Looks like I upset a few people with sections that I thought would be amusing. So apologies to anyone who was really upset by the phrase "If you've turned off annotations thinking you were being clever you'll need to manually jump forward like a fool" - Some people have got in touch to say that they don't get annotations on their devices (tablets etc) - I should have thought of this and as a result of this omission these people (but only the ones that wanted to skip forward) have now been called fools and are very angry about being insulted in such a strong (Mr T-esq) manner. I suppose the same goes for anyone watching on a smartwatch, but then again the text would probably be too small for them to read. Some people seemed not to like me pre-empting their questions at the end of the video, so in future videos I won't do this segment and I'll let these questions get asked in the comments instead, but I can't promise to answer them as I don't get to read the comments every day. Others thought my fake angry man bit in the Q&A segment just wasn't cricket. I was trying to channel a bit of Basil Fawlty hitting his car with a tree branch. Just like John Cleese was acting and wasn't really angry and the car was probably working fine - I was sat in a room editing video and talking into a microphone. Really getting angry rarely involves sitting and talking at a controlled volume and operating the editing controls on a laptop - but since the humour didn't travel, I'll try to avoid making any similar 'humorous' segments in future videos. From now on I'll try to stick to cold facts and moderated sensible talking. A bit like an Open University broadcast on BBC2 at 11pm on a Thursday in 1983.

Two things: 1) The most likely question this video will generate will be along the lines of "This or the SJ4000?" - My personal preference is for this camera. To me it seems better constructed and I like the way it handles exposure. However I do still prefer the menu system on the SJCAM range rather than this icon based stuff. 2) Yes the nighttime footage is grainier than I thought it was when editing it - that's due to me watching the footage in a small editing window window on a 15" screen. If good nighttime performance is a major issue to you, you may want to look at other cams in my action cam playlist. 3) This or the Xiaomi Yi - an odd question as they are very different cameras. If you can't decide between them, just ask yourself the following questions 1) Do you want an LCD screen to use as a viewfinder and to change settings 2) Do you want a selection of mounts and a waterproof case included inside the box 3) Do you think WiFi is better than both of the things above My personal preference would be for the P2.

Everybody's got to love a bit of Techmoan, agreed ?

Wow, you really got me with this one, 5 minutes into the video, I just started wishing you will say it is good, since it seemed perfect. I paused the video, checked the price, got even more excited, checked the raw footage, I was on my toes for the rest of the video and went searching for best deals right after and just bought one. What I want to say is ,thanks for your amazing reviews!

As always, an excellent review, you keep surprising me by the top notch quality you deliver. And that for a one man operation!

Always enjoy your reviews here in Tennessee, the most informative I've seen

I'd just like to say that you do a tremendous job. Thanks for taking the time.

Well after 4 years when I saw this clip and bought the camera on this review, it has finally died, wont turn on, goes on, solid red light then turns off. I have used this on all horsing riding events and hacks out in all weathers. Will say I use the open type frame not the waterproof case it came with (better sound quality with out it) and has been soaked to many times to count, when caught in rain showers but after a drying off it works as it should! Battery was the main problem for me as 40 min is not long enough and unable to get these so for 3 years i used a battery pack/bank and used the camera like a dash cam. Well done Techmoan.....come on more reviews on hat cameras as the tec has moved on a lot now.

Thanks for taking the time. I enjoy your sense of humour.

Great review, as always. Indeed, I was about to get one of these on the strength of the review but will wait a bit longer as I see they have announced the Dazzne 3 (with wireless)

Another awesome thorough review. Well done! I'm very impressed.

Hey techmoan, thanks for these videos! Really enjoy watching them and I kinda get excited when I see a new one uploaded.

Another fine video review Mat! As always, thanks for uploading.

Nice review as always. Was about to buy one a few weeks back after seeing your review, then i saw the soon to be released P3 which looks good and does 60fps @ 1080p. I'll wait till i see some reviews of that cam.

wow..these reviews are dynamite! thank you so much. i've given up on my shimano cm-1000 and i'm now looking at the sj or the daz. thanks again!

Great review thanks, it makes life so,much better with independent reviewers like yourself :)

Awesome! Definitely better than my SJ4000. I enjoyed this review very much, your style of videos is very informative and easy to understand!

Thanks Matt for another informative and entertaining review. Cheers,

as always a great review my friend, i purchase this camera 1 month ago having a gopro 4 aswell i enjoyed the Dazzne very much but i can't use it for fpv. i used it for scuba and i'm loving the color burst underwater without filters i give this cam 5 stars myself. thank you for your review.

