AKASO Brave 7 LE Action Camera, 40M Waterproof Underwater Camera EIS 2.0 Native 4K 20MP Touch Screen WiFi Sports Camera Remote Control Vlog CameraGlobal Recycled StandardGlobal Recycled StandardGlobal Recycled Standard

The first thing you'll notice is that this camera is a lot heavier than some of the other Akaso cameras. It feels robust with its body made of hard plastic and offers weather sealed joints so it can be used in the wet without issue.Both the battery compartment and the USB compartments have a rubber seal which presses into the compartment to ensure no water gets into important parts of the camera.The displays are made from plastic which will no doubt help to stop any screen breaks. The touch screen is smooth and responsive and it's navigation menu is very simple to use.The front facing screen helps to see where it's being pointed while vlogging.Next to the battery compartment there is a 1/4"metal thread for tripods.The buttons feel very strong and are made from a rubbery plastic.Image quality is quite impressive for this price point and the 4k30 is very good as is all of the other resolutions such as 2.7k and 1080p. Just note that every other resolution has a choice of 30fps or 60fps apart from 4k which is limited to 30fps. There is also 1080p120 for slow mo footage.The 20mb max photo quality is reasonable and would be more than good enough for posting on social media. You do get the ability to set custom iso, EV and light metering. Sadly, you're unable to set a custom iso in video mode, but you can set the angle for both video and photo which allows super wide/wide/medium/narrow.Image stabilization is quite impressive, but obviously not to the standards of DJi or GoPro, however you shouldn't have any major issues when cycling or jogging, in fact you'll get very good results.The audio is acceptable, however there is a bug whereby turning off all system sounds will mute audio recording. The work around is to disable all sounds apart from the bootup sound, then you'll be able to capture audio in your recording. If you like to leave system sounds on then obviously you won't need to do this work around.Overall it's a very impressive little camera and it's a nice companion to my DJi Action 2.

Update after more than a year of useThe camera may be old but, after a year of use, I decided to update the review because I actually grew very fond of it.The camera offers an amazing value for money and a rich set of features. The other positive reviews cover the gist. It is very reliable and well made. I never had any issue with it and it survived a couple of hard falls at speed on tarmac. During daylight, the video is clear even at the low resolutions and the colours bright and pleasant. Lots of settings to play with and get the desired results whether it's video, photos or slow mo etc.The killer feature for me were the two batteries and the dual charger. That would give me more than two full hours of solid video recording, which matters to me.It also comes with an extensive set of mounts and adapters covering very different uses. It's also easy to attache it on some gopro mounts which was useful for me as I had a set of 3d printed custom mounts and the transition was seamless.For the record, I had two complains: One was solved after a bit of experimentation and it was that I would often stop the camera unknowingly by touching the screen. I figured out that when you have lock enabled AND start the recording with the button instead works perfectly as it will only stop the recording by pressing the button. The second was that it would lose the date/time when left without batteries an issue. This may be solved by their support, in which case I will update.Finally, the communications I had with the company regarding had been top quality indicative of a top notch support.

Great little camera, easy to use and plenty of accessories great value for money does what it says on the tin.

This was bought a while back for my birthday and I've only just been able to use it.. So far, I've used the camera twice and I'm pleased with the video quality.The camera set up was relatively easy. However...It comes with a gazillion mounts and to be honest I would have preferred to pay less and have no mounts as most are of no use to me - in fact the one that I did want turned out to be of no use to me, too. The bike mount - it will only fit old diameter handlebars (25mm or less). A lot of handlebars (I'd say most) are now approx 32mm. The supplied mount won't get anywhere near that.I contacted the seller through Amazon and the only method was Live Chat which took an eternity as it seemed they only had the one agent. Their recommendation was for me to buy one of their mounts for £30! Great - somebody has just bought me a camera with more mounts than Lester Piggott but I need to buy another. No apologies for selling a mount that wouldn't fit the majority of bikes, just the above recommendation. I ended up buying a third party mount for less than £10 which, to be honest, isn't great as the mounting point on the camera is on the left edge of the base meaning the holding screw had to be really tight or the camera swings around. No matter how tight I tightened the screw, the camera swivelled. But that's the third party mount's fault...I was pleased with the video quality of the bits I recorded in between the camera spinning around. I had to buy a good SD card reader as my cheap Amazon card reader was too slow and the videos were freezing to buffer every few seconds. This would probably be the same with any camera of this quality, to be fair.I can't get the SD card out of the camera to insert into my wonderful card reader without using tweezers as it catches on the camera casing. Fortunately my wife still plucks her eyebrows rather than having the more modern caterpillars stapled to her forehead so I was able to pinch her tweezers.The camera app worked easily but didn't seem to be the same as the one on the YouTube instructional video. I don't use it anyway.So, if you buy this camera to put on your bike, you'll need to buy a mount if your handlebars are more than 25mm in diameter. Apart from that, whoever buys the camera will need a decent card reader to view the videos on a PC/laptop. And don't forget eyebrow tweezers to remove the SD card.