Action Camera Versus Smartphone

In this in depth video i do extensive testing to compare a sports action camera and a camcorder head to head.

Action camera versus smartphone. I talk about the strengths of each and provide visual samples for comparison. Camera and smartphone sales by year showing the explosive growth of smartphones compared to standalone cameras. You may also like. You shouldn t purchase a smartphone exclusively for action camera action though it s a pretty functional substitute.

Cameras are still the distinguishing feature for phones and oems are constantly trying to market something new and interesting. By 2015 smartphone sales dwarfed traditional camera sales and the numbers have only become more extreme since then source. Like earlier models it s waterproof to 33 feet has a rear 2 inch color touch. The s8 is generally considered to have one the best camera phones out there although the new samsung galaxy s9 looks to be better.

We decided to put it to the test with a compact camera vs smartphone shootout. One of the side effects of the rise in popularity of smartphones is a decline in compact camera sales. Our smartphone was the samsung galaxy s8 which we used handheld. Whereas smartphone cameras are made to replicate a field of view similar to that of the human eye action cams are made to capture much more of the scene and give a surreal point of view.

In 2016 sales of dslrs and compact system cameras or mirrorless cameras were fairly stable. Gopro s hero7 black was the first of gopro s action cameras to include the ability to record 4k video at 60 fps. Now that the term dual cameras or even triple cameras has lost its fizz we have circled back to marketing high resolution sensors with towering megapixel count.