DJI Goes Head To Head Vs. GoPro – Announces A Gimbaled 4K Camera
Jan 6, 2015
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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A while back we heard that GoPro are going to go into the Drone market and make their own drone (as opposed to being mounted on the popular DJI Phantom Drone). It seems that Chinese drone maker did not appreciate the move and is now fighting back by trying to take some camera market from GoPro.
Ben Popper of The Verge was visiting DJI’s booth in CES 2015 and discovered that DJI have took the 4K camera of their drone and made it into an independent gimballed camera. The gimbal includes a mounting point for a smartphone that can be used as a viewfinder, which is a plus if you are getting one of those. The camera is the same 4K camera that is found in DJI’s heavier Inspire 1 Drone, and it is DJI’s first camera that was built in-house.
There is no word on pricing yet, but nofilmshool speculates that it would be close to the Inspire 1’s $3,000 price tag.
If I were DJI, my next move would probably be to encase the camera and release it as a stand alone and go full head to head vs. GoPro. That, though, is remained to be seen.
[via nofilmschool]
Udi Tirosh
Udi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.
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9 responses to “DJI Goes Head To Head Vs. GoPro – Announces A Gimbaled 4K Camera”
The only reasons, why anyone would buy this thing is: It is as cheap as it looks and, it is possible to swap DJI’s camera to gopro.
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Actually, you’ve got it backwards. GoPro getting into the drone market is a response to DJI getting into the camera market. The Phantom 2 Vision was on the market a full year before GoPro announced it was getting into the drone market.
I have a Phantom 2, and love my DJI. The Ronin is awesome. But 3000 bucks for a stick and camera. I just don’t see it.
For my Gopro I have A FY G3 Gopro Gimbal
http://img.rcmaster.net/45317_0.jpeg
Fraction of the said DJI cost. And it works flawlessly.
soo cool. I’ve been looking at that to see if I can hack a sony action cam into it.
There is absolutely no way this is going to come in close to the Inspire’s price.
This is just a gimbal on a stick as opposed to a drone with gps system, gimbal, flight controller, controller, lightbridge, motors, props etc. Even if you had an Inspire at even $1,000 you’d be better off all round to go out and buy a GoPro Hero 4 Black and a stick gimbal than take your camera off the Inspire and buy this.
sony action cam! 4k, 30 fps, 100 Mbps, image stabilization. just add gimbal…fy-g3?
http://nofilmschool.com/2015/01/sony-fdr-x1000v-4k-action-cam-ax33-uhd-handycam
I was under impression the IS didn’t work in 4K, only HD?
Although I do like the Sony cams, shame there isn’t the support/gimbal options around.
I absolutely love my as100v. Mostly use for mountain biking, but it is awesome for so much more (watersports, hiking, snow…). A proper gimbal would be icing on the cake.
The Sony site doesn’t mention any limitation on the IS. Do you remember where you heard that about the 4k? I’m considering an upgrade so it would be good to know. Thanks.
Just found it in my history –
http://mashable.com/2015/01/05/sony-4k-action-cam/
“The camera includes Sony’s Steady Shot feature, which stabilizes videos, though this feature only works when shooting in HD, not in 4K.”
A quick google doesn’t find anyone else reporting this limitation. Odd.