WiMiUS L1 in Action
Armed with the WiMiUS L1, I took a trip down to SSP to meet up with Winston. Along the way, you can see how the L1 performs recording at 4K 24fps, image steadiness, cropping, image and sound quality.
The above video was again shot in 4K 24fps but in Timelapse mode set to 5 second intervals. The images is mostly sharp, and the there are added controls on the WiMiUS L1 which lets you set the timelapse intervals from 1 second all the way up to 10 minutes per shot.
Sound
The volume is quite low, and there was no setting in the menu system for me to adjust the microphone gain.
In a small room, whilst Winston was doing the unboxing, this is what the L1 picked up 5 feet away from him:
And if think the volume then was low, I then placed the L1 in the waterproof casing:
Yeah, I had to turn up the volume on my speakers as well just to pick up any noise. The waterproof casing is completely sealed, as it should be to prevent water from leaking in, but because the microphone on the WiMiUS is very weak it just does not pick up any sound.
All in all, the microphone on the L1 is very quiet, and with it being an affordable action camera, there isn’t an option to plug in your own microphone, shame really.
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Pretty cool, the price and set of features, compared to competition, is very enticing. At a fraction of a cost you can technically get 4 of these and set up multiple filming angles. Thank you for this comprehensive review, Wing.