2.1.1 [Beginner] Preparation of photography

Before shooting photos, camera’s battery level, format and capacity of storage devices must be checked, environment safety for shooting should be confirmed, and suitable bracket and accessories must be selected.

Storage medium: make sure that the format is exFAT before shooting, in case your shooting will be delayed due to the unsuitable format.

Selection and formatting methods for storage media are described in 1.1.3.

Battery power: Pro 2’s battery can be used for about 50 minutes when fully charged. You can prepare several spare batteries based on your shooting schedule.

Gyro calibration: before shooting, one can check the preview scene through the camera controlling device of Insta360 Pro 2 to determine whether it needs to have camera calibration. Please see 1.1.4 for detailed method.

Stitching calibration: if only carrying out post stitching, no camera stitching calibration is needed; if real-time stitching and better preview are needed, one can choose stitching calibration. When there are obvious changes in the shooting environment, e.g. from indoors to outdoors, one should have stitching calibration once again. Calibration methods for stitching are described in detail in 1.1.4.

You can manipulate cameras by Insta360 Pro client terminal that supports all the platforms, and the connection operations are described in detail in 1.1.5.

Certainly, you can also take photos without connecting to other devices. The camera has 5s shooting delay by default for standalone use. If additional settings are needed, you can use customize function to save settings so that the camera will automatically adopt settings specified last time when starting to have the next shoot. The detailed method is described in 7.2.