time to give the action 3 another shot
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[Music] hey my name is Jake and I create content here to help solo creators on the go so I
test and review lots of filmmaking equipment here in Alaska and I give you tips and tutorials
on how to use it if that's something interests you consider subscribing now DJI reach out
to me after they saw my action 3 versus GoPro Hero 11 video and asked if they could send
me a new version because they'd fix the problems that I complained about in that video and
all they said was do a new comparison and go make something cool using the action 3
so you saw there's something cool but after using this for a couple of weeks there are
a few things that I want to talk to you about in what has really impressed me with the action
3 and yes long story short the action 3 has been dramatically improved since the original
version and I know that because I tested not just the unit that they sent me but I also
ran down the Best Buy and body unit just to make sure one of the things that's really
impressed me about the action 3 after using it for the last few weeks and really putting
it through its Paces out in the wild and in the extreme cold like down as cold as five
degrees Fahrenheit whatever that is Associates will be right here is the cold weather performance
and the battery life I've never had an action camera work this well in the cold and for
as long the entire day I was out filming with the helicopter crew I used one and like 50
of a second battery which is impressive to say the least being that it was very cold
but not only that I've also hiked around a bunch with this and climbed mountains a bunch
with this and all of those times it's been well below freezing uh and the action 3 has
performed really well and flawlessly I think I gotta say it's probably got the best battery
life out of any action camera I've ever used it's impressively long how long one of these
batteries lasts here uh it just like they will go for forever and on the adventure combo
getting this battery case here where you have three batteries and you can charge it all
via USBC on the end here it really makes it nice because these lights will light up Amber
or green depending on if they're fully charged so when I'm running around I can easily see
immediately hey these two are fully charged and the Amber one is not so it makes it really
easy to keep track of which batteries are fully charged and which ones I've already
used but also spending a day climbing in the mountains and skiing and snowshoeing in the
mountains I only went through one battery pretty much where I was filming lots of little
clips of video clips throughout the day and the action 3 basically just kept going even
though I did bury it in the snow a few times and there was a couple of times where it just
it was extremely cold I'm not able to test hot weather performance at least not right
now well probably not in general because I live in Alaska but from what I've seen online
the action 3 also performs very well for longer durations in hot weather than other action
cameras on the market one thing that I really grew to appreciate especially when I was filming
the Ice Climbers was the magnetic attachment system it's so fast and easy to be able to
switch it from this you know say this was on my head mount to the selfie stick or be
able to take it off the selfie stick and put it on my fpv drone or take it off my fpv drone
and put it back on my selfie stick the magnetic Mount system is really nice now there's one
thing I probably wouldn't do with just a magnetic Mount and that's mounted outs on the outside
of an aircraft just because I don't think this could stand 150 mile an hour winds I
would probably use a cage system for that but the magnetic system made it incredibly
easy to be able to go and move from selfie sticks to fpv drone to head mount on the Ice
Climbers back to Selfie Stick or back to fpv drone and it made the whole process super
fast and seamless because basically I just grabbed the camera off of whatever it was
on stick it on the next thing that I wanted to use and then it was ready to go just like
that so I really have grown to love this magnetic Mount system it just makes it super fast fast
and easy to move the camera from one spot to another spot another thing I think DJI
has done incredibly well in the action 3 is the user interface which I've kind of complained
about a little bit in the past but because you get both the back screen the rear screen
and the front screen are a touch screen now you have to swipe up in order to activate
either the front or the rear screen so they're not both active at the same time but being
able to change your settings from the front screen is really handy especially if you're
mounting this on the head of an ice climber or maybe on an fpb drone where you can't get
to the back screen and use the batteries it just makes it really easy to be able to change
stuff but both screens are very responsive and really reactive it makes it really easy
to use and the entire camera is super Snappy and super responsive so if you push record
it takes almost less than a second maybe just a hair over a second to be on and recording
and I've tried this many many times to be able to uh make sure that it's not just a
fluke you know one-time deal every time I've tried it it's been that fast which makes it
great especially if you're trying to capture moments when you're grabbing the camera and
turning it on as fast as you can to capture something something else that kind of surprised
