Hi Guys,
First I will introduce myself because this is my first post, my name is Rafal, i'm from Poland and I'm a ISF(Imaging Science Foundation) video engineer. I know exactly what makes for the best picture and I'm pretty frustrated about the marketing (in general) of chinese action cam manufacturers, because they do not provide us with one of the most important factors regarding the video quality(which should be obvious) as video bitrate. Now, we have the Xiaomi which is in the market for some time a gathered a big group of owners, some of whom tranformed into modders, providing excellent custom firmwares as well as scripts for tuning the quality of the picture. Other brands have probably less support from "us" the customers, so it makes hard to jugde what can you expect from certain camera. You are basically relying of the manufacturer itself to produce a good software. There are, and there always will be some drawbacks regaring each manufacturers software, so either you choose to buy a camera for modding or just to leave it "as is". I'm really tired of neverending reading about the specs and reviews of each cam, uploading the recordings to youtube which is totally wrong beacuse of the compression and image processing always occuring, which makes it nearly impossible to judge. You NEED TO HAVE a RAW unedited file to make correct judgments. And very often that is very hard to find. So I decided to start a new thread here, to ask you guys about the VIDEO BITRATE for gopro4 black(bitrate 40-60mbps@1080p) chinese alternatives. I'm especially interested in new cams with image stabilization(as well as the quality of that stabilization) such as e.g Firefly 6S, SJ5000x ELITE and so on... perhaps there is something interesting which I missed?
Please write down the highest bitrates for gopro alternatives, I think this would help the community a lot!
Cheers,
Rafal
First I will introduce myself because this is my first post, my name is Rafal, i'm from Poland and I'm a ISF(Imaging Science Foundation) video engineer. I know exactly what makes for the best picture and I'm pretty frustrated about the marketing (in general) of chinese action cam manufacturers, because they do not provide us with one of the most important factors regarding the video quality(which should be obvious) as video bitrate. Now, we have the Xiaomi which is in the market for some time a gathered a big group of owners, some of whom tranformed into modders, providing excellent custom firmwares as well as scripts for tuning the quality of the picture. Other brands have probably less support from "us" the customers, so it makes hard to jugde what can you expect from certain camera. You are basically relying of the manufacturer itself to produce a good software. There are, and there always will be some drawbacks regaring each manufacturers software, so either you choose to buy a camera for modding or just to leave it "as is". I'm really tired of neverending reading about the specs and reviews of each cam, uploading the recordings to youtube which is totally wrong beacuse of the compression and image processing always occuring, which makes it nearly impossible to judge. You NEED TO HAVE a RAW unedited file to make correct judgments. And very often that is very hard to find. So I decided to start a new thread here, to ask you guys about the VIDEO BITRATE for gopro4 black(bitrate 40-60mbps@1080p) chinese alternatives. I'm especially interested in new cams with image stabilization(as well as the quality of that stabilization) such as e.g Firefly 6S, SJ5000x ELITE and so on... perhaps there is something interesting which I missed?
Please write down the highest bitrates for gopro alternatives, I think this would help the community a lot!
Cheers,
Rafal