Video ID: S15LNpvsVLs
YouTube URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S15LNpvsVLs
Added At: 13-06-25 21:18:12
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Categories: Tech
Tags: action cameras, GoPro Hero 13 Black, DJI Osmo Action 5, camera sensors, lenses
Summary
• The video compares the $399 GoPro Hero 13 Black and the $349 DJI Osmo Action 5 action cameras. • The GoPro features a new set of lenses, including a macro lens mod and an anamorphic lens mod, but its camera sensor is older. • The DJI Osmo Action 5 has a new 4-nanom Chip and A 1/1.3 in type sensor, providing up to 13.5 stops of dynamic range.
Transcript
all right so it's old school versus new school with the $399 GoPro Hero 13 Black versus the $349 DJI osmo action 5 and for the last I don't know 2 weeks I've taken them pretty much everywhere with me to figure out who is the better action camera I'm Becca welcome back to my channel where we take Tech outside let's get into [Music] it let's start with the GoPro this year we didn't see a ton of changes under the hood but instead they brought a large Focus to lenses so there's a new set of NDS that come in a cute little case an updated Max lens mod now called the ultrawide lens an anamorphic lens mod and the macro lens mod and all of these lenses are now automatically detected by the camera allowing the camera to adjust settings automatically when you put them on and my only note for all of these lenses is why is the blue alignment dot on the inside of the mods and the camera you could barely see this dot when you get the mod close to the camera just put it on the outside two lenses in particular though Stand Out to me it's the $130 macro and the $130 anamorphic this macro lens can focus on subjects as close as 4.33 in or 11 cm away from the sensor which I find a bit weak if you're going to call this lens a macro like here's the pixel 99 Pros macro lens versus the gopro's macro lens mod you simply don't get that Larger than Life effect with the GoPro because you can't focus close enough but what I think is more important about this mod is that you get a little bit of depth of field and this is the first time on a GoPro that I've been able to get this sort of look there is peaking too to help with focusing which again is a small window of 4.33 in to 2.46 Ft that's really only about this far but any sort of depth of field on an action camera I welcome and then there's the anamorphic lens which I haven't gotten to use myself but I do have some footage from GoPro to show you what it looks like it can natively shoot in a 21 by9 aspect ratio and desqueeze the footage right in camera this then creates those long lens flares in super cinematic looking video there are thirdparty anamorphic lenses for GoPros and if you're on a budget it might be best to look at one of those first but keep in mind you won't get the native D squeezing hypers smooth won't be tuned for it and I'm willing to bet a lot of money that the coating on the front of gopro's version will be more scratch resistant but almost more importantly than the different looking footage you can get with these lens mods is how different it makes the camera physically look and it's a bit of a psychological trick but when you put one of these larger lenses on it makes you feel like you're using something that isn't all the same GoPros that came before I love it I've had the macro lens mod on almost the entire time I've been using it but is it worth $103 that's for you and your bank account to decide what you will get without paying $130 extra is the new magnetic mounting system which GoPro is taking a page out of DJI and insta 360s book who's cameras already have these quick release mounts it's great and it makes switching mounts so much quicker and easier moreon quick release mounts and who does it Best In the comparison section now there are a few internal changes to the hero 13 this year but just nothing as flashy as lens mods first there's a bigger 1900 mAh battery that is not backwards compatible with any other GoPro and then since this is the same sensor and processor is the hero 12 this year is all about GoPro squeezing every last spec that it can out of last year's Tech and the only thing it was able to squeeze was 400 frames per second filming at 720p or 360 frames per second in 900p for 15 seconds and 120 frames per second at 5.3k for 5 seconds for me the star of the show continues to be log footage though it provides far more dynamic range and latitude and coloring your footage and post but that is nothing new and otherwise you're getting the same Punchy GoPro colors here with solid performance in great light and underwhelming performance in low light and lastly the GPS is back which is great for folks who want to embed stats under their footage should have never left but it's back and now we have Wi-Fi 6 which will mean that your footage will upload to the cloud faster okay but now let's talk about the osmo action 5 which I can't believe they're already on the fifth generation of this camera what the heck all right how you doing in there I know okay okay I'm go quick I'm sorry B girl this camera isn't getting any flashy lenses or even new ND filters but internally we are seeing quite the refresh starting with a new 4 nanm Chip and A 1 in 1.3 in type sensor the DJI Claims can provide up to 13.5 stops of dynamic range this allows for up to 4K 120 frames per second 10bit filming in standard dlog M or new to the action 5 hlg color spaces the log footage is surprisingly easy to work with and it has a good amount of range it reminds me a lot of the log footage from the osmo pocket 3 which I actually shoot most of my b-roll with these days and you can use the same lot that you used for the pocket 3 here as well oh my God you're going to touch it oh spooky isn't it beautiful though and the action 5 DJ is also introducing super Knight mode that the company claims uses AI noise reduction algorithms for cleaner footage in low light and it's not half bad but more on that in the comparison section