hello i'm Graham Houghton and welcome to my review of the Accsoon m1 hdmi to UVC on camera device.
Now this device allows you to use your Android phone to either monitor or record or stream
an hdmi signal from either your dslr, mirrorless or from an action camera. Whichever device you
have which has an hdmi output you can actually use this device to provide a UVC signal for recording
either on your smartphone or in something like OBS so it's i've got many features which i want to try
and demonstrate a couple in this video. First of all a full disclaimer. I was sent this product
by Pergear to review for you, but as with all my reviews it doesn't really colour thy opinion about
the product i don't get a script from them they don't get to see the video before it's released
and if there are any problems with the product you'll get to hear about them in this video
so let's have a closer look at the device and see how it's made so this is basically the Accsoon m1
device it's basically a phone clamp with all the built-in functionality for the monitoring
streaming or recording of your hdmi signal so it's a plastic device with a spring-loaded clamp system
within the arms of the clamp are rubber inserts which prevent scratching and help to secure your
phone inside the clamp the main features of it of course the hdmi input which is a full-size
hdmi input which is good news um so the hdmi from your your camera is fed into the hdmi input port
and out from the type c usb connection you get the uvc hdmi feed for your recording device
now you may notice on this device is a standard sony npf battery plate
and that provides two functions one is if you've got a battery fix to the plate
you can use this to additionally charge or power your smartphone when it's attached to the cradle
and also it can provide a 7.4 to 8.4 volt output feed which is the battery voltage that's connected
to the clip so if you have something like this which is a dummy battery box for your camera
you can plug this into the side of the unit and providing you've got a battery on the plate you'll
be able to power your camera for an extended period of time using that sony npf battery
of course we've got a threaded insert in the plastic mount so it's a helicoid insert
in the mount which provides that feature to munch it onto your camera
the battery is held in place with a simple clip just to stop it from sliding out
it doesn't actually need a battery installed on the battery plate for it to operate
it will take power over usbc from your smartphone but if you do have a battery on here and you slide
the switch into the powering position it will allow you to pass power down into a smartphone
and extended the runtime there is an indicator on here with four leds
which tells you the battery set status let me install this on my panasonic gx80 here and i'll
show you how to it works so with that quarter 20 threaded mount on the bottom you can install
something like this cold shoe adapter so this will just screw into the base of the unit
and then you can slide this into the hot shoe of your camera so let me slide that
into the hot shoe of the g80 and lock that in place
now you will need to provide your own hdmi cable you don't provide one in the kit
and there are so many different hdmi cables for different cameras but it would be impossible
to supply each one so here in the case of the panasonic gx82 is the micro hdmi to full size hdmi
so we would plug the full size hdmi into the m1 device and the other end of that would go into the
camera into the hdmi port
the other lead you need is the usbc to sbc and that is provided in the kit so that will clip
into the usbc output of the m1 and that will now go into your smartphone
the smartphone needs to have a app downloaded to it it's the Accsoon SEE and you'll find that on
the Google Play Store it is only available for android devices at the moment but i do believe
they are working on an ios device for your apple users so at the moment it's only an
android device so once you've downloaded that app you can run it on your android phone
so let me just clip this into the mount and again just using that spring-loaded clip we can load the
phone into the clip and then connect the other end of the type-c cable into the camera
into the input of your smartphone so with the smartphone attached to the m1
and the whole assembly fixed to my camera here you can see we've got the hdmi feed going into the m1
from the gx80 and we've got the type c connection coming out from the m1 into the smartphone with
the Accsoon c app loaded on smartphone by swipe up we should be able to see the Accsoon
legend and that will bring up the interface if it's the first time you've used this then you
will run through a tutorial at the end of the tutorial you'll get this screen which allows
you to enter the monitor function so just by pressing monitor you'll get the screen and it
will ask for permission to contact the m1 device press ok and then you'll see the feed coming from
your camera so that's the hdmi feed coming out of the gx80 through the m1 and if i just move
the camera you can see that we're taking the feed from the camera notice across the bottom
of the screen we have a set of icons and you can scroll to add more things like zebra focus framing
focus peaking and audio levels if i just swipe along that is audio levels which will bring up
