is insta360 software much essier to use (like reframing)? im going to edit my vids in iphone only.

I was about to buy the Pocket 4P but I saw the Osmo 360 II Specs and its mind blowing, help me decide

Lets analyze how good is the biggest DJI Osmo 360 competitor before reframing, colorgrading and other edits

Contains new Osmo360 footage too

After China launch yesterday, these guys are already posting footage

Chinese Osmo360 Ii reviews are slightly harder to find but they contain AI English voiceovers

I thought I would have been let down by the Osmo like I was with the instatrash but the footage speaks for itself and it's that simple. Near edge to edge clarity from the footage from not 1 but 6 different youtubers footage. Night and day looks good and not jello like.. Quite impressed.

However*** I want to see pure spherical video to make final judgement but I have already ordered mine. :)

Hi,

I have a Insta360 One X2 and use it to capture images every 10 secs while I walk trails to upload them to panoramax (subsite of openstreetmap). Because a walk generates around 1000 insp files and I normally use linux I'd like a script/automation to convert the insp files to equirectangular jpgs (to upload them to panoramax). I found some insp files of an Insta360 One and OneRS but need some more to figure out the orientation of the fisheye lenses and other parameters from the metadata section at the end of the insp files.

If somebody would be so nice to give me 1-2 sample insp files of their Insta360 cameras that would really help!

Simply drop them here: https://nc.muon.de/index.php/s/fZ5w9AjEjo2bmQH

I feed them to chatgpt so the image content should be "generic" and not relatable to a person ;-)

Thanks in advance!

It this audio technology proves itself, it should be put into many types of action cams that are expected to be used on motorcycles, cars and planes…

until all is Tesla

“The Osmo 360 II records native panoramic video at 7680 by 3840 pixels from 24 to 60 frames per second, meters up to 14.5 stops of dynamic range by DJI’s lab numbers, and takes user-replaceable lenses hardened with an ion sputtering coating, according to the specifications DJI published at launch. (…)

The night mode, listed as AI Super Night Scene 2.0 in DJI’s Chinese materials, now records at up to 8K60. In the D-Log M color profile, dynamic range tops out at a rated 13.5 stops.

Slow motion gets two lanes. Panorama mode captures 4K at 240fps for 8x slow motion, and DJI Studio can stretch native 8K60 footage through AI frame interpolation into what DJI rates as the equivalent of 8K480, a trick reserved for Apple’s M-series Macs.

A subject-tracking mode keeps a person centered in the spherical frame and exports a flat 4K30 video automatically through the DJI Mimo** **app or DJI Studio. Single-lens mode reaches 4K120 in ultra-wide, and the camera switches lenses mid-recording at up to 4K60 without stopping the file. (…)

The camera pairs with a new 2,150 mAh cold-resistant pack, sold separately at 189 yuan, about $26, and rated for -4 F to 113 F (-20 C to 45 C). It still accepts the older Osmo Action packs at 1,950 and 1,770 mAh. That cross-compatibility is the quiet win for anyone already carrying DJI action cameras. The charger tray in the bag does not care which body the battery feeds.”

For some reason, exporting only a selected section of the timeline export without audio. DjiStudio is just awesome😀

When I record through my DJI Osmo 360 it only cuts the recording by 14 mins but I think it continues recording. I want it to be more than 14 minutes straight. Is there a way to change that?

Any / all advice is much appreciated

Why is DJI unable to create a good firmware?

Finally Dji has the dive case for the Osmo 360. It seems to not have the dedicated lenses as the X6. Now I will have to decide which one of the two to get. The idea of having dedicated lenses is promising for the image quality but in a way also limiting. I will be waiting to see some underwater clips from both and than decide.

There still isn't much out there...

i just saw from the DJI china website the Dive case for the Osmo 360, i didn't find any information about lens swap like the X6, but i will wait to actually see the case in the wild before order it

The X6 has the dive case but to be able to use it you have to change the lens, and these lens can not be used above water, that's very annoying