#Garmin virb edit soft 1080p
Even though it doesn’t do 1080p and the battery life isn’t great, I wound up buying a Replay XD720 simply because it mounts so tightly to the helmet with such a low profile. More than any other feature I look for in a camera, I look for how it mounts. The only ones I’ve seen do it right are Contour, Drift, and Replay.
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Sony and JVC’s action cameras are similarly ill-equipped for helmet mounting. Only time will tell which protocol wins. They both have their strong points.”įrom “H.S.” (October 2013): “I really don’t understand why camera manufacturers can’t figure out that riders like mounting cameras on their helmets.Īs prolific as the GoPro has been for years now, there’s still not an easy way to put one on your helmet in a way that doesn’t stick out a foot to the side. It is not in iPhones or most other phones. It is in newer Samsung and Sony phones as quite a few of the health-related wearable technology devices. The trick with this one is to buy a honkin’ big fast microSD card and leave it (and the battery) in there and access it only through the non-micro USB port under the rubber door at the bottom end of the camera.įrom “S” (October 2013): “ANT is Garmin’s proprietary communications protocol and is in direct competition to Bluetooth, so that will be why they don’t include it. My advice? Don’t try to change a card when you’re on the road, you’ll likely lose it. Very strange arrangement and it’s hard to know whether the microSD card is inserted correctly or not. Then the microSD card is placed loosely on the contacts, then the flap is closed, then pushed forward towards the lens. To make matters worse, the microSD card (Class 10 or above recommended by Garmin) sits underneath the battery in a weird little compartment with a flap/door that opens up. I’m hoping it will loosen up a bit over time. So far, it’s difficult to remove the battery once it’s in the camera - we have to use a thin-tipped screwdriver to pry it out and that may cause problems down the line. More complaints: the 2,000 mAh battery fits very tightly into its recess. C’mon Garmin - you couldn’t throw in a micro-fleece bag to carry the thing? Especially after we paid 300 bucks… Note that the lens does appear to have a cover that’s attached with four small Allen screws, but still, it’s way too easy to scratch the cover.Īnd continuing the trend we’ve complained about with just about every motorcycle video “action” camera we’ve reviewed, the VIRB does not come with any type of carrying case. Unfortunately, the convex lens sticks out like a wart on a chicken’s beak, which means owners will have to be very, very careful about not scratching it. Curiously, Garmin says nothing about dust/solid particle or impact resistance, using the sort-of-a-copout “X” in the IPX7 rating instead.īut nevertheless, the VIRB seems built. Garmin says that the VIRB has an IP7 water resistance rating, which means water immersion to one meter. It feels more or less like a small brick in the hand and it has a kind of soft/hard rubbery covering. It seems like it’s built to a much higher level of quality than anything else we’ve seen.
#Garmin virb edit soft full
We’ll do the full webBikeWorld review as soon as we can, but in the meantime, I thought I’d jot down some first impressions.Īnd the first of the first impressions is that…this is a solid camera. This is a super-quick preview, with a few grab shots we took as soon as the box arrived, so I know nothing at this point about the video quality of the Garmin VIRB - the battery is charging as I write this! Remember when they called them the GoPro “Hero”?Īnyway, that’s how fast this market has changed. The first GoPro HD video camera was the GoPro Hero HD (review) in April 2010. The first HD motorcycle video camera we reviewed was the excellent Contour HD (review) as soon as it was released in February of 2010. It had a BIG 170-degree lens as a sort of fake HD.
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GoPro then quickly released the GoPro Wide (review) towards the end of 2008.
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#Garmin virb edit soft portable
HD was a Big Deal when it first came out on a small, portable video camera - uh, I mean action camera.Įven the original GoPro Hero SD (review) only had standard resolution - and that was waaay back in…2008! When we first started reviewing them, they were simply called video cameras, but hey - what do I know about marketing?Īnd speaking of way back…when we first started reviewing motorcycle video cameras on webBikeWorld, cheesy VGA resolution was all you got. It seems like everybody and his brother are getting into the “action” camera game lately. The battery is still charging, but here are a few very quick pics and initial impressions.Ī full webBikeWorld review will be coming soon and we’ll compare the Garmin VIRB with the GoPro Hero 3 (review). The Garmin VIRB is brand new and ours just arrived yesterday.