Having already secured a robust foothold within the motion cam market with its Ace Professional lineup, Insta360 is now difficult DJI, Shure, and Rode with the corporate’s first wi-fi microphone. Wanting comparable in dimension to an Apple AirTag, the Insta360 Mic Air is among the smallest and lightest wi-fi mics now obtainable whereas nonetheless providing as much as 10 hours of battery life.
Weighing simply 7.9 grams, the Mic Air is lighter than the ten gram DJI Mic Mini, the 30 gram Rode Wi-fi GO II, and even Shure’s tiny 8.2 gram MoveMic. It’s designed to be worn by clipping it to clothes, utilizing a magnetic backing, or by hanging from a pendant strap. For solo creators, the Mic Air additionally has its personal button controls that can be utilized to activate noise canceling, begin or cease video recording, and even shortly mute it, whereas the USB-C receiver has its personal quantity controls.
Insta360 claims the Mic Air affords as much as 10 hours of use on a single cost and a variety of as much as 300 meters, however that’s whereas the microphone is related to its optionally available wi-fi receiver in an “open, unobstructed, and interference-free atmosphere” and with noise canceling turned off. The Mic Air can even wirelessly join on to the Insta360 Ace Professional 2 motion cam and Insta360 X5 8K 360-degree cam over Bluetooth (the corporate is promising compatibility with different fashions coming later). However doing so drops the battery life to as much as 7.5 hours and the vary might be lowered to between 30 and 50 meters.
Though Bluetooth connectivity is included, the optionally available USB-C wi-fi receiver is required to make use of the Mic Air with smartphones, which additionally means you’ll doubtlessly want a cumbersome adapter dongle to make use of it with older iPhones that also have a lightning port.
