darklow 0 #1 January 6, 2015 Sony just announced two new action cameras in CES2015: 1) Sony AS200V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhDlBJ6veTI Published on Jan 5, 2015: Meet the NEW Action Cam HDR-AS200V, the highest image quality of all Full HD Action Cam ever. As successor of HDR-AS100V, the new model HDR-AS00V enhanced HD video performance with upgraded stabilization and image quality. Scope of movie shooting is expanded through newly added manual settings (white balance, AE shifting) and Loop Recording. 2) 4K Action Cam FDR-X1000V More promo and 4K sample videos here: http://bit.ly/SonyACsub There are also news about new helmet side mount that will be available: VCT-HSM1. But i haven't found any photos yet. New cameras should be available sometime in March, 2015. Read more about details and pricing on Sony blog post: https://blog.sony.com/press/sony-introduces-new-4k-and-full-hd-action-cams-at-ces-2015/The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness http://adventure.lv/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sunnyape 1 #2 January 12, 2015 Oooh that new FDR-X1000V looks nice! If you have good look at the pictures in this article: http://www.cnet.com/au/products/sony-action-cam-fdr-x1000v/, you can see the rear door has a flap too, so you can open that flap to access the ports without having to expose the battery. You could remove this flap and cut a hole in back of the waterproof case to allow constant access to the ports without needing to take the camera in and out of the case or open / close flaps. I did this for my HDR-AZ1 and it's great! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Greig474 0 #3 January 13, 2015 can anyone that has experience with the sony action cams give any info on their reliability? I use gopros but have still not upgraded from the gopro 2 because i have seen and experienced too many malfunctions with the cameras gopro released after the 2. Crystal clear footage is nice, but cameras that always get the footage are more valuable to me. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jtiflyer 0 #4 January 14, 2015 So far about 20ish jumps on my AS100v cameras and they have worked perfectly. Adding the ND filter has completely eliminated the background jello. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OzzieDave 1 #5 January 14, 2015 Posted a bit on here about the as100 (mounting and use). Haven't jumped as much as I would likely but possibly close to 200 jumps on the camera and I have only had one camera bust (which was my fault/forgot the remote and no one else on the plane new how to tell if it was recording or not, turns out it wasn't) and lost 1 video to a corrupted card and just generally had issues with sandisk cards with the camera. User isues/card issues aside the camera itself has proven to be very reliable with decent battery life (though buy a second battery) and damn good quality compared against cx series cameras and GoPros Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
