Action cameras have changed the way that I do a lot of videos. Especially when I go outdoors
doing photography and I want to film myself taking photos, so I can show all of you how that works.
I have a camera for photography, but then I need something to film myself. In that case I can bring
an M50 or something which works just fine. The 11 to 22 millimeter lens with that quite a bit.
But the action camera is smaller. It's more rugged. I have actually had the osmo action
fall on a tripod hit the ground just fine no issues. You have the compact size. You have
the really good stabilization, which I'd say is the main reason that I switch to those for
that specific type of video. Because I can put it on a tripod give it a second or two
just basically stop wobbling the frame, and then do my b-roll for when I'm taking a photo.
Pick it up... just walk with it right away. Great stabilization to it. I know that they're fixed
focus cameras that means at a certain distance it's going to be blurry if you're too close.
But I've found even osmo action works just fine in that situation. Now,
my specific osmo action is relatively new, so maybe... I've seen people mention that it has
bad close focus... but at least mine seems just fine. You can see the osmo action here
set up on a little tripod attached to the steering wheel of the car.
So I do have a lapel microphone, I'll do a quick test with the hero 9
from the standard audio here, which is probably pretty decent, and also this
connected to the camera using this connected to the camera would work for vlog style stuff,
but it's not going to work for what I do. Because I'm usually apart from the camera. Here's a test
with the microphone on the media mod. See how it sounds... test 123, testing one two three.
This is a test with the media mod and the lapel microphone attached to it
instead of the front microphone. Test 123, testing one two three.
Gonna walk around a little bit, hold these out with two tripods...
See how it looks together. Obviously the gopro is a lot wider than the osmo action.
Had another camera with me...
Walking around with the two action cameras. See how they sound at arm's length.
See how they look at arm's length. There's no one around so having my mask off at the moment.
One other thing I've been doing lately is the third person view with the gopro. That's
actually been pretty nice to go out there have it on the backpack with the tripod.
I've been looking at that max lens mod because it would allow me to
not try to get the camera perfectly straight, which you've probably seen some of my videos
not straight even when I try to. With the max lens mod thing it would be able to do that.
Let's go inside here...
There is that limitation of a smaller
sensor. This actually has the same sensor size, but definitely lower quality than those two.
Obvious benefit with the media mod is that it should get better audio,
and also that little wind screen that it's got on there.
One of the negatives and positives in a way is a smaller sensor one over 2.3 inch approximately.
The negative is that in low-light conditions like right now you're gonna not get amazing
quality out of it. Now, these lenses are relatively fast. I think they're f/2.8..
something like that.. I could be wrong. But they're not bad.
They're wide angle, so like I said, you can get things in decent focus from a relatively
short distance which is one of the benefits of that smaller sensor, Being able to...
Not have to care about the recording when I'm out there doing photography. So I can just let it run,
that's super nice! With my m50 cameras, which I do use a lot for videos still,
they have that 30 minute cap per clip and it's very irritating.
I guess that's one thing you could do.
Guy showed up with bagpipes. That makes sense to go out
in a situation where no one's gonna be around to complain about your bagpipes...
Anyways, hope you enjoyed this video talking about action cameras and
why I think they're still very useful at least for what I do.
Thanks!