what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back in today's video we are checking out
the latest action camera from sj cam called the c200 this is probably one of the smallest action
cameras available on the market i would say it's about half the size of a regular action camera
this is also waterproof without the case so you could take this in water up to five meters without
a case but there is a waterproof case that comes in the box with it so if you do want to go diving
with it you would put that case on it and then you can go diving with it this action camera can also
record the maximum resolution of 4k at 24 frames per second and we do get imi stabilization at that
resolution okay so in the box you're gonna find that waterproof case that i mentioned
earlier there is also a small user manual however if you've used an action camera in the past well
you don't necessarily need to read that user manual and we also have a few other mounts
and stickers so you could potentially mount this action camera anywhere i like this particular case
so with the case like this you basically put the camera into the case and then you can have the
camera sitting on a tripod so this could come in handy because there is no other way of attaching
this to a tripod the camera itself feels pretty premium this is made out of metal so it doesn't
feel cheap like other action cameras that i've tried them in the past on the front here we have
the lens we have some holes for a microphone we have one of the three buttons so this
is one button this also has an led around it so whenever you're recording that led flashes
on the left hand side of the camera we have a couple of other buttons so these are the only
three buttons available on the camera on the back we have a small screen but this is not
a touch screen so every time you wanna control the camera you're gonna have to touch those um
buttons and we have some other holes for probably another microphone or the holes for
a speaker so that's about it for the camera to charge it um we basically have a little plastic
door on the side here we have a usbc charging port this camera also supports an external microphone
it takes a couple of hours to charge this from zero to 100 and the 1200 milliamp hour battery
that's non-removable inside the camera will give you about two hours of recording time all right
so now that you've seen how the camera looks and what comes in the box let's check out the video
quality and let's check out and see how that internal microphone and the image stabilization
works on it so first i want to show you a couple of sample recordings so you can see how the
internal microphone on this action camera works so how it records sound outdoors and indoors so let's
check out those recordings and i will be right back all right we have a quick microphone test
to this new sj cam camera that i'm trying out so i'm currently recording in 4k 24 frames per second
i am outside as you can see for yourself um it is a bit windy so you may hear some wind aside
from my voice there are a couple of birds around here as well and some construction that way i'm
not sure if you're gonna be able to hear that but i just want to let you know what's um around me
so this is how the internal microphone on this action camera would sound like all right we're
moving on to a quick indoors microphone test the sjcam c200 for this recording i'm doing 1080p at
30 frames per second and i'm holding the camera about two feet away from my mouth this is also
pretty quiet room but also a fairly empty room so you're probably gonna hear a bit of echo aside
from my voice but yeah this is how the c200 would pick up the sound in this kind of an environment
all right so as you've heard for yourself the sound recordings from the internal microphones are
actually better than a lot of action cameras that i've tried in the past and taking consideration
the price of this camera because it is a fairly affordable camera i was pleasantly surprised next
we're going to move on and check out um and see how the imi stabilization works so with
this camera you get imi stabilization at all resolutions so you can do 4k at 24 frames per
second you can do 1080p at 60 frames per second 1080p at 30 frames per second and you do get
any stabilization at all those resolutions so let me show you some sample recording so you can see
how that imi stabilization works basically so let's check those out and i will be right back
moving on to a quick walking and running test in 1080p at 60 frames per second so of course
i have the image stabilization turned on and i'm walking quite the normal i'm gonna say
so i'm trying to keep the camera as steady as possible i'm also gonna start running
so you can see how that imi stabilization does them while running and i'm gonna stop somewhere
wrong here so 1080p at 60 frames per second for our next walking and running test i am
recording in 4k at 24 frames per second and once again i do have the image stabilization enabled
at this resolution when we get to this three i'm gonna start running so around here just so
you can see how the image stabilization does while running and we're gonna stop somewhere around here
and i'm also gonna do the exact same test but recording in 1080p at 30 frames per second and
once again i do have the ime stabilization turned on we're gonna start running somewhere around here
i'm gonna stop we'll walk normal for a bit and run once again
so yeah this how recording and ime stabilization would work at 1080p at 30 frames per second
1080p 30 frames per second and of course the imi stabilization is enabled
it is a bit windy and i'm walking fairly fast but trying to hold the camera as steady as possible
