Yesterday my news alerts showed me a posting where someone shared screenshots of registrations for the Insta360 X6. There have been rumors of the X6 since (and maybe even before) the moment the X5 model was released.

Beyond adding higher resolution and/or better low light performance, what else would justify someone upgrading from the X5? Rumors are saying this model could have a 1″ lens — something Insta360 already had years ago with the Insta360 ONE RS. That model had 6K resolution (3K per lens) which was resolution worse than the later X4 and X5 “8K” models but the larger sense allowed it to capture better images even if at a lower resolution.

Just keep in mind — there is “what the camera can do” versus “what the camera operator can do.” Someone can take a mediocre camera, play with manual settings, and post-process the image to create something that looks much better than anything you can get from a “better” camera just by pressing the button in automatic mode.

I have mostly been a point-and-shoot user since I got my first digital camera in 1996, so “what the camera can do” is usually more important to me than what some advanced photographer can do with it.

An important reminder:

Be careful trusting an honest review if they don’t disclose they have a hardware sponsor providing them with hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of product to “review”. That, in itself, is dishonest, so how can you trust the rest?

Now we wait for hundreds of vloggers and bloggers to churn endlessly over the same rumors, adding nothing useful except regurgitation.

More to come…