Hello nice to see again. Today we're going to take a look the Muson MC1 action
camera this is a GoPro like action cam. It's a tiny little thing
1080p comes with a waterproof case, controls on the side and it's also got a
tiny little screen on the back. Comes with a huge range of accessories as you can
see here there is a nice carry case in case you want to take this about and
there's an instruction booklet to explain what all the accessories are and
how you might use them together so you can put them together for example to use
on a helmet or maybe mount it on your belt something like that. It's really
nice to see as well with this little action camera that you get a spare
battery included so you get two batteries you can charge it to via the
camera directly or you can charge them in the included little dock and that
just needs a USB wire to plug in as you would do a phone. You've got plenty of
settings to have a little play around with and this has a number of different modes
so you can do video you can do photo you can do time-lapse all sorts of different
modes for you to have a little dig around in. It beeps quite a lot as well,
you can turn that off, I turn that off for this, and it takes a microSD card
which isn't included in the package. The waterproof casing is indeed
waterproof so we'll shove a bit of paper towel in and dunk this straight in
the water so you can see it's actually resisting going underwater as well so
you did happen to drop this the camera should float to the top on you to grab
it. If we open this up you'll see that the paper towel hasn't got soggy at all.
So that's all good so far lots of accessories where I found it starting to
get a little bit wrong the time-lapse mode is a bit annoying it does a good
job of taking lots of photos but it doesn't create a time-lapse file, you're
left to take all the photos and stitch them together to make a time-lapse file
so I've used PowerDirector here and what I've had to do is drag all the photos on
and then drag them all onto a timeline reducing that time is shown and then
eventually output this file which is a video which
is a time-lapse file and I much preferred it if the camera just recorded
the images and created that motion video automatically. So to give this a quick
test I've got it on the Manfrotto little tripod
A brilliant little tripod, previously reviewed, and you see it's got the
standard tripod fitting that comes with it and it's not on the waterproof case
on it's a pretty mucky day but I don't think it's going to rain so I'm going to do a
bit of filming on this and we will do a bit of comparison with the OnePlus 3T
which is what I'm filming this on. Just having a quick wander around see what
the footage is like it's very light in the hands even with the tripod and I'm
going to record this on both the little Muson camera and also the OnePlus 3T camera
and I'll try and show both give you an idea of what the footage looks like
compared to using a mobile I should say that I am using the DJI steady tripod
mount things so I expect the mini cameras probably won't
be as stable as the footage from the 3T.
Let's all have a selfie!
Waterproof casing and just going to do a quick recording....
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No real surprise you can't actually hear anything within the case. What did come as a surprise was that the
Wi-Fi functionality on this just didn't work at all. I downloaded the recommended
app and got it connected but despite me trying quite a few times I just couldn't
get it working every time it said it was connected and I went to test out the
Wi-Fi features it just said I had to reconnect and I tried this multiple
times to try and demo this for you you see it connected here when you actually
try and connect to the unit it has its lost connection and you have to go and
check the Wi-Fi settings it's very strange very frustrating so I don't know
what's going on there. I think the footage is okay it's not fantastic but
this is a very low cost camera so if you are looking into maybe trying out an
action camera without spending big money on something like your GoPro this is
worth considering you're not going to get the best footage you're not going to
get the best sound quality and doing time-lapses is a bit of a chore compared
to other cameras. Keep in mind however that for all the shortcomings this is a
really low cost camera and I will put a link to it in the description below if
you want to go check on the current price. Hope you enjoyed the video if you
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