Don't worry, this post doesn't feature the "Will this work on my solo" or "what Gimbal can I get for this to work on my solo"... I swear!
Bought one as a present for the other half. I was setting it up last night and was pretty impressed with the layout of the controls on the LCD screen. Mind you, after charging for ages the battery took it's time to get to 95% and then crawled to 98% (GPS, WIFI, and voice commands turned off). Getting a standalone charger this week.
Even though I only briefly looked at it last night (Just updating firmware and charging) I was impressed with the low light performance. I mention this because I found it very hard to get info from the web about the low light performance or a low light comparison, maybe because it's just so new that a lot of people haven't put up clips yet.
I was in the living room, tv on, candles lit, and turned on one of those color changing LED bulbs (white, but very low output from those things) (no, there was no Barry White music playing)
The GP2 would have basically filmed a pitch black room, shown pinpoint of light for the candles and shown a surprisingly good picture for the tv.
The GP4 would have shown a pitch black room with a few odd highlights where the light was bouncing off a few things, shown the candles and an overblown white image from the TV, very soft picture and noise throughout.
The GP5 has voice commands and GPS, but I believe it uses the exact same image sensor as the GP4 (hey, it was on the internet, it must be true).
The GP6 though, it showed the entire room, there was a purplish hue to everything from that bulb but I was really impressed. I could make out all the detail and even though noise was present it was still far better than what I had been expecting.
Now this was at 1080P @ 30fps, I didn't have time to play about with the photography end of things or do long exposure or time lapse shots.
I will try to make a side by side by side (GP2, GP4, GP6) clip for the weekend so you can get a fair idea of the difference, but needless to say, if you're thinking about this camera, this was huge plus for me. I really do enjoy making night lapse shots and if this is an indicator of what this camera can do, I was pretty impressed.
Just my quick 2 cents on this one!
Bought one as a present for the other half. I was setting it up last night and was pretty impressed with the layout of the controls on the LCD screen. Mind you, after charging for ages the battery took it's time to get to 95% and then crawled to 98% (GPS, WIFI, and voice commands turned off). Getting a standalone charger this week.
Even though I only briefly looked at it last night (Just updating firmware and charging) I was impressed with the low light performance. I mention this because I found it very hard to get info from the web about the low light performance or a low light comparison, maybe because it's just so new that a lot of people haven't put up clips yet.
I was in the living room, tv on, candles lit, and turned on one of those color changing LED bulbs (white, but very low output from those things) (no, there was no Barry White music playing)
The GP2 would have basically filmed a pitch black room, shown pinpoint of light for the candles and shown a surprisingly good picture for the tv.
The GP4 would have shown a pitch black room with a few odd highlights where the light was bouncing off a few things, shown the candles and an overblown white image from the TV, very soft picture and noise throughout.
The GP5 has voice commands and GPS, but I believe it uses the exact same image sensor as the GP4 (hey, it was on the internet, it must be true).
The GP6 though, it showed the entire room, there was a purplish hue to everything from that bulb but I was really impressed. I could make out all the detail and even though noise was present it was still far better than what I had been expecting.
Now this was at 1080P @ 30fps, I didn't have time to play about with the photography end of things or do long exposure or time lapse shots.
I will try to make a side by side by side (GP2, GP4, GP6) clip for the weekend so you can get a fair idea of the difference, but needless to say, if you're thinking about this camera, this was huge plus for me. I really do enjoy making night lapse shots and if this is an indicator of what this camera can do, I was pretty impressed.
Just my quick 2 cents on this one!