this is the GoPro Hero 8 black and this is a DJI Osmo action these are two
action cameras that we are gonna be looking at in comparison to each other
what's up everybody my name is Joey familiy I'm a video producer here at
tested and I'll be taking a look at these two cameras DJI actually sent us
both these cameras late last year they sent us their Osmo action but they also
purchased and sent us a GoPro Hero 8 so full disclaimer there I'm sharing that
information with you because I think that's an important part of this
narrative that tells me that DJI is very confident in their camera they're very
confident that it is as good as or better than the GoPro we will see we
will give you our opinion about that at the end of this video but let's jump
right into this now everything shot with these action cameras will be kind of as
is I don't do any full color touch-ups and I won't adjust any of the audio when
I get to the audio testing and this review video is being published at 1080
so everything will be set to that frame size I might do some scaling adjustments
here and there but I'm not going to degrade the quality by upscaling
anything everything will basically be scaled down I shot most this stuff at
2.7 k60 that just seemed like a reasonable frame size for me a
resolution size but these cameras are fully 4k capable and kept you before K
60 but I tend to use 2.7 K because a lot of my stuff is published in 1080 so
there's a lot to cover with these two cameras I mean there's a lot to cover
dosage of one of these camera there's a lot of functionality built into these
but I think the big thing that people are gonna be wanting to know or not only
to know but making this decision based off of is the just overall image quality
of it the image that the camera is just process and push out to you so let's
talk a little bit about that these are these are tiny sensors on wide-angle
lenses and so each is using a little bit of processing power to add some
sharpness and clarity and it kind of it differs based off like how much detail
is in the shot sometimes we'll get some some gnarly looking aliasing when you
have too much detail and certain things like trees where the camera is trying to
resolve that but really when it comes down to like clarity and Christmas is
kind of how each of these resolve that sharpness and they're pretty comparable
I think the DJI at times can look a little more alias in the trees but it's
barely noticeable the other big part I think actually the most important part
that is gonna be a big decision maker for people is the is the color treatment
that out of these cameras you'll notice that
the GoPro just loves orange it loves orange it loves vibrancy it loves high
saturation there's a bit of an s-curve happening with the contrast
you're seeing a relatively grated image I call this like the GoPro look this is
the very tan very orange skin tones very bright orange II highlight like sunsets
and like bright green grass and blues it's I mean it's a little bit too much
in my opinion but most people will enjoy this image and if you do then it's all
ready for you to come out of the box the DJI on the other hand you'll notice
looks much flatter it's not particularly a flat image or I'd call a flat image
but it's more subdued that the saturation is dialed way back the
vibrancy there's a little bit less of an s-curve that's not as aggressive it's an
image that you'd want to work with in post or I'd want to work with an post I
would if I was to take photos that each of these images I'd prefer the DJI if I
was gonna be matching this with other cameras if it was an action cam
accompanied by other cameras I'd want this because this is a better starting
point for me to to push and pull the image or is the GoPro I would be pulling
the image kind of back from its grade and then moving it to store I need it to
be if that'll make sense and you don't want to do that too much because these
are highly compressed codecs and formats and images will start breaking apart and
sort of look a little ugly and so having a starting point that's less treated
it's my preference as a professional now that all being said I don't actually see
too much of a difference in the color renditions I know the color looks very
differently but how each camera interprets its blues its reds or screens
though that that data how it interprets those is pretty similar if I start
bumping up the saturation on the on the DJI I will start to get closer to the
GoPro GoPro still has a little bit more warmer highlights than the DJI and the
DDI probably a little bit warmer shadows and mid-tones but it's relatively close
in color rendition so at this point during the video you might be asking
yourself why do I care about any of this why do I all I want is to bungee jump
off of Machu Picchu and I need a action camera to do so the GoPro will then be
your camera for that it's a great camera for out-of-the-box image that looks nice
now if you do want something from the GoPro that is not
treated there are log formats in both of these cameras there are GoPro has what's
called protune and the DJI Osmo action has was called dicen alike and what that
does is it brings everything down to a flat profile I love working in these
formats normally the gh five that I shoot on here I usually always shoot in
v-log which is their log format and every camera kind of nowadays has their
own log format and the versatility on those formats can depend on how much
data is being recorded to the card the GH five has a lot of data it's a 42
image 10 bit and I can push and pull those colors and contrast although a
place without the image degrading in my in the past I've shied away from using
log formats and cameras that provide less data because you almost immediately
start to get degradation now there's a lot of people who have been using these
log formats and have been getting great results and great color and great ok
looking images I haven't in the past so I tended to not really use it I shot
very little with this in the in the protune and the decent alike just to
test out the lots and just to see how the color went and it's it seems fine
