- So this is the DJI Osmo Action
and everybody has been going absolutely
straight-up cray-cray about this camera,
and rightfully so.
I mean it's a beast of a camera and it's awesome.
But hold up there, just because this is newer
and shinier than the GoPro Hero 7 Black
does not necessarily make it better.
As a matter of fact if I could only have one
of these cameras I would definitely go for the Hero 7 Black.
Not saying that the GoPro is better than the Osmo,
but for my personal use there's a list of reasons
why I would prefer the GoPro.
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I'm gonna assume this is about the 19th video
you're watching comparing these two cameras,
but just in case you haven't been in the loop,
let me try to fill you in as fast as I can.
Both have touch screen displays on the back,
but the Osmo's is a little bit bigger.
So yay, one point for Osmo.
The Osmo has a little display on the front,
which is small but useful.
No it is not a touchscreen so stop poking at it.
The GoPro has a status display up front,
but I don't think I've ever looked at it,
so it might as well not be there.
Design wise they pretty much look the freaking same.
I've picked up the wrong one so many times, it's annoying.
Pretty sure DJI was just like, hey let's just copy GoPro,
but change it just enough so we don't get sued.
But even though they look the same,
they do not fit into each other's housing.
But you can mount the Osmo's housing onto the GoPro mount
because they share that loopy circular crisscross thingy,
which is good news because you probably already
have a whole bunch laying around your house
and you should probably start organizing them.
I also recommend these screws that you can tighten
with a tool so you can stop feeling bad about your
dainty little fingertips.
Both give you stabilized 4k up to 60 frames per second,
and up to 240 frames per second in full HD, hell yeah!
You're probably gonna leave these cameras on automatic
settings, but you can always switch it into manual
if you're trying to get a little bit kinky.
I don't think I used that word right.
Both have replaceable lens protectors,
which is useful for when you break them.
(loud explosion)
(slow-motion explosion)
Not necessarily explosion-proof.
Holder Pro also makes all kinds of filters
for both of these, so check them out.
Both cameras can be operated via voice command,
and on both cameras that's the first setting I turned off
because I would rather just push the button.
Start recording.
Start recording!
Both have built-in time lapse options but the GoPros
will stabilize your footage in hyper lapse mode.
The Osmo does not come out stabilized, but I think that's
coming in a later Firmware update I believe.
I'm not sure, though.
They both have very mediocre internal microphones
which sounds fine, but if you're trying to vlog
I would definitely recommend an external microphone.
But to do that, they both require an adaptor
that will awkwardly dangle off the side of the camera.
I recommend getting this thing that slides on to the top
of your GoPro case, it holds that little adapter thing
and holds that microphone up-top and high
which is nice so that you're dead-cat-fuzzy-thing
up top will not get in the frame of your camera.
Links in description, and finally there's price.
The Osmo is $350.
The GoPro is $400, but you can usually nab it
for the same price as the Osmo.
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I'm sure how you guys are excited about that.
I still can't get over
how much that haze is moving, look at that.
So we're starting to lose the light here,
so let's try out some low-light settings.
So I'll just say it, neither of these cameras
have good low-light.
Treat 'em like little babies,
as soon as the sun goes down, put 'em to bed.
They do look a little bit different in the dark, though.
The GoPro, I think, just starts to look really mushy
and all the detail gets kinda lost.
The Osmo looks digitally sharpened,
but along with that comes a lot of digital noise.
So sometimes one looks better than the other,
but yeah, no.
So far, it actually sounds like the Osmo
has the advantage here, right?
'Cause they almost sound like the same camera,
except for the Osmo has this front-facing display.
So why do I still want the GoPro?
Little while back, the GoPro kicked up some dust
when they announced the Hypersmooth
everyone was like, oh my God, it's so smooth.
And then, now we have the DJI's version
which is RockSteady.
But one thing to keep in mind is that both of these are EIS,
or electronic image stabilization.
It's not optical image stabilization,
it's not on a tiny gimble, it's not IBIS,
it's electronic stabilization.
So these cameras film and capture shaky footage, right?
And then there's a gyroscope in each one,
so as you move the cameras around,
the gyroscope tells the camera,
this is how the camera moved.
And with that information, they go into the footage
and adjust the picture to look stabilized.
I would say that this has a little bit more
of that digital stabilization,
but it comes at a cost.
And that cost is a massive delay
on both these screens when you turn on RockSteady.
And I imagine that's because it takes a little bit of time
for the processor to stabilize the footage,
and then display the screen, but it's a bad delay.
The GoPro right here is pretty much immediate.
Every time I move the camera.
But you see on this camera, there's a delay,
so I turn and then it catches up.
