![]() I looked at the footage and noticed that I had hours of video, and chopping all that up was going to annoy the flip out of me. Imagine, if you will, my face when I came back from France. If you want to cram more in through, you can switch to, /60fps or 848× Oh yes, don’t forget that you can also record in dramatic slow motion up to 120fps. Sure, if you’ve got a 64GB microSD card (like the one I used) and you’re going on a fairly short-ish ride and don’t want to chop up your footage (maybe you’re using this to record those naughty car drivers on your journey to work) then you’ll be fine. You don’t, however, have to necessarily record in full 1080p 30 frames per second. You can, of course, remove the microSD card and stick into your laptop via a card reader if you wish. The device takes a microSD card and, when you plug it into your laptop, there’s a very easy “mass storage” option which lets you drag footage off without fuss. There’s other beeps to let you know when you’re running low on battery power or running out of storage space on whatever card you’ve inserted. Push that slider back and you’ll hear another series of beeps (with a different tone) to let you know that the recording has complete. Push it forward and you’ll hear a series of beeps (which you’ll learn quickly) to tell you that the recording has started.ĭigital Image Stabilization and something called “Lens Distortion Correction” makes sure that the recording looks good too, so you really don’t have to worry much about setting up a shot all that much. Luckily there’s a chunky and oversized slider switch on the side which is easy to locate. Best of all, when you’re busy riding, running, skiing, driving or whatever you’re not going to want to worry about how to start recording. Up top, that “chroma” display stays on when you’re using the camera, but it hardly uses any power at all. The lower right of the screen shows the additional information which is provided through the Elite model. I could go into a huge amount of detail here about how this gives you lots of additional data etc, but it’s best seen on this demo video. There’s actually a couple – this is the “higher end” one which is fitted with both WiFi and GPS. ![]() If you’re Googling around for this you may have found another “VIRB” camera. At £349.99 this thing isn’t cheap, but if you have a quick Google around, believe me, you’ll get it cheaper.įitted with a high-quality (and robust, I can tell you that) 16 megapixel camera, it’ll do 1080p HD video recording and, shaped like this, it’s aerodynamic. Wait though, I’m getting ahead of myself. I also forgot to charge it, but after 4 days it still had enough to document our journey. There was a lot of drinking, a few tumbles and not very much sleep. Now, I didn’t tell the people at Garmin but I actually took the thing with with me on the journey to give it a proper “review”.įirst up, I should congratulate the device for making the trip and getting back in one piece. You may remember my early look at the VIRB (sorry, they tell me it has to be in block capitals) while I was in training for my 270+ mile bike ride to Paris on my mountain bike. The people at Garmin however, did loan me a device, and it was this, the Garmin VIRB Elite. However, when I asked GoPro to load one of their cameras to review, they said… basically, no. GoPro cameras are, as you’ll have probably seen here on Coolsmartphone, a cool way to record your sporting activity.
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