should you buy the gopro hero 10 or the dji action 2. today we're gonna break down the
differences between these two great action cameras hey my name is jake and i create content here to
help solo creators on the go today we're breaking down some of the differences between the action 2
and the gopro hero 10. both of these cameras are waterproof but they take a pretty different
approach to action cameras one being an all-in-one and one being modular so depending on your use
case scenario one of these cameras might work better for you than the other this is not a
paid or sponsored video this is just my hands-on experience with the action 2 and the gopro hero
10. the action 2 came up with my friend jevin who came and spent a week with me up here in alaska
when it comes to resolution both of these cameras will shoot 4k up to 120 frames a second which is
fantastic and they can both shoot slow motion up to 240 frames a second which is extremely slow
motion and really nice but when it comes to just straight up resolution the gopro
still wins out just slightly at 5.3 k in 60 frames a second so if you're going for
absolute resolution the gopro 10 still wins out but not many of us need to shoot in 5.3 k
and honestly i haven't seen that much of a difference between the 4k and the 5.3k in the
gopro maybe just a tiny bit more detail but it's not a huge difference now when it comes to photos
the gopro does win pretty strongly because it can shoot up to 23 megapixel stills where the
action can shoot up to 12 megapixel stills and gopro does have some nicer better in my opinion
photo modes that it can shoot one thing that really stood out to me was how much wider and
how many more options you had for the action 2 in the field of view every time i was using the gopro
the image was tighter and closed in regardless of the settings i used where the action 2 has a much
wider field of view when it's stabilizing and then if you go to the super wide view
it doesn't stabilize but it gives you a massive 155 degree field of view but in more of the normal
fields of view where you're stabilizing it gives you it still gives you a much wider field of view
so if you hand hold a lot this is going to give you a lot more ability to capture a lot more shots
when it comes to colors there are two different ways you can shoot you can use the default
out of camera colors which is what most people do but you can also in both of these cameras shoot
in a flat or log style profile which gives you a much flatter picture a tiny bit more information
to work with but then you have to go and color grade it in post so both of these cameras will do
that they both grade about the same in my opinion but we're going to talk about the default straight
out of camera colors because i think that's what most people will use and in that regard gopro made
a big upgrade this year with the hero 10 in that they added natural color a natural color profile
which gives you much more normal looking skin tones it's not quite as saturated as the typical
gopro color profile and you can use it as well in the regular gopro color profile if you like that
really saturated look which a lot of people do especially if you're outside on a bright
sunny day it doesn't look really nice when the original action came out i really loved it because
it had really natural looking colors straight out of the camera and the action 2 continues that but
even improves upon the action the original osmo actions colors and gives us some really
nice looking very well saturated but still natural looking skin tones colors in the sky blues greens
reds all look really natural and look the closest to my eye as to what i saw and the gopro hero 10
to my eyes has a tiny bit of a magenta or purple shift which is easy to correct for but straight
out of camera i think the action 2 wins for the most normal looking colors that match what i see
with my eye however i think that gopro still has the market when it comes to the overall image
quality something gopro has done for a long time is have great image quality and i think they still
are the leader in that but that distance is getting a lot shorter
now when it comes to low light no action camera is going to give you spectacular low light
performance because they all have relatively small sensors but the action 2 does sport
a 1 over 1.7 size sensor which is larger than most action cameras and larger than the gopro
and it does make a difference when it comes to low light as you can see here
the action looks much better plus the action still maintains better
stabilization in low light whereas the gopro starts to kind of freak out a little bit
and and make the image look worse and wobble around when it's trying to stabilize in low light
but the action definitely has the cleaner low light image in my opinion than the gopro does here
now when it comes to stabilization both of these cameras offer fantastic handheld stabilization but
there is a pretty big difference the action 2 comes with rocksteady 2.0 which is a big
improvement over the original rocksteady that came with the original osmo action and the gopro hero
10 offers hyper smooth 4.0 which is an improvement over 3.0 and the gopro hero 10 offers hyper smooth
3.0 which is a improvement over hyper smooth 2.0 but there is a big difference and here i
think the action 2 wins hands down over the gopro 10 because it comes across with the most natural
looking stabilization regardless of how you're using it whether you're running down the beach
or you're flying it with an fpv drone this the rocksteady 2.0 performs really beautifully through
all of these situations to give you very smooth very steady footage now the gopro hero 10 can
do a great job especially when you put boost mode on but you also crop in quite a bit on the image
and what i've noticed is in certain movements especially like here when you're running or
definitely on fpv it tends to jerk the image around a bit and give you not as smooth results
whereas the action 2 had no issues with any of these situations and gave us really natural
smooth motion so here i've got to say the action 2 wins hands down on the stabilization for handheld
smoothing out shots and giving you a natural look straight out of camera and one other way that the
action 2 straight out of camera works better than the gopro hero 10 is it will do 360 degree
horizon leveling in camera if you're recording at 2.7 k 16 9 or lower which means you can spin
the camera here like you see in 360 degrees and it will keep the horizon perfectly level
that's phenomenal the gopro hero 10 can also do that but you have to buy the wide lens mod
in the audio department it really depends and it's a bit more complicated the gopro
offers really good on-camera audio as a default it handles wind okay it's not the best but it
does handle wind pretty decently because it has several built-in microphones that will
work to cancel out other noise and wind noise especially when it comes to the action 2 the
built-in camera in the camera module works well but it doesn't handle wind as well however as
soon as you add the screen mod it adds more microphones and does a much better job of
getting rid of wind noise here you can hear some examples of each of the cameras and their onboard
audio in a very windy situation wind running down the beach like curious the fire style
yeah don't put it down we got to drop our backpacks too many ideas
quinn running down the beach like the fire style we got to drop our backpack too many ideas
and then we come to size and weight here again is a place where the action 2 wins pretty hands down
by itself the camera module is 100 grams lighter than a gopro hero 10. so if you're doing things
like putting this on the end of a selfie pole or mounting it on an fpv drone
you're gonna save a lot of weight with this camera module now as soon as you add the other modules
it does get a little heavier but it's still smaller and lighter than the gopro hero 10.
