what's happening everyone my name is Alex and welcome back for this camera comparison we have
the brand new a Akaso brave v8 and of course the GoPro Hero 10 black as always we're gonna
split this video into three sections the first section has to do the internal microphones we'll
figure out which camera has the better internal microphone the second section has to do the image
stabilization and the last section has to do the video quality now keep in mind that for
the price of a gopro then you can actually buy two of these a Akaso Brave 8s so the gopro 10 is much
more expensive so keep that in mind also over the past three days we haven't had any sunshine so the
footage does look a bit depressing there are no blue skies and no sunshine but unfortunately there
is nothing i can do about that so let's start by checking out um some sample recordings so we can
figure out which camera has the better internal microphone okay we have a quick audio test between
the Akaso brave 8 and of course the gopro hero 10 black for this recording i am outside as you
can see for yourself and it's pretty quiet out so the only thing you should hear is my voice
there is almost no wind for this recording i'm doing 4k at 30 frames per second with a brave
8 and 4k at 30 frames per second with a gopro 10. and i'm holding the cameras about two feet away
from myself so not that far so yeah this is how the internal microphones on these two
action cameras would pick out the sound if you are outside on a pretty quiet day i'm gonna say
well there are some cars passing by right now but yeah this is how um recording would be like
if you are outside for our second audio test between the castle brave 8 and of course the gopro
hero 10 black i am inside the car and i have all the windows closed so there shouldn't be any other
noise aside from my voice so no wind no traffic nothing like that so you should only be hearing
my voice once again i am recording in 4k at 30 frames per second with a brave 8 and 4k at 30
frames per second with the gopro hero 10 black and i'm holding the cameras about two feet away from
my face and i'm talking normally so i'm not yelling at the cameras or anything like that
so yeah this is how the internal microphones on the brave 8 and the gopro hero 10 black
would them capture the sound under these conditions so in a pretty quiet environment
i'm gonna say we are moving on to our next audio test between the brave 8 and of course
the gopro 10. so for this test i'm holding the cameras about two feet them in front of myself
so i'm talking behind the cameras i'm recording in 4k at 30 frames per second with both cameras
i have the brave 8 set to the normal color profile and the natural color profile on the gopro 10 and
as i said recording in 4k at 30 frames per second i also have the gopro 10 set to super review
so this is how the internal microphone will pick up the sound under these conditions
it is a pretty quiet day out there is almost no wind but you may hear some traffic around
me okay so after checking out that footage i can definitely tell you the internal microphone in the
Akaso brave 8 is much better than the internal microphone that we had last year with the brave
7. i can probably go as far as saying that this one has the best internal microphone from any
a Akaso camera that we had up until now because mostly castle cameras don't get the best internal
microphones now between the brave 8 and the gopro 10 of course the gopro 10 does have the better
sound but that was to be expected because the gopro 10 is much more expensive as i said earlier
but overall i am happy with the sound quality that we got from the bravo 8. next we are going to move
on and check out some sample recordings so you can figure out which camera has the better image
stabilization now with a brave a to get two levels of image stabilization one of them is called
normal and the other one it's called super smooth but only the normal level of image stabilization
is in camera image stabilization if that makes any sense if you record with a super smooth level
of stabilization the footage actually doesn't look steady at all you have to export that footage into
the a castle go app and then the app will process that footage and make it smooth unfortunately you
cannot export that footage from the castle app so you can actually watch it on other devices if
i export the video on my phone i cannot play it if i try playing that on my computer i cannot play it
so even though we have that second level called super smooth in reality we just have one level
which is normal so all the footage that you're about to see was done with a normal level of image
stabilization on the brave eight so let's check out that footage okay for our next test between
the castle brave eight and of course the gopro hero 10 black i am recording 4k at 30 frames per
second i have the stabilization set on the brave 8 to normal and of course on the gopro hero 10 black
i have it set um to boost the maximum level of image stabilization so i'm going to start walking
a bit faster just so you can see how that um does when walking a bit faster and we're also going to
start running in a bit again so you can see which camera does better um under these conditions
so yeah this is how the image stabilization between the brave 8
and the gopro hero 10 black looks like
