SJCAM SJ7 Star Cam - Real 4K Ambarella A12 Sony IMX117 Touch Screen Mic Gyro

a few hours ago i canceled my gearbest order, after the service agend told me that restock takes between 5-17 days....but he can not garante that i'm in the next shiping run.....

after i got the refund to my paypal i ordered the cam on banggod......and i'm happy tha a few minutes ago i recieved an email that the cam is ship'd

hopefully sjcam can get us a new fw, the reviews are just terrible^^
 
I hope for owners' sakes that they are more efficient with fw updates than they are at product delivery!
 
....i keep my fingers crossed.....i need a full working cam in may for or con.

gyro is not so important to me, most important are the 120fps full hd and (video)timelapse modes!
 
How about the other new cams with the A12? goprawn.com under ambarella cams has a subtitle for A12 cam and a list including Andoer C5 pro and eken h8/h9 plus?
 
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sjcam_official said:
Hi guys, We are finally back from the New Year holiday. I am looking forward to catching up on the threads on this forum.

Especially since we are improving SJ6 and SJ7 at the concurrently, please help us out and remember that if you have product suggestions, please use the SJ7 Request Form so everything is in one place. Once we have suggestions/fixes, we will translate for our firmware team. Using this form will speed up the firmware edits and keep progress organized.

In addition to the forum on the Official SJCAM site, we now have a private forum for SJ7 Testers Only.
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Does the SJ7 Star have "super view resolutions"( 4:3 combined with 16:9)?
 
Some of the resolutions do have a SV suffix in settings. and 4:3 and 16:9 is also there.
 
Thanks , I wish the few sellers would show a more complete list when they advertize the cam!
 
SJ7 Star v1.02 Firmware Changelog is below. If you are not a tester, please be patient as we are still ironing things out. We should have a v1.03 some time next week for everyone to upgrade to. Thanks for your patience!

SJCAM V1.02 Revised Content：SJCAM_SJ7_STAR-V1.02_20170214_0949

1、The camera doesn’t record the β€˜Beep’ sound on the videos.
2、Fixed the bug that when press β€œpwoer” button while recording, it will enaable or disable the sound.
3、Date settings can be properly changed to 24h format.
4、It is not allowed to enter the setting menu while recording.
5、Fixed the problem of flash back, even entered in the main interface.
6、According to WIFI agreement, the version identification keyword to SJCAMSJ7STAR

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SJCAM V1.01 Revised Content：SJCAM_SJ7_STAR-V1.01_20170211_2044

1、Fixed the bug with the touch screen not being sensitive.
2、Corrected the bug that caused menus to overlap.
3、Add progressbar to menu setting.
4、Corrected the shot at night being blurred due to inaccurate metering and overexposure; Add the light metering option and default the option of β€œaverage”.
5、Modified the WiFi SSID and password settings.
6、Added new date setting icon.
7、Included Sharpness option into system menu.
8、Included White Balance option into system menu.
9、Move EV value options to the system settings menu
10、Rectify the defaulted EV value.
11、Included ISO option.
12、Included Metering option.
13、Corrected the Quick Capture option to start recording when the camera is turned ON.
14、Fixed the problem that the current can’t decrease to the initial value when stopped the recording.
15、Corrected the time settings in 12/24 hour time format.
16、Conceal the icon of key action under playback mode, but it can take effect when touch the screen.
17、Corrected the touch screen where sometimes there were black bars.
18、Added Timelapse video in an independent option.

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SJCAM V1.0 Revised Content：SJCAM_SJ7_STAR-V1.0_20161229_1846.7z

1、Update the UI and revise some font display.
2、Update the OSD translation.
3、Revised the icon of motion detection.
4、Adjust the sliding effect of touch screen.
5、Modify the EV setting.
6、Fixed the bug that you can’t select the last option whne you enter into an setting option.
7、Fixed the bug that users can’t save their settings.
8、Solved the problem that SSID changed to defaulted seeting automatically.
9、Optimize the UI under playback.

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SJCAM V1.0 First Realease
 
TwoBlues said:
I have just been on your web site reading about the sj7 star The text calls the sensor as 117 and 16 MP
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The SJCam web page for the SJ7 still says 117 and 16MP as of today, 15 February 2017. I went through all 14 pages of this thread and haven't seen a response from SJCam about your comment. Did I miss it? πŸ™‚
 
I don't think they answered the question why they don't accurately describe the sensor as 12.40 MP, and that photos upscale to 16MP, but I have not followed the thread!
 
TeriTerryTarry said:
The SJCam web page for the SJ7 still says 117 and 16MP as of today, 15 February 2017. I went through all 14 pages of this thread and haven't seen a response from SJCam about your comment. Did I miss it? πŸ™‚
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I thought we had answered. The 16mp for photos is interpolated. The Video is Native 4k 12mp (not interpolated).

