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The Art of Photography

DJI Osmo Action VS GoPro Hero7 Black

The Art of Photography

Ted Forbes

Diy, Art, Arts, Visual Arts, Image, Technology, Photography, Tv & Film, Culture, Tutorials, Gadgets, Photographers

4.5942 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

Last year, GoPro released this, which is the Hero 7 Black. I've had many GoPro's pretty much everything since the Hero 4.

0:06.5

This is something that I use a lot in the videos that I make for this channel, a lot in my own work.

0:10.5

It's a pocketable camera that shoots 12 megapixel stills and 4k video and because of its size

0:15.8

the fact that it's always with you this is something that I actually use quite a bit now two weeks ago

0:20.8

DGI released this the the DJI-Osmo action, which is pretty much the same as

0:27.0

this, but maybe a little better?

0:29.6

So just for the record, DJI did not send this to me for review. I bought this with my own money and I ordered it through B&H like everybody else. I've been using it for about two weeks. Most of my colleagues are billing this as the GoPro killer and while I think that it certainly does some things better and it's certainly borrowed quite a bit from the GoPro

0:45.8

I don't know that it totally replaces that so I want to break these down look at him side by side

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1:25.0

So one of the interesting trends that we've seen over the last couple of years is the return of popularity of the action cam.

1:31.0

This is something that seemed to be big a few years ago before

1:33.3

drones came out. GoPro's clearly been the leader in this arena and I think say

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