me about the action 3 now that I've had some a really good amount of time to play with
it and test it and really push it through is the low light performance you can see here
a couple of different versions with a couple of different isos but I've never had an action
camera get that high in the iso with that low of a noise in the shadows which is impressive
now some action cameras will boost the when you boost the iso you know crush the Shadows
to keep the noise less apparent but the action 3 does a really good job of keeping a pretty
clean image at much higher isos than most action cameras I've ever used so whatever
they're doing in there for noise reduction and the sensor combination it does a really
good job keeping the noise really clean or keeping the image really clean at High higher
isos along with the footage quality the fact that you get up to 4K 120 frames a second
or HD up to 240 frames a second and the way to get to them is super fast and super easy
to switch just like that I went from 4K 30 to 4K 120 and then I can go back down to 4K
30 just like that it makes it really easy and really fast to be able to get the kind
of footage you want whether it's slow motion and with 4K under 20 you still get audio so
you can slow it down if you want or you can just use it as you do which is what I did
in almost all the ice climbing stuff and on the fpv Drone because there were places I
knew I'd want to slow it down but I was also still kind of wanting to get the audio just
in case makes it really fast and then being able to just switch your modes like this to
slow motion and then being in 4k or uh 1080p 8 8X which is 240 frames a second and gives
you really good options for being able to switch between footage another thing I think
DJI did incredibly well well is the amount of audio options you get with this not only
do you get basically stereo mics where you get surround sound or not surround sound but
sound from everywhere right now I'm in Stereo mode and uh all around which means it's using
all of its mics and kind of giving you a whole sound field so you can probably hear the Drone
right back over there but you can also go to just a front mic so if you're vlogging
and you want to block out noise from behind the camera so I switched it to front audio
and mono and the Drone noise behind me or behind the camera should be considerably quieter
unless I turn this direction
but one of my favorite things is the fact that the USBC port and if you have the DJI
wireless mic you pull the little uh side off there you plug the DJI mic in though or the
receiver in and then all of a sudden you have wireless audio coming straight into camera
and you can see the little mic symbol there but it got me curious about other options
like what other options there were because a lot of times uh USBC ports will be able
to do that from a manufacturer but you'll have to use their proprietary adapter so this
is a little USBC lapel mic from Sennheiser that I got a while back and if I plug it in
you can see the mic symbol on the front of the screen right there which means this lapel
works with this action camera now you lose all waterproof ability when you take the little
door off so if you're going to be doing things in bad weather rough weather or anything like
that you definitely want to keep that little door on but the fact that you can plug in
other USBC sound sources I don't know all the ones that are compatible but I know the
DJI mics are and the Sennheiser while uh lav lavalier mic means you get a lot of options
without having to spend more money for modifications to the camera or for input adapter things
to the camera to be able to get good clean audio in a variety of different sources in
addition to the ones that are built into the camera a couple of other things that really
have stood out to me about the action 3 after using for the last few weeks is I mean the
stabilization is incredible right out of camera that's all I've run through everything you've
seen in this video is the stabilization built in whether it's got Horizon balancing or you
can tip 45 degrees up to 45 degrees either way or it's just the Rocksteady Plus or regular
rock steady all the stabilization modes give you this crazy smooth footage no matter what
you're doing with the camera which is impressive and having that really extra or Ultra wide
field of view that they've built into this has made it really nice especially when I
was putting it on the rock climbers because they were within inches of that ice wall most
of the time so being able to get actually enough field of view to be able to see more
than just the The Ice that was directly in front of them made it really nice but another
actually kind of cool thing is right down here on the bottom if you push that little
1X you can actually zoom in up to three times which is kind of cool now the quality actually
stays Pretty good overall through it I would use it unless I'm needed to but again they're
just giving you options in this same little camera for being able to compose or do things
with your shots that you you really ordinarily couldn't do with most action cameras so the
big question is now how does the action 3 compare to the GoPro Hero 11 and in order
to see that you're going to want to watch this video right here I'll see you over there
as always if you have questions ask me in the comments below or join my live stream
which happens most Wednesday nights from 4 pm Alaska time or 8 PM Eastern I'll see you
again soon in the next video cheers