what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video we are checking
out the latest action camera from a castle called the brave 7. so this is an action camera that's
waterproof without the case so as you see it in my hand here you could technically take it diving and
the camera would work fine afterwards the maximum recording resolution for this action camera is 4k
30 frames per second and we also have image stabilization at that resolution
now the image stabilization works for most resolution supported by the camera except
for 720p at 120 frames per second but let's be real here nobody wants to record in 720p in 2021
and since we are talking about imi stabilization i think we should start by
checking out some sample recording so you can see how the image stabilization works on this
camera keep in mind that it was a bit windy when i was filming those some sample videos so
maybe turn on the volume before they start so let's check out those some recordings
and for our next imi stabilization test i'm just gonna run for a bit so you can
see how the camera does while running and i'm currently recording in 40 at 30 frames per second
okay so let's do this and i also want to show you how the image stabilization does um while riding
a bicycle so try going as fast as possible i'm currently recording in 4k at 30 frames per second
so go this way this way go right once again here and back left hopefully that doesn't run us over
and as you've seen for yourself the image stabilization is decent but far from exceptional
mostly when you're running or doing some more sudden movements and if i would be to compare
the stabilization from the brave 7 to the gopro 8 or the gopro 9 well this one is much much better
but in all fairness a gopro is also double the price of the brave 7. so decent imi stabilization
overall i'm gonna say all right starting with a super quick unboxing the camera comes in a
good looking box and the first thing you're gonna find and see basically is the camera and a little
plastic frame since the action camera doesn't have a quarter inch screw hole every time you want to
place this camera on a tripod or on anything like that you're gonna have to use that plastic frame
because otherwise there is no way of mounting this on a tripod in the box you're also going to find
the remote control for the camera from that remote control you can start and stop recordings you can
change mode you can take pictures and all that without actually having to touch the camera there
are two batteries and a charger for those um too bad there is an only one charge you can typically
get about 45 to 50 minutes if you are recording in 4k at 30 frames per second you can get a bit
more if you are recording in 1080p but it really depends how you use the camera because if you keep
the screen on at all times if you have the wi-fi on them you're going to get less some battery
life of course so you can extend that battery life depending on how you actually use the camera and
aside from that you're going to find a bunch of mounts and stickers so you can technically mount
the camera anywhere but again you're gonna have to use that frame that comes in the box
the camera itself looks a lot like the dji osmo we have one screen on the front and one screen on the
back unfortunately you cannot have both screens on at the same time so you either have the front
screen or the back screen to turn on the front screen you basically have to hold them this button
down for like three or four seconds and then it switches to the front screen when you're done with
that you the same and then it switches to the back screen the glass covering the lens here is also
removable so i'm not sure if they're gonna have some filters um in the future or something but
this is removable and basically replaceable aside from that the camera is made out of this kind of
rubberized plastic it does feel like a gopro quite a bit at the top we have one button we have a
couple of buttons on the side on the other side we have a little plastic door and if you remove that
you can install the sd card supposedly this action camera can take sd cards up to 512 gigs
i personally only tried the 64 giga sd card data but you should be able to use them higher capacity
ones and we also have the usb usbc charging port and at the bottom we have another plastic door
that if you open you can remove the battery the screen on the back is also a touch screen but
it doesn't have adjustable brightness so as you're seeing it now that's the only brightness available
it does seem bright enough to be used outdoors and to be seen outdoors in direct sunlight so no
problems with that but keep in mind that the front screen is not a touch screen so you can't actually
change any settings from the front screen this camera can also take an external microphone but of
course when you're using that external microphone i have an external microphone from a cast so here
when you're using that external microphone the camera is not waterproof anymore because you
have to keep this little plastic door on the side open so no more waterproof camera if you're using
the external microphone now i have to say that i was kind of disappointed by the external
microphone and by the internal microphone if there is any window wherever you're recording you cannot
understand anything um from um what you're saying so very poor microphones the internal one and with
the external one so next i'm gonna show you some examples so you can see how the internal and the
external microphones record the sound all right we have a quick microphone test today castle
brave seven for this recording we are doing 4k 30 frames per second and uh as you can see for
yourself i am riding the bicycle it's also between this so you may hear some wind aside from my voice
but yeah this is how recording uh with this camera would sound like all right for our
next microphone test today castle brave seven i am inside the car i have all the windows um
closed so you should only hear my voice so this is the internal microphone inside the brave seven
for our next recording i will be trying out the external microphone that i got for this action
camera so let's um put that on external microphone and see how that sounds okay so now i've plugged
in the external microphone you can probably see that right here i'm also going to tap on it
so this is how the sound recordings would sound if you have an external microphone
what you heard before was done with the internal microphone but i did notice that a lot of action
cameras don't have the best internal microphone so hopefully this is an easy fix so you can have
