tonight's adventure begins with cafes cappuccino milkshake stout this is from vessel beer company
another new microbrewery they describe this as a creamy cappuccino milkshake stout brewed
with its own special coffee blend the coffee comes from a local coffee roaster cafe postal
so tonight i am looking at this little action camera that i got in a mail bag
probably about a month ago now and when i got it i promised you that i would take a closer look at
it after i lived with it for a while so this is that the camera itself is just a tiny little guy
as is common with all these action cameras it's in a fairly familiar form factor um
best i can come up with it's very very similar in size and shape and general function to the
gopro hero4 obviously it's not the same build quality because this thing is really inexpensive
but in my experimentation with it so far it definitely does the job i guess we'll
start off with what's in the box uh this thing's branded cam park uh don't know much about them
but there's a bunch of other inexpensive action cameras that
look on the surface to be almost the same thing um i'll give you a search link from ebay if you
want to take a look closer but oh there's a bunch of stuff coming with it a whole ton of accessories
manual a pretty good little manual actually considering uh this just came from a company that
nobody's ever heard of it goes through all the different modes and whatnot which is kind of cool
one of the first things you notice is it's got a waterproof case and depending on where you read
the box says it's good to 40 meters i think the manual said it's good to 30 meters
it's not something that i am likely to use but i did have it out in the snow a few times
and it kept the camera dry enough this is the accessory i've been using the most the camera just
clips into it and you can use a tripod screw either on the top of the bottom i've been using
with my magic arm i've had it mounted just up over there and if you've seen this view of my
workbench anytime in the last month or so that's this camera doing its thing up in the corner there
so that is really handy and those are the two ways that you can mount it to stuff on the waterproof
case it has the uh very standard gopro-ish mount on the bottom here which allows you to connect
it using multiple different accessories that come in the back and there are quite a lot of
them there's this uh handlebar mount for your bike although i found other ways to use that
there's these two here which snap into little quick connect things quick connect bases just uh
that one's just a straight up and that one's got a bit of a rise and a swoop to it those
fit onto bases like these this one's got a tripod thread in it and this one is just an adhesive base
that one's also got an adhesive on it there's a couple of other adhesive pads in the kit and for
some reason it comes a little steel cable a safety though i don't know what you'd attach that to
we've got a female tripod thread there to that mount and somewhere over here
yeah there's a male tripod mount then there's a couple of adapters that one's just a straight
riser that one is a 90 degree riser which is handy that one's another 90 degree riser but taller
what else we got here for mounts there's this one that confuses me it clamps onto
stuff which is kind of nice but it is too wide to go with any of these bases so i don't
know what it does and i don't see any reference to how to use it anywhere in the manual so not quite
sure other things there is a wrist strap there is a little piece of velcro there's
these two straps this one is velcro and this one is just a a latching kind of a strap and those can
be used i guess like that strap it on and then you mount the camera on there and snap it on
possibly anything that you can strap on to something like that i suppose oh yeah uh
there's also a little wireless remote control for the camera that also has uh strap slots on it so
you'd strap that onto your wrist like yes uh it comes with a replacement back for the waterproof
case that's cool it comes with two batteries one's in the camera there's the other one
they claim to be 10 50 milliamp hours i haven't really tested them through charge and recharge
cycles just to measure exactly how many milliamp hours they are but the only time i've run the
battery right from full charge right down to nothing was when i was doing a time lapse and
that lasted for 66 minutes and 20 seconds so i assume that's going to be a reasonable gauge
a little over an hour per battery it also comes with a 1 amp usb charger and a usb cable
i think that's most of the stuff except for this microphone which looks like a good idea
it's got a two and a half millimeter plug on it not the standard three and a half millimeter
it plugs in over on the side here underneath the usb and the mini or is that micro hdmi
so yes you can connect this directly to an hdmi device and just use it as a display
sd card slot there it can take up to a 64. i've got a 32 gig in it right now however this
microphone is disappointing um let me just fire it up here and show you or what you hear i guess
so here's the microphone cooked onto my shirt at a reasonable position for this kind of lavalier mic
and as you can hear it sounds pretty horrible that's not room echo that's not the mic position
that's just the way it sounds and here is how it sounds without the microphone connected at all
using just the internal microphone which is on the side of the thing and that's a little bit cleaner
but not a whole bunch better now i've ordered some adapter cables that'll plug into there so i can
plug direct audio into it and see if that sounds any better i'm not sure if it's the camera's audio
recording capability or if it's the microphone itself but if you're using it in action cam mode
in its protective case then the audio is going to be muffled regardless so that's not probably its
biggest selling feature anyways the audio quality and when i'm using it here i'm using the audio off
this camera anyway not off there so it's not a big hairy deal so let's go through the menus quickly
to get into the menus you tap the mode button the mode slash power button on the front once that
changes you from video mode to still photo mode uh max 20 megapixel one more tap takes you into
uh video file playback one more into image playback one more now we're
into the settings so you can set your video resolution maximum is 4k 30 frames per second
can go down to 720p at 120 frames per second if you wanted to record fast action at ulris i guess
i have been mostly leaving it on 4k 30 with a couple of exceptions this 2.7 k30 is the
mode that it drops into when you put on the electronic image stabilization speaking of
electronic image stabilization you have an option of on or off i played with that a little bit
and it's not great it looks kind of swimmy if you're going to do image stabilization might be
better idea to do it in your in your editor but it does have it and it does if you've got small
motion it helps a little bit you can do looping video it just records one or three or five minute
clips and then starts a new file for each one time lapse video and again that's kind of interesting
