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Today is the day I finally deliver on my
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promise to tell you how you can win one
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of these. It's an Insta 360 Ace Pro 2.
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So, latest action camera by Insta 360.
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I've been using one for quite a while
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now. Uh I've had a lot of fun with it.
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It's uh it's a lovely bit of kit. It's
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uh it's been on some of my really deep
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uh expiration dives recently. But the
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one that you are in for an opportunity
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to win is, as you can see here,
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completely brand new, never been opened,
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still in the box. So, it's uh it's a
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fantastic camera. It will be a great
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prize, and you know, one of you lucky
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people uh should be able to win it. It's
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not just by itself, though. It comes
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complete with this as well, which is the
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60 m rated um diving housing for it. And
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I've also got one of these as well,
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which is the floating handle as well.
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So, uh you can you can use that as well.
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So, some really good items to win there.
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That whole lot will go to one lucky
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person. What I'm going to do in this
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video is I'm going to tell you why I
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love that Insta 360 so much. I'm going
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to explain how to enter the competition
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and I'm going to give you a secret code
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as well. So, somewhere in this video is
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a secret code that will give you more
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opportunities to win. That does mean
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that you're going to need to listen to
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my video all the way through. But hey,
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um I guess well hopefully you'll agree
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it's a small price to pay. So on we go.
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Why I think it's so good and remember
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listen out for that secret code. Now if
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you go uh on to other videos on YouTube,
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they will spend a lot of time telling
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you about the different stats associated
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with Insta 360 and the different modes
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and how they use it and how it
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specifically compares to other cameras.
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Uh, I'm not going to do that because
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it's not really my area of expertise. I
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am a diver who takes videos. It's always
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been my kind of sort of uh principle.
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What I'm not is a videographer who
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happens to go diving. So, I think what
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that means is I'm probably in terms of
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using a video, I'm much similar to most
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people who are going to watch this. You
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know, really all I really want is a uh
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something that I can take underwater
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with me and is going to produce the best
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possible quality, and I don't want to
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have to spend ages mcking around with
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settings or doing different bits and
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pieces to it. So, the good news is
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that's where I think I am now with the
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Insta Ace Pro 2. I've figured out
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exactly how to get the best possible
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results out of it. And as you've already
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seen from some of the clips I'm showing
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you while I'm talking, I have got some
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absolutely outstanding results, which
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given the kind of diving I do and the
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particular challenges it poses for uh
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video cameras, I think that's really
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really good news. And as I think I've
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probably said a few times, the Insta Ace
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Pro 2 is now my uh action camera of
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choice. Whenever I'm doing an important
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video, I want to get the best quality
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footage. So yeah, obviously I'm really
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pleased about that. And I'm also really
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pleased that Insta 360 have given me one
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that I can give away to one lucky person
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who's watching this video. To do it,
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you've got to go to the link that is in
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the description or up the top somewhere,
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and you'll end up on the page that
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you're seeing in front of you here. You
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can see there's all sorts of ways that
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you can enter. You know, you get
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different number of entries depending on
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which one of these uh you use. And
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obviously, at some point in this video,
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I'm going to give you the secret code.
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Sorry, I'm keeping you. I'm teasing you.
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I know I am. But you kind of keep on
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hanging in there. The secret code that
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will give you another uh five entries,
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another five chances to win it. So, go
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to the description, hit the link, get
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yourself entered, and good luck. While
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you're doing that, I just like you to
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focus on this piece of video, which
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shows an unbelievably demanding
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situation for any action camera. There
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is basically no ambient light. It is
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pitch black apart from all we've got is
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the array of super powerful diving
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strobes down there that are flashing
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away. Now, as you can see, the camera is
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co coping really well with it. There is
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a few small artifacts, but frankly, not
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very much at all, and the area of the
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image that is lost to the flashing
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lights is really small. So, I think it's
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a it's a really good example of how good
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the Insta 360 Ace Pro 2 can be in these
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super demanding conditions. So, what I'd
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like to do is just talk about what it
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was that I did to achieve the effect.
