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Show the World Your Pretty Face With the Leica-Engineered Insta360 Luna Ultra Pocket Camera

Everything you need to shoot steady video by yourself is in the one-handed-grip Insta360 Luna Ultra.

By Matt Jancer | Reviewed by Ysolt Usigan

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Insta360, known for its splendid webcams and action cams (and for helping to incubate a new camera drone brand called Antigravity), brought along a familiar face for its latest launch of the Insta360 Luna Ultra: Leica, one of the world’s foremost camera brands.

The Luna Ultra, a gimbaled pocket camera, is made for content creators who don’t have an entire production crew’s worth of camera operators behind me. Rather than piece together a whole camera rig that, once assembled, is so bulky and heavy that it requires a second person to hold it, the $770 Luna Ultra packs everything needed to shoot up to 8K video into a one-handed grip that can be comfortably held at arm’s length by the presenter on screen.

a gimbal for vloggers

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“So what’s a gimbal?” you may be wondering. It’s a ball-like part that connects the camera itself to the grip, where the controls live. The gimbal has an electrical motor that allows it to rotate not quite 360 degrees, but on three........

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