Action cameras

[Glaucus]

Talk to me about action cameras.

Im looking for something that i can use continually for very long periods, upto 24hrs. So the bigger sd card it takes the better and usable with an external battery pack. And allows continues time lapse video. Now I can change battery & sd card but as least as possible. I already have several 20,000 mah battery packs.

The closest I've found so far is the JVC GC-XA2BEU which supports upto 128gb SDXC cards officially, not sure if it would support bigger cards unofficially(saying that above 1288gb they're stupid money). But cant seem to find anything about battery life and not sure if it can be supplied by an external battery pack
http://www.jvc.co.uk/product.php?id=GC-XA2BEU

Does anyone know of anything suitable?

 

[Glaucus]

As I want to do compressed videos of long events multiple days, but camping so no way to offload it etc. So still needs to be an action camera due to weight, size etc. but do time lapse video as well as some normal video as well..

 

[Glaucus]

I remember you posting about this before.

The trouble is, whether using an action camera or otherwise, shooting something like a time-lapse is going to eat memory card space, and batteries to. So ultimately you are going to have to carry some form of external power and something to offload memory cards to, or direct record to, rather than an internal memory card.

I don't really think there is an easy solution, if you want to shoot time lapses, you are going to need to carry more gear.

This wouldn't be a problem, but most of them you just cant power externally.
Reading up today the sd cards aren't such an issue(un like i thought initially), its the batteries. Nothing comes in at more than a few hours and as of yet cant find anything that can be externally powered. Gopro some people says it works most say it doesn't on an external pack. A lot of other cameras have it hidden away behind a waterproof door. But it seems to be the software which limits stuff, that once it plugs in it goes in to a charge/data sync mode and you cant film.


Basically want to record hiking and then make some sped up videos. Kilimanjaro is the big hiking trip in 2014(35-42hrs of hiking + camp stuff). Now ideally would prefer to film in say 720p 30fps (seems to be around 10hrs on a 64bg card, which is absolutely fine, I thought it would be way more than that) and then that gives massive flexibility when editing. But a frame a second would probably do but i cant see that saving much battery power. Also doing a 24hr non stop hike in may, so would like to test it on that and have a play.


Like this, but if anything interesting happens it would be nice if it was either filming normally or easy to switch from time lapse to normal videoing.

Any off them can do snorkeling/scuba/multicopter so the other uses are easy. Its just this battery life.


Edit - perhaps this is why there's conflicting reports on the net with the gopro hero3, seems to charge as long as its not plugged in to computer and charges fine whilst filming from a usb power adapter.

Can any one confirm this?
so looks like gopro hero3+ silver edition would work fine. 14hrs15mins at 720p 30fps on a 6504gb card. So 3-4cards should cover it.

 

[Glaucus]

Theres several things

You dont know when good stuff will happen.

Its annoying not b eing able to see routes other than on maps. A quick time lapse is nice to see what view/terrain is actually like. And theres so view decent videos.