A feature I have only played with a few times (on any camera) is timelapse. The first time I did it with an Insta360 camera was when I got my first one – a ONE X2 – and tested it while visiting Universal Studios Florida. While having a meal, I let the camera run . This video is on my Park Hopping YouTube channel:

Later, when I upgraded to an X3, I stuck it on the top of my car with a magnet mount and just let it record the sky.

I did a few tests like this, and they are somewhere on my Sub-Etha Software YouTube channel.

By the time I had an X4, I think I only used this feature one time — and that was just a few weeks ago. I let it record while folks where leaving Silver Dollar City at the end of the day. That video is posted on my DisneyFans.com/ParkHopping.com Facebook page, I think.

And that was the end of my experiments with timelapse…

But recently, I saw an interesting “day to night” timelapse posted by Best360:

This motivated me to began experimenting again. I used an external battery pack handle, attached to the top of my tripod, and set up my camera to record from 7:30pm until it was dark at 8:30pm.

My first attempt failed. Apparently I did not hit the button properly…

My second attempt went much better, but at the end of the timelapse, everything was still pretty bright due to the new X5 producing a brighter image. I am unsure if the camera is doing something to change modes as it gets dark — I just used the “Timelapse” mode and let it do whatever it wanted to do.

My third attempt I ran from 7:30pm to 9pm. It was even more dark, but you can see it still does not look dark in the timelapse:

It is an interesting feature, but quite boring unless you actually reframe it to pan the video and give it a bit more motion.

Have you done much with this mode? If you know of a good use for it, leave a comment.

Until next time…