when it comes to how you save your footage on the camera and also how you get your footage
off the camera this is where these two cameras have taken a very different approach for the
action 2 when you have just the camera module it features an internal storage of 32 gigabytes
but about 22 of that is usable because the os the operating system of the camera needs
some space on there too so that'll give you maybe about 30 minutes of recording at 4k
but as soon as you add the external battery mod or the second screen mod that allows you to add an sd
card and be able to record directly to the sd card and in a future firmware update dji is going to
add the option to be able to plug the camera into one of those other mods and it will automatically
transfer all the footage from the camera directly onto the sd card i think really this one probably
is a tie because it really comes down to your use case scenario and how you want to use the cameras
battery life has always been a challenge for action cameras the gopro hero 10 gets right
around 50 to 60 minutes depending on how you're recording it in my experience that's been pretty
much the case 40 to 50 minutes depending on the temperatures that i'm running in
and things like that the action 2 wins when you use the external screen or external battery mod
because it adds up to 150 or 180 minutes 150 is with the screen mod 180 is with the battery
mod so that gives you a lot more recording time and a lot longer ability to go out and capture
the shots you need but if you're only using the camera by itself it gives you about 30 minutes
now the nice thing is as soon as you plug in the battery mod or the second screen mod then
you immediately get the battery on the camera module is charging from those other batteries
so that's kind of a nice thing depending on how you're going to use the camera as to which camera
wins this one's really more based on your use case scenario the action 2 definitely has the
most amount of runtime when used with its other modules but gopro you can just buy extra batteries
and switch them out as you need so depends a lot on how you're going to use your camera
both of these cameras offer app control and both of them work pretty well however
i've always found that the dji action 2 just like the osmo action the original
the app connects really fast and connects every single time where i still consistently have issues
connecting the app on my gopro hero 10 to my phone which is a late model phone now when
you get into the app another one of my pet peeves has been that gopro really limits what you can do
with the app on your phone you can't adjust shutter settings you can't adjust white balance
settings you can't adjust some of those more fine-tuned controls you have to do that on camera
where the action 2 basically gives you every setting everything you need to
adjust anything on the camera that can be adjusted by you you can adjust either on
the camera or on the app and i think the action 2 wins pretty much hands down here
and finally we come down to price with action cameras starting to push
500 it gets to be a little tough but here i think the action 2 does win because you can get
a 399 dollar setup that will give you the camera a battery mod and some other accessories to be able
to mount it and i feel like the options you get straight out of the camera are a little
bit better compared to the gopro now you can also buy the 519 package which gives you the secondary
screen which you do get with the gopro kind of built in but you also get some other extras and i
still feel like you get more options and more ability to do things with the action as it is
in a camera as it comes where when it comes with the gopro you have the option to buy the 500
camera straight out which is what i did or you can buy it for 399 dollars you get a
couple of extras but you have to subscribe to gopro's yearly subscription which gives you
a little bit of coverage on the camera for 75 dollars if any damage happens to it and it also
allows you to upload your footage to gopro's cloud i don't do any of those things so i just
bought the camera outright now one thing i wasn't able to test was heating issues overheating issues
gopro hero 10 when i first got it did have a few issues gopro since fixed some of that
with a firmware update the action 2 i just wasn't able to test it's also winter time here in alaska
i don't get a lot of overheating issues so yeah we'll see how that falls out as
dji continues to upgrade the firmware if you want to see how other action cameras
compare click or tap there i've put together a short playlist i'll see in one of those videos
i'd also love to know what you think did i hit all the comparisons or you have other questions
about these two cameras you can let me know in the comments below or you can join my live stream
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