better pov camera test / barefoot on snow, december 2024

early december, -6°C. today i'll do the second outdoors test of my pov camera while taking a barefoot walk on a roller/ski track nearly at sunset time on a sunny winter day. weather was really nice and surprisingly snowless, and the test didn't fail as badly as the first one, but there still was a catch.

while the first test was ruined by the recording app in my phone, all the issues i faced in the second one were related only and exclusively to the camera itself (as i found in later days), which clearly means they can't be fixed so easily. well, i guess in theory they could be fixed, but it would require a firmware fix for the camera which most likely will never appear. still, the edited video looks almost okay to me, provided this camera is really simple and cheap. yet i must admit it just can't reliably capture a video at 1080p resolution no matter it was clearly announced that it should be able to do so.

contents:

00:00 intro
00:30 the walk begins
02:20 my old frozen footprints
03:55 crushing the icy puddle
05:20 at the springs
07:15 on the way back
08:50 at ski track again
09:45 strangers on the road
11:00 the finish line

if you're interested to see what the camera actually captured this time, here's the link to unedited video (full 20 minutes, as is):    • [unedited] better pov camera test / barefo...