The millionaire in the slum -- experience of the small ant sports camera

Some time ago, the runner was very popular, and there was a minor supporting actor with a very high appearance rate. Almost every episode of the runner show found his figure - GoProHERO. I believe that friends who have noticed it, especially some geeks and sports enthusiasts, will want to have such a sports camera, but when they are ready to place an order, they find that it is more expensive than mobile phones.

At this time, you may think that it would be better if Xiaomi had made one. In fact, Xiaomi had released it in a low profile earlier this year, but its name is Xiao'an Sports Camera. Xiao Ant shocked my friends in terms of price. The starting price is 399 yuan. Lei Jun is really making everyone enjoy the fun of technology!

You must be curious whether the 399 yuan ant can really achieve the effect of the 399 dollar GoProHERO? Let me answer your curiosity. Follow me.

Appreciation of unpacking and accessories

This time, Hard Egg Net sent the travel version of Xiaoyi Sports Camera, which was packed with Xiaomi family's environment-friendly kraft paper as always. The outer plastic film was very carefully made, and the plastic packaging line was very neat. It looked very thoughtful, which made people feel good.

The design of the whole package is very simple, without any pattern. Only a "yi" logo is printed on the front, and only a parameter label is pasted on the bottom half of the back.

As for the packaging of Xiaomi, everyone will surely remember the original publicity. It's OK for two people to stand on it. In fact, the internal packaging protection of the ants is also in place, with a protective sponge to prevent the camera lens from being damaged by shaking during transportation.

The main engine and accessories are firmly embedded in their respective positions.

The travel version of the package is 100 yuan more expensive than the basic version, and it has an additional metal selfie rod. After opening the package, there are several accessories, such as battery, data charging cable, camera guide and self timer bar use guide.

Xiaoyi is only equipped with a 1010mAH lithium-ion battery. For the sports camera, it is better to equip an additional battery. In the later trial process, this battery can be used for about an hour.

From the photo below, we can see that there is a small tail on the front of the battery. Now you may think that it is a poor quality control. In fact, it is very necessary to do this. Let's leave a suspense for everyone.

The self timer is made of aluminum alloy, which is durable and matches the theme of sports; The surface is painted with black matte paint. The texture is very good. With the weight of 180g, the hand feel and convenience are just right. It is a pity that there is no integrated Bluetooth remote control function, just a self timer function.

The universal camera pan tilt interface adopted by Xiaoyi's self timer rod can also be connected to mainstream brand cameras. There are locking marks and belt clips at the bottom, and the eccentric tube has a quick locking structure, which can be locked and positioned by rotating to the left, and quickly retracted by rotating to the right.

In addition to the holding position, the 6-stage design can be shortened to 18.2cm at the shortest and extended to 71cm at the longest, almost the same length as the extended nunchakus. The stretched ant selfie rod is like a swing stick, which can also be used by a girl to defend herself.

Appearance appreciation of small ants

The Little Ant sports camera has two colors: jungle green and urban white. I got the jungle green version. The overall polycarbonate plastic body, yellow front panel, and green 45 degree angle anti slip twill texture body (due to the color bias of the light reflection photo body) are very fashionable.

The protruding black lens on the front panel is very conspicuous. The small ant camera is equipped with a 16 million pixel Sony backlight sensor and a 155 ° super wide angle lens, which will be much better in large scenes and special angles.

Little Ant is like a mini camera with a very small body, which is as appropriate as its name. Officially, it's the size of a matchbox. We didn't find a matchbox after rummaging through the boxes and cabinets. There was a bag of baking film on the table. We used it to make a comparison. You can feel the ants.

The buttons on the body of Xiaoyi are concentrated on the front and side. The front is the power on/off button, and there is a light ring around it to display the battery power status; On the left side of the fuselage are wifi switch keys and status indicators; On the top of the fuselage are the photo and video switch keys and status indicators. The keys are very crisp

When the light ring is red, it indicates that the power is too low, when it is purple, it is less than 50%, and when it is blue, it indicates that the power is sufficient.

This light is not on when taking pictures, but red when recording.

At the bottom of the fuselage is the PTZ connection screw. Many accessories are connected here. You can purchase external accessories from the Xiaomi official website or Tmall to achieve multi-purpose use.

The back battery bin is used to replace batteries, occupying more than half of the back position. The spring buckle is used, and the battery compartment is relatively deep, because there are two rubber strips on the back of the battery cover plate, so as to play a good buffer role in the movement.

As mentioned above, the battery has a small tail because of its deep position. It is designed to facilitate the removal and replacement of batteries. This small detail is commendable.