a good sound from an action camera so yeah an external microphone would a castle brave seven
so as you've heard for yourself the internal microphone and the external microphones are pretty
disappointing if there is any wind whatsoever you can't really make out the sound anymore it becomes
uh unusable in my opinion so pretty disappointing to see that i think this is one of the poorest
microphones that i've seen on any action camera and i had really high expectations from
this one but no the microphones are just not um great all right for mods we have the regular
video mode you also have a slow motion mode but if you're recording the slow motion mode the maximum
recording resolution is 1080p at 90 frames per second and you don't have image stabilization if
you're recording in the slow motion mode you also have a time lapse mode this is a quick example of
a time lapse that i've done on the other day and yes it does look great and we also have a driving
mode so you could technically use this camera as a dash camera in your car every time you turn on the
car the camera will start recording and when you turn off the car the camera will stop recording
so next i'm gonna show you some more examples for um videos that i recorded this camera during the
day and at night and um so you can basically see how the video qualities and once those are done i
will come back so you can talk about them we are moving on to another 4k at 30 frames per second
recording would a castle brave seven once again i am using the external microphone you can see it
right here and i'm walking on fairly slow now there is a lot of noise around me i'm not sure how
well this microphone will cancel the noise around me but there is traffic there is construction and
so on so yeah this is how 4k 30 frames per second recording with a brave seven would look like on
a sunny day and we're moving on to a 1080p at 30 frames per second recording with a castle brave um
seven once again i have the external microphone plugged in because as i said earlier it is um
a bit windy so i'm just going to pan left slowly the image stabilization
is also available at this resolution and we'll walk straight towards that building
so yeah this is how 1080p at 30 frames per second recording would a castle brave 7 would look like
all right and we're moving on to another quick recording but this time around i am filming inside
of the car as you can probably see for yourself and once again we are
recording in 4k at 30 frames per second and we have the ime stabilization turned
on
and i'm using that same external microphone as i said earlier it is uh pretty windy outside
so you get ime stabilization with this action camera at pretty much all resolutions except
720p at 120 frames per second for all the other resolutions available um you do have image
stabilization and from what i'm seeing on the screen here um the stabilization does work really
well for this recording once again i am using uh that external microphone that i showed you earlier
i find it doesn't sound that well mostly if it's windy wherever you're filming all right we have
a quick video test in low light today castle brave seven for this recording i'm doing 4k
30 frames per second and of course i have the image stabilization turned on at this resolution
i'm also using the external microphone that i got for this um camera so we are not using the
the internal one for the next recording i will be removing this and we'll um see how the other
microphone sounds so the internal microphone so we're just gonna walk this way it gets a bit um
darker around here just so you have an idea how um this would do in the dark basically in low light
and i can't really see anything on the screen now anymore so i think i'm gonna turn them around
so yeah this whole recording in 4k at 30 frames per second would look like um today castle brave
seven and moving on to our second video test in low light today castle brave seven i am recording
in 1080p at 30 frames per second but for this um recording i've removed the external microphone so
what you're hearing now is actually recorded do the internal microphone that we have inside the
the brave seven we're gonna stop here for a bit we're gonna pan right slowly and up a bit i guess
and we can also walk this way for a bit
so yeah this is how recording in low light to the brave 7 would look like if you're
recording in 1080p at 30 frames per second and you also have the image stabilization turned on
so the daytime video quality is probably the best that i've seen from any castle camera up until
now on definitely really good video quality during the day if you have plenty of light
if the image stabilization would have been a bit better it would have been even better
but overall still the best um footage that i've seen from any castle camera up until now
for nighttime recordings as i always say are probably better off not to record anything with
any action camera because if you're recording with this one the brave 7 or the gopro 9 you
are not going to get a good video quality at night so the nighttime recordings are just
useless from action cameras in my opinion as for pictures the pictures look pretty
decent once again they don't look as good as the pictures that you don't take with the gopro or
the smartphone with the modern smartphone but good enough once again for um an action camera there is
also an app available for this action camera it's called a castle go and the camera basically makes
a wi-fi network connect to that wi-fi network with your smartphone and then you can control the
camera from your phone you can see what the camera sees right on your phone there is a bit of a delay
to see that the live footage but not that bad and of course you can change settings you can
download whatever videos you have on the camera and so on so an app like that could come in handy
but the app isn't anywhere as good as the gopro app because i feel that that's the best app that
i've tried done on any action camera basically so to quickly conclude this video as i've said
earlier this a castle camera has the best video quality from any castle camera that
i've tried so far and i think i've tried pretty much all of them so great video quality but
the quality from the internal microphone and even the external microphone is quite disappointing if
there is any wind whatsoever i feel that the camera would have been so much better
if you could have gotten a better internal microphone on because with the gopro you can
actually record the sound i feel that this one is kind of unreliable um for sound so there you
have it this is the castle brave seven thanks for watching and i will see you in the next one