Comments on: Don’t Disregard Sony’s New Action Camera

By: DafOwen

DafOwen — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:09:00 +0000

So what are the benefits ?

A summary would have been nice.
(Yes I can go look, but would have been good to have them here)

By: Erik Lauri Kulo

Erik Lauri Kulo — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 05:49:00 +0000

The biggest gripe for me is the release date, I am looking to buy an action camera at this very moment and would wait a few days for Sony if I knew it would come out in early September. But they just state September, so it could be a four week wait before I can even order it! When will camera manufacturers learn to be more specific? According to B&H it comes out 30th september.

By: Mike Folden

Mike Folden — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:40:00 +0000

I second the 120fps feature. That’s a big deal at 720p for this market. This actually looks pretty promising. I think it’s mainly the mounts that will make the camera though. GoPro definitely has that on lock.

By: Martin Beebee

Martin Beebee — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:49:00 +0000

I’m really looking forward to seeing some real world footage from this guy. Ironically (or perhaps sadly), the demo reels Sony has on their website look like crap. I assuming/hoping they aren’t representative of what the camera can do.

By: Kishore

Kishore — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:23:00 +0000

its great that sony has entered this market.
sony can bring in lot of improvements really quick into this segments unlike gopro who being a dedicated company have a smaller crew.
sony can share their tech from other cameras into this one and make it much better.
and the best thing the prices are gonna come down in thanksgiving :)

By: RMcL

RMcL — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:14:00 +0000

to be more accurate, GoPro have developed a name for them self by coming to the market after VHoldR / Contour and got popular by giving cash rebates back to sales people that pushed their product.

Hence they got massive market saturation.
There is already a half dozen competing and better products than GoPros on the market at similar(ish) price points.

By: Matthew DiGangi

Matthew DiGangi — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:45:00 +0000

aerodynamic clean ergonomic buttons 120 keep the improvements coming

By: ed

ed — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:35:00 +0000

The 120fps thing is what they need to be shouting about the loudest, as I think there are a lot of people that would buy it for extreme sports stuff just based on that (even if the rest of the package was sub-par, which it does not look to be).

By: William Collins

William Collins — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:24:00 +0000

I’m a gopro user, but I really like this camera. 120fps in 720, wifi, IS. But not modular like a gopro. thats the only con so far. I like the backpack system for gopros.

By: Matthew DiGangi

Matthew DiGangi — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 21:12:00 +0000

i dont understand why people are so complacent with their go pros. I am constantly finding issues that bug me or could easily be improved upon. Go pros are far from great they just had a jump start with advertising.