what's happening everyone my name is alex and welcome back
so a few months ago i've done a review for the castle brave seven and in that
video i was kind of disappointed by the camera because it wasn't that great the
sound from the internal microphone wasn't great the image stabilization wasn't great
and even the touchscreen was kind of borderline and unusable well in some situations anyways
well a couple of weeks ago a castle reached out to me and they said hey alex we have a brand new
castle brave 7 an updated version that works much better than the previous one do you want
to make a video for it and of course i said yes because we have it right here
now if you want to check out the original review for the castle brave seven that i've done i will
leave a link in the video's description or the top right corner of this video so you can check it out
most of it still applies them to this camera so in today's video we are gonna check out the sound
from the internal microphone we are gonna see if the imi stabilization is better and well i can
already tell you that the touch screen on the back of the camera is improved compared to the previous
version so that one does work much much better so let's start by checking out um a couple of sample
recordings so you can hear how the internal microphone from the new update today cast so
brave seven sounds like all right this is a quick audio test to the updated version of the castle
brave seven for this recording i'm doing 4k at 30 frames per second and i have the imi stabilization
turned on as well now keep in mind i am outside so it is a bit windy and there are some cars passing
by every so often so you may hear that as well for our next recording i'm going to go inside
and we'll see how the internal microphone catches the sound if you're inside somewhere where it's
nice and quiet so this was a recording outside as you can probably see for yourself so this
how the internal microphone on the castle brave 7 the updated version records the sound for our
next audio test today castle brave 7 once again the updated version of the castle brave 7 i am
inside the house and there is no other noise aside from my voice well there is a fan somewhere around
there but i highly doubt that you're gonna be able to hear that through the cameras microphone
so this is how the castle brave seven will record the sound under these conditions basically it's
on a super quiet done place for this recording i'm doing 4k at 30 frames per second and once
again i have the imi stabilization turned on so yeah internal microphone on the castle brave 7
in a quiet place for our next test today castle brave 7 the updated version and i am talking
behind the camera and also walking up fairly slow i'm gonna say so with this test you're gonna see
how the internal microphone catches the sound if you're talking behind the camera and also how the
image stabilization on this um action camera works i am walking fairly slow so i'm trying to keep
the camera as steady as possible while walking okay so as you've heard for yourself the sound
from the internal microphone on the new updated brave 7 is much better than the original one but
if i would be to compare the sound from the brave 7 to the sound from the gopro 9 well
the gopro 9 is way way better once again so yes the new updated brave 7 has a better internal
microphone but it's still not mind-blowing good so it is better than it was before 100
next i'm going to show you some video recording so you can check out and see if
the image stabilization from the updated brave 7 has been improved or not so let's check out
those recordings and i will be right back for our next quick recording of the castle brave 7 the
updated version we're doing a bit of a walking test so you can see how the image stabilization
does while walking and we're also going to do a bit of running first i'm going to keep walking for
a bit just so you can see how it does and i think i'm going to start running somewhere around here
so that was running slow running of course i'm also going to stop somewhere around here
we're going to pan left slowly so i'm holding the camera in my hand while i do this
and then i'm going to pan right once again
so yeah this is how the image stabilization works on the castle brave 7 the updated version if you
are recording in 4k at 30 frames per second and i have another super quick walking and running
test i'm once again recording in 4k at 30 frames per second so i'm walking fairly slow on at the
moment i'm trying to keep the camera as steady as possible i'm also going to run for a bit
just so you can see how the image stabilization works um under these conditions basically okay
and we're moving on to our next test for um image stabilization for this test i will be
riding the bicycle it is a bit downhill around here so hopefully i don't fall and it's easier
to go up and down so for this recording i'm doing 4k at 30 frames per second and of course we have
the ime stabilization turned on so i'll keep doing this for a bit hopefully i don't fall
okay so as you've seen for yourself the image stabilization hasn't actually been improved
when compared to the previous version of the castle brave seven just like that one if you walk
nice and slow the instabilization is decent but as soon as you start running as soon as you ride the
bicycle and you're basically not steady you're moving the camera a lot the image stabilization
doesn't do that great so for imi stabilization i don't feel that there has been any improvements
for the new updated brave seven and as i said earlier the touchscreen on the back here is
much better than how it was back in the day when i got the original a castle brave seven
so yes there are some improvements that were made today so brave 7 the updated
version but overall it's still a fairly average camera i'm gonna say mostly because of that amy
stabilization because for an action camera the image stabilization is quite um important all
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