Garmin jumps into the actions cam market with the VIRB. Specs, video and details can be found HERE
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Garmin jumps into the actions cam market with the VIRB. Specs, video and details can be found HERE
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In all fairness, it probably has a market especially to existing Garmin customers.
But it's $400.00 price does demand a direct comparison with the GoPro3 Black at the same price.
In this market, the GoPro is kind of the bar to beat and the fact is that for us performance junkies, it just doesn't cut it.
And it certainly costs too much for what it does in comparison to a whole lot of other products.
If they were one of the first out with a nice little sport cam this would have been really cool, but unfortunately this late in the game it's more - - What were they thinking?
Adam, no feathers ruffled here at least. Just a bit surprised by the choices done by Garmin. It's pretty obvious they are trying very hard to sell it to a non-technical crowd, since the techies won't be interested in a gopro2 equivalent camera when the gopro3 is already available.
Just sharing with the community not trying to ruffle any feathers...I like my GoPro's too.
The technical specifications are on that link
https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/prod119594.html
I must admit this feels a bit underwhelming. Actual technical specifications are non-existent on their page, and I suspect this is done on purpose. From what I have managed find out so far, the gopro3 has MUCH better specs. The exception are GPS and battery life, both features heavily promoted on the Garmin site.
For our airborne uses the Gopro Black still seems considerably more capable.
Only the $400.00 Elite Model has GPS and WiFi control with preview.
1080 P is 30fps only with no zoom available on any resolution
It's a bit heavy (but does have a large battery).
Specs are a bit light and it doesn't mention that it has USB control capability other than playback.
External case is extra.
It does have stabilization, but most stabilization systems have not been shown to work well in copters anyway.
I am thinking that Garmin is charging a premium price for a mid range product hoping that the Garmin name and previous Garmin loyalty will provide a market base for them.
I wish it had remotely the capability of a GoPro because I really don't like the GoPro Company very much.
Cool. I'd like to know the specs on the GPS and the update rate on the GPS. If you could take photos continuously in time lapse mode and have a solid set of GPS coordinates attached to each photo, georeferenced mapping would be easy!