The Insta360's Luma Ultra firmware adds a concert stage mode for dark strobing venues and 15x zoom with AI-assisted crop. Would you use a pocket gimbal to cover a concert?
ASKED BY · Paul Wallace · AUSTIN, TEXAS · 26 SEP 2026 · ▶ 00:00:21
Pocket gimbals with object tracking can follow performers, and concert-mode firmware may handle strobing by locking exposure manually to avoid flickering. However, for paid professional work, larger sensor cameras are preferable; personal use at shows is questionable in terms of usability.
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0:20Assistant Paul's wondering, the Insta360's Luma Ultra firmware adds a concert stage mode for dark strobing venues and 15 times Zoom that is AI-assisted crop past six times. Would you use a pocket gimbal to cover a concert? And he's got a link there to the Senity website. All right, go ahead, Courtney. You know, one of the things that a lot of the software for these little gimbals, like the Osbo Pocket Cinema and apparently the Insta360s Luna, is you can tap on an object in the frame and have it track it automatically.
0:59So you can, you know, in a concert venue, you might want to tap that around the lead singer that is maybe prancing around the stage and swing that mic around over his head. And maybe it could follow him in a reasonably medium close up. So it could do things like that. You know, that might be a way to use something like the Insta360 Luna with their, you know, their built in firmware to track things might be a use.
1:27also maybe if they're designed for strobing venues it can set the average exposure so it doesn't react constantly to massive lighting changes like strobe lights or a panning light flaring into the lens where it would suddenly stop down so you can set your exposure to be manual or lock it so that it doesn't react to a lot of the video screens of things in the back thing yeah it's interesting i haven't used these cameras but uh yeah there's
2:03two parts to the question obviously i don't know how well and practical use to if this technology actually works well but shooting dark stages that's always a challenge i mean uh the other part of the question is would you would you use a pocket gimbal to cover a concert personally for me Now look, I'm fully guilty of this. I've shot footage of shows with my iPhone over the years.
2:27It never looks great. I'm never going to look at this footage. You know, it depends what you're going to be doing with this stuff. If you're getting paid to do it, I don't think anybody would use a camera like this for paid professional use. You're probably going to use a much larger sensor camera. So it really depends. For personal use, I think you should just enjoy the show.
2:48I don't think anybody should be using their cell phone to record footage at a concert. It's like, what are you going to do? Are you going to really look at that footage two years from now? Probably not. The audio is going to be bad, too. All right, let's go to the next question. Next one comes in from Guy Cochran in Seattle, Washington.
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