Thoughts or experiences with action cameras

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@tryl

I’m the guy who use a Xiaomi Yi.

You should know a few things about this Action Cam :

  • You need to refocus it, or you will loose details
  • 0.5s and 1s timelapse are with Auto-Exposure locked. It’s a major drawback. I sent a mail to Xiaomi and started this thread : https://forum.dashcamtalk.com/threads/timelapse-and-auto-exposure.13229/
  • The Yi don’t use the subsecondtime, so if you use 0.5s Timelapse, you will have some problem to add lat/lon

But, Xiaomi are releasing new firmware pretty fast, and there are many people trying to hack this camera. I hope that everything will be better and easier soon.

btw : another sequence, on bike :
http://www.mapillary.com/map/im/cD0nfFzKixMdILQWEZmVHw/photo

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