You uh ready to shoot this action camera review with me? Cool. Okay, Garmin,
start recording now. That's pretty cool.
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allowing you to customize, adjust, and upgrade. Make it yours at the link
below. One of my biggest problems with the GoPro Hero 4 line and below in the
ocean of GoPro knockoffs has always been the usability. Often their best mounting
places are inconvenient to get to or in a place where you can't monitor them
easily, like the top of your helmet, making it so that you can't really tell
if the thing is actually recording or not without firing up the app on your
phone, which is inconvenient for its own
reasons. And your only real option in many cases is to have it record the
entire event where you risk your battery
dying and your SD card filling up.
Now, in film making or video creation in general, arguably the most important
thing is getting the shot. A big proponent of this over the last few
years has been the venerable Casey Neistat. He has said many times that
gear doesn't matter. Story matters. And to get the story, you need to get the
shot. So, with that in mind, let's start with the Verb's new accessibility
features. They are in no particular order. Okay, Garmin, start recording.
Okay, Garmin, remember that. Okay, Garmin, stop recording. Okay, Garmin,
take a picture. Start and stop recording and take a picture are all rather
self-explanatory. What remember that does is when you go to edit your video,
there will be tags throughout your footage of where you told it to remember
something. So, what you could do is just
okay Garmin, remember that. All you have to say is remember that and then when
you finally get to edit that footage later on, you don't have to scrub
through everything you filmed, which could be a huge benefit when you've got
a lot of footage. Also of note is that
being able to start and stop recording with just my voice ended up being a huge
battery saver over time. Continuing the theme of usability, we have a
legitimately astonishing touchcreen. No, really. It works through the water
resistant case. Not while it's underwater, mind you, and the screen
isn't nearly as responsive or accurate when used in this manner. But despite my
complaints, I did end up using it, even
if it was often in combination with the hardware buttons. It also features live
streaming when paired with an iPhone, automatic multi- camera sync if you're
doing a more complicated shoot, Bluetooth audio, and ant plus in order
to connect additional sensors like heart rate sensors on top of the high
sensitivity GPS, accelerometer,
gyroscope, alttimeter, and compass suite
that they're calling Gmetrics. And that serves as proof that you went that high,
rode that fast, etc. Very cool. Which is
all fine and good as long as it doesn't look or sound like butt. But I'm going
to pass things off to our in-house camera expert, Brandon Lee, to take a
look at that. Jumping into image quality, the Verb is surprisingly solid
in this department. The Verb's image is quite comparable to the GoPro Hero4
Black, rendering similar detail in the recording. The addition of the image
stabilization is a nice touch and will come in handy in certain shooting
situations, but it is by no means a substitute for a proper stabilizer that
can be used with action cameras like this. Like GoPro, Garmin has decided to
include a flat profile in the Verb when you want to capture a wider dynamic
range. However, when using the vivid profile setting on the Verb, Garmin has
done a good job on not making the image feel oversaturated or processed in
camera, something that I've seen action cameras do in the past. Overall, the
Image and the Verb stands up to the competition in this space, but with the recent release of the GoPro Hero 5, that
might not be the case for much longer. Thank you, Brandon. In the accessories
department, Garmin has quite a number of options for you to scoop up. But if
you're drowning in GoPro mounts already, never fear, the mounting mechanism was
shamelessly ripped off of GoPro and therefore can be used interchangeably.
So, conclusion time. It's interesting,
but is it worth it? I'm going to give the ever annoying answer of maybe.
Complicating my conclusion is the extremely recent announcement of GoPro's
Hero 5 lineup, which features water resistance without housing and similar
voice control, but not the additional sensors. So, I have a feeling I'll need
to do my review of that before I can give a more complete conclusion. They're
even the same price now that Garmin has lowered theirs by about $100. No word
yet on whether or not early buyers will be getting a refund. Let's hope that is
true. So, awesome sensor data or almost
certainly better image quality of the raw capable GoPro Hero 5 that we will
check out soon. Let me know in the comments down below which you prefer.
But for now, okay, Garmin, stop recording.
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It offers best-in-class ISO speeds. It's very quick to print the first page and
can print up to 70 pages per minute. On
the 500 series models with double-sided print speeds of 25 pages per minute, it
can do single pass double-sided scanning and allows you to spend less time and
budget on scheduled maintenance with their pagewide technology. It's got
front USB that supports multiple file formats such as Word and PowerPoint. and
its intuitive touchscreen controls allow you to navigate on the 4.3 inch display.
You can set up pins for receiving print jobs that are confidential in the
workplace and you can print from mobile devices with Wi-Fi Direct and NFC
touchprint technology. So there's no network required to print. You get four
times more prints from their extra high yield cartridges. And you can check it
out at the link in the video description.
Thanks for watching this video, guys. If it's sucked, you know what to do. But if
it was awesome, hit the like button, get subscribed, all that fun stuff. I can't
believe that the GoPro Hero 5s was announced literally the day that I
filmed this. That is ridiculous.
If you want to buy some stuff, check out Amazon. Link in the video description down below. Or our shirts. Those are
cool, too. You can talk about these various cameras and the ups and downs of
each one of them on the forum. I can say that word.
That's what we should just call it from now on. The Linus Tech Tips.
Anyways guys, check out this video which is Linus' review on the Yi action camera
if you want to see more of these things. And I'll see you next time.