I turn, catches up.
Boom.
Look at that delay, that's horrible!
And in my opinion, the last camera you wanna have
a big lag in is an action camera.
Like if you're filming a motorcycle zip past you,
and you're focused on this display back here,
you're gonna miss that action.
You're gonna be a whole second behind
and you're just gonna be catching the trail of smoke.
By the way there's not that much of a delay
with RockSteady off, but again, we're probably gonna be
leaving that RockSteady mode on most of the time.
'Cause that's why people love this thing.
But with all that being said, does the DJI Osmo
have better image stabilization than the GoPro?
I would actually say no,
because of this app called ReelSteady.
If you guys happen to fly FPV racing drones,
you probably already know of it cause that's what
most people use to super stabilize super fast drone footage.
And about five years ago, before I even started YouTube,
I bought their full after effects plug in
because they have great image stabilization.
That was a big complex, but ReelSteady came out with
ReelSteady Go, which is specifically designed for the
last few generations of GoPros.
And remember how earlier I was saying there's a
gyroscope inside of the GoPro that records all
the movements of the camera.
That way the processor knows how to
counter some of that shake.
What's awesome is that gyroscope data
gets recorded onto the GoPro file.
So ReelSteady Go accesses that data, and uses
that information to further steady that footage.
And yeah, it is a whole nother software that you
have to put it through, so it's gonna be more work,
and it's a little bit pricey.
I believe it's around 99 bucks, but is it worth it?
Now on the left is GoPro footage completely unstabilized
because you actually have to shoot it that way in order to
use ReelSteady, and on the right is the DJI Osmo Action
with RockSteady, so obviously that RockSteady
is gonna look a whole lot better.
And now I'm gonna apply ReelSteady, and then
all of a sudden the GoPro looks way
way more stabilized than even the RockSteady.
I would say the Osmo Action has a bit of an advantage
over the in-camera stabilization.
But if you want the best stabilization,
it's definitely ReelSteady with the GoPro.
And the ReelSteady works with all these GoPros.
It's not just the Hero 7 Black.
But one downside is that it doesn't work with
24 frames per second, you have to be
either shooting 25 or 30 or above.
Which kind of sucks cause I like shooting 24,
but I heard that there's a thing that GoPros
do where it drops frames once in awhile,
so it's unable to sync that gyro data with the video data,
and it becomes a little bit of a mess.
If you are interested, there's a link down in the
description that will give you five bucks off.
And I do love how simple and straightforward that
software is cause literally you open it up,
load a clip in, and adjust how much smoothness you want.
'Cause remember sometimes you want a lot,
sometimes you don't want that much.
So you can slide that around, check out where it gives
you just the right amount of stabilization, and hit save.
It's gonna kick out a file that's super smooth.
Now the next reason, which is firstly, my biggest reason,
is the fact that the Osmo Action is
locked in at one field of view.
Which is a great view angle, and it's probably
what most people would be shooting in anyways,
but if I'm filming action, like I'm wearing it on my helmet,
I'm filming action, I'm snowboarding, or whatever,
I generally want the widest angle I can possibly get.
A lot of stuff happens really close to you.
Like if I have it up here, I want it to film
everything that I am seeing, opposed to a narrow field.
I don't want to miss anything.
I'd you're gonna rig it somewhere like on a
race car or something, it's hard to mount cameras
further away from the subject.
And there's probably gonna be times
where you're gonna be like man, I need a wider angle.
And the GoPro offers a super view mode
which gives us a lot more information.
They're both a little bit cropped in cause
they both have stabilization on right now,
but even with both cameras stabilized, the GoPro
is showing us a much wider field of view, so I love that.
Of course this is gonna be case by case.
A lot of times I do just leave the GoPro on wide
which is very comparable to the Osmo Action.
But there are definitely times where I wish I even
had it wider that the super view mode.
So ask someone that often wears it
on a helmet or a chest mount.
I'm really really happy about having that
super view mode, and that alone is enough
for me to say I want that GoPro.
By the way, if you guys end up getting ReelSteady,
they recommend shooting in 4x3 4k
at 30 frames per second or 25.
'Cause that gives you the biggest field of view,
not just in width, but also top and bottom.
And ReelSteady will use that data
and also de-warp it as well.
And during that process, it scrunches everything in
and will give you a nice 16x9 finished product,
and that's what I've been doing, and it is awesome.
Now let's talk about track record for a second.
Now DJI, great company, I love their drones,
but this is their first generation action camera,
and GoPros, I bought my first one back in 2010
to use it to get some unique shots
of a short file I was making at the time.
So they were making these cameras from even before then.
