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1.0 out of 5 starsGlitchy. Poor design. No case/lens cover. Clumsy user interface.
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2020
I loved the concept of this camera but unfortunately, I didn't really get a chance to give it much of a try. A quick walk around the block and the camera got really hot and locked up on me. After having to disassemble the camera to get it out of the mounting bracket (more on this in a sec) so I could remove the battery to turn it off, the interface wouldn't allow me to preview the video. It was completely unusable. I thought I'd try it the next day and it worked for one video then started glitching out again. I was using one of the suggested memory cards as well.
The design on this is really poor. I bought the 1-inch lens version and the lens cover covers 1/4th of the tiny touch screen making it really hard to use the swipe interface. It feels very delicate and doesn't look like it would hold up to any amount of bumps. There is a small gap between the battery and the lens/body you can actually see daylight through.
The touchscreen user interface was really confusing. It was pretty frustrating just trying to figure out how to get it into a shooting mode. You control the camera by swiping into different modes but it's hard to swipe on such a small screen.
In order to get the camera in and out of the casing (remember, this battery only lasts about an hour at best), you have to unscrew the lens protector. Since the unit is so tiny and delicate, I couldn't imagine having to do this in the middle of a shoot.
It's also really hard to access the charging compartment with the mounting bracket on it.
Last was the fact that it didn't come with any type of case or lens cap. Come on, guys. It's a $300 lens that sticks half an inch out of the body of the camera. Adding a .50 piece of plastic wouldn't have killed the premium price on this.
I'm sure I could have returned this and gotten a less glitchy camera but the design flaws, cheap design, and questionable durability would have made me return this anyway.
I'm excited to see what this design has for future versions once they've fixed some of these issues but you'll probably want to steer clear of this.
