GoPro, dSLR or something else?

Tco200 · 11 Jun 17, 05:43 PM

Hi all

Just wondering what people's thoughts are on best all round option / combinations.

I'm a beginner and not into massive amounts of editing just want to get some good holiday video for the family.

I have a canon 700d (probably a bit outdated now) which can take some decent video but sometimes seems to take forever trying to focus resulting in a blurry mess for a few seconds at a time.

I quite like the idea of a GoPro but the outlay seems a lot for it and not sure it's suitable for the day to day stuff but would be great for the pool action and discovery cove

Any thoughts or advice welcome I'm not adverse to buying something new but don't want to spend silly money

Thanks for your time

Tom

scotpod · 11 Jun 17, 05:47 PM

Hi there,
I have just recently purchased the sjcam 4000 wifi. I watched all the video reviews on you tube and read them all Online!
Must say I am very impressed.
I am no gizmo guru but it is sooooo easy to use and the videos are very good.
I bought it mainly for the water parks and my upcoming visit to discovery cove.
Was excellent value for money (I purchased mine from ebay) considering the cost of the GoPro!
Hope this helps.

Tco200 · 11 Jun 17, 06:11 PM

Will look into it thanks, I should also say my laptop is now a few years old and all I'm likely to do is stick the files on a memory stick and plug into tv!

Edit where did you buy from I've seen them from �15 up to �80 with various middling prices, I'm assuming there are plenty of fakes around

wanye · 12 Jun 17, 09:49 AM

Originally Posted by Tco200

Edit where did you buy from I've seen them from �15 up to �80 with various middling prices, I'm assuming there are plenty of fakes around

posted this to another thread in this forum a little while ago:

SJCAM make good quality gopro knockoffs - ive got 3 of their SJ4000 cameras which i use for various things. i could either buy one proper gopro, or three of these. it was a no-brainer IMO

the sj4000 is an old model now though, so not many sellers still stock it.

its been superceded by the sj5000 and sj5000X and sj6 legend

sj5000 (1080p)
amazon/SJCAM-SJ500...cc85b5cece9e07

sj5000X (4k video)
amazon/SJCAM-Origi...0b3218eabfceac

and the SJ6 legend (4k)
amazon/Fodsports-S...995530bf95634c

if you look on the sjcam website sjcamhd theres also the SJ7star model due out soon and M rage of compact ones (like the smaller gopro hero session camera)

HTH

Tco200 · 12 Jun 17, 03:10 PM

Thank you I'm not between an SJCAM and something called an Akaso which I'm not sure but may be a knock off of the knock off but gets decent reviews.

Problem is you look at reviews on Amazon and most of them are paid reviews now

wanye · 13 Jun 17, 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by Tco200

Thank you I'm not between an SJCAM and something called an Akaso which I'm not sure but may be a knock off of the knock off but gets decent reviews.

Problem is you look at reviews on Amazon and most of them are paid reviews now

they are... so go look up comparisons on youtube instead!

there are a lot of sj4000 v gopro footage examples on there. probably newer models too (ive not checked)