Color temperature can be hard to get right in underwater photos and videos. The term refers to hue. Just as some lightbulbs throw off a warmer, orange hue compared to bulbs that mimic bright daylight, underwater imagery can have a distorted color temperature that looks awful.
Auto-correcting that problem is one of several updated features on the DJI Osmo Action 4 that can help boaters capture truer-to-life memories. “Probably the best part about our Action series is that they’re incredibly easy to use,” says Brett Halladay, product education manager for DJI. “You don’t have to know any of this stuff to pick up our camera and start recording things and have it look amazing.”
Previous versions of the DJI Osmo Action were waterproof to about 50 feet. The Osmo Action 4 can go to almost 60 feet, and to nearly 200 feet with a DJI case.
This camera also has a 155-degree angle, which means photos and videos include more of what the human eye experiences. “Typically, photos on your phone have a field of view of about 80 degrees,” Halladay says. “This means that with the Action camera, peripheral vision is now being included in what you’re recording. It’s a feeling of being there when you’re viewing the footage. People feel like they’re with you swimming with the sharks.”
Stabilization settings can eliminate the kinds of bumps and shakes that come with, say, riding a personal watercraft. “There’s a virtually limitless number of ways that you can mount this thing,” Halladay says. “There’s a physical, click-in connection that secures the device. It’s almost impossible to knock it free. If you combine it with the stabilization, you can fly at 70 mph and have it look like you’re gliding.”
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