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(Apologies for missing Insta360 pictures since their 2025 ‘upgrade’.)
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Three 2023 photos taken in the McEwan Hall on its Open Doors day.
Central View ↑
Corner View ↑
The stairway to the left of the main hall. A couple below were staging a dramatic scene…
↑ Dean Village 05 Water of Leith ↑
↑ ↓ Click on either snapshot for the full versions. ↑ ↓ Waverley Station
↑ ↓ Click on either of these screenshots to see the originals of Warriston’s Close ↑ ↓
↑ Click on the above screenshot to see the original.
↑ Marchmont ↑
↑ Barclay Church ↑
↑ Holy Corner ↑
↑ Scottish Widows 1 ↑
↑ Scottish Widows 2 ↑
↑ Conference Centre ↑
↑ Morrison Street ↑
↑ St Giles video ↑
↑ Latest Colinton Tunnel video 27 October 2022 ↑
↑ Edinburgh’s Innocent Tunnel backwards view reversed. Better version with ambient music.
↑ Two minute cycle trip down the Cowgate
↑ Fleshmarket Close via High Street
↑ Dean Bridge view of Dean Village
↑ Experimenting with the 360 Insta One X camera. All panning and zooming done later on my PC. Corner of Queensferry Street and Shandwick Place.
↑ Edinburgh’s Princes Street Gardens and a stroll round the Ross Fountain with the castle in the background.
↑ Psychedelic treatment applied to Ocean Terminal
↑ Fountainbridge Square on Canal Festival Day
↑ Leith Graffiti Wall
↑ Musing mews Meuse Lane with the Insta 360 One X. A wander along Meuse Lane behind the east end of Princes Street.
↑ Eric Liddell Centre at Holy Corner
↑ Salisbury Crags
↑ Views from the National Museum of Scotland roof terrace
↑ Descending from the roof of the National Museum
How I Lost my Interactive 360º Images.
Early in 2025 I visited the new bikepath from Dalry to Roseburn, starting from Edinburgh’s Telfer Subway. I wanted to get some 360º interactive stills of the new bridge over Dalry Road. It was necessary to use the phone app for this but the phone app updated itself onsite to a new version without asking me if I wanted to do this. I like to be asked about updates – most software asks first, even Windows.
The new app was unfamiliar to me and it was difficult to see the screen in sunshine. I got in a muddle trying to upload images to the cloud for sharing. I had been using the free storage space initially available but now I had to have a standing order with Google for some reason for storage space on Insta360.
I was confused by this and naively assumed that if I cancelled the Google standing order then existing images previously uploaded when it was free would still persist. I knew that I wouldn’t be able to add more unless I paid.
To my horror all my uploads vanished from the cloud and support couldn’t help me. I thought that returning things to how they were before the new app and new procedure started would really mean it would be as before. Put it down to my own stupidity and my age of 81.
I’ve bought several cameras from Insta360 and would have bought more. I have become increasingly disenchanted with being dependant on the cloud to show my stuff. I can still shoot 360º videos as the PC based Studio saves mp4 files. I do understand I’m dependent on the cloud in many ways. There’s no avoiding it.
Dave Henniker August 2025