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This tiny video camera makes everything you shoot look amazing

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36 pointsalexkcd21 comments

>"You asked what convinces people to work with us? That's it. It's always the video."

And yet the article has no video? Their landing page has the actual video: https://www.rylo.com/

or if you just want a direct link: https://player.vimeo.com/video/240323835

Thanks for providing the video link

The video makes me ponder... Since when did it become normal to run along the edges of sheer rock walls? I’ve been noticing a lot more of this stuff lately on Youtube as if it’s crossed some mainstream threshold. Extremely dangerous behavior with very low payoff to offset it.

The article talks about 3 videos that the reviewer was wowed by... but has neither the videos nor links to videos. For a native advertisement piece, this is not the greatest one.

This looks like all their videos: https://www.rylo.com/shotonrylo/

Impressive

that's an awful lot of lens distortion when they pan up/down still, it's honestly really distracting and takes away from the "seemless" effect quite a bit. randomly having fisheye effects that appear and disappear is more jarring than just having them at a constant level like most action cams

Looks like a GoPro/action camera clone that has image stabilization. I have shot a lot with action cameras, but ended up never editing it or sharing it. I think they're addressing a real issue with making it super easy to edit/share. Also, Apple should be making things easier for device makers to seamlessly transfer data.

I scrolled all the way down for a sample that was not there. Can't believe someone wrote an article about a video camera and did not include a single sample.

Is it waterproof/water-resistant? One part of the video makes me think so, but I was unable to find any more details on that.

But none of the said footage is shown. So I have no idea if the footage is really fantastic, as the author claims.

I must confess the video is making me feel pretty sick. Anyone else feels the same thing ?

Someone risking certain death for a promotional video is pretty nauseating.

"Risking certain death" is an interesting saying. Reminds me of George Carlin's rant against the term "self-help".

The main page video is of someone running and leaping along a narrow path on a precipice. There is a significant risk that they could trip or slip and fall. Such a fall would not be survivable.

They are not risking a fall with some possibility of death (or perhaps just a grazed knee), they are risking certain death. You fall, you die.

I have no idea what George Carlin's rant against the term "self-help" has to do with this, but it was pretty funny. So, thanks?

I suspect that cliff side isn't as steep as it looks - the steepness is being exaggerated by the camera's fisheye lens. The path looks like the sort of ridge trail used by skiers in the winter.

Also, the path isn't that narrow, so the chance of tripping and falling off the path (especially assuming they already know the route) seems minimal.

A bit, yeah. It seems there are "micro-jumps" between each frame. I wonder what a frame-by-frame analysis would show.

„breakthrough stabilization technology“

Does this mean mechanical-stabilization of some form (like a free-floating lens mechanism)? Or software-stabilization (usually implies heavily cropping the pic)?

From the camera alone there’s no obvious gimbal so unless they’re tricking everyone and using an attached gimbal it’s probably just cropping. Nothing new, honestly. Sony’s higher end cameras all do a pretty good job, but still requires some touch up in post. I imagine their demo reel has a lot of color correction applied too.

Software stabilization, they're taking 360 video with the intention of cropping it down into a standard video format.

The one thing I look for in any action camera is the ability to hook it up to my PC and use it as a web camera. Cheap $30 spy glasses cams from China have this feature almost universally. Even my old Vivitar pocket digital camera did this.

Why do newer more expensive cameras tend to not have this function? Especially in the case of this camera, being able to do a live video from my laptop and simply frame the shot or control it live would be perfect when I'm doing something like live lapidary lessons. Such a simple feature that would guarantee a sale from me, something most cheap ubiquitous cameras have, yet it's not present.

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