and I think if you wanted to kind of control your GoPro a more and you were
confident in your color grading ability then that protune is certainly an option
to to try out just know that you can't go too crazy with your color grading in
your color matching now I think my favourite innovations with action
cameras over the years is the stabilization both these cameras have
digital stabilization which means that they're using a little bit more the
sense they're a little bit more the image and reconfiguring the image to
give it a smoother stabilized look when you're doing things like running or
biking or jogging GoPro uses what's called the hyper smooth function and DJI
uses what they call Rocksteady both of these work and look fantastic
I think the DJI you might have a little bit more sway but it's barely noticeable
here you can see examples of me running with the cameras now let's just start
off here this is both cameras with the modes turned off I'm just holding the
camera and you can see it's relatively rough there's a lot of shake a lot of
women that you would expect as you're running with the camera in your hand now
I'm gonna turn both of these modes on now you can see me running things are
much more smooth much more pleasing yeah this would be great for like things like
snowboarding or skiing or maybe some water sports where it really
just keeps the the subject centered and frame and not all shaky and going crazy
so this whole part might sound a little bit petty but usability and just design
is kind of important for me with these cameras I don't like their bodies and
functionality working against me so let's talk a little bit about what I
like and dislike cuz it's actually kind of funny there's both these cameras have
so much that I dislike about the design and and I like and I like I wish I can
get some kind of amalgamation of the both it just combined to give me my my
perfect camera but let's talk about the GoPro the GoPro I love this new just
fully inflate and closed body there's no no cages it's just it's just there it's
waterproof with everything with everything locked in is waterproof it
has these mounting points that fold down now even though I'm kind of done with
this whole like weird little screw plasticy mounting option I don't know of
any other alternative options for these but um I'm a little bit tired of them
whatever this this is the best version of that where it actually just folds
down you don't have to deal with like finding the cage and find the piece just
fold down and click it in or fold it up and tape it or butyl to some kind of
surface the micro SD card look another thing I'm done with is micro SD cards
I'm ready for these cameras I have full SD si but I'll take the extra grams and
wait I'm so tired of micro SD s anyway the GoPro has this micro SD cards slim
from right against the battery it's almost impossible for me to get out with
my fat fingers with the battery in place so every time that I have to get the
card out I usually ought to take the battery out which is a small nitpick but
it's just a pain I want this stuff to be a little bit easier the screen in the UI
the uise was a little bit dated I like the G I'll get the deed you guys in a
minute but I like their version of this better this feels a little bit a little
bit antiquated a little bit clunky and sometimes I just get lost in the menus
trying to figure out what I'm trying to do
I love the presets that it lets you ill so you set a presets and access those
very quickly that's awesome it does only have the rear screen with
much more of a bevels than the DJI which I'm not a huge fan of but yeah rear
screen you can only see kind of behind you can only see what the camera seen
from behind you there's an attachment you can buy that gives you a
front-facing camera I'm not sure how important that is to you or you
or anybody really I mean let's talk about what front-facing parents really
form that's like vloggers for the most part you there's benefits of having the
front faces dream when you're trying to mount this thing to a car and a
dashboard and you really want to just see what's in front of you but let's
talk a little bit about vlogging with these cameras in general so this test
here is for for these cameras look like a vlogging camera now I know these
cameras aren't gonna be used for any kind of full-time vlogging for any
vloggers but um these gamers might be used for like supplemental purposes
cameras just bring in in spaces where larger cameras can't go right now I'm
gonna throw this brick around and now I'm on the DJI and the DJI I can
actually see myself in the front-facing camera which the girl pro doesn't have
so I can frame it myself in the way I want which is good but also
these cameras are such wide-angle lenses that it's not gonna be too much of an
issue to get yourself a frame I can I can turn this back around at the GoPro
and assure myself that I'm in frame even though I can't see myself because they
know that these things are white as heck and it's only two and a half three feet
away from me which the front-facing camera is usually for when you want to
film yourself so I don't think is any real danger and not having the
front-facing screen I could guess it is nice go back to the DJI you know little
extra feature but I don't think it's imperative to have specially if you're
doing any kind of vlogging talking to the camera both of these cameras have
internal microphones with their own version of I guess wind suppression I
shot a little test using the wind suppression here alright check one two
this is me speaking into go pro and the DJI with wind reduction
quite a bike so it's a little breezy on the Mike's so we'll see how this holds
up and now I'm going to switch over to
the mike boats go pro and the DJI and again I really like the I really like
the would be the the UI that DJI is going with it just feels snappy if
you'll sell it it's very simple its quick everything's very large for my
eyes to see in my faint my big fingers to touch and the going from from front
to back screen is pretty nice just two taps with three fingers pretty easy to
use I we're back to cages this feels this feels old