DJI has also increased the battery size from 1,770 milliamp hours in the action 4 to 1,950 milliamp hours in the 5 but the good news is that these batteries are all backwards and forwards compatible but there might be a need for that larger battery in the action 5 because the screen sizes on both the back and the front are larger and they both get brighter and if you get the $450 Adventure combo you'll get this battery case which holds three batteries and can charge them simultaneously but also can act as a power pack for your camera so if you load this up with three batteries and have a battery in your cam and then plug this into your camera it means that you'll have the juice of four batteries without having to change anything which is great for time lapses the only thing to remember is that this is not waterproof but to me the most exciting upgrade here is that there's now 47 GB of built in storage which is around 1 hour and 54 minutes of 4K 24 frames per second footage for some folks that might not be nearly enough but of course there is still a Micro SD card slot and then there's one more new feature that really didn't provide me anything other than Joy but there's a pressure gauge in this camera meaning that when you submerge it it'll tell you how deep it is and also how long it's been under water you can also set it so that it stops and starts recording when it goes above or below water that's just super cool oh my God that's so cool it has a gauge that's showing me like how deep it went and the duration I'll never use it but do I want it yeah okay but now for the moment you have been waiting for this is the main event of the evening it's the GoPro Hero 13 Black versus the DJI osmo action 5 now we are looking at the top of this video I said it's old school versus new school and what I mean by that is that the old schoolers GoPro have been producing this camera for many years and because of that they have something that is utterly reliable yet mostly unchanged in DJI the new schoolers have come in hot with tons of innovation that have given us many nice to haves for example on the DJI you get this cool digital zooming feature which you can use on both the front and back screen because they're both touch sensitive or that built-in pressure gauge it shows you how deep underwater you've gone cool Innovation nice to have but while using the osmo action 5 I bumped the ND and some water got under it and I didn't notice it because it was under the ND so the rest of the footage I shot had this mark across it the gopro's ND filters which fit much more snug have never given me this problem not to mention the coating on dji's lenses always need cleaning whereas the GoPro lenses Wick away water and even do a pretty good job of keeping fingerprints at Bay utterly reliable and mostly unchanged next DJI might have given us the quick relase magnetic mounting system first nice to have but it can be frustrating to use you have to mount the camera facing the correct way or you're fighting magnets and getting the second latch to close can be difficult GoPros is so easy and you could just put the camera on much quicker utterly reliable and I'm sure it won't change for years but then when it comes to battery life the old school is feeling old the osmo aution 5 has a lower power consumption chip and it shows I consistently got more battery life out of it than the hero 13 not to mention that the osmo charging case is so nice to have have but everything I just said can be learned and adapted to so really comes down to image quality at night there is no question that the osmo action 5 is smok in the GoPro even without the osmo night mode on the GoPro simply can't capture anything in low light and as for the super night mode on the osmo it's really just smoothing out noise and creating richer blacks I like it though it does take a bit more time to get filming and as far as processing goes again the DJI smokes the GoPro the age of the hero 13's processor is really starting to show especially when DJI is instantly able to save clips and get shooting again plus the boot time of the osmo action 5 is incredibly quick but when the light is perfect the competition gets a bit closer life in my hands on this city bike not going to lie I shot all of these comparisons in 4k 20 frames per second 10 bit and I kept the color space to the standard setting without adjusting sharpness lals and in direct sunlight I noticed that the DJI took a more HDR looking approach no highlight will ever be Overexposed but the shadows in blacks are kept real dark it creates a very contrasty image with lots of detail sometimes to the point of it feeling a bit oversharpened especially in tree leaves whereas in the GoPro we'll let the highlights be highlights and sometimes wash them right out but the time I noticed a huge difference between these cameras was when I put an ND filter on and I'm not sure if it's because the OS smon 5 has no way of knowing there's an ND filter on it but my skin tone just went out the window as soon as I started using an ND and I also noticed more of that HDR look on the osmo 2 the image just starts to feel artificial otherwise both of these cameras can produce largely the same image so this year if you are looking to buy a new action camera I think it comes down to really two things do you want the same old GoPro you've come to know and love with some really cool new lenses that change how it feels to use or or do you want incredible low light performance well incredible for an action camera with some nice to have features what I know for sure is that DJI has come very far in 5 years and if GoPro wants to keep up they're going to have to start dramatically changing this lineup because old school is really only cool for so long before what's new and exciting takes over I'm Becca thank you so much for joining me if you like this subscribe would mean the world to me um we are shy of 100K which oh my God I can't even believe it so cool um I appreciate you so much and I'll see you in the next one [Music]