A Review of the ACT20 HD Action Camera

A LONG review of the ACT20 720p HD Camera.
http://goo.gl/NspdN

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[JO5HII]

great review mate! is the camera the same as the "action camera 3" ? and also would power director 9 be ok for editing ?

[Techmoan]

@JO5HII Unfortunately I'm not familiar with the Action Camera 3 and I use a Mac. Perhaps someone else here could help out?

[GsxR750Speedemon]

Is it worth to.buy considering it being from china?

[Techmoan]

@GsxR750Speedemon Well pretty much everything is from China now. Hopefully all the information you need to make up your mind is in the review. If it's cheap enough then it's an OK camera.

[MrAnjosam]

Hi

On all this made possible "Action Cameras" there is something that troubles me, it's the up right position so you don't end with a recording upside down.

Is there a way to know? I have made recordings that the file gets flip to the side just because of a missing rotate sensor.

Any help regarding this matter?

Thank you

[Techmoan]

@MrAnjosam Not too clear on your question...but the button is on the top of the camera...it doesn't have an orientation sensor, so an upside down camera will create upside down video.

[Triple777ER]

You sound like James May

[BamHD]

Where can i get hold of one of these?

[robertjamesfrost]

@Razz13 i guess you win some / lose some with these at this price. The one I got only turns on if you hold the button down for several seconds though. I guess this is to prevent accidental switchin on / off some similar cameras had.

[MultiUnanimous]

@Techmoan I just ordered this little camera off of ebay for vlogging use on my dirtbike , and didn't see ur vid till after i purchased. Will i be able to stop the wind noise with some tape wrapped tightly around the mic? because if not i'm Sol because thats like the only reason i purchased it is to hear the sound of my bike and my voice , like some wind is exceptable but i don;t want it to be disturbing to watch or listen to .

[Inthisma]

Memory cards run at different speeds. Its all depends on how quick the cam can write to the card. Slow cards means it uses a bad compression.. Fast cards means it can use a better compression.. The camera has a limited amount of built in memory if you like and it needs to get the video off there and onto the card asap.. hope this helps

[Razz13]

I just received one of these by mail (bought on ebay)

doesn't even turn on, nor does it charge... piece of sh*t.

You get what you pay for, hong kong crap

[CAMBOJNR1994]

nice review mate. was thinking of getting one of these to record days out paintballing do you think it would be up to it?

[hannina]

Thank you for posting a good review.

[83Sophist]

@robertjamesfrost Thanks, man! :) I saw it when I was choosing the item. I chose this one because I wanted to see is the stuff like this will work well for my needs. Definitely I will not buy 2 or Lite because, imho, the extractable battery feature don't worth additional 100 bucks. But if my idea will work fine I will probably go crazy :) and will spend 300 bucks for Pro.