1. What is an action camera?

An action camera is a camera that is used to shoot in sports scenes.

This type of camera generally has natural anti-shake function, which can capture pictures in complex motion environment and present clear and stable video effect.

Such as our common hiking, cycling, skiing, mountain climbing, downhill, diving and so on.

Action cameras in a broad sense include all portable cameras that support anti-shake, which can provide clear video when the photographer moves or moves without relying on a specific gimbal.

2. How does the action camera achieve anti-shake?

The general image stabilization is divided into optical image stabilization and electronic image stabilization.

[Optical anti-shake] It can also be called physical anti-shake. It relies on the gyroscope in the lens to sense the jitter, and then transmits the signal to the microprocessor. After calculating the relevant data, the lens processing group or other parts are called to eliminate the jitter. influences.

Electronic anti-shake is to use digital circuits to process the picture. Generally, a wide-angle picture is taken with a large viewing angle, and then appropriate cropping and other processing are performed through a series of calculations to make the picture smoother.

3. What scenarios are the action cameras suitable for?

The action camera is suitable for general sports scenes, which is its specialty, which has been introduced above.

It is also suitable for traveling and shooting, because travel itself is a kind of sport, always moving around and playing. It is very convenient to take pictures during travel, and it is easy to carry and take pictures.

Because of its small size and portability, and strong anti-shake ability, action cameras are also favored by some photographers, generally serving photographers together with drones and professional SLR cameras.

4. Action camera lens recommendation?

Action cameras in some markets natively support camera replacement, and some action camera enthusiasts will modify the action camera interface to support conventional interfaces such as C-mount and M12.

Below I recommend two good wide-angle lenses with M12 thread.

5. Lenses for sports cameras

CHANCCTV designed a full range of M12 mount lenses for action cameras, from low distortion lenses to wide angle lenses. Take model CH1117. It is a 4K low distortion lens able to create a less than -1% aberration images with up to 86 degrees horizontal field of view (HFoV). This lens is ideal for sports DV and UAV.