Xiaomi Yi Camera and other action-camera, which can be a good alternative GoPro
Devices / / December 19, 2019
Today at the conference MWC Xiaomi unveiled its main competitor Action cameras GoPro Hero - cheap and functional Yi Camera. Editorial Layfhakera novelty compared to Hero with its direct competitor and found a few more gadgets that can compete with a famous companion of all extreme sports enthusiasts.
Xiaomi Yi Camera
Production company Xiaomi has always prevailed due to the low price and the ability to successfully copy competitors. The cheapest fitness bracelet on the market, low-cost power bank, which is not ashamed to give the owner of an expensive flagship worthy copy of the iPhone with a price tag of middling A-brands - thanks to the combination of its low cost and unusual for a Chinese engineering company managed to get the quality of its popularity and the third place in the list of leading manufacturers smartphones.
yi Camera It continues this pattern. It is half the price GoPro Hero and at the same time just as good. For $ 65 you get an action-chamber design GoPro, a 16-megapixel sensor Exmor R from Sony, wide lens (155 °) and the ability to shoot Full HD at 60 to / c using digital stabilization and Squelch. It should also be noted that Hero, e.g., records video with a frame rate of a set c 720p resolution.
Not surprisingly, the novelty was exactly the same moisture protection case for underwater shooting, that of Hero. Features are the same: 40 meters guaranteed protection from moisture. Battery Yi Camera only 100 mAh battery gives its competitor.
As a result, the only aspects in which Yi Camera frankly loses GoPro Hero, - it is a park of accessories and availability outside of China. Both one and the second flaw - a matter of time. Xiaomi has announced the release of a variety of attachments, such as can be found even for any home pets, and the opening of the international online shop will certainly not be postponed in the direction of the long box.
sony X1000V
If Xiaomi Yi Camera - it's still a competitor basic model line GoPro cameras is quite fresh sony X1000V It will be an excellent alternative to a top Black. 4K-shooting, Full HD 120p, professional file formats, higher bit rate, serial and interval shooting, moisture protection, impact resistance and the ability to dive to a depth of 60 meters, using a special case - it all available and in the flagship from Sony.
Thus X1000V will cost you $ 80 cheaper GoPro Hero Black, and the combination of Exmor R matrix with ultra-wide-aperture lens ZEISS Tessar (170 °) and a new productive processor BIONZ X will provide the output result, certainly not inferior to that of GoPro. Moreover, as an accessory to X1000V can acquire the remote control, which enables to control the shooting process immediately with five different action cameras. In favor of the eminent competitor here has only a rich selection of various accessories.
SJCam SJ5000 Plus
If the extra $ 500 you do not, but you want to buy a good and cheap action-camera, not shoot worse than the top-end of the previous generation model, GoPro, you can pay attention to another Chinese competitor. SJCam SJ5000 Plus - a set of 16-megapixel sensor from Panasonic, is not very high-aperture, but ultra wide angle lens (170 °) and the ability to shoot Full HD 60 fps or 720p at 120 fps. In this case, the creators of the camera quite successfully managed to apply theoretical characteristics in practice - SJ5000 Plus really good writing video.
Watch for the shooting process can be a small TFT-screen located on the back of the camera. Cost of such a gadget would be at the level of the budget Hero ($ 160), while possessing an impressive set of delivery, as well as completely identical design.