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And I think you'll be surprised actually
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how little it was. And to achieve this
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effect, what I do is really
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straightforward. What I found works well
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is simply putting everything on auto
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apart from you need to turn the eyelog
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feature on. Then once you've done that,
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it's a case of importing it into Insta
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360 Studio. You can see here, this is
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the same bit of video. There's there's
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my settings and stuff on the right hand
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side. But what I'm going to do now is
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apply the UT. And for me, that's almost
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like magic. It instantly brings all the
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color back. Of course, the Aqua Vision,
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the AI enabled feature is also really
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nice, and you can apply as much or as
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little of of that as you think is
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appropriate. Once again, does wonderful
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things uh to the video. There's once
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again, clarity plus, you can kind of
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bring in as much of that as you think is
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is appropriate. And there's all the kind
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of bog standard adjustments you can see
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here, I'm playing around with the
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exposure just to get to a point that I'm
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happy with. And then of course you can
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see. So that's really straightforward.
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Once you're happy, you just export it
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and then do whatever you want with it.
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So really straightforward, really nice.
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And I think that makes getting videos
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really easy. When I'm shallower or if
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there's a lot more light, I don't bother
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with this. I use the pure video mode,
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which is really, really effective in
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those circumstances. The only reason I
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don't use it at depth is because if you
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do, sometimes the automatic color
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correction produces red light from
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torches, which I don't think looks very
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good. But once you shallow, as you can
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see here, you can see I've turned on
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pure video mode. This is a uh piece of
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video, and you can see it actually looks
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uh looks great already. Haven't done
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anything to it yet. But what I'm going
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to do is go up into the kind of color uh
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menu there. And you can see I'm going to
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turn on the Aqua Vision. And once again,
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you can mess around with that and it
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produces really uh nice results. You can
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see how lovely that is. So for for the
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vast majority of dives, um this Pure
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Video Aqua Vision is going to produce
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absolutely stunning results. And many of
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the videos you'll have seen online with
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people in the tropics or yeah, you know,
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shallow with lots of pretty fish, that's
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how they're done. It's just I've got a
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particularly unusual use case, which is
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why I use the LUT thing. But the
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combination of those two modes works
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really well for me. Produces fantastic
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results and I'm really happy with the
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outcome. Now, the other thing that I'm
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really keen on with the Insta 360 is
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actually the dive case. It's rated to 60
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mters and I have had it to 89.
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And for those of you who are looking out
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for the secret code, the secret code is
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89 deep. All one word. Number eight.
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Number nine, D E P. So 89 deep. That's
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the secret code. Go and stick it into
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the competition. Good luck. I hope
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you'll come back and watch the rest of
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the video. And of course, if you're in
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the market for a new action camera and
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you're not successful during the
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competition, then I can strongly
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recommend the Insta 360 Ace Pro 2 as a
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camera that will do everything from the
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really deep stuff you've seen in my
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video, the really low light, the really
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challenging conditions, all the way up
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to beautiful fishes, tropical waters,
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the whole lot. It is really a action
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camera that does everything. So, will
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meet everybody's diving needs
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and that includes mine. So, to tell you
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the ways in which I've used it, I have
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had it on a tray with some video lights.
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I've had it helmet mounted. I've mounted
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it on a selfie stick, which is pretty
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much all the use cases that you could
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possibly want. And it's performed
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brilliantly in all of those. So, the
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only thing I have a current issue with
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is I need to figure out how I'm going to
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take it out on the really deep dives.
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So, I've done the 90 m with the uh case
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and I'm kind of wondering how far it can
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go. I just it's just one of those things
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I just don't want to to risk it. I have
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bought one of the aluminium AliExpress
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ones and I've taken that without a
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camera in to 100 m and I guess therefore
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the next step is to put a camera in it
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and to see how it gets on. I I think I'm
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going to have to risk it but maybe not
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until I've been up to Scapper Flow and
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got back from there. So, you're going to
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have to watch this space on how the
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housing performs, the aluminium
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AliExpress housing performs until uh
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I've had the opportunity to test it. But
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to bring things to a conclusion, I hope
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that my uh information about how I use
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the Ace Pro 2 is useful for you. I hope
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you'll agree it produces absolutely
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fabulous results. And of course, the
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giveaway is out there. So, I very much
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hope you will give that a go and I wish
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you all the best of luck. If you're not
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successful, there's a link down below
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and you can buy one if uh if that's what
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you feel you need. The other thing you
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might like to do is to go and check out
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my other uh video about the Insta 360
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Ace Pro 2 and particularly I talk in
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that about the uh the Red issue and the
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fact that it affects all modern digital
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action cameras and explains I think why
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I I use the the methods I do to try and
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uh remove that red which I just don't
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like. But so there's plenty of that on
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the other video and I hope you go and
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If not, I hope you watch one of my other
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videos and of course there is plenty to
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choose from and of course there is a
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load more to come. So thank you everyone
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again and I'll hope to see you on
