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PowerPole Adds 5x Battery Power to GoPro Cameras

September 9, 2014 By Eric Reagan

PowerPole

The GoPro Hero isn’t known for its exceptional battery life, which is where Polar Pro’s latest creation comes in.

Polar Pro just met its funding goal for the PowerPole, which is a GoPro accessory combining the equivalent of 5 GoPro batteries and an ultra-durable extension pole. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam, GoPro Tagged With: GoPro, Polar Pro, PowerPole

 

Sony HDR-AZ1 is a Miniaturized Action Cam

September 4, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Sony HDR-AZ1 Action Cam

The Sony HDR-AZ1 is a new action cam that weighs just over 2 oz. and is 30% smaller than Sony’s other action cam models. In spite of its size, the new AZ1 sports some powerful features, including capturing HD 1080/60p video using Sony’s XAVC S codec at 50Mbps.  [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam, Sony Tagged With: action cam, AZ1, HDR-AZ1, Sony

GoPro Fetch is a New Mount for Dogs

August 25, 2014 By Eric Reagan

GoPro Fetch Dog Harness

GoPro has announced a new GoPro camera mount for your canine pals. The GoPro Fetch is a $60 harness that fits dogs from 15-120 lbs in size. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam, GoPro Tagged With: action cam, action camera, dog, GoPro

Incase Unveils Action Camera Collection for GoPro

August 21, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Incase GoPro Action Camera Collection

Incase has launched a new line of accessories for GoPro and other action cameras. The new Action Camera Collection includes 13 new products ranging from storage cases to camera mounts to a slipover silicone protective case for individual cameras. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam, camera bags, GoPro Tagged With: action cam, action camera, camera bag, GoPro, Incase

Forget the $500 Gimbal; Make a DIY Anti-Vibration Drone Camera Mount for $10

July 28, 2014 By Eric Reagan

The problem with mounting a GoPro to a DJI Phantom or other drone is that the vibration of the propellers creates a terrible jello effect in the footage. This is the main reason that gimbals have become such a popular accessory for drones. But gimbals are expensive.

Two grad students from USC were searching for a cheaper way to reduce the jello effect in their footage from their Phantom-mounted GoPro. After months of failure in testing several aftermarket products, they finally built their own mount with household items for less than $10.

They discovered that they had to dampen the attachment between the GoPro and the Phantom, which is something that none of the attachments on the market allowed. In the end, they used a pair of sponges and some semi-rigid wires to connect a mount that was constructed from a plastic lid.

The results are impressive and resemble the look of an expensive gimbal when viewing the output footage. You can see a full walkthrough, along with sample footage, in the video above.

Filed Under: Action Cam Tagged With: action cam, diy, DJI, drone, GoPro, how to, Learn, Phantom

VSN Mobil V.360 Action Cam Shoots 6K-Wide 360° Video

July 28, 2014 By Eric Reagan

V.360 IMAGE

VSN Mobil has announced a new 360° action camera with a unique camera that allows it to capture 1080 x 6480 resolution video, which is comparable to three full 1080p images laid side-to-side. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam Tagged With: 360-degree, action cam, VSN Mobil

Contour ROAM3 Action Cam Coming Soon

July 24, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Contour+2

Contour closed its doors in 2013 and then was purchased by an investment group in October last year. We saw Contour at CES 2014; however, there were no new camera models available.

Now, Contour is poised to come back into the action cam market bigger and better than ever before. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam Tagged With: action cam, contour, GoPro

Atomos Releases Affordable CFast Cards for Ninja Star ProRes Recorder

July 7, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Atomos Ninja Star

The Atomos Ninja Star was announced at NAB 2014 and touted as a ProRes recorder for the GoPro. The immediate downside that everyone saw was that it only recorded to CFast cards.

CFast cards are great from a speed standpoint; however, a 60GB SanDisk CFast card still costs $650! That’s a tough pill to swallow for a $300 recorder. While some more recently released cards are lower, they are still well above CF card prices. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam, Video Production Tagged With: Atomos, cfast, GoPro, Ninja Star

GoPro Hero 4 Specs Leaked? 4K at 30p and 1080p at 120fps

April 20, 2014 By Eric Reagan

gopro-hero-4

Hero 4 Mockup

The chip manufacturer for GoPro cameras have released specs for its new system on chip (SOC). The company building this chip, Ambarella, has been exclusively providing SOCs for GoPro, so it looks like this could be the real deal on what to expect from the GoPro Hero 4.

If not the actual physical board shown in the A9 release, the tech specs should/could be the equivalent to a customized board built specifically for GoPro. In fact, the A9 board in Ambarella’s press release is marketed toward the imaging industry as a whole and would almost certainly not be the final GoPro Hero 4 SOC.

Notably, the SOC delivers 4K video at a full 30p, along with 1080p at 120 fps and 720p at 240 fps. In addition to the powerful video features, it also delivers on multi-exposure HDR and WDR tone mapping.

GoPro Hero 4 Board

Actual A9 4K Board from Ambarella

If these specs show up in the GoPro Hero 4 later this year, it likely means GoPro will taken even more of the market share that it created while everyone else plays catch up.

Of course, we would expect these specs to only land in the top end model, like we currently see with the GoPro Hero 3+ Black Edition, while cheaper models get a reduced set of features. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam, GoPro Tagged With: action camera, GoPro, Hero4

Canon’s Vixia Mini X is a Compact Camcorder with Clean HDMI-Output

February 27, 2014 By Eric Reagan

Canon Vixia Mini X-4

Canon has been trying its hand at some cameras and features lately that are a bit out of left field. The PowerShot N and G1 X cameras come to mind. In the same vein of “different” comes the Canon Vixia Mini X, which debuted at CES 2014 last month. Just looking at the camera, you are left scratching your head about who its intended users are and how it should/could be used. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Action Cam, Canon Tagged With: action cam, Atomos, camcorder, Canon, CES 2014, HDMI, Ninja, VIXIA

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