Monday 9 February 2015

SJCAM SJ5000+ Firmware Wishlist

There is no doubt that the SJ5000+ is a work in progress and SJCAM may now be regretting their rush to get to market before the 2014 holiday season as the bad feedback from early adopters must be harming their reputation. Unfortunately much of far eastern culture and business relationships is about saving face and it would be a shame if this got in the way of squaring up to any shortcomings which have come to light.

May I suggest that SJCAM need to first address some existing issues:

1. Crashes and freezes.
2. Power management.
3. WiFi stability. (If this is hardware related then offer a rebate or recall)
4. Waterproof case obstructing corners of still images in 4x3 aspect ratio.

When these problems are solved SJCAM could retrieve some kudos from retrospectively adding some new features to the camera.

1. Control over sharpening. Offer a zero sharpening option especially in stills.
2. Auto Shooting. more interval options to allow production of 4K Super High Definition time lapse, 1/2sec, 1sec, possibly some longer than 60sec.
3. Zoom option which crops video image "on chip". That is uses a reduced area of the image sensor and real pixels rather than cropping the video output and uprezzing which exaggerates noise and sharpening artefacts and smears detail.

Finally a suggestion for a model option, (SJ5050?), with a narrower field of view and less fisheye distortion.

7 comments:

  1. Sound when start recording and when stop recording (Without it, this is a useless action cam on helmet mount)

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  2. Exposure lock for timelapse would be great!

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  4. I would say they should fix the 480p 240fps because this way it is useless, the image quality is like 100x150 pixel and it has a ghost effect!

    They should give us the option to put an ultra wide lens, wide lens or a narrower lens (adaptors or whatever, I don't care, this 170 degrees FOV is ridiculous)

    More options in menu about crispiness, even better image quality options etc.
    The ability to have a macro lens, for close-ups with sharp image. Cameras of 100$ as old as 10 years have this options and SJCam doesn't seem to care for close up shots!

    Smaller FOV through the "chip" use only the middle pixels to create a 1080p instead of th whole chip etc!

    They can make these with firmware and if the chip is 16 MP why not offer a 4k 30fps video option? We can have 1080p 60 fps, I am sure it is powerful enough to have a 4k 40fps video option too!

    They can do something about changing the options in video while you still see the preview on the 1.5" screen. Like lets put another white balance option... but how do I know that this is the best one if I need to click the power button 4 times to go to the menu, then change the option and then hit the power button one more time to see the image! I need to be able to do this on the fly while I see the little preview so as to see which mode is better!

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  5. A lens clamp mechanism would be simple, even just a push in rubber ring is sufficient to stop the lens turning allowing different lenses Make all settings manually adjustable I agree with all above and yes it has the hardware for 4K and 2.7K
    Brent

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  6. Record Loop Record Options 5,10,20,30
    Menu list view of data thumbs animated or not just speed things up

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  7. there are a lot of things to need develop. For example we need a night lapse for recording stars motion in dark nights like a gopro. Maybe they can add vivid colours like a gitup git2. And ofcourse we need a wifi shutter for selfie sticks.Does anyone know there is a wifi shutter or not for sj5000+ ?

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