Sony FDR-X3000R

Advantages: UPD after several months of active testing. My requirements for the camera before buying were as follows: 1. To write from the power bank (to implement this, you need to remove or cut out the back panel in the box or without the box) 2. An additional output for the microphone. 3. Moisture resistance (the maximum for me is rain, I'm not going to dive) 4. Protection against falling (2 meters). 5. Good ISO (very important to write cleanly in low light conditions). 6. Oddly enough, but I do not need a screen on the camera itself. But we really need an external one - through wi-fi. But not from a smartphone, but from a normal protected and convenient device on the wrist))) In short, in this case Sony 100% hit the mark. 7. High bit rate. 8. 4K - good if you have))) About the merits: - All my requirements for the camera (see above) are met - if you read those. specifications. In fact, everything is a little different. - Less noise than any other action camera in low light conditions. - The external control panel has full functionality and a screen. Small, but everything is clearly visible on it. - Diodes that light up when recording from all sides of the camera - this is necessary. - Manual basic settings (exposure, WB) in all modes. - Ability to choose a bit rate, many formats. - I don't really need stabilization, but it's so good that I found a use for it)))

Disadvantages: - The most important thing is that there is no clarity, sharpness of the image under any sauce, even in 4K. any modern smartphone will shoot much better. - There is noise in any lighting conditions. Probably, it is slightly less than in goupro, etc., but I would not attribute this to the obvious advantages of the camera. Video reviews on YouTube lie. - In 4K, the noise is noticeably higher than in FHD. I can only assume that the noise reduction devices in 4K do not work, but in FHD they work)) - The jack for the microphone writes the signal from the stereo microphone to only one channel. - You can really use your own microphones only without an aqua box or, if you need protection against falls, you need to drill holes on the front panel.- Actually, there are no aqua boxes with holes for a microphone and a power bank - I had to work on a collective farm. - Built-in microphones record sound well if the object is nearby. If it is a few meters away, the sound is very bad. Most likely, microphones are designed for bloggers and, by the type of reportage, normally pick up only the nearest sounds. - ATTENTION!!! Be sure to turn off recording ONLY on the camera itself, and not on the remote control !!!!!!! Otherwise, the file may get damaged. I have had this several times - stopping recording via wi-fi several times gave out broken files. - The strap for the remote control is poorly made. After several months of non-extreme use (no jumps, falls, nothing like that) the retainer fell off, as a result of which the strap ceased to hold on to the hand. - Focus is always on the closest subject, even if it is 1/10 of the frame from the side.

Comment: What can I say - the camera is definitely NOT worth the money. Yes, she does better at dusk than the competition, and the remote control idea is great. The functionality is good. But this is where the advantages end, since implementation of good ideas is very lame and to a large extent all wah-wah is nothing more than competent marketing. I would not recommend this camera for professional use (this is just my case). It's sad that other manufacturers have not yet come up with the idea of ​​a remote control on the wrist - for me, this is generally one of the key parameters, and, perhaps, the only thing that really pleased me about this camera.

Advantages: I bought a Sony FDR-X3000R via the online store on 11/16/2016, delivered quickly, thanks. 1. Video 4 to normal (you need a fast card, the volume of video is just colossal) 2. Stab for action is good 3. The menu is simple to disgrace 4. The screen can be worn like a clock or together with a camera (special pribluda see Sony's website) Finishing 17.01 .2017 Controlling the camera from the remote control via Wi-Fi in line of sight no more than 100 meters. I checked the stub in combat conditions, it is very good, if you put it with a three-axis stub, it will be a bomb. Post-processing is not needed and all sorts of software nonsense are fading. I will post the vidos on YouTube https: //www.youtube....cJD_N-X8FF1B8qg 5. The camera can be filmed using a power bank, a charger and an auto charger, for this, first turn it on, and then connect the power !!! I bought a MicroSDXC Card Kingston UHS 3 64GB about 3000 rubles, it drags 4k normally, it says for 4 / 2K. I bought extra. battery kit https://youtu.be/DuOcxlpCY1A

