Campark 4K 20MP Action Camera: [ Ссылка ]
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Campark Camera Review
So this is the Campark Ultra HD 4K Action Camera. You can get it on Amazon for about $50 right now and I was really hopeful with this thing, honestly. When I first got it and I was trying out, I was really impressed with it because of the price point. It comes with actually 2 batteries, so I got one inside the camera now and then it comes with an extra battery. It also comes with a ton of various accessories here that you can use with the device like an underwater case, various mounts and cases that you can use to mount it to things like this tripod I have purchased prior on Amazon so I was very hopeful with it. And honestly, everything was going great. The camera was working well, I was impressed with it. That is until I tried to connect it to the software you’re supposed to use with it.
So the App on the iPhone that you're supposed to use with this is called XDV and when I tried to connect this camera to that App by connecting this phone to the camera's wifi, I simply get an error message in broken English that says, "Connect Over Time" and there was no way for me to resolve that so I can’t simply export the videos or get them off of the camera. Now normally, with most normal cameras like GoPro or something else, you can then take out your SD card and plug it in to your Mac or Windows PC and you can simply extract the video files in that way. Now interestingly enough, I did try that with this so I loaded the SD card into my Mac, tried to pull up the .mov files, and it would not play them. It complained that they were corrupted so the only thing I can assume is that there are some proprietary formats they are using to prevent that. And unfortunately, without being able to have a working App, there’s no way for me to export these videos and there’s really no way for me to recommend or even use this camera so I am going to be sending it back to Amazon.
Now, why did I buy this? Well the reason I bought this camera is because I’m looking for a cheap but usable camera to record things like my form in the Gym, maybe riding a bike or action shots like that. I’ve had a GoPro Hero 8 and it was nice. It worked properly and the software was a lot better than this, but overall, I was not so impressed with it and the ease of use was not there. So I was hoping that this could provide a kind of comparable experience but unfortunately, that's not true. With something like this, with some of this hardware that's coming out places like China, the hardware can be decent but unfortunately, the software is honestly shit. And you’re only as good as your software, basically.
So to sum this up, I do not recommend buying this. Even if they were to fix the App within the next few weeks or something, who knows what’s going to happen a year down the road and I would essentially render this thing useless. I did think that maybe it has something to do with the hardware of this camera or maybe I got a dud but as I looked at the reviews on the App Store, I noticed that a lot of other people were complaining about being unable to connect to that App so I really cannot recommend this camera.
