The Best Action Camera: Spring 2014 Edition

The Best Action Camera: Spring 2014 Edition

You can’t just do something dangerous and insane these days without filming it for posterity. And while action cameras let us relieve these life-highlights over and over, they aren’t all created equal. We decided to see for ourselves which one could handle your extreme adventures best.

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A Simple Trick to Keep Your GoPro Footage Steady

GoPro is the bestselling camera in the world because like a good date, you can take the tough sucker anywhere. Just mount it on your surfboard/snowboard/bicycle and it’ll snag back dope fisheye footage for your bragging video. Handholding a GoPro, however, yields shaky results.

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Sony’s Latest Action Cam Has an Awesome Wrist-Mounted Controller

Sony's Latest Action Cam Has an Awesome Wrist-Mounted Controller

So far, Sony’s Action Cams have failed to make a significant challenge to the GoPro: the challenger just isn’t a better product. But the company bets that if it can develop enough cool accessories and mounts for its Acton Cam line, maybe—just maybe—it’ll find its market. And we gotta say, the optional wrist-mounted controller for Sony’s latest AS100V action cam is a neat idea.

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Liquid Image Ego LS Action Camera Has 4G for Instant Bragging Rights

Liquid Image Ego LS Action Camera Has 4G for Instant Bragging Rights

Liquid Image has a new action cam coming out in June. It looks very not-unlike a GoPro. It shoots 1080p video at 30fps or 720p at 60fps. Nothing so outstanding there. What’s unique, though, is that it’ll attach to a 4G module. In other words you can instantly stream video from anywhere. That means your friends can watch you faceplant in realtime. Fantastic!

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How the GoPro Became the Best Selling Camera In the World

How the GoPro Became the Best Selling Camera In the World

The GoPro is an amazing action camera that lets people record extreme sports, daredevil feats, and other spectacles. Just a few years ago, it would have been impossible. But, today, it is the best-selling camera in the world.

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Ion Air Pro 3: The Waterproofiest Naked Action Cam Around

Ion Air Pro 3: The Waterproofiest Naked Action Cam Around

Ion may not be the first name you think of when it comes to action cameras (or the second), but the company has been around for a few years. The original Air Pro came in third in our action camera Battlemodo back in June of 2012, but it left us hungry for better image quality. The Air Pro 3 might just satisfy.

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Holding Out for a Hero3+? GoPro’s New Cameras Are Smaller, Speedier

Holding Out for a Hero3+? GoPro’s New Cameras Are Smaller, Speedier

GoPro didn’t need to radically reinvent its Hero cameras to maintain top-dog status at the peak of action-camera mountain. And so it didn’t. The new GoPro Hero3+ cameras add a few improvements to the already-excellent Hero3 lineup, and although the …

    



GoPro Hero 3+ Hands On: A Nice Bump, But Not a Huge Jump

Last year, when GoPro’s Hero 3 Black edition emerged victorious from our intensive Action Camera Battlemodo, we noted that while it won, we had some gripes that nearly cost it the crown. This year, GoPro is releasing the Hero 3+, and it address almost all our concerns.

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GoPro Studio 2.0 Hands-On: Easier, Awesomer Videos (UPDATE)

GoPro Studio 2.0 Hands-On: Easier, Awesomer Videos (UPDATE)

GoPro, the Q-Tips of action cameras, recognized a problem. People are shooting tons of footage with their cameras, but are then letting it languish away on a dusty old hard drive, unseen and unedited. The California company is hoping to help correct that with new mobile apps and desktop editing software.

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Sony Action Cam Redux: Let’s Try Again, This Time With Built-In GPS

Sony Action Cam Redux: Let's Try Again, This Time With Built-In GPS

Exactly a year ago, Sony dove into the GoPro-like adventure camera market only to leave us wanting a little more from its tiny Action Cam. The new AS30V comes with a few new features, including GPS connectivity and higher-resolution 12-megapixel stills. Is that enough to finally make Sony’s Action Cam a real competitor?

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