After watching this review and the comparison with the P3, I decided on the P2 and just ordered one. Thank you for your informative and in-depth reviews, not to mention the downloadable clips. It really made this an easy decision.

Brilliant review as usual,,very tempted to buy one thanks shane uk

Yet again an awesome video..love your sense of humour☺Thanks.

superb review absolute class

Techmoan Brilliant review of the Dazzne P2 as always with all your well structured, logically put together and crisp reviews. Its a tough choice between M10 & DP2...but I guess I will go with DP2...the twin batteries and a charger (twin) and other accessories is tempting. The DashCam setting issue is a bit of a dampener...but one can work around that. Möbius has great video quality....only if it had a waterproof/weatherproof case. Anyways thanks and look forward to seeing more reviews. By any chance do you do Headlamps & GPS Outdoors Adventure Smartwatch reviews. Wanna buy the Garmin Fenix 3. Cheers

Techmoan As always another very awesome review. I greatly appreciate your insight with all the products you review especially action cams. Although it seems you are a little bit grumpy today, probably because of all the hard work you do for your videos. Just want you to know your videos are highly informative and highly appreciated. Please keep up the good work. Thank You.

Cracking good review as usual, nothing wrong with Northern wryness!

Another great review - thanks

thanks for the advice

Thanks for the in depth review.

Very impressive - especially for under a hundred bucks with two batteries and all the other included accessories. Neat feature that captures stills while videoing - I've wanted that although I see how it might be hit and miss (depending on the situation) that you will get a properly framed composition to choose from at one every ten seconds.

On the grounds of this review, I've just bought this action cam. Haven't yet tried it out though. Hopefully the results are just as good as shown in this clip.

Bought one from Ebay / China without all the gear for £23.40 delivered. Great review as always.

Bravo! A very concise review of this product. Thank you. SBF

I've reviewed this camera also, and think it's a good quality budget camera, especially for the low cost. It actually performs impressively well! One of the better budget cameras out there!

As always a great video..

Great vid, brilliant for the price. Many thanks and ride safe.

Awesome and thorough review once again, really nicely put together. Since a few years I've come to appreciate vintage stuff a lot more, and I've always wanted to recreate old photo's with old photocamera's from the same time they were taken. Let's say there's this photo of the village I'm living in, I go and find out who took the photo and what camera he had. I get one of those camera's and take the same picture on the same spot and try to get everything to line up perfectly. Only difference being the setting has changed, new buildings and what not. Do you have any interest in perhaps doing such a project? I'm pretty sure there's a lot of people who would enjoy that, most if not all of those people being photographers or enthousiasts. It's on my to-do list still, and since you have interests which allign quite often perhaps this'll spark some interesting ideas for future content. Although you should take a break for a while, you've been pumping out videos quite a lot lately :) Cheers Mat, have a good one!

The camera pan device built into the mount clip is Great - Does it work well ? As always Great Video and Thanks for making it -

Dear Techmoan, I bought the Dazzne P2 last summer, really great value for your money - I loved it. I used it on the motorbike and beach. Unfortunately when I took it to the sea side this year in September the water resistant case was suddenly filled with some water and of course the Dazzne didn't survive. I'm a bit of a fan of these low cost Chinese gimmicks, but at the end of the day it locks like they are not worse it....It at least should last for more than two years. So everytime check the case before you put the camera into water ! As far as I could identify, the buttons are leacking, salty water seems to be to corrosive...

Another great review! I normally lurk, enjoying all your reviews quietly but I thought I'd chime in on this one about the FOV thing: If the sensor on this were a 1080p sensor I'd say you're right in that the narrower FOV options are just cropped and interpolated "zoomed in" versions. However, don't most of these cameras use a 5MP CMOS sensor? If so, its native resolution is probably something like 2592x1944 (grabbed from a random 5MP CMOS sensor data sheet). If so, then the widest FOV is going to be a scaled down version of the full sensor image. 1980 / 2592 = 76%, so -- assuming the narrower FOV is around 76% of the full wide FOV, it could be using a 1:1 pixel image -- no interpolation.

Great review as always. May I recomend for a similar price the Sony AS15, the ION Air Pro 2, or the Contour Roam 2 Hd? Proven products made by known brands that can offer a decent waranty for more or less the same money. After buying a "budget" dashcam, I prefer to avoid experiences with unknown brands that look great on paper.

This seems a really nice camera

Thank you so much Techmoan.I am Cathy from Dazzne support.can we have chance to invite you to review our Dazzne P3 camera? 2" screen,wifi and 60p.really looking forward to hearing from you.

Nice video i like your videos a lot!!!

