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Hi - can you confirm that that's it for lens-only adjustments/replacements? (1) Remove face-plate, (2) Remove lens surruound, (3) unglue, (4) do stuff, (5) reassemble. No greater disassembly required. Thanks...

Fair enough, but now a question for the driver: "have to join Facebook [just to be updated on this stuff] - why so?" o_O

No hostility in the writing, apologies if phrased such that it appeared so in the reading. Clarifying a question that got an answer to a somewhat different question might look like hostility to some, I guess, but it isn't. Two points: firstly, Yi Technology is very unlikely to have focussed the...

I know all about the cost of Internet services and who ultimately finances them, and also how they rank on lots of scores. Yi Technology have probably gone for Facebook because they don't know much about that stuff and, more importantly, they've given no thought to the ethics of turning their...

Thanks, but your answer doesn't answer my question. First, look here: <https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yi+action+camera+focus> then look at my question again. It didn't ask what individual buyers in any quantity - 1 or 1000 - have found, it asked: IF refocussing is required in cam...

Of course. But there are other online sites meeting all possible requirements that are not intrusive outfits like Facebook, some of them very large and well known. So, why should you have to join an Internet nasty like Facebook "if you are interested in hearing updates from us, or getting to...

Have to join Facebook? Why so?

(1) Where is that? (2) I'm still trying to find out IF the lens is as badly infinity focussed as many on the original camera were (after two such purchases I don't trust that the experience of others who got well focussed examples) THEN can it be refocussed correctly without any MORE...

That it's too good a camera for many, diverse applications to be put into just an "action" box, even if that's what Xiaoyi were originally thinking within.

Probably the same. The image on the original Yi is every bit as good as these samples but a large number of the production models were badly assembled, resulting in bad overall focus or uneven focus. Those that were just badly focussed could/can be quite easily fixed, the unevenly focussed ones...

Have they got this thing's infinity focus (i.e. focussed at a point slightly further from the camera than the hyperfocal distance, so objects at "infinity" are a little sharper than just "acceptably" sharp) sorted out yet, or are they still stuck with the idea that selfies are where the...

Perhaps, with a form factor and specification of this sort, for many users "here we deal with CAMERA" even if, for most people, as Nigel notes, "ACTION" is the manufacturer's USP.

Depends. Higher bitrates are of greater importance as the codec chain gets longer and more varied. A higher and a lower bitrate that look almost indistinguishable after minimal editing and a one-off transfer to DVD can look very different on a home TV at the end of a long broadcast chain.

The adaptor turned out to be OK on other equipment, so the problem here - given that it worked for a while - seems to be that either the supporting electronics have developed a fault, the socket's internal connectors have broken, or the socket has become physically isolated from the rest of the...

Not yet - got the camera ony last week and a Micro HDMI (Type D) adaptor for my regular HDMI (Type A) cables a day or later. Hopefully it's just the adaptor, not something in the camera. Will try to check it out this w/e.

If you (try to) open a Yi Action Cam raw file in irfanview (maybe just vanilla irfanview, but certainly irfanview with the raw decoder plug-in also installed), it shows a form of decoding options that, presumably, are those used by Dave Coffin in dcraw. My guess is that someone who knows what...

New camera arrived focussed for selfies, partly fixed after massive glue removal job (glued in 3 places, each with huge blobs of glue - compared to online illustrations - forced between lens and lens mount) that took almost an hour to remove. HDMI connection to monitor checked, worked...