As you probably know since the Action 2 was released there's been a mssive uproar with the
overheating with the camera and so what I want to do is just in this video, do some tests, give you
my opinion and see what happens whilst I do these tests. So that's what this video's gonna be about.
So my first test is gonna be shooting 4K at 120fps and I'm gonna shoot for about 10 minutes. I'm not
gonna do any longer than that because in my mind I think it's unrealistic that anyone is
actually gonna film for, just getting out of the road, that anyone's actually gonna film
120fps for longer than 10 minutes. Because with that, all you want to do is get short clips, slow
motion clips so I just don't see it. So I'm gonna shoot for 10 minutes, 120fps and I'm gonna see if
it heats, up, if it gets hot, if it switches off, and yeah just basically see what happens.
I expect to get completely roasted for this because so many people have had overgeating issues
and it's been such a big, a big deal but I just think the tests that I've seen haven't been very
fair. So putting the Action camera down on a table, in a studio, pressing record and seeing
how long it's gonna record for in 4K120 is not real-world use. This is, in my opinion, and it
is it's an action camera, it's a camera that you're gonna be using outdoors. So putting it on
a table and pressing record and waiting for it to overheat is just not realistic, it's not real use.
I
just hit 4 minutes and nothing's wrong with the camera, I'll just feel the temperature of it.
It's not even remotely hot. It's not switched off yet and, I thought I could get through here...
Yeah I don't actually know if you just heard that because it was really windy. But yeah, I hit 4
minutes and yeah the camera's not switched off, it's not hot, the camera's not hot at all and so
coming up to 5 minutes so I've got another 5 minutes I'm gonna go
keep walking and see what happens.
So this is why I wanted to do this test because I think it needs to be done in an environment where
it's actually gonna be used and that's not to say that people aren't gonna use this camera indoors
and that it should perform properly indoors, but the number one use case for this camera is being
outdoors, so yeah, I just thought that those kind of tests are quite biased because if you
put most cameras in tha kind of situation they are gonna overheat, little cameras like this as well.
My a7III overheats in my office, I did some live streams and it overheated, so expecting this not
to overheat in a room where there's probably no airflow it's just, of course it's gonna overheat.
So, yeah that's my rant over. But that's not to say that obviously in summertime the camera might
have problems, you know it might have problems in summer but most cameras do, you're not gonna get a
lot of filming time in summer, high temperatures without the camera overheating, as most cameras
would struggle anyway. So I think it is unfair to label the Action 2 with all this, like,
bad, like all these bad impressions of it because of it's "overheating issues". So, yeah, this is
why I wanted to put this test together and I'm not sponsored by DJI at all this is just my opinion
and why I wanted to come out and do this test as well so that I could try it for myself and
try it in the use case that most people are actually gonna use the camera in. So yeah.
I'm looking at my battery and it's on 37%, when I started this it was on 100%. So I think my battery
is more likely to run out before the camera is gonna overheat. I'm at 8 minutes now.
I just felt the camera and it feels warm,
but it's not hot, it's not uncomfortable or anything, it's just warm. 8 and a half minutes.
I have got my Touchscreen Module so once I finish this I'll put my Touchscreen Module back on
because that's fully charged and I was gonna do 4K60 but I'm not gonna have enough battery left and
if it can shoot 4K120 withou overheating and shutting off then it's gonna have absolutely
no problem shooting 4K60. So I'm currently at 9 minutes, let me just check my battery again.
My battery's now at 29% so I'm gonna call it at 9 minutes.
I'm just gonna say that that's actually good enough.
I did completely forget to say that the temperature today is 8 degrees celsius,
yeah 8 degrees celsius. So yeah, just so that you know. So that was my test and as I said I
started off with 100% battery and by the time I got to 9 minutes, just after 9 minutes the
battery was down to like 29% so the camera would have ran out of juice before it even overheated,
so I don't see overheating as being an issue. So yeah, that's my test and
I'm gonna ut my full review together, I know I've said this in my last few videos but I wanted to
just do all these tests before I actually did my review because I want to give an honest and
honest recount of what I think about the camera. So next week, I'll definitely be putting out
the review and the comparison with the Action, the Hero 10. So do look out for those videos.
If you found this video useful then do give it a like. Let me know what your opinions
about the overheating issues and the issues that people have said that they've had and whatnot,
let me know in the comments below. But yeah,
that's it for now, thanks for checking out this video and I'll see you next time.