Garmin Action Cam

[Hephaestus]

As I'm in the market for an actioncam I thought this might be worth waiting to see.

 

http://sites.garmin.com/virb/

[dirtrider]

Saw clips from the action camera Makro sells . Very impressive and I think they got for under 2k .

[ScottCM]

looks wicked, wonder what the damage will be to the wallet

[Tankman]

[Dexter-morgan]

Saw clips from the action camera Makro sells . Very impressive and I think they got for under 2k .

Do you have any more details??

[dirtrider]

Do you have any more details??

 

Model :

Rollei Bullet Youngstar HD Action Camera

[Tankman]

looks wicked, wonder what the damage will be to the wallet

 

Looks in the region of $299 for the regular model and $399 for the Elite (WiFi + GPS accelerometer and altimeter)

 

I love the Garmin GPS units ... but I wont be replacing my Hero3 with one of these!

[Gandalf]

Awesome. Some proper go pro competition. looks totally cool

[Warren911]

Looks very impressive!!! Nice design

[SRBVI]

Awesome. Some proper go pro competition. looks totally cool

 

Have a look at the Rollei Actioncam 5S good value for money with all the included accessories and they been making camera's since the 1920's.

Edited August 23, 2013 by Digistu

[SRBVI]

Forgot to add if you looking for a Rollei Actioncam drop me a PM I know where you can get.

[Roulier]

Sorry for the side track here, but Digistu, any idea of the price range for the Rollei?

[SRBVI]

Their current retail pricing is available on-line at sacamera.co.za and no I dont work for them or the local Rollei distributor.....busy emailing my CV as we speak.

 

"sorry for the hi-jack"

Edited August 23, 2013 by Digistu

[Warrick Kernes]

The Garmin is the business!

http://www.actiongear.co.za/garmin-announces-1st-action-camera

[Tankman]

Got to agree with DC Rainmaker here:

 

"Coming from the world of extremely well executed GoPro promotional videos that make you want to go right outside and surfboard with the worlds hottest looking athletes (despite never having been on a surfboard, skateboard, or any sort of board), this made me want to close the video and move onto cat videos. Second, the video shots shown with the unit didn’t seem to scream “awesome quality”. This is likely because instead of using inspiring clips from kick-ass places, they used ones from someone’s backyard. It’s all about marketing (a lesson Contour has learned the hard way) – and in this round, Garmin seemed to lose my interest.

 

Thankfully, I’m more of a tech person than a marketing person. So while they lose my interest in the promo video, it’s the ANT+ piece that really interests me. As noted above, lots of folks are using data overlays today with heart rate and related information – but none of it is smooth.

 

The VIRB works by pairing directly to your ANT+ sensors (they can still pair concurrently to your other fitness units). It then records this data in a separate and synchronized file for later consolidation and overlay. It’s not actually overlaying the data in real-time onto the video (that’s actually a good thing).

 

Out of the gate they’ll allow you to include these ANT+ (and internal) metrics: Speed, Distance, Elevation, G-force, Heart Rate, Temperature."

 

With the GPS data, we can speculate a bit less if those youtube clips are real or not!

[rouxtjie]

Got to agree with DC Rainmaker here:

 

"Coming from the world of extremely well executed GoPro promotional videos that make you want to go right outside and surfboard with the worlds hottest looking athletes (despite never having been on a surfboard, skateboard, or any sort of board), this made me want to close the video and move onto cat videos. Second, the video shots shown with the unit didn’t seem to scream “awesome quality”. This is likely because instead of using inspiring clips from kick-ass places, they used ones from someone’s backyard. It’s all about marketing (a lesson Contour has learned the hard way) – and in this round, Garmin seemed to lose my interest.

 

Thankfully, I’m more of a tech person than a marketing person. So while they lose my interest in the promo video, it’s the ANT+ piece that really interests me. As noted above, lots of folks are using data overlays today with heart rate and related information – but none of it is smooth.

 

The VIRB works by pairing directly to your ANT+ sensors (they can still pair concurrently to your other fitness units). It then records this data in a separate and synchronized file for later consolidation and overlay. It’s not actually overlaying the data in real-time onto the video (that’s actually a good thing).

 

Out of the gate they’ll allow you to include these ANT+ (and internal) metrics: Speed, Distance, Elevation, G-force, Heart Rate, Temperature."

 

With the GPS data, we can speculate a bit less if those youtube clips are real or not!

This is really really cool, I had to download all sorts of software to be able to do it with the gopro, and it was buggy...this is native in the device now. awesome garmin