After researching cameras a bit, I picked up a Drift Ghost XL. The camera itself seems pretty decent, especially for the price (around $150.)My most important deciding factor was that it is supposed to have 9 hours of battery life, and it can charge and record at the same time so if I need more than that I can plug it into my power bank. Mine has about 2-3 hours of use so far and the battery level still shows full, so it looks like that may actually be accurate. I'll come back and update this later if it turns out not to be the case.One of the features that I liked about this camera is that if you have more than one, you can "slave" multiple cameras to one "master" camera, and when you start or stop the master camera the other cameras start or stop too. The price is low enough that I'm planning to get another camera for the back of the bike and set them up that way.The smartphone app is better than nothing, but it looks pretty amateur and is mostly only good for starting and stopping recording (and maybe seeing a preview.)Somewhere along the line someone made the questionable decision to have the app connect to the camera via a built in (and unsecured) hot spot on the camera, which means you have to disconnect from wifi to use the app. For that reason I may break down and buy the dedicated remote for the camera.The mounts that came with it are next to useless, as they weren't designed to use anything other than adhesive, and I really don't trust that! It kinda worked to run a zip tie through the holes where the camera clicks into the mount, but now it's really hard to get the camera in and out of the mount because there isn't really enough clearance for the zip tie.Luckily the camera mounts to a standard 1/4-20 tripod bolt and there are lots of aftermarket options for directly mounting a camera with 1/4-20 threads, or to adapt that to a GoPro mount.The camera is a little to heavy to use a helmet mount for long rides. It was fine on my 20 mile ride this afternoon (where I found out that I had it pointed too low), but I wouldn't want to ride much farther than that with it on my head.

Seems like a quality camera. Haven’t had it out for an extended period of time yet but the pictures so far are very good. It’s been hard to find a quality camera that isn’t cellular lately but this might be the one.

This my first Reolink brand camera, although I do have many Dahua, Hikvision, rebrands of both and another off-brand PTZ. It's nice to find a wireless camera that supports both bands and has instructions and a webui written in proper English; packaging is also well designed and written in many languages.Construction wise, this camera is a solid and HEAVY, with a cast alloy mount (white), thick alloy upper dome (white), and a solid alloy camera body (black); all of which look like they could take some abuse if needed. The motor that controls the camera's movement is quick but focus is a little slow and it whines when moved.The camera itself has many features, the core functionality of image quality and movement look good and work well, spot lights and IR are also very bright and do a good job of illuminating the subject if you have these features enabled; I only have IR enabled. I feel that some features are gimmicky such as the siren sound and color night vision, but may be appealing to some consumers.I'll be using this camera with Blue Iris exclusively with the RTSP feed and it will never access the internet so the mobile app will not be used. Even without using the app, the camera does track subjects on its own, but can only pan horizontally. So if the subject moves outside of the horizontal view or too fast, the camera will lose track and is unable to pan to reposition itself to track the subject.Once the camera is on the network, whether it can access the internet or not, it immediately attempts to reach these two sites, up to 45 times per minute. If the camera did have internet access and could successfully connect, the count would probably be "1" or something much lower. Unfortunately, there is no setting in the webui of the camera to stop it from trying to phone home.Global Net Time Server - pool.ntp.org (in Latvia, Slovakia, Germany, Spain, US, Luxemborg, Switzerland)Reolink cloud hosted in Amazon/AWS - p2p.reolink.com (US)Overall, the camera does a pretty good job and is easy to use and setup, but hopefully future firmware updates will allow for better tracking and disabling of outbound internet traffic

This was a replacement to my first Arlo camera I purchase a few years ago. And when it was time for a new one I got this one. The set up was easy and fast for me. in under 10 mins my replacement camera was up and running.

Updating this review. After receiving defective camera freezes. I contacted akaso and they gave quick response. Also they sent me a replacement within 4 days. Used the new camera this weekend and everything works great . Good picture quality.

We use this camera to keep an eye on our garden. It’s a lot of fun each morning to see what critters are moving through the yard. The camera came very quiz and well packaged. We are very happy with our purchase.

So I bought the GoPro Session as I have started mountain biking trails and desire to record some of the more technical sections. I used a Samsung 64GB SD Card. Curved Mount fitted up well to my Bern MTB Helmet and my 2 rides went off without a hitch. The video was clear, although a bit more jittery than I would like. But this model does not have the image stabilization that the newer models do, so I do not hold this against the camera. Sound was average, which is what I had read on line. Not good, not bad, just average. The camera is easy to use with or without the GoPro app. You can swap the video setting using only the camera or with the app. I usually used the camera as I didn't want to drain the battery while out on long rides using the Wifi required for the app. Pairing is easy and straight forward. Uploading video is easy using the Quik desktop app, although I quickly abandoned the app for more in-depth video editing very quickly.The last thing I did with the camera was a trip to my parents house with the kids in the pool. The camera is rated for 10 meters, or 33 feet without a case. My parents pool is 7 feet at it's deepest point and I took the camera no deeper than 5 feet. Prior to going in the pool I ensured the camera was clean, the SD card was empty and the door seal was spotless. After about 10 videos, and nothing crazy considering I was plaing with the kids, the camera came out of the water with no lights on. Then shifted into camera mode and took pictures until the SD card was full. During thuis time the camera would not respond to button presses. I dried the camera completely and opened the door to check for water.... nothing. The SD Card was dry and still funtional. All of the video were present and even the pictures were there. Over then nest few hour the camera proceeded to freak out. The recording light would come on and go off. The blue wifi light would come on and go off. Then the camera started to get very, very hot. It was hot enough that I could not pick it up by hand. I was concerned that the battery was going to fail spectacularly, but it did not. I set it outside for a few hours, and came back to find it cool to the touch.I contected amazon support and they had me return the camera for a full refund. All in all I think I got a bad camera. I reall enjoyed it and I will buy another. I think I'll spend the extra money to get either the Session 5 with Image stabilization or go with the new GoPro 7 when they come out in a month or so.

Wow, I did not expect it to produce very usable photos worthy archiving. The quality is very good considering it is a toy camera even in low light. Not so good with backlight due to its low HDR capability. We have a top-end mirrorless Camera but the kids seem to really love their own work as we are saving the photos from this camera alongside those from a real camera for their memories. I did not have to show them how to use it and was surprised to see they shot various photos with frames, stickers and stamps.It is nice that out of the box it can take pictures without a microSD card, using the onboard 156MB storage. The controls are very easy to use, so within a couple of hours my 7 and 9-year-old kids were able to operate the Camera fully, all I did was set the time and date for them. The design is very good, it is attractive in a childish way. Ergonomically, it offers very good handling for both hands with the shutter button (right) and front-rear lenses switch (left) are within a finger's distance and can be easily operated while firmly holding the Camera.At first, we getting a lot of blurry photos. I changed settings during the initial setup and now the Toy Camera compensates for minor camera shakes. It shows a stabilisation symbol when taking photos (kind of waving hand) on a photo as the shutter button is depressed. This is really good for teaching photography to kids.Highly recommended Toy Camera.