Disadvantages: 1.2K - only 120P and 100mb, the MG4 mode is just awful !!! my Sony HDR-XR550E (see my review) still writes and shoots better. All vidos on YouTube were filmed only in 4K and with subsequent processing. 2. This camera is not suitable for photos at all. There is no quality setting, exposure, ISO, nothing at all! There are no reviews on the quality of the photo in the internet at all, they can finish the firmware. Firmware # 1. 3. The power supply must be turned off immediately so that it does not consume energy 4. I understand that we need a Wi-Fi for the phone and combining several cameras, a blue tooth for the remote control, so we can safely turn off the option to save energy if you shoot without a remote control. 5. dated 11/28/2016 - there is simply no time-lapse, continuous shooting of photos only of static, in good bright light. If you shoot in cloudy weather (shutter speed 1/8) or want to capture the movement of an object, then this is not for this camera. 6. Noise reduction on the sound practically does not work, the wind is always audible, perhaps with an external microphone it will be less, but then the back cover will be open and it will no longer be an action camera. The review of the person below, about the power-can, why did he cut off the back cover of the camera? obviously open, it will not fit into the box. And the camera is no longer an action, it's easier to take a 900ku. 7. Regarding charging - why not do charging by contacts, as on an additional remote control, you must always open the lid, and this is after frequent opening of the closure - leakage. 8. The photo is about nothing, there is no photo. A bad and old smartphone took off better. It always shoots f2.8, with a delay of 1 / 100-180, there is no way to put it higher than ISO, shoot only static in the bright sun. nine.The standard program causes a headache, creates additional files (this is with 4K), does not allow inserting more than 20 clips (files) at a time, does not want to save in its original form, it offers only 1920-1080 - 14 Mbits. If you want to make a picture-in-picture PiP, then only 5 videos, 1 full screen and 4 additional ones, but they must be the same in time, you cannot add a video !!

Comment: I need a very powerful computer, better 6 or 8 cores to work with 4K, I have win 7, 4 - 2400 percent. 50k wooden - guys, if you are a fan of Sony, then take it for 4k. more than 30k / s in 4k there are no memory cards at this speed, I think they will be in a couple of years. I'm finishing up on 11/18/2016 I tested the camera in the water park, there is simply no sound in the box, sometimes I had to pull it out to shoot a video with sound. I shot test videos at 1080, 720 and 480 mp4, as I said, it's just really Osss! I wrote the video without a stub, wrote in 2k, what gets blurry in the box when viewed on a computer, when viewed on a TV set from a media player is very good. Although it was light in the water park, it was a bit dark, you need to set a couple of stops above +1 or + 2 in the settings. The standard player did not pull, the program that reads 4K CyberLink PowerDVD 16. The total recording time is 18 minutes. took 13.5 GB. as 2K 120R 100MB. There was still 1 hour to record. I put the battery on 1 division. (disabled wifi, blue tooth, stub). In fact, there is not 2K, but 1080 HD, but the new codec XAVC S HD. For simple 2 / 4K editing, you need TMPGEnc MPEG Smart Renderer 5 or similar. Yes, and most importantly, all videos need to be processed, sharpened, removed noise, added brightness and color, this is for 2K. For 4K I can't say, I need a 4K TV. I am finishing up on 11/28/2016 - you need to shoot video everywhere at +1, +2 light. An example is posted here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AencCEdr3bk I am finishing up on 11/30/2016 - bluetooth is needed so that when the remote control is turned on, the camera turns on and vice versa, the remote control turns off the camera, it is convenient when it is on a tripod and far away ... I repeat - in low light conditions - a lot of noise! Shooting in the water park underwater https://youtu.be/wwigD1BKNzA

A great camera for a family archive. + Boxing included + Remote control included - Sound in boxing is quite logically bad. just remember.

Advantages: Everything is convenient, intuitive, and you need a minimum of preparation for shooting. Picture quality, compactness, interesting settings, remote control. 4K!

Comment: This is my first camera. After watching numerous tests and videos, I decided to purchase this particular kit and with a remote control. Actually, the recommendations to take the remote control at once are absolutely correct (it is not sold separately!) - without it it is completely wrong, if only because it is elementary unclear what and how you shoot. I really like the 4K format! I myself have not yet had time to make normal videos, although I give the link at the end to my piece, shot in 4K. But if you look at other examples, it's pretty impressive. I purchased a "pistol" device (called a Finger Rest) for shooting, a lens attachment (called the MC Device), ordered a mini tripod and a normal tripod, a half-meter sliding monopod, a hot shoe mount to the camera (it will be convenient to combine shooting), float holder. The aqua box was already included in the kit. Well, and the video (everything is elementary here - two pieces were viewed in the profile program Action Cam Movie Creator, the music was also taken from there. Shot and saved in 4K: https://youtu.be/JB2hImmJyI4