for our next test for image stabilization between the brave 8 and the gopro hero 10
black i am walking really slow i am recording in 4k at 30 frames per second with both cameras
i have the level of image stabilization set to normal on the brave eight and uh the maximum
level of image stabilization on the gopro 10 which is boost so i'm gonna pan the cameras right slowly
and back left and as i said i'm trying to keep the
cameras as steady as possible and also walking really slow
so yeah this is how the image stabilization would look like under these conditions between these two
cameras for our next test for image stabilization between the brave 8 and of course the gopro 10 i
will be recording in 4k 30 frames per second and as you can see for yourself i will be riding the
bicycle i have the gopro 10 set to super view and the boost level of image stabilization where um
the brave eight i have the stabilization set to normal and we cannot choose how wide
the field of view is so let's go riding and see which camera does the best we'll go left
we'll go right somewhere here
back left
back right
and left again
and right again so yeah this is how recording down the brave 8 and the
gopro hero 10 black would look like if you're riding a bicycle
okay so as you've seen for yourself if you move the cameras nice and slow the image stabilization
from the Akaso brave 8 is quite good so i'm not bad at all probably better than the one
that we get from the gopro 10 but as soon as you start running as soon as you start doing sudden
movements with the cameras the image stabilization from the gopro 10 is much much better
so if you are walking nice and slow with the a cast so the image stabilization is decent but as
soon as you start doing crazy movements the image stabilization is kind of on average i'm going to
say and of course the gopro 10 does win that round basically okay next we're going to check out a few
more sample recordings just so you can see how the image quality looks in different resolutions
and different situations basically so let's check out that footage and i'll be right back
for our next test i am recording in 4k at 60 frames per second with the brave 8 and of course
the gopro 10. now at 4k at 60 frames per second the brave 8 doesn't have on camera stabilization
you could choose a stabilization called super smooth but you do have to export the video on your
phone and the video will be converted to something smoother so there is no on camera stabilization
for 4k at 60 frames per second recording so personally i would not use this because it's time
consuming to export that video not to mention the videos that i did export don't seem to work with
final cut pro so i cannot edit those videos that i exported from the phone so this is how recording
in 4k at 60 frames per second would look like between the brave 8 and of course the gopro 10.
okay we are moving on to a 1080p at 60 frames per second recording between the brave 8 and
of course the gopro 10. now if you do go higher than 1080p at 60 frames per second on the brave
8 you don't get any stabilization anymore so for 1080p 60 frames per second is the maximum
resolution that you can select for in-camera image stabilization so keep that in mind with the gopro
10 of course we have image stabilization at pretty much any resolution so i do have the gopro 10 set
to the boost level of image stabilization so this is how 1080p at 60 frames per second recording
between these two action cameras would look like all right and we're moving on to a quick recording
in low light between the gopro hero 10 black and of course the castle brave 8. for this recording
i'm doing 4k at 30 frames per second with both cameras and i have the lens set to wide um
on the gopro 10 and the image stabilization set to the maximum level on both cameras now looking
at the screens here i can definitely see a bit more on the screen of the gopro 10 so i
can barely see anything on the screen of the a castle brave eight so i'm going to stop here
we'll pan right so towards the light basically so yeah i can clearly see way more um on the screen
of the gopro so this whole recording in low light between these two action cameras would look like
and as you've seen for yourself there was no sunshine in those recordings which is a shame
because i was really hoping to see how the footage would actually look if we have a blue sky if you
have sunshine so nice and bright environment but like this the sky was kind of gray and everything
looked a bit um depressing i'm gonna wait for a sunny day to do the full review of this camera so
you can see how that footage actually looks on a sunny day with some blue skies now looking at the
footage of course the footage from the gopro 10 is sharper the footage from the akaso brave 8 is
a bit more washed out i'm gonna say but the colors do seem to be fairly similar in between the two
you do have um two color profiles available on the castle brave eight as well just as we do like um
we have on the gopro 10. so for a budget friendly action camera i don't think it does bad but when
compared to the gopro 10 of course the gopro 10 does better so i'll try to bring some more footage
for the full review in a few days or whenever we get um some sunshine alright guys hopefully
this video was useful thanks for watching and i'll see you guys in the next one thanks for watching