Description has been updated. Thanks for the reminder.
 
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I thought we had answered. The 16mp for photos is interpolated. The Video is Native 4k 12mp (not interpolated).

Description has been updated. Thanks for the reminder.
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Thanks. Now perhaps you could contact online sellers and ask them to update their web pages accordingly. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, Banggood, Everbuying, GearBest and Geekbuying.
 
On it 😎
 
sjcam_official said:
SJ7 v1.04 Beta firmware ready for testing:
v1.04 Download
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I downloaded the new FW update and installed it on my camera and it updated successfully. So far it's working smoothly and the one thing I noticed that now works correctly that wasn't mentioned in the release notes is that when you turn off the camera or even swap batteries it now remembers the settings you had last chosen instead of resetting to the default. It still forgets the time and date if you swap the battery though, although I did notice it automatically sets the time and date if you connect it to your phone with the wifi, I don't know if it always did that though. That is nice but it is still important that it can remember the date and time when the batteries are getting swapped and you don't have easy access to your phone. It also takes a few tries to get it to connect to the iOS App with the wifi, it eventually works but it takes a few tries. I'll record a video of it later.

I don't have an "official" test unit, but I got the SJ7 I ordered from banggood early and have been putting it to use as an action cam. Can I be added to the test group, I don't have any video expertise but I have lots of user interface/user experience suggestions and am willing to help bug test and record videos for others to examine. So far I am pretty happy with my SJ7 but look forward to it getting even better with future FW updates.

One suggestion I have for future FW updates would be to have some sort of Favorites/Bookmarks for your most used resolution settings. It's annoying to have to scroll between 4k 30FPS to 1080p 120FPS to 720p 240FPS, so it would be nice if you could choose 3 to 6 of your most used settings and have a separate favorites menu screen that just has the resolutions you picked to be on there and then from one screen you can select which resolutions you want to swap between.

Another suggestion to improve the video resolution selection screen could bet to break it up into 3 columns Resolution, FPS, and asspect ratio (16:9, 4:3, SV), then you could fit more options on one screen instead of scrolling through a long list you scroll each section quicker. It would be like the date set up where you have Year - Month - Day.
 
Dudenow12 said:
I downloaded the new FW update and installed it on my camera and it updated successfully. So far it's working smoothly and the one thing I noticed that now works correctly that wasn't mentioned in the release notes is that when you turn off the camera or even swap batteries it now remembers the settings you had last chosen instead of resetting to the default. It still forgets the time and date if you swap the battery though, although I did notice it automatically sets the time and date if you connect it to your phone with the wifi, I don't know if it always did that though. That is nice but it is still important that it can remember the date and time when the batteries are getting swapped and you don't have easy access to your phone. It also takes a few tries to get it to connect to the iOS App with the wifi, it eventually works but it takes a few tries. I'll record a video of it later.

I don't have an "official" test unit, but I got the SJ7 I ordered from banggood early and have been putting it to use as an action cam. Can I be added to the test group, I don't have any video expertise but I have lots of user interface/user experience suggestions and am willing to help bug test and record videos for others to examine. So far I am pretty happy with my SJ7 but look forward to it getting even better with future FW updates.

One suggestion I have for future FW updates would be to have some sort of Favorites/Bookmarks for your most used resolution settings. It's annoying to have to scroll between 4k 30FPS to 1080p 120FPS to 720p 240FPS, so it would be nice if you could choose 3 to 6 of your most used settings and have a separate favorites menu screen that just has the resolutions you picked to be on there and then from one screen you can select which resolutions you want to swap between.

Another suggestion to improve the video resolution selection screen could bet to break it up into 3 columns Resolution, FPS, and asspect ratio (16:9, 4:3, SV), then you could fit more options on one screen instead of scrolling through a long list you scroll each section quicker. It would be like the date set up where you have Year - Month - Day.
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Thanks for your recommendations. We will log these into our features request doc. Hope to see you more here... also, let me know if you would like access to our private tester/developer forum here πŸ™‚
 
sjcam_official said:
Thanks for your recommendations. We will log these into our features request doc. Hope to see you more here... also, let me know if you would like access to our private tester/developer forum here πŸ™‚
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Awesome, thank you! Yes that would be great if you could add me to the private tester forum as well.
 
Have any of you noticed if the case gets scratched around the ports? I can never get the USB plug the right way 'round and always end up with scratches right around the port. I was also wondering if anyone has accidentally popped out the memory card? Lacking indentation around the ports I was wondering if that might be a problem.

Also, must you use the touch screen for navigation or do the buttons provide full redundancy? Can the touch screen be used while wearing winter gloves or diving gloves or must your fingers be bare?

EDIT: I'm assuming the waterproof enclosure door is touch sensitive.
 
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