I've been looking around for an action camera. Something that I can mount on some of my r/c vehicles to get a new perspective. The GoPro seems to be the standard, and anyone doing action shots has one. While I admit they are nice, they are just a bit to pricey for my basher budget. The other one I was looking at was the Replay XD. It is something different, and not GoPro. But still a little pricey for a basher's first time trying an action camera.
While I continued my search, I came across what some might call a GoPro knock off. They don't try to claim to be GoPro's, at least I haven't found that anywhere. It is SJCAM. The one that I went with is the SJ4000 without the Wi-Fi. I have only used it a few times, but so far it isn't bad. Since I don't have any other action cameras, I can't make a proper comparison. The one thing I do like, besides the price, is that it does have a built in LCD screen. This will probably decrease the over all run time when compared to a GoPro without one, but for a weekend basher to get started with using an action camera I think it's a good starter.
In fact I have already got a video uploaded that I shot 90% of with this camera.
The only downside so far that I have with it is that my Windows 7 system won't detect it as a media storage device to grab off the video. Luckily for me I have some memory card readers, so this is not a big problem.
Since I like this SJ4000, I was thinking about getting another. But now SJCAM has released a cube camera, much like GoPro.
So guess which one is on my list? The M10.
And speaking of new stuff, I have found a new r/c product manufacture: FireBrand RC. They have some nice looking bodies and decals. Now I have been trying to find some non truck and SUV bodies for my crawlers. These guys happen to have The Judge. A very nice semi truck body, but a little on the small scale for my SCX10 crawler. But it does work.
I like their stuff, and will be getting more.
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