What the Insta360 X6 Actually Taught Me About Traveling Light (And Why I'm Rethinking My Camera Bag)

What the Insta360 X6 Actually Taught Me About Traveling Light (And Why I'm Rethinking My Camera Bag)

I have a complicated relationship with packing light. I own a beautiful, considered camera bag that I have carefully optimized over years of travel. I have also, more than once, left it in a hotel room and shot an entire afternoon on my phone just to avoid carrying it. So when Peter McKinnon, one of the photographers I actually trust to tell the truth about gear, released a hands-on field test of the new Insta360 X6, I paid close attention.