FOXEER LEGEND 3 | $150 4k Action Camera | Specs and Features

Part II...

I think for the price point of £120, as opposed to going £250s worth of reconditioned GoPro 5 is well above my justifiable budget on something that might take a pounding, is in short, excellent!



This is a superb 4K camera for the money and using the sweet spot of 1080p at 60fps going by what the Bard is saying, quality wise, is rather nice to say the least.
It's clearly sharper than the GoPro, perhaps too sharp in some cases but it clearly gives much better detail, White balance with sky is handled better on GoPro though I reckon too but I don't mind slightly bright sky for a clear ground view.
...But the colours are great even though it has a slight blue tint, and the mic is tons better, adding a fluffer or whatever, to the mic hole will dampen this a little if needed, the GoPro clearly cuts off lots of high frequencies, this might be preferable, but I don't like it's muffled sound from what I've seen and heard about it.
The smearing is a little worrying at 4k as it's quite pronounced, but this could be FPS I reckon leaving to much motion blur, which ain't so bad.
Overall, for me personally I'd definitely go for this over the GoPro, I'd be much less precious about it, at least until I can fly with some competence, which even then guarantees nothing.
It also has, not mentioned by the Bard, an aspherical lens, which give less distortion than a spherical one, so for example the horizon won't appear as curved. Some might like this I'm not keen, I like the quality video style from more professional cameras, just like the GoPro which also has one (I think, possibly?).

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It also has, not mentioned by the Bard, an aspherical lens, which give less distortion than a spherical one, so for example the horizon won't appear as curved. Some might like this I'm not keen, I like the quality video style from more professional cameras, just like the GoPro which also has one (I think, possibly?).

Not sure the Session has an aspherical lens, Seeing from the fisheye distortion I don't think so.

Here's an unedited photo I made with the gopro session.

Yeh, the Legend comes with an aspherical, but I think you can get them for the GoPro I imagine but I thought one came with it, I'm sure I've seen some footage with one, but yet as standard probably not....

Nice piccy BTW....

PapaLazarou wrote:

Yeh, the Legend comes with an aspherical, but I think you can get them for the GoPro I imagine but I thought one came with it, I'm sure I've seen some footage with one, but yet as standard probably not....

Nice piccy BTW....

Thanks

Thought I read that the Gopro Hero3 came with an aspherical lens, it is also sold as replacement lens for the normal Gopro's. The lens of the Session can't be replaced as far as I know.

CANNER wrote:

Thought I read that the Gopro Hero3 came with an aspherical lens, it is also sold as replacement lens for the normal Gopro's. The lens of the Session can't be replaced as far as I know.

Gotcha, ta.