You gotta Rollei
with it…
Let’s face it, you
guys are incredibly exciting. We bet you get in to all manner of
scrapes, from sky-driving to skateboarding, and everything else in
between. Sure, you could just get on with your action-packed life
alone with nobody ever seeing just how damn brave you are, or… you
could capture all your adventures with a state-of-the-art action cam.
That’s just what we’ve been doing with the Rollei Actioncam 410.
Cycling to the office counts, right?
The Rollei Actioncam
410 is a tight little package with just a 5cm width, making it
narrower than most other action cameras of this size and spec.
Arranged in a square, rather than the standard chunky rectangle, the
410 packs a punch greater than its size suggests. Your headlines on
this little baby are that it records 1080p at 60 frames per second as
standard. Yeah, 60. We like that.
Using the included
mounts (more on those below) we attached it to a bike helmet and went
for a ride on a dreary winter morning. Here’s the footage (make
sure you’re at 1080 Full HD for truest results, and ignore the date-stamp - we forgot to set it!):
Pretty good, eh. Sure,
we’ve all seen and used action cams that capture footage in 1080p,
but not many do that at 60 frames per second as standard. The
increased frame rate makes the footage smoother and cleaner, and
obviously it gives you the option to easily reduce the play rate by
50% without it becoming jittery. If you’re doing something dramatic
and need to slow it right down for maximum effect, this is a great
camera to use.
As well as fantastic
footage, the Actioncam 410 can capture stills at 4MP and also
features built-in WiFi to make downloading your files much easier, as
well allowing you to use your connected phone as a view finder to
line up shots and change settings. The related app is available for
both iOS and Android.
Bundled
in with the Rollei Actioncam 410 is a nice little selection of useful
mounts and accessories. Most prominently there is the waterproof
enclosure, capable of keeping the cam dry and safe down to 40 metres
of depth. There is also a frame holder into which you slot the cam to
attach it to mounts, two M5 sticky plates, and a couple of
screw-fixing quick-release clips. Sticking it to a helmet worked very
well, we found, but you can also affix it to flat surfaces like a
board, car, drone, plane, spaceship… whatever.
Included also is a very
useful remote control in the form of a wrist watch. You can control
the record functions of the cam with it, as well as changing
settings. Using it is great to start and stop recording without
having to remove the cam itself from a complicated mount set up.
This is a very capable
little camera which, due to the high-specs and bundled accessories,
is really worth looking into.
Around £60
Available from www.amazon.co.uk
