Shoot 'Em Up: High-Def Action Video Camera Test

Comparing the latest gear from Contour, Drift, GoPro, and Replay.

MCF Member's, if you get one, post your vid's ? ?




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• January 2012
• BY MICHAEL AUSTIN
• PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROY RITCHIE

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From smartphones to digital cameras, the world is awash in video-capturing devices that will document your particular brand of  hoonage. But you can’t—okay, shouldn’t—drive while holding an iPhone out the window, and you don’t want to break your dedicated home-movie camera ghost-riding the Fairmont wagon your uncle left you in his will. Fortunately, there are video cameras uniquely suited to these tasks. All four of the so-called action cameras we’ve tested on the following pages record video in 1080p resolution, offer some level of water resistance, and are made to withstand a few bumps without disintegrating.
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I seen a vid on youtube where a skydiver dropped his gopro a couple thousand feet. it survived and recorded the whiole thing. Just out of sheer durability, they are incredible.

 

Awwwesome

 

Ive been thinkng about buying a GoPro camera

 

someone needs to strap this to a monte and make an all out cool video!