the audio level meters on the left hand side and you can adjust the levels on your camera to give
you the right output levels touch the screen it will turn all those off but you need the screen
to be on to contact the icon on the screen which allows you to start the hdmi recording process
to start recording it's just a simple case of tapping the icon on the screen
and that will start the recording process and that will be recording to the internal memory
on your smartphone stop recording the course again just tap the icon on screen and that will stop
the recording process if you wanted to go live streaming then this is the app does support live
streaming and it's a case of just tapping the live icon on the left hand side of the screen
and filling in the rtmp url and your code and then you will be able to go live with
the systems so that gives you the facilities of recording that uh hdmi feed coming from your
camera or additionally streaming using the RTMP url and your code to your particular streaming
service being such a small device weighing only 75 grams measuring 82 millimeters by 50 millimeters
by 34 millimeters it's a very small device you can always carry with you and it gives you that extra
facility of recording a decent hdmi signal it is only in 1080p 25 frames per second
with either a variable bit rate or you can fix the bitrate from 2 to 20 megabits per second
depending on your application 20 megabits does sound small but it is sufficient to give you
a decent on-screen image and you can see a comparison i've done between recording
internally with the Fuji xt3 at 1080p 50 frames a second versus the recorded signal using the m1
at 1080p 25 frames a second and there's very little difference in quality between the two sets
this is a simultaneous recording using the fujifilm xt3
as my main camera the output from that device is going into the axun m1
over hdmi and the audio is being captured using the Kimafun wireless microphone again played
into the xt3 so we're getting both audio and video out over hdmi into the Accsoon m1 device
now there is very little latency between the output from your camera and the recorded signal
on the smartphone screen if you were to put the output from your camera through a hdmi splitter
and put one output to a hdmi monitor and the other one going through the m1 to your smartphone screen
you'll see very little difference between the signal on the monitor and the signal on
the smartphone the latency is really between the processor in your main camera and the hdmi output
from that camera itself so that is where all the latency in the system lies not within the m1 it's
within your camera and that's the same with most camera devices there is a slight delay between the
process signal from the sensor and the output to the hdmi port so when people say there's quite a
bit of a lag with it they're not talking about the m1 they're talking about the camera like at boot
so here i have a test the hdmi output from the camera is going to a hdmi splitter
one side of the splitter is going to a standard hdi monitor and the other side
of the splitter is going to the m1 and the output is being displayed on the smartphone
so if i now break the beam on the camera you'll be able to see the difference between the
uh internal if you like process hdmi signal versus what's coming out to the monitor but
there's very little difference between the hdmi monitor and the output from the m1 system
so basically that's my review of the Accsoon m1 hdmi to abc on camera device
i'll put links in the video description below to where you can actually purchase this it will be
amazon.com in the states or amazon.com uk for people in the united kingdom and currently it's
99 pounds in the uk or 99 dollars in the states and i think it's well worth what there are other
solutions of course you can actually make your own solution using hdmi to a usbc video capture card
if you can find the right app which will provide you the same shooting assistant as the Accsoon See
then you're on your way to making a similar system you'll of course need to have some sort of monitor
on this on your camera that if it's a full-size monitor then that adds additional weight and size
so this system overcomes all those limitations having it all built into one small phone clip
which you can attach to your high resolution high brightness smartphone monitor and overcome all
the limitations of a bigger monitor and having to find apps to work with that device so really
is a tremendous device if you tried using some of the wi-fi apps that come with your camera
noticeably the fuji app is very very laggy and quite often locks up the panasonic app
or the canon app tend to use very small screens and again quite a high latency so you can't
really see what you're doing with those apps if you want to try and use them for focus then
again the very very small screen precludes you but here you've got a full size screen
and of course you can turn it around if you've got a camera that only has a rear facing screen
you can turn your smartphone screen to face you for your selfies and those sort of things so
really is a very tremendously useful product so until the next video thanks again for
watching please do take care and i hope to see you all very very soon goodbye for now