The other part is slotted. After opening the cover, it contains a memory card slot, a micro usb charging interface, and an hdmi interface.

Xiaoant supports 64G memory card expansion at most. We recommend that you buy a memory card above Class 10, because when taking 4k photos and videos, the reading and writing speed is faster, and the experience will be better.

One thing I have to complain about is that the design of the cover plate is like a dust-proof plug, which is inserted directly. I am worried that it will fall off when shooting outdoors one day, and I often forget where the cover plate is placed when charging.

Camera parameters

Pixel: 16 million Sony Exmor R sensor

Specification: 155 ° wide angle F2.8 aperture

Recording: 1080 video 24p/30p/48p/60p

960P video 48p/60p

720P video 48p/60p/120p

480P video 240p slow motion

Mode: normal/timing/continuous shooting/delay

Connection: Bluetooth/Wi Fi

Size: 60.4x42x21.2mm

Weight: 72g

Transmission: micro USB interface micro HDMI

Forget the parameters, let's talk about experience!

Small ant sports camera experience

The small ant sports camera, if used alone, can only take photos and videos. If you want to set specific parameters, you should use it with the app.

After installing the app, you need to turn on the camera and the wifi switch on the camera, and connect to Xiaoyi wifi with your mobile phone. The default password is 1234567890. The name and password can be modified later in the app settings.

After entering the app, click the camera button at the bottom to connect the Xiaoyi camera. The connection speed is quite fast, but the camera wifi starts slowly, which takes about 20 seconds.

After connecting the Xiaoyi camera, you will enter the shooting interface, which is basically similar to the mobile phone shooting interface. It is easy to get started. The only difference is that the viewfinder is smaller.

It is not recommended to use this viewfinder. The delay is very serious, and the picture is easy to be blurred. The Wifi transmission effect is not very good. It is suggested that Xiao Ant reduce the real-time resolution of the viewfinder.

It's easy to make people angry when using app to take pictures, so most of the time, I use the app as the remote control on the selfie stick.

The petal button on the left side of the photographing button is a preview function. You can view the captured picture. The video page has a timestamp for easy viewing and recall. If 120 frames of video are captured, it is not supported to view it on the mobile phone. The data stream is relatively large, and the wifi transmission cannot meet the requirements, so it can only be viewed on the computer.

The preview buffer of the album is still very slow. If you take too many photos, you need to wait for a while to see them.

Click the gear icon on the upper right corner to enter the setting interface, where you can set various parameters of the ant camera and upgrade the firmware. In the week when I got the ants, I updated them twice frequently, which also shows that there are still many places where the ants need to be optimized.

The camera search function is very easy to use. The camera will beep when searching. Students with amnesia must remember to set the volume of the buzzer to a high level.

One of the highlights of the recent firmware update is the cycle camera, which can really be used as a tachograph. After practical experience, it is not recommended that you use it as a recorder for a long time, because it is still very hot during a long time of use, so don't do it for the sake of the service life of ants.

Let's experience the shooting ability of the ants.

The photo resolution is all tested under 2560 * 1920. The weather was not very good this week. It was gray all day, so I had some discounts.

When shooting the distant view, the fisheye effect on the edge is obvious, and the smearing is serious when the details are magnified. The performance of close range is very close to that of ordinary cameras. The color restoration and white balance are also very accurate, and the details are well preserved.

The size of the sample file shot is between 1.1-1.3M, which is not a big difference. Even if the memory card is smaller, you can enjoy shooting.

In order to give you a better visual experience, Little Brother recorded four videos, namely, daytime perspective shooting, noon driving record shooting, evening driving record shooting, and anti shake walking experience. The shooting format is full HD resolution 30 frame rate, and the sound is removed in the later stage. You can watch and experience the photography ability of ants in the wifi environment.

epilogue

There is still a lot of room for improvement and optimization of the small ant sports camera. The battery life is short, only about one hour of shooting time. There is still a fever problem inherited by the millet family, especially after a long time of use. The fever is more severe. If you shoot underwater, the problem will be better; App viewfinder preview problem, the buffer is too slow, and real-time viewfinder is not available; The anti shake ability is too poor.

In addition, the small ants have strong photographic ability, which can meet the needs of daily and light sports. Considering the price of 399 yuan, we can't be very picky about it. But if Xiaomi wants to build new domestic products, it still needs to continue to optimize and make better products for Chinese people.

The biggest contribution of Xiao Ant is to transform the sports camera into a popular product, so that more people can pursue and achieve their dreams. Xiao Ant allows more sports lovers to better show themselves, show their style, and let more people love sports.