I'm not going to sugarcoat this every Chinese GoPro wannabe makes these
unbelievable claims about great full HD or even 4K video recording for 60 bucks
or whatever but every single one of them that I have ever touched has been
obviously converting the data from some horrendous
640x480 sensor if you're lucky not to
mention that many of them have a completely unusable UI
so to call my expectations going into
this review of the ye action camera 2
low would be very generous so then to
say that I was blown away would be an
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selfie stick kit which includes the E2 camera as I'll be referring to it for
the rest of the video a battery a kind of cheap feeling clip-on plastic shutter
button and a surprisingly robust selfie
stick with a locking telescopic well I
guess it's a stick terminated with a quarin threaded post and a Smartphone
holder bracket that screws onto the one side down here at the bottom it's not
perfect by reversing the gender of the threading or including an adapter it
could have been used to put a phone at the end of the stick when you are not
using the E2 and the top swivel could be
a bit more flexible which would both be welcome improvements to its General
usefulness but I can't fault the selfie sticks build quality overall which
brings us to the camera itself it's pretty plasticky feeling another or two
would Inspire more confidence in this product but hey as long as she's got it
where it counts right at the bottom is the battery and Micro SDXC compartment
along with the female quarin Mount at the front is the f2.8 7 element 155°
wide-angle lens covering a Sony IMX 377
12.35 megapixel effective seos image sensor capable of 4K video or 12 megapix
Stills along with a status indicator light on on the side is a micro USB
charging port on the top are the Dual
microphone ports and a speaker Grill
wait a minute why would it need a speaker ah yes because on the back the
entire back of the unit is taken up by a
640x 360 pixel wide format
touchscreen and if you've ever had a major video project riding on correctly
framing a shot with a GoPro Hero 4 black
you will surely appreciate apprciate this inclusion and the implementation
isn't halfast either the viewfinder is
butter smooth and so is the menu navigation so whether you're changing
settings or reviewing a clip you just shot all of which is doable over Wi-Fi
with the GoPro app by the way eliminating this step especially with a
multicam setup where things can get jostled mid shoot like we frequently
find ourselves in a lot of time and
guesswork can be saved and the E2
actually supports changing all those settings and previewing your shot live
through their mostly stable app on your phone if you prefer that approach as
well though none of that would be valuable if the shots from your
perfectly positioned camera looked like trash would it so let's have a look at
some 4K 30fps footage first compared to
the only camera from GoPros lineup that also shoots at that resolution the Hero
4 black so overall whether we're talking
about low light Performance Auto whitee balance scene brightness change response
or really anything else I was really
impressed by this little camera and that's without having access to some of
the modes that only work at lower resolutions the Sixaxis electronic image
stabilization that only works if you're shooting at resolutions below 4K and no
higher than 60 frames per second is freaking cool and probably worth it for
some people to drop all the way down to 1080p in order to take advantage of it
though on that subject I really wish that 2560 by 1440 was a shooting option
since it would be a balance between having some sensor left to enable
anti-shake and also having the ability to crop and punch in your footage though
I'm not going to deduct too many marks for this given how impressive this
camera is at half of what we paid for the action cams that we use for most of
our projects with the biggest shocker yet to come the battery life we are used
to taking a case load of replacement batteries on any GoPro shoot and
switching over to a fleet of e2s would cut in half the frequency with which we
need to replace them with sound quality being yet another strong point I mean
sure it's not perfect it's not as good as a lav mic or a boom mic but when
you're speaking directly into the camera from selfie distance even with a fair
amount of background noise it's a fast and easy way to get surprisingly usable
audio so I'm in China courtesy of ZTE
ZTE can never keep track of what the Canadian way is check out this hotel
room all right press conference is over
so it's time to uh join back up with Brandon and see where he's at on b-roll
for the C camera with the camera as long
as you're not using the waterproof case though I've yet to find any action cam
that has really solved that problem on
that note their 40m polycarbonate and glass waterproof housing is not included
with the kit we got but while I don't have pricing for it yet based on the
last generation ye camera it should land in the $10 to $30 range it doesn't allow
the use of the touchcreen obviously but the top button lets you do all of the
essentials power start stop record and
power off and this is great it uses a
GoPro compatible mounting system which I
guess leads us right into the usual issue with any action cam that isn't a
GoPro the relatively immature accessory
ecosystem now some stuff that's not
available for the E2 can be ignored the waterproof case accessory makes it
compatible with many GoPro mounts including head chest and even scuba suit
Etc but the first- party one anyway
lacks a more acoustically friendly backing for audio recording while using
those GoPro accessories and I also don't see an obvious solution for non-
mounting related accessories like external battery chargers nothing seems
to be available at this time meaning that you will need to charge your
batteries in your camera which is fine for casual users but Pros are going to
want something a little bit beefier so they can charge more of them at a time
however if that drawback in your mind is easily overcome by the price the screen
the footage quality and that quarter inch Mount I won't entirely disagree
with you of course it remains to be seen if GoPro will come storming back with
the Hero 5 lineup later this year in the meantime though I'll be watching the E2
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