Advantages: + Very robust housing. Withstood just monstrous blows. The filling also withstood. + The case itself is already waterproof. Boxing is needed already for diving, it can withstand a dive of 60 meters. + Follows from the previous one. With a box out of the box, you can dive 60 meters! So that you understand how much it is with a margin - the limit of an amateur diving is 40 meters. Here they wrote that in the water park the sound was bad in boxing. In the water park, to a depth of 60 meters, did they fly into the water from a slide or something? :) And what sound from a box of such thickness in the air did a person want? Under the water, the camera perfectly records the tapping on the balloon, and the gurgling when the diver breathes, and the tapping of pebbles on the bottom.Everything must be applied to the place, though. + Excellent stabilization. In combination with a stabilizer holder, it allows you to shoot ideally where you simply cannot believe in the possibility of a normal picture. + It takes not only video, but also photos under water much better than protected soap dishes. Incl. and not cheap. + Excellent 4K picture. Even YouTube, with its clutches, is not capable of ruining it. :) In one video, it is glued on a par with the cameras of expensive DJI drones. Nuuuu and who needs more ... well. Bring the carcass of a SLR for 300,000 and lenses for 1,000,000 to it with a stob. It's just that these are different things and approaches. Relax, enjoy, and at the same time, the technique easily and naturally removes everything for you without obvious flaws, or instead of rest, "work" with the technique for hours 100 times reconfiguring, changing, altering, constantly worrying that it will get scratched here, water will get in here, but here it is dirty , here is not ready, did not have time, but here they will steal more, and so on. + The elongated body, funnily enough, is more aerodynamic than bricks like goupro. As a result, when driving fast on a motorcycle or car, skiing, a motorboat and other things, there is less aerodynamic noise, and the hand, helmet or hand stabilizer has to deal less with the wind, less shaking, swimming, deviations and other things.

Disadvantages: - The memory card slot is kind of ridiculous. That in the previous series, that in this sometimes the card is inserted normally from the 3rd time. It can enter both longitudinally and transversely, and at the same time snap into place. Kaaak engineers did that, I don't understand. - At depths of measurements from 5 and in the box, the picture is too green. In the video editor, you have to specifically edit. Moreover, even very blue water does not go deeply into green anyway. Given this natural property of water to allow light to pass through, engineers could teach electronics to work better with it. - The battery is the same as on the pro-ooh camera, as on the one before ... does not evolve either in mass or in capacity. Continuity is not bad, but progress is still better. “Many of the accessories are pretty goofy. For example, a loop holder on the end of the camera. Fingers get tired quickly to hold it like that, and in general it does not give anything. Absolutely.

Comment: I have never chased brands, all companies have better and worse moments, masterpieces and failures, but as I watch the action cameras industry, I have never seen anything better. Cheaper and for good shooting - yes, there is such, but to combine all the advantages of this camera - there are none. Examples of videos from this camera are below. I chose that both with dives and on the surface. And, I think, a new generation is not far off. Those. there will be a choice: either new and better, or it is cheaper.

Great camera, super stabilization. It removes perfectly under water, water drops practically do not remain on the glass of the waterproof cover. On the downside, the battery runs out even if you don't use the camera. Therefore, you must charge the battery before using the camera, even if you charged it a few days ago. By the way, on aliexpress you can find a whole set of accessories for this camera along with a bag for one and a half thousand rubles.

Advantages: One of the best action cameras. Sony is currently the best. I took a set with two "batteries" and a full set of fasteners for all occasions of active life. Some accessories from Go Pro came in handy.

Disadvantages: They are not for me, well, except perhaps ... bitcoins do not mine.

Comment: I asked the price for a long time. Scared off by the price. After the purchase, the fear passed. Buy a second myself. I took this for my daughter. She forgot her first Go Pro Hero 6 on the plane and wanted only Sony. Expensive but worth it.

Advantages: Cool picture quality. Lots of settings. 4K. The microphone is very sensitive.

Disadvantages: Fast battery discharge. With a full charge, it is enough for about 40 minutes of recording.

Comment: It's more convenient to shoot than go pro, holding the camera in your hand. Very cool built-in stabilization. Since there is no screen on the camera, I took it together with the remote control. I do not see any drawbacks in this, in general there are even more advantages. You can receive a picture via Wi-Fi on your phone. However, as already noted above, power consumption eats up battery power very quickly. I had to buy a power bank. The price tag is quite high, and also be prepared to buy various accessories (adapters, fasteners, tripods). If possible, I did not take the original ones from Ali. Some, like a stabilizer, I think were superfluous))) But in general, the camera action is better, I don't see it for use for a vlog now. Recommend!

Advantages: Nice compact camera with decent OIS.

Disadvantages: You have to get used to the lack of a display. I am not happy with underwater photography, in the reviews everything was somehow more colorful, immediately after 15 meters the colors are lost, although the picture itself is quite good. The software leaves much to be desired, some mobile software refuses to see the video on the phone which itself copied. In the end, hoping on vacation, hoping to prepare a video for social networks, I failed, it was very disappointing. The lens sticks out strongly, you need to immediately think about how to protect it when buying. Wearing it all the time in aqua boxing is not an option. the sound recording suffers greatly from it, and I think the extra glass does not affect the picture for the better, and every time it is somehow not comme il faut to uncover it.

Comment: I bought it primarily for shooting dives, you can't go to the depth with the display, because I think there is a maximum level of protection for a meter depth.

Advantages: Dimensions. Shooting quality. The quality of recording from microphones.

Disadvantages: Small and inconvenient menu in the form of pictograms. Poor quality of shooting with a lack of light. The soapy picture is also noisy. Very primitive and slow software from Sony.

Comment: The first action camera. While mastering. In general, like it.