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Great review. Which video editing package do you use?

hi, according to manufacturers website there is also a version of p2 which does have a feature such as wifi

You should do a review on the Adventure Cam 8 by Ultra Pro X. Its a great little camera.

I would have to agree with you on the quality of this over the sj4000 however with drones you want some sort of wifi stream capabilities. Any camera you would recommend in that case?

If you have the image flipped and with date stamp, the date is at the top and inverted. At least it is on my P2 which is the WIFI version. The app shows a wide angle view regardless of the view setting on the camera. Worth knowing if you're trying to get everything in view and find it cropped on playback!

Could you do a review of an outdoor waterproof PTZ IP Camera please. Thanks Martyn

please can you review the sj4000+ and the blackview hero 2 cameras? 2.7k resolution both

seems to be a well made camera - featured in a well made video ;)

Techmoan As always... good review. Something I really like to know is: Did you also test the 360 Degree Rotatable Curved Mounts? I like to now how good and strong they are. Is the rotating locking mechanism any good (strong enough) to support a GoPro with large battery on the side of a motor helmet?

Hi, very nice review. I have two quick questions that I would like to ask. (1) Is it possible to charge the cam while it is in it's casing? (2) Does it also gives the photo's taken at automatic interval seperatly as jpg's or does put them after each other in movie format? Thank you very much!

If Tomorrows World was still running you would be a great presenter.....Always like your vids very interesting, factual and a hint of comedy.... always watch them all the way through..... Thanks for your efforts...

Another great review. A quick question though... from the look of the seam around the lens as well as perhaps an "up" registration marker on the lens it looks like the lens may be replaceable for one that has a smaller zoom. Does it have any give to it or are replacements mentioned in the manual?

Please do review of Dazzne P3

I was wondering if you knew of any other cameras similar to this. I know this is the budget one you listed on your website. But since this is about a year old, I was wondering if anything better may have been released. I want to buy two for my bike night time commuting. This one has some features I really like: - One click boot into video mode - Automatically recycling storage space by deleting old video - Decent image quality, esp at night I think some of the newer ones can get 90mins battery, opposed to 60mins here. Anything else like this?

what about its Bluetooth connectivity to any mobile devices and the app needed for this to work? or is there any?

Hi Techmoan Thanks for the brilliant reviews. Now I've got my mind set on the P2, or rather, that's what I thought. I can see a problem coming :-( The specs tells me the camera will produce 30fps footage at the resolution I need. Fine. But I'll have to combine the footage with files from other cameras. As I live in Europe the TV standard is PAL. Most European cameras create 25fps files and so do all of mine. Neither converting 25 to 30fps or vice versa looks good. Have you, by any chance, come across a great action camera with 25fps output, 720p will do.

Another great vid :) - What's the model of the little monitor you used? Thanks

Would you recommend this camera or the xiaomi yi? I would be using it for mountain biking, skiing and other sports to supplement my gopro.

Great review as Always sir. Do you prefer the Xiaomi Yi Action Camera or this one? I know the Xiaomi doesn't have a LCD, but based on the video quality...

Thank you for another top notch review. Of the action cams that utilize a stereo mic input, have you utilized an external stereo mic to see how a much better stereo separation of the audio track adds to the playback enjoyment ? I purchased several of the earlier Sony models hoping to utilize their stereo mic input just to find their design makes it almost impossible to utilize it. I wish I would have paid better attention to your review as you pointed this out. My intent is to mount 2 mics, one on each side of my motorcycle. Have you come across a camera that has an actual usable stereo mic input that produces decent video quality ??? Again, thanks for your efforts in producing these reviews. When ever the subject of action cameras come up on the motorcycle forums I visit often, I always direct people to see your videos.

Hallo Techmoan! About 2 months ago I bought Dazzne P2 & start to make videos with it as a dashcam(which is great) but when I put it on the frame of my bicycle when ride rough terrain strange knocking in video sound appered like something inside camera is loose.Sounds to me like malfunction.Anyway thank you for doing great job.

Techmoan You've been doing great job reviewing dash cams and action cams. I'm looking for a body camera, that can be on my body when needed and record everything I see, without being held in the hands and with minimal intervention. Something to the extent of the PatrolEyes Body Camera, but at a fraction of the cost. Do you know of anything like that?

Can you DO A REVIEW ON Blackview HERO 2 PLEASE! 2.7k 30fps 1080p 60fps F2.0 aperture with wifi and remote for like 110$

I didn't watch that part with the menu adjustment. How did you know?

