Does the Akaso Brave 4 Pro justify its price tag? Yes – we’d say it does.Pro-privacy browser Brave, which has been testing its own brand search engine for several months - operating a waitlist where brave (ha!) early adopters could kick the tyres of an upstart alternative in internet search - has now launched the tool, Brave Search, in global beta. It’s really impressive how many different features and options have been packed in here, and with subsequent Brave cameras having come out since, the street price of the Brave 4 Pro has come down and made it even more of a bargain.īuilt quality and imaging performance are all perfectly acceptable for the price, and while its stabilization and image quality can’t hope to compete with the kind of quality and sophistication offered by GoPro and DJI, this is why cameras like this cost barely over $100. While the Akaso Brave 4 Pro is not perfect, it offers an impressive level of flexibility and customizability for an action camera at this price. The waterproof housing is included with the camera. Therefore if you’re expecting a lot of rapid light changes, it’s probably worth punching down to a lower resolution. It looked to be happening most when abrupt changes of light were causing the camera to have to change exposure quickly – in more evenly lit scenes, it was fine. The memory card was high-spec enough for the resolution and frame rate, so it seemed like at points the processor was struggling to keep up.

One thing I did notice, which is worth being aware of: sometimes when shooting at higher resolutions I would get somewhat juddery footage, with dropped frames. It adds another string to the camera’s bow. It is cool to have slow motion on an action camera at this price point though – for whatever reason, it defaults to a barely-noticeable 60p, but bump it up to 120p and the effect works quite well. While I was reasonably impressed with the 4K 30p, at lower resolutions the quality does degrade quite rapidly – there was some distinct fringing in the Full HD 1080p shot on a sunny day, and the HD 720p was all but unusable. The Electronic Image Stabilisation 2.0 is noticeably better than the previous version on Akaso cameras – it’s silent in operation, and does make a real, tangible difference to the smoothness of your footage that’s shot while moving. Video-wise, results can vary, but it’s perfectly possible to get good-looking footage with the Akaso Brave 4 Pro.

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