you can set how many seconds between between frames anywhere from 1 up to 60 seconds and i'm
showing i'll show you a little bit of that on the screen just with some snowfall it wasn't the most
exciting piece of video that i've ever captured but there you go there's also a slow motion mode
which you can use either in 1080 or 720 in 1080 it drops to 60 frames per second and then plays back
at 30 at 720 it drops to 120 frames per second but again plays back at 30. audio record you can turn
that on or off tap this button again there's photo settings uh 20 megapixel down to eight megapixel
uh you have it do time lapse photos and again two second or ten second intervals
burst photos you can it'll do three or five pictures in a burst every time you tap the shutter
button that's it for photo settings next is just general there's the volume of the beeper that you
may hear when i push the buttons there is beep on or off there's exposure compensation you can go
all the way to plus two or minus two and i'll show you a little bit of that on the screen right now
i just keep it in the middle for now you can set it to manual iso or automatic i'm
just leaving it to automatic you can have it do sepia tone or black and white or negative video
for me i'm just leaving it on normal if i want to do those i can do them in the editing later
contrast you can adjust saturation and sharpness as well you can adjust
so far the just default modes seem fairly happy to me and then there is
the system settings you can change it to either to a handful of languages
car mode you can turn that on or off which i assume is another way of getting to essentially
the the dash cam mode the auto power off you can have it do it either one or five minutes or not at
all and i've left it to not at all date format date and time you can have the date and time
stamp on screen or not i have it not frequency that is your local line frequency for your uh
for your mains voltage and that'll be the flicker that the lighting in your neighborhood runs at
i'm in north america so i left it set to 60 hertz but 50 is an option you can set it to upside down
mode if you were going to mount the camera that way for instance you've got this hanging from
something rather than sitting that way you can set it to upside down mode and that flips everything
the including the screen and everything which kind of buggers you up on the up down buttons but
there you go screen saver basically it blinks the screen on the back after 30 seconds or up to
three minutes or not at all i've left it for 30 seconds mainly just for battery saving purposes
uh you can format the sd card you can reset everything back to factory and look at the
firmware version there it is this is 2020 firmware so so far things that i've observed about this
thing it likes lots of light and for most of the usage that i've been using it for other
than shooting on the workbench here it's been outdoors and bright sunny and it's fine with that
you'll see a few clips of that scattered here and there through the thing
and of course when i'm here at my workbench it's very well lit so that's not a problem some of
the things that i've tried with it i've tried the image stabilization and i'm not a big fan of that
i've tried it handheld and that works pretty well
i tried it dog mounted just for the hell of it and
the image stabilization didn't do very much with that at all
so one thing that i noticed that it didn't come with is a lens cap but with a quick
3d print i fixed that so i'm not worried about getting schmove all over the lens
constantly and since i was 3d printing i found a few other models to print for this as well
and there's a lot more on thingiverse and your other places you get 3d models so i've
printed a few extras of these knobs in a couple of different sizes and i've got some some bolts
ordered they'll show up in a mail bag eventually i thought this was interesting these things are
designed or intended to be double-sided stuck down to various things like snowboarding helmets and
and whatnot so why not print a handful of extras where did the thing go here the base go and that
just works very well with those it holds firm and these things are available with
various different mounts this one looks like it's intended to zip tie down to stuff which
could come in handy and then there's a bunch of different shapes of this other style which just
bolt on like any other accessory you just throw a one of these thumb screws and a nut through there
and you mount it onto things with this case it can be put into hazardous situations and
not that i do that that much on video but you know it's it'll come in handy
occasionally but i think where it's going to spend most of its time is just sitting up here
on my magic arm looking down at this angle on my workbench i think that's well worth the 50 bucks
so another thing it can do is when you plug it into a usb for a computer it can become a webcam
or pc cam in this case so then i can do things like this and just put it into the
corner of the shot while i'm uh i'm scrolling through a web page or something and oh look
here is a search for that very camera and this is the search link that i am going to put down below
if anybody cares to look for it i'm just looking for cam park 4k action camera
and i've got it sorted by cheapest first so it looks like the price has gone up a little bit
but there are lots of sellers that have them and most of those things have all the specs on them if
you uh if you want to take a look through it most of this stuff comes straight out of the manual
oh right i didn't even mention that it's got wi-fi capability so it basically sets up its
own wi-fi hotspot and you can connect to it with your smartphone using an app i don't know that i
would ever use it for that mode that's not why i bought it but it does work for that so do
i like it yeah for 50 bucks it's an excellent camera for 60 or 70 like it's selling for now
probably still pretty good for a 4k camera and i mean you're not going to see it in 4k quality here
because i do all this in 1080p but where having a 4k camera benefits me personally in my application
is that even though i've got it sitting up there and it's got a wide shot on it there's no zoom or
anything in it but i can use digital zoom in my editing software and i can zoom in you know four
times essentially without losing any resolution it still looks as good as a 1080p or better image
so that is a big plus for my personal application here and then in the summer like i said i can
clamp it onto my bike handlebars and take it out for a ride which will be just awesome and
a lot of fun i think uh yeah that's uh i don't i'm not a camera reviewer but from what i've seen of
this thing i like it uh and if you want to buy one that's great uh the link down below is going to be
an affiliate link so i'll get a kickback i bought this thing i didn't get sent it so this is about
as unbiased as you get it does what i want it to do and yeah if i see them on sale i might actually
get another one how's that for an endorsement anyway uh that's just a quick look at it thanks
for watching questions or comments down below in the comments as usual i'll talk to you later