Low budget action cameras...
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I was thinking about a really low end action camera to film some of the stuff I get up to. Skiing, dinghy and yacht sailing, the odd track day, mountain biking. Yes, I know a Go-Pro costing many hundreds of pounds is the way to go, however there are cheap chinese cameras as low as £30 which offer a degree of the functionality at a fraction of the price.
Am I some ripped athletic 20 something who is going to drop into some huge powder off piste tree run in perfect sunshine, do some "sick dope shredding", and then spend hours editing the footage on my iMac, before viewing it in my home cinema and sending it to my thousands of adoring insta fans? No. Am I middle aged and not desperately fit, sort of occasionally carving my way down a fairly dull red piste, stopping to get my breath every so often, and then perhaps putting some footage on Facebook to share with a few similarly unskilled mates? Yes. There seems no point in having utterly amazing footage of not particularly exciting subject matter.
As a cyclist I know all about the law of diminishing returns...a £250 bike will be a bit crap, a £1000 bike will be pretty good, but a £7000 bike will only offer such marginal gains over the £1000 bike that only the most seasoned pro would really benefit from it.
Something like an AEE Lyfe for around £40 seems like it would fit the bill, give me a bit of holiday footage to remember and then get chucked in the cupboard for a few months before being used again. Has anyone got any experience of these kind of cameras?
Am I some ripped athletic 20 something who is going to drop into some huge powder off piste tree run in perfect sunshine, do some "sick dope shredding", and then spend hours editing the footage on my iMac, before viewing it in my home cinema and sending it to my thousands of adoring insta fans? No. Am I middle aged and not desperately fit, sort of occasionally carving my way down a fairly dull red piste, stopping to get my breath every so often, and then perhaps putting some footage on Facebook to share with a few similarly unskilled mates? Yes. There seems no point in having utterly amazing footage of not particularly exciting subject matter.
As a cyclist I know all about the law of diminishing returns...a £250 bike will be a bit crap, a £1000 bike will be pretty good, but a £7000 bike will only offer such marginal gains over the £1000 bike that only the most seasoned pro would really benefit from it.
Something like an AEE Lyfe for around £40 seems like it would fit the bill, give me a bit of holiday footage to remember and then get chucked in the cupboard for a few months before being used again. Has anyone got any experience of these kind of cameras?
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