Techmoan Based on your review, i decided to buy this AC. I can say i am not dissapointed. I drove about a 150km's at night (Motorcycle) and i don't suffer frame rate loss like some other cameras will suffer from. One thing though, the sound in or from the case. I have the AC mounted on my helmet and as soon as i drive around 5km/h or faster i get the drag/wind blast sound that overrules all the other sound that is being recorded (engine/exhaust and what not) I saw you tried to use a mic on the HDMI "output" on the cam but that didn't work. Did you also try it with the recent firmware update? Anyway, i just wanted to tell you i really appreciate and like your video and keep up the good work. Cheers

Hi there, is this still your favorite budget action camera (out of the ones you've reviewed)? Thanks!

+Techmoan would You rather have Dazzne P2 or Soocoo s33ws? unless there is a decent 1080p60 capable action cam for about £45-50...?

Nice camera

Stupid question, but do you wear glasses in a motorcycle helmet? Or do you take it off? And if you do have to take it off, how do you see?

Do you know if the original go pro waterproof case would fit this if... that would allow me to go diving over 20m deep and get footage without worrying about the case leaking as go pro is good for 60m. (i totaled a mobius with joovuu case last summer)

Hi techmoan just wondering why it says usb mic and u cant put a external mic on the p2 is there?

Quick question ( and NO it's not if it has WiFi LOL). You mentioned that you'd found an alternative mounting case on ebay that allowed you to power it as a dashcam. Do you have a link to that item as I cannot seem to find anything like that for the P2.

Is that a standard battery type (in order to get more spares), if so what model number or type?

Hi. Any chance you'll review the mini 0805?

Was hoping we'd have moved up to a decent 1080 60fps or even higher by now. :S

I bought one a few weeks ago to use primarily as a dash cam but also to use occasionally for other "action cam" stuff. The one I received had very poor video quality. Bright light or low light, the videos were very grainy. Nothing like the quality of the videos you posted. Also, the audio quality was terrible. Sounded like a pillow was over the mic. I figured it was defective and returned it. I just received a Polaroid Cube that I'll be trying out next.

please make a review with the new firmware

What is the correct flash sequence when the battery is charging properly ? The manual is next to useless. Also how long should it take to charge a battery from flat ? Thanks.

Hey! Does it matter where the shipping comes from, on ebay, if it still says is the Dazzne P2?

what's the soocoo s60 like because i'm thinking of getting one.

Do you think an action cam with a diagonal FOV of 85° could be a good product or it's just not enough for recording sport actions?

someone might have asked this already but do you like the Xiaomi Yi or the P2 better. (Thinking on the quality side of the products).

maybe i missed it in the video, but does this action cam have timelapse function like sjcam 5000. I mean can you set different time to take stills, like 1,2,3,5 etc. secs? Thanks for answering!

I have a question do you know any accessories I can add like a camera stand, I want to buy some stuff for it but dazzne.com is really weird I see on Amazon that they sell accessories but I'm trying to figure out if go pro accessories like the chest strap and camera stick will work

Hi there. Do you have a preference over this or the Git2, or is there a more recent budget cam that is preferred over the two? I'm looking for good if not great quality, remote control function wifi, GoPro style mount, gyro stabilisation. Thanks Techmoan

Hi Techmoan, I know you've mentioned a couple of times that the P2 can be used as a dashcam, but does it have an auto power on/off function, for whenever the car starts/stops ? I didn't see a setting for that.

So i know you recommended the Dazzne P2 when i asked for a drone type action camera yet the Dazzne P2 does not come with any wifi streaming capabilities so that i can view what is coming from the front of the camera. Any cameras that you have looked at that would be ideal for that?

You just disregarded the camera raw option! If that actually works, it is incredible to have in such a low-cost HD camera. Camera raw is a vast improvement over compressed video, especially with fast-moving imagery. In-camera compression is turned off and you can take advantage of more advanced compression techniques in your editing computer to make professional-looking shots.

Hi, I wondered which cable to use with this camera to connect an external microphone. So I asked Dazzne and here is their answer: Thanks for getting your e-mail.I am Cathy glad to assist you. Our Dazzne P2 camera is only support external microphone with Definition Interface cable. We are not produce it.if you can get this cable,them it can work good. Does anyone knows this kind of cable?

The camera does seem to apply aggressive sharpening to its video, but the photos look fine. is this perhaps the effect of the "quality" option ?

Can go pro tripod mounts work on this cam.

Matt, have you thought about collaboration with another you tube channel that dose teardowns on your consumer products? I mean we can see the problems of why something isn't so good from your info but.. Another channel collaborating with you can say what is the problem.

Can some one please tell me what hdmi lead I need to get the footage onto a to. Keith.

in whats way(s) is this camera better or worse than the sj4000