this feels antique rate at this point I don't I don't like how I have to deal
with this plastic cage it uses the same GoPro mounting system which is nice if
you already have those mounts you can you can throw those into the mix and use
those for DGI stuff but like just the cages in general and then you end up
with just so much especially those who who have used multiple GoPro iterations
know that like you get cases for one version that doesn't work the next
version and then now you just have a an obsolete case it's kind of a pain and I
don't like that they went this route I really wish they stuck with the what
GoPro was trying to do and just creating the single body and then if you want
some kind of protective cage or if they're I think cages should be an
accessory not something to have a mandatory for mounting what else the
lenses so the lenses the GoPro at this point went full just built in lens you
cannot you scratch this thing it's stuck in there you cannot replace it there
might be some like I think there are protective layers you can get to attach
on to it the DJ actually has this like removable removable
piece on the edge a little filter that you can trade out and this might be
important for you if you if we want certain color color filters if you're
doing some underwater stuff where you're trying to do some stylistic stuff and
these if you're wanting to control your shutter control everything and nd will
help cut down that light it is actually great for me I love this idea and I hope
they continue going on with this route and keep it relatively standard icing up
to keep buying new sets of filters for iterations of these cameras as far as
light goes I have noticed in a little bit of my tests where light sources are
on camera shining towards the light that the flare-ups on each of these cameras
are very different now if you look here you'll see that the light leaking on the
GoPro is very it's got this kind of crazy line that just prints it and I've
seen this I'm like cheaper plastic lenses or I mean always a cheaper like
there are certain lenses that just kind of have this effect and to me it looks
cheap and immediately screams like video or just cheap plastic the DJ actually
blooms out in a way that's a little bit more indicative of like more
professional lenses not a huge thing for most people um unless like you know if
you don't mind that that's fine I definitely do mind that it's not look
like they go for so usually in the past when I've shot with GoPros are some DJ
guys older cameras do that too I just tend to avoid lights on set and for me I
like I like lights and shots to add contrast here and there so I do like a
little bit of flare and if I do I would prefer the DJ I look rather than that
kind of crazy kinda bleed out now both cameras have Wi-Fi and apps to
control them I've used both of these I think they're both great they're both
work fantastic and if you've ever use like just a camera on a phone you'll be
familiar with the UI style I did a whole bunch of ISO tests with low-light and
I'm not gonna go too much in that that's that could be its own video the amount
of information that is divulged there and that will drag this video way down
so let's avoid that just know that these cameras are tiny sensors and high ISOs
start to really break apart the images and then they'll also try to clean it up
for you they aggressively try to almost like smooth out some of the chromatic
the Loom annoys they're trying to smooth it out and give you something that looks
more I guess normal to me that looks terrible it looks it looks bad you kind
of lose all the texture and detail of things so I tend to avoid high out ISOs
I have both these guys the GoPro believe goes like 6400 ISO and
the DGI goes to 3200 both of those are way too high in my opinion I mean if
you're trying to get a if you're going that look if you're going for the ghost
hunting kind of low light you're okay with it being a little noisy and dirty
that's that's that's great for clean images I tend to stick at 800
you can lock in both those ices on this camera they give it a cap essentially
it's a yeah go Auto but don't go above this so let's wrap this if I think in
summary most people who are looking at these two cameras or going to be looking
at the image I don't want to say image quality it's gonna say image because of
of what the the GoPro is doing as far as like its grading functions I think
people will generally like that papi orangie colorful look much more than the
subdued DJI I enjoy I actually like the DG eyes color and I think that the more
subdued look is more pleasing to what I am drawn towards on what I do but I
think all those little things that I mentioned about the DJI all those little
nitpicky things I mean they're not deal-breakers but the things that I
bugged me about it I think will be fixed in a future iteration which is making me
hold out on even buying a camera like the DJI Osmo action if you were to make
me purchase one side by side I would go with the GoPro the design the usability
the image I think all of these things just make it a little bit better than
where the Osmo action is at right now so let's circle all the way back around
into ydj I sent Dustin awesome action and the GoPro Hero 8 to compare
is it because DJI thinks that their camera is that much better than in the
GoPro I don't think so I think this is I think this is marketing money into
letting people be aware that GoPro now has a serious competitor in the action
market they actually camera market in the DJI Osmo action and I think that's
something that GoPro should take rather seriously because this is DG eyes first
iteration of this camera and they nearly nail it so those are my thoughts on
these two very long video you guys will be happy with any of these cameras that
you choose to buy again my I think GoPros gonna be best for most people uh
we'll see you guys next time you fed any other questions
throw them down below or shoot me into it on Twitter now I'll do my best to
answer until next time I will see you guys all stay safe and stay inside
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