okay so as you've seen for yourself the image stabilization isn't that great mostly compared
to other action cameras that i've tried in the past if i would be to compare this to a gopro
well the image stabilization from this one is far from great if you're
just gonna stand there and hold the camera like this panel left and right will do okay
but if you walk if you run the image stabilization just doesn't do that amazing next we're gonna move
on and check out some sample recordings so we can talk about the video quality so inside this
camera we have the novatek 96660 chipset and that chipset doesn't actually support 4k recordings
so all the 4k recordings that you are going to be getting from this action camera will actually be
upscaled 1080p recordings so if you'd be to buy a camera like this i highly recommend recording in
1080p at 30 frames per second because i feel that that is the best resolution for an action camera
like this however i'm gonna show you all the resolutions that i've filmed them over the past
few days so let's check out those recordings and i will be right back so we can talk about them
moving on to another quick recording in 1080p at 30 frames per second of course at this
resolution we get the image stabilization and i do have the image stabilization
enabled we're just gonna walk towards the car here this so you can see
how that image stabilization works if you're walking uh on this kind of up terrain
and i guess we're gonna stop somewhere around here we're gonna pan left and then back right
so yeah 1080p at 30 frames per second we are moving on to a quick 4k at 24 frames per second
recording um with this um action camera this resolution we do have um image stabilization and
i'm also riding the bicycle it is a bit um windy so you're probably gonna hear some wind aside
from my voice the road here is nice and smooth so the footage should look quite uh smooth as well
so this is how recording in 4k at 24 frames per second would look like under this conditions so on
a sunny day but a windy day next we have a 1080p at 60 frames per second recording on with this
action camera once again it is super sunny i am riding the bicycle on the same on super smooth
road and i have the imi stabilization enabled at this resolution so 1080p at 60 frames per second
we'll go a bit faster just so you can see how that image stabilization does
i think we'll turn right somewhere around here and left
and right and we'll do
left somewhere here once again so yeah 1080p at 60 frames per second on a super sunny day
we are moving on to a quick 4k 24 frames per second recording with this new sj cam
that i'm trying out of course i have the image stabilization
enabled for this recording and i'm walking um fairly normal nice and slow and i'm trying to keep
the camera as steady as possible we're gonna stop here we're gonna pan left slowly
and back right
so yeah 4k at 24 frames per second next we have a 1080p at 30 frames per second recording with this
new sj camera that we are trying out of course i have the imi stabilization
enabled at this resolution and once again i am walking um
normal and i'm trying to keep the camera as steady as possible we are walking towards my bike there
i guess i'm gonna stop somewhere around here we're gonna pan left slowly
and we'll walk this way so yeah this is how recording in 1080p at 30 frames per second
with this action camera would look like on a pretty sunny day of course we are moving on
to another quick recording in 1080p at 30 frames per second for this recording of course i have the
amy stabilization turned on now compared to the earlier recordings this time is not as bright out
so we are just before sunset so not as much light out but i wanted to show you how the video quality
is um under these conditions we're gonna stop here i'm gonna pan left so um towards this
mountain hill whatever we're gonna call this i guess we'll walk this way
so yeah this is how recording in 1080p at 30 frames per second would look like
and we're moving on to another low light recording but for this one we
are doing 1080p at 30 frames per second and of course i do have the image stabilization
enabled for this um recording as well i'm gonna stop here for a second we're gonna pan right
and we'll keep walking straight so yeah 1080p at 30 frames per second so as i mentioned
earlier if you're gonna be recording in 4k that's just upscaled 1080p if you're doing 1080p at 60
frames per second the quality decreases quite a lot so i feel that the best recordings that i
was able to get from this action camera were 1080p at 30 frames per second so you're probably better
off to just recording 1080p at 30 frames per second it seems that the video quality is better
at that resolution and even the ima stabilization seems to work slightly better at that resolution
for pictures well of course you can take pictures so this this is a camera after all
i'm not gonna say that the pictures are great or bad they're somewhere in between about
average for an action camera i would say but if you have a cell phone um well a smartphone
in your pocket your smartphone will probably do better for pictures than this action camera
all right so to quickly conclude this video if you're looking for a small action camera and
also an affordable action camera that's waterproof without the case this would make sense if you plan
on recording in 1080p if you do plan on recording in 4k maybe this is not the best option for that
because those 4k recordings don't look that amazing but for 1080p and for the price i
think that it does decent enough not to mention that it does look quite um cute all right guys
hopefully this video was useful thanks for watching and i'll see you in the next one