Hey, guys. So I finally got the DJI Action 2. It arrived really quickly, I think I ordered
it, I think basically came the next day from when I ordered it. So in this video, I'm not
going to the review in this video I'm just basically going to do the tests that I usually
do, so like testing out the audio quality, the video quality, stabilisation, that kind
of thing. So, I'll do that in this video because I just want to see how it works as well. And
then in the next video, that'll be my review.
So, basically, the first one is the fact that this is me shooting in 4K30. This is what
the audio looks like. I'm also shooting in D-Cinellike so that's DJI's flat colour profile.
So what I'll do so that you can see the difference is switch over to the Normal colour profile
so that you can see that, but from what I've used with the DJI Pocket 2, D-Cinelike has
become my favourite colour profile to use because you can just have so much more flexibility
with it and I think the quality of the footage looks better shooting in D-Cinelike. So, it
is a little bit difficult to colour correct, which is why I created some LUTs for it so
you can check those out. It does say that they're for the Pocket 2 but it is for D-Cinelike
footage so they will work with the Action 2 as well. But I'll switch over to the Normal
colour profile so that you can see what that looks like.
but Freewell are on it, they've already created ND filters, which is really cool. So, I'll
be getting some of those when they're released, I think middle of next month. So yeah, and
my white balance I think is set to 5700K, so yeah, this is what the footage looks like
in Normal colour profile. I'm gonna head back, I'm gonna switch it back to D-Cinelike just
because I prefer it.
So one of the other things that I wanted to test was the audio quality, and at the moment
I'm using the Touchscreen Module so that has a 4 mic stereo, 4 Mic Matrix Stereo, so you
can either record from the front, the front and back, or all directions. And at the moment
I'm just recording the audio from the front microphones. So I'm gonna switch over to,
and it's also in Mono with wind noise on because it's quite windy. So what I'm gonna do is
actually switch off the wind noise setting to see how that makes a difference. Then after
that I'll do a couple of other tests which I'll tell you about in a second.
Ok so this is with the same settings as before but the wind noise is now off so this is what
it sounds like, hopefully the wind noise setting on does make the audio sound a little bit
better and does cut out some of the wind. But I'll switch over now to Stereo with the
wind noise on and also the front-facing microphones.
Ok, so this is now Stereo mode with the wind noise on and the front microphones. So I guess
I'll also let you hear what it sounds like with all the microphones.
Ok, so this is now with all the microphones on and wind noise is on and also in Stereo
mode. So, yeah this is just what the audio sounds like. One of the things about the Touchscreen
Module as well is that you can add an SD card, so it will yeah, basically extend the memory
so that you can just shoot more and the other thing is as well is that it will give you
an extra, so normally without the Touchscreen Module on you would be able to shot for maybe
70 minutes, but with the Touchscreen Module you can shoot for up to 160 minutes, I think
it is. SO that's really useful and that's what I'm using at the moment. So what I'm
going to do now is take the Touchscreen Module off so that you can hear what the audio sounds
like without it. Because with the microphones just from the camera without the Touchscreen
Module attached you can't alter any of the audio settings as far as I can see. So I'm
gonna take off the Touchscreen Module and then you can just hear what the audio sounds
like just from the camera itself.
So this is now the audio without the Touchscreen Module and I can't see myself so I hope I'm
in frame and framed up properly, but yeah, this is what the audio sounds like and, I'm
gonna switch back over to the touchscreen module so that I can actually see myself.
But yeah, just so that you could hear it.
The Action 2 has three different fields of view and I'm currently filming in the Standard
De-Warp. So it has Standard De-Warp, it has Wide and it has Ultra Wide. So I'm gonna show
you what the difference is between all three just so that you can see how much you can
get in the frame and how little you can get in the frame. So after that I'll also show
you what the zoom looks like.
So whilst I've been walking around I've been shooting with RockSteady on, so that's the
stabilisation. So, I was gonna run but I feel quite heavy at the moment. So maybe I'll do
a little bit of a light jog so that you can see what the difference is, or just a very
swift walk. So I'll show you what the stabilisation, what the footage looks like with stabilisation
on and then I'll also show you what the footage looks like with stabilisation off.
I'm just gonna test out what the Zoom looks like as well because it's got a digital zoom
of 4.0x so I think you can actually do it while you're recording, let me see.
Yeah you can, so you can zoom whilst you're recording which is really good, something
you can't do with the Hero 10. But yeah 4.0x zoom I'll show you what it looks like.
So in my next videos I'm going to do the review. So, I'm going to check out all this footage
that I shot and just see what I think about the camera, and so that'll be in my review
video, in the next video. And then after that I just want to do some other videos so using
ND filters, finding what the best settings are gonna be and just colour correcting the
D-Cinelike footage, and stuff like that. So if you want to see more videos like that,
then subscribe if you haven't already. Thanks for checking out this video, I really hope
it was useful. If it was then do give the video a like and let me know in the comments
below if you have any questions or if you wanna see anything specific to do with the
Action 2. But yeah that's it for now. Thanks for checking out the video and I'll see you
in the next one.