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Review on Waterproof Action Camera - Drift Ghost XL (Black) by Aaron Lewis

Revainrating 4 out of 5

Good Picture No IS Waterproof Rotating Lens ๐Ÿ‘Œ

The image quality is good. Slightly grainy in low light. It has a low light filter to help and a light profile to enhance colors. It's 1080p 30fps and looks like this. It's crisp and quite sharp with hints of pixelation. The POV is pretty fisheye in the widest POV, but you get 3 levels of customization. It's good. ๐Ÿ‘ What's not so good is the sound, it's surprisingly terrible. ๐Ÿค” The recording volume is extremely low even at level 5. And there is a lot of noise. Better to use an external microphone if you have a suitable one. Connecting certain microphones does not work. The socket is not long enough, sometimes you need to use an adapter. It's a bit restrictive, but if you choose this for a motolog, you'll be fine. The battery life is excellent. Not exactly 9 o'clock. The best I got was almost 8 hours with the sound off and the LED off. I have 7 1/2 hours in a row. Recording light and indicator light together. So if you want to turn off the backlight for recording, you lose the display backlight and it becomes hard to see. It's already small and without light it's impossible to see if there's no light on it. This camera is a few years old but I couldn't turn it down as the white one was on sale. $119. I see that the price has gone up again. ๐Ÿ˜ฎ The White Snow Edition looks great. Zero image stabilization. At least waterproof. I love the rotating lens, it's the only thing most other cameras don't have. The size isn't that bad. It's no bigger than the Sony X3000. Too bad there is practically no sound, a lot of noise. ๐Ÿ˜UPDATE: Now that the tone is working, it's getting brighter. So what happened? The audio was very quiet with a lot of hissing when you increased the sensitivity. I was frustrated but decided to play around with it. I set this to instant recording and also plugged in a thin head 3.5mm audio jack. Will not enter without a thin head. I don't know who did it or maybe both but now the sound works ๐Ÿ˜ฏ๐Ÿค”๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

Pros
  • LONGER BATTERY LIFE EVER IN A STOCK CAMERA โ€“ Want 9 hours of battery life? Record in HD 1080P all day without worrying about your battery draining.
Cons
  • Has been corrupted.