A GoPro-Killer? with Display

[supLaz]

Have read an interesting test of the Toshiba Camileo X-sports,
not bad at all for 1/2 price of the GoPro Hero3 - Black Edition.
Has someone already tried it?

[PonoBill]

Why oh why is no one making similar form factor version with lens options. The Ultra wide angle is useful for 80 percent of the video shot, leaving 20 percent that sucks toads.

Looks pretty good though, and I'd expect good build quality. I'm fairly pleased with my $94 go pro knockoff, which also has a LCD screen but no remote or app, and could use some documentation. As with the Toshiba, it's 1080 X 60fps, comes with a zillion mounts, many of which are more clever than GoPro mounts (for example, most of the adapter clips have a brass tripod mount screw insert in them) and all GoPro compatible. Comes with an extra LiPo battery. If it had come out before the Black it would be a GoPro killer--or at least such away some of the air.

[Caribsurf]

the wrist remote control feature sounds great although didn't see any footage of anyone utilizing that feature, and I wonder if the remote is waterproof

[blueplanetsurf]

Looks interesting, although it seems more like a gopro knockoff than than a gopro killer.  The features, shape, case, app, remote, mounts and even the touch screen look like a copy of the gopro, I don't see much innovation.  To take away market share Toshiba would have to come out with something better, not just a "me too" copy at a lower price point.

[Cardiff Sweeper]

http://venturebeat.com/2014/06/25/gopro-sets-its-ipo-price-at-24-per-share-gearing-up-to-go-public-tomorrow/


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[Badger]

At first I thought the GoPro was a pretty neat idea but now after watching a few hundred videos, I've found that most of them are pretty boring. The camera is just too close to what's being shot. The only GoPro videos worth watching are the ones where the camera is a good distance away from the user either mounted on the paddle or some sort of makeshift rig such as in DJ's vids.

They need to do something to widen the lens if that's possible, to give the viewer a better perspective of the action.

I think there are still more ingenious ways to mount the camera to get the camera farther back, away from the board. Also I have yet to see any mounts on gimbals to make the camera self leveling.

One strange thing I've noticed with these cameras is that very few people ever use them as a handheld. I keep wanting to say, just stop paddling for a few minutes, hold the camera in your hands and shoot some decent video.