Funny I just watched this today, and I also watched a good comparison video by Chaos Causes. Think I will hold off another while yet for a 360 camera. Just can't justify it currently.
Both those channels are simultaneously among my favorites and drive me nuts.
Their presentations are fantastic, but fairly often the steak is all gristle and no meat.
But a podcast made a good point (paraphrasing):
"You're going to struggle if you make a youtube channel for the Spocks of the world, the people on the pursuit of knowledge and learning, because they aren't a lot of them. The reality is most people aren't Mr. Spock, they're Homer Simpson. That's why the channels made for Homer Simpsons tend to grow."
I'm not suggesting either of those two are dumb, they're obviously smarter than I am since they're doing a lot better than I am, so maybe by comparison, I'm the Homer... but... I watch their stuff and visually it's beautiful, but more often than not I wish their content itself was richer and more filling.
Wow that was really off-topic mini-rant, sorry gents...
Their presentations are fantastic, but fairly often the steak is all gristle and no meat.
But a podcast made a good point (paraphrasing):
"You're going to struggle if you make a youtube channel for the Spocks of the world, the people on the pursuit of knowledge and learning, because they aren't a lot of them. The reality is most people aren't Mr. Spock, they're Homer Simpson. That's why the channels made for Homer Simpsons tend to grow."
I'm not suggesting either of those two are dumb, they're obviously smarter than I am since they're doing a lot better than I am, so maybe by comparison, I'm the Homer... but... I watch their stuff and visually it's beautiful, but more often than not I wish their content itself was richer and more filling.
Wow that was really off-topic mini-rant, sorry gents...
CC scripts and does voice overs for every video, which cleans his content up, he recently done an uncut version in one take, mega difference, as expected.
Looks like it's officially announced. https://us.driftinnovation.com/products/ghost-xl-pro
Looks like they got rid of the dumb micro USB to mic adapter thing in favor of a direct 3.5mm, but they also lost the swappable battery in favor of more water resistance. Hopefully they sorted the issues with firmware and the remote. If so, I'm all in! I much prefer my Drift for it's form factor and flexibility, and even with the wonky firmware it's been more stable than my Hero 9.
Yupe.
Waiting for the first test to come out.
Unclear if recording and charging at the same time is possible, but the battery should last 4h, so might not be needed.
I do like the "no helmet visible" angle from my GoPro more now, but you can play with that as well.
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Mine arrived yesterday.
Already mounted on my helmet.
Shame I don’t have a pass out to test it, for a while.
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Got mine yesterday too.... I like the form factor.
So far I've learned that I suck at lining up cameras when sticking on the mounts to the helmet and also that L3 mic sensitivity is way too high, next test will be at L2 mic sensitivity, and I have repositioned the mount so it hopefully points closer to where I am looking!
So far I've learned that I suck at lining up cameras when sticking on the mounts to the helmet and also that L3 mic sensitivity is way too high, next test will be at L2 mic sensitivity, and I have repositioned the mount so it hopefully points closer to where I am looking!
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Had a further play just now after watching Craig's video where he said it can do stabilisation at 2.7k 30fps, couldn't replicate it, but did get it to hold the stabilisation settings at 2.7k 50fps and 2.7k 25fps. Have sent Craig a tweet asking if I am doing it wrong. How are you getting on with the settings on yours @L. Bilious ?
Errrrrrr............
I've flicked through the settings. That's about it.
Not run any test footage at all yet.
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For anyone that is interested, I have posted my review of the Drift Ghost XL Pro here:
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Review - The New Drift Ghost XL Pro | Review & Thoughts
So being the camera floozy that I am, I had to get hold of the new Drift Innovation Ghost XL Pro action camera, and was really quite excited about putting it through it's paces as a motovlogging action camera. When it arrived, the camera looked great, really solid and well thought out mostly...
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On top of everything else you said I'm just testing dji action 2 - and it's really good camera with some pros and cons. Cons being overheating in 4k60 + and all the stabilization and defishing the lens turned on. But on a bike in Britain it's not a problem
It can work with cheap mic adapters so, I'm just going to test it all soon. There are some other big cons for certain but I still need to get use to it's workflow.
It can work with cheap mic adapters so, I'm just going to test it all soon. There are some other big cons for certain but I still need to get use to it's workflow.
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Please give samples of in-helmet audio through its audio input. Also, munt stability and battery life with the Power module.On top of everything else you said I'm just testing dji action 2 - and it's really good camera with some pros and cons. Cons being overheating in 4k60 + and all the stabilization and defishing the lens turned on. But on a bike in Britain it's not a problem
It can work with cheap mic adapters so, I'm just going to test it all soon. There are some other big cons for certain but I still need to get use to it's workflow.
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