Which of the HD action cameras I'm currently testing is this footage from? Click SHOW MORE to see...
It's the Foxeer Legend 1 and if you compare this footage to that shown in the previous side-by-side comparison with the Runcam HD2 you can see the (rather beneficial) effects that a little tweaking of the color map and contrast curve can have on the final result.
There are some odd jitters which seem to have been introduced by my editing software (damn!) because the original footage is buttery-smooth so please ignore that. Also note that I did this post-edit tweaking in about 3 minutes so the results could be a *lot* better if you're prepared to spend the time.
To get this footage I tweaked the blue and green color curves to make them "pop" a little more than in the original footage. I adjusted the contrast curve to get a little more detail out of the shadows and I added a sharpness filter to make everything a bit "crisper".
Stay tuned because I'm about to upgrade the firmware on this Legend 1 from the current 1.4 to 1.6. Sadly however, the software provided to do this doesn't run on my PC (a DLL error) and I can find no instructions for reflashing via the SD card -- even though they provide an image file for doing so on the Foxeer website :-(
Shot from my AXN at the Tokoroa Airfield.