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amelius 3 hours ago

These days you can buy mini cameras for a few bucks on AliExpress, so no wonder.

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mamonoleechi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

any recommendation?

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brk 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Are you looking for Good or Great?

If you just need Good, there are dozens of no-brand options on Amazon and Ali that do 4K60fps with output that is more than sufficient for any non-professional use.

I don't have a brand recommendation off hand, because the ones I've bought have been random names, but they've all been more than enough. As a reference, I've used them for capturing footage for training machine vision systems, and some general purpose marketing videos. I'm not a "creator", so I paid no attention to editing features, clip hosting, or any of those things.

Amazon sometimes gets some hate here, but I usually just buy there because the returns process is so simple. In the random case I get a product that turned out to be deceptive advertising, I drop it at Whole Foods and have a credit before I leave the parking lot. And I have the product in hand in 48 hours at most.

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yathern 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> there are dozens of no-brand options on Amazon and Ali that do 4K60fps

I have to very strongly disagree with this sentiment. I have personally tested quite a few no-name "4K 60fps" cameras from Amazon and AliExpress. Many of them upscale from 1080 - which is fine I guess - but then in 60fps will use a crop sensor and upscale from like ~640. Even with the more recognizable SJCam and Akaso brands, unless you're paying ~$200 - you're going to get upscaling, bad color science, bad image distortion. When comparing against a GoPro 5 (first 4k 60 entry) or 8 (first with USB C) the difference is astounding.

Though perhaps this is the difference between good and great that you refer to - but for me, it's certainly worth getting a used GoPro vs any of these modern cheap alternatives.

Unfortunately current new GoPros don't improve on their existing line enough to justify paying current prices. I wish I could get a new 2018 quality GoPro knockoff for <$200

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amelius 2 hours ago | parent [-]

For professional action shots people want 180 degree immersive VR video nowadays.

	▲	corndoge an hour ago \| parent [-]
		No one wants this, nobody is watching action footy in VR

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embedding-shape 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Are you looking for Good or Great?

What about equal-or-better-than-the-same-or-similar-GoPro?