So they have worked out a lot
of the kinks that they ran into.
They filmed so many crazy Red Bull events.
All that crazy stuff gets filmed on GoPros.
So they have direct feedback from people
that are shooting all that stuff.
And they've had the time to work out the kinks.
And I have been impressed with the quality of this
Osmo Action considering that it's their first one,
but I've already run into some issues.
Look at this clip real quick.
Listen to my audio.
See how off this sync is?
This is absolutely terrible.
Why is it doing that?
When you record a big, long clip,
it doesn't just give you one huge clip,
it divides up the clip into 4GB files.
Which is totally common, a lot of cameras do that
including the GoPro, but the question always
comes down to if you take those two clips
put them right next to each other in a timeline
and play it through, will you notice that jump?
Some cameras drop a few frames in between,
so it skips a little bit.
The GoPro Does it perfectly and seamlessly,
so no matter how many clips it's divided up into,
it's gonna play through perfectly fine.
But this Osmo Action on the other hand,
as soon as it crosses over that mark,
the audio becomes completely unsynced.
It was off by about half a second,
so I manually went in and synced it up.
No big deal right?
But now you have this pocket that
does not have any audio for half a second.
And there is zero indications on the camera
when it's about to split files.
So you could be vlogging, and all of a sudden
you could just have a half second of just no audio.
Again, I didn't notice this problem when RockSteady
is off, but when it turns it on,
it happens every single time.
This could be another thing that is fixed in a future
former update, but this is something
that I noticed, and it bugs me.
Imagine filming a wedding, and it's like
"Do you take her to be you're wife?"
Then you just hear clapping.
And of course, this is the GoPro, so many
accessories like this weird funky phone protector
which is supposed to protect it, and also reduce wind noise.
When it comes to image quality, they both look really good.
In general, I do prefer the look out of the GoPro.
It always does a great job making
the skies look really blue and vibrant.
The DJI also looks really really solid as well.
Now I actually feel like it does better at filming people.
Like I noticed my skin tones with the GoPro
always looks a little bit mushy,
so I gotta give it to the Osmo for that.
But the GoPro also gives you
HEVC, or High Efficiency Video Coding, I think.
Also called H265,
and I wouldn't really touch it
if you have a slow computer cause it's heavy
on your computer, but it does pack in a lot more data.
Both have a flat picture profile.
And I enjoy grading the flat picture profiles
from GoPro, it grades very naturally in my opinion.
The cina like is also nice and flat,
but as a picture profile that's supposed to be very flat,
it does have a lot of digital sharpening
already embedded in there.
The Osmo does also have the HDR mode, but,
first of all, RockSteady does not work in that mode,
so probably none of us are really gonna be touching it.
And I've also seen some weird things come out of HDR mode.
So I'm probably not gonna touch it.
Overall, I think the Osmo Action is awesome
because it has that front screen.
That's probably its best feature, and I loved having
it while I was vlogging with it,
but as a pure action camera, I think
the GoPro Hero 7 just has so many more
practical features for what I wanna do.
So that is why I would still go for the GoPro Hero 7.
Maybe the Hero 8 will have a front screen on here.
But here's the question.
Which one would you rather have?
And as I mention, give way!
To enter, easy!
All you gotta do it be a subscriber and leave me a comment
telling me which one you would rather have and why.
We're gonna use a random comment selector.
It's gonna pick out a comment, and we're gonna send
whichever camera you want to one lucky person.
I'm trying to test the battery life on these,
and both of these cameras have been
recording non stop for an hour and seven minutes,
so they're both pretty decent on that front.
Also, look at this.
I can touch almost all of my face.
And this is how much I cans straighten out.
I cannot wait to have full arm control.
You guys are lucky, if you could take your left hand
and just like touch your face all over, you guys are lucky.
I can only use my thumb.
Let's close this off with a few comments from my last video
which was all about my new ASUS computer set up.
Top comment's from Nadem, "I'm a simple man.
Guy with an I9 and a P4000.
You sir have a beast of a machine."
That is true, that ASUS is wicked fast,
I mean very quickly turned my MacBook Pro into a
computer I use to read comments and take little notes on.
"Damn, it's like an earthquake in your office."
(laughs)
Guys, I need to stop leaning on the table so much.
Hey what's going on!?
I was trying to shake the table more,
but I think this table's heavier.
Sean says, "I'm not sure which looks more over
engineered ASUS Tower, or Potato Jet's robo arm."
(laughs)
I have a picture on Instagram with me filming with it
and everyone's like, that looks like
it's part of the camera.
Is that a follow focus on your elbow?
(laughs)
Anyways.
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