How to repair your scratched 360° Lenses (Insta, GoPro, etc.)

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Published 2020-09-21

I managed to get some scratches on my Insta360 One R 360 Mod Lenses and tried some Repair Kit from Amazon (smile.amazon.de/gp/product/B077SNKVNP/). This Videos shows in how far i was able to fix the lenses and avoid spending a lot of money for a repair unit resp. buying a new camera. I will propably buy a new 360 Mod at some point, but for now i can live with the camera quality again.

All Comments (18)

@hebermix 3 years ago

What about if you use the remen tool for remove the grey thing like polish
@f1pitpass 3 years ago

thank you! - Subbed
@lokeshwarkumar9776 3 years ago

Excellent
@juliohigashionna5211 2 years ago

I keep polishing with Meguiar's ultimate compound to remove all the glare. Now looks like new again.
@b18c1iv 3 years ago

Not sure I know anyone that could live with that result. Did you continue to use this camera alot after this, just curious?
@peebherault 3 years ago

I litterally got the same sort of scratch after my camera fell from 100mm off a stand the day after receiving it 😭 do you see much difference now the reflective coating has been removed? Is that noticeable at the layer edge?
@zextremist 3 years ago

Looks like you removed a good value of material from the lens, so now the image has some kind of aberration (black book is curved on the final shot). Good attempt though.
@TYT695 2 years ago

Does it work on my glasses?
@liquidworldvideo 3 years ago

I tried this and it took 90 percent of the scratch out, there was a deep part that I chose not to keep working for fear I would do more damage, the end result was it left the glass smoothly polished, camera quality shows a small blemish in the picture, probably due to the deep part I chose not to continue polishing, it’s worth trying if you’re not a Professional photographer, and you don’t want to loose your Camera for a few weeks, if not, I believe, insta 360 in Irvine Ca, can be contacted, for repairing these cameras, it worth a call.
@taposjubaervlogs9611 8 months ago

How much this paste price?
@osvaldoflores5554 3 years ago

Works but NOT in deep scratches.
@83dsvhtubb 3 years ago

Why not use a dremel tool to polish it out?
@pelulici 1 year ago

You did one thing wrong: don't mask anything and polish the entire lens! You removed the coatings where the scratch was but you have now some irregularities in your image because of that. I polished both lenses on my Hero Max and without coating the image is better than before. Regards from Romania
@raffikibarian8970 3 years ago

all the rear side is showing blurry ! it was scratched i polished it but still . what do u think ?
@TechnologyRescue 1 year ago

Paper towels create scratches. Use cloth. Good job otherwise.
@acflowCam 8 months ago

Say goodbye to the hassle of replacing lenses. Check out our 360 camera that lets you swap out a damaged lens in just 3 minutes🤩: https://youtu.be/8u_TKan-Dug
@GiveWayMotovlog 6 months ago

No much improvement