AKASO Brave 7 Action Camera, IPX8 Waterproof Underwater Camera Native 4K 20MP WiFi Cam with Touch Screen EIS 2.0 Zoom Support External Mic Voice Control Vlog Camera

I purchased the Akaso Brave 7 as an alternative to the costlier GoPro after having used a Gitup Git2 for 7 years. The Brave 7 is an easy to setup and use camera. After tinkering with the settings for 5 minutes, I mounted the camera on my car dash and went for a drive. Arriving home, I checked out the footage and I was pleased. Recording at 4K 30fps, I was very pleased with the daytime and late afternoon footage along with the early evening as things got darker. I was able to view number plates clearly in the footage under all these conditions. Some friends moved house recently, so I setup the camera in their new place and they moved in, unpacked and decorated the place. The timelapse footage was lovely and they loved the quality of the footage as it marked their special occasion. I also took the camera kayaking in a lake and submerged it for a while. Rain started pouring too and the camera remained functional and unaffected. I'm yet to do diving tests with the new housing I've purchased for it. Overall, I think this is a functional and robust piece of kit that does a lot of things for a very good price. Happy shooting!

I bought this action camera with the aim of using it to capture some videos of an upcoming vacation abroad. After trying it out over a couple of weeks, I elected to return it and spend a bit more money on a DJI Action Osmo 3 as I simply needed features that a "budget" camera could not offer. I did have an issue with the audio recorded with the built-in microphone when using the supplied remote control. The resulting audio was full of interference clicks when the remote was close to the camera (e.g. at bottom of a selfie-stick), which turned out to be a fault with my particular camera. After contacting Akaso support, I was sent a replacement camera which after testing did indeed confirm the fault was with the original unit supplied. My main issue with this camera is that the ability to download videos from the camera to Akaso's "Go" mobile editing app via Wifi is great, apart from the fact that this is limited to 1024 resolution max, so you CANNOT download over Wifi anything shot in 2K or 4K. Having to carry around cables and connect the camera to my computer I found inconvenient and would rather simply transfer videos over WiFi. This was the main reason I elected to return this camera and updrade to a bigger budget camera with more features. If you are looking for good image stabalization, fully featured video options etc., then you simply neeed to spend more money on something else. I guess you get what you pay for, but for me it had too many drawbacks for what I was looking for. If you just want a basic camera, then this camera is well built and works reasonably well. The camera is well built and has a good solid feel to it, Akaso's support service is excellent in my experience. I'm giving this a 5* rating based on two points:- 1. For the price, you get a good "basic" camera that provides almost everything you need on a budget. 2. Akaso's technical and customer support where very good and very quick to respond to questions.

I purchased this camera to use whilst out and about filming, I read the reviews and thought I would give it a go as they seem positive.. I had an issue with the first camera that was sent, but after returning the item I was contacted by customer service and they couldn't be any more helpful. I was offered a replacement which I gladly accepted, the communication from the customer service representative was fantastic and very professional, I was given details of when my new camera would arrive, ( it arrived a day early ) I'm very happy with the new replacement and it works great. Easy to use touch screen clear menu's. Very handy remote control. Lots of clips and extras in the box. 1 thing I have found is the sound, the Built-in mic is OK but not brilliant, it would be fine if you are using the camera to record as a dash cam, or activities, but if you want to use it for other things that needs clear sound use the external mic, ( good price and available from the store ) works well.. Overall this is a great little action camera with lots of extras, it looks great, works well, at a very responsible price. With fantastic customer support if you ever have an issue.

The Good: the price of the device compared to what's out there in the market is really competitive, and I think this is the biggest advantage of the unit. Another advantage is that it also comes with a very generous pack of camera mounts and most importantly, A SPARE BATTERY! wow! The camera's built quality is very decent and on par with Insta360 RS 4K, GoPro (9) and DJI Osmo action 3. For just a fraction of the price. The image stabilization was perfectly fine for my application and the battery life was good. The Bad: the only thing that needs to be improved are 1- field of view and 2- video quality. Compared to any other action camera the field of view is very narrow, it is advertised as 170, but it's certainly not at least to me it is definitely not when I compare it against my DJI Action 2 that has 155 fov there is a massive difference and DJI has much more wider field of view. Specially when you turn the stabilization on the fov gets even smaller. The second issue is the video quality which I'm really sceptical if it is actually 4K, this is something that is hard to comment on, the resolution you get definitely says 4K but the video quality is not as good as other action cameras, I can't image that the 4k is recorded at a high bit rate! Maybe that's the issue. So going 4k gives me a video that is more comparable to my DJI Action 2 1080p. It's a descent video quality but it's not 4K for me. Finally, I noticed, when creating a new file it looses a little bit of the footage, although it's not a consistent thing and seem to happen sometimes when switches to a new file. Hopefully once some of these issues are fixed it would replace the GoPro thanks to it's competitive price.

UPDATE: Having written such a glowing review of this camera, it disappoints me to say that I am now on my third camera! The first camera started to let water in after a time, and, consequently, the photos appeared blurred. To my knowledge, I hadn't been negligent with my camera, so am not sure why this fault occurred. Amazon were great, and organised a replacement, but this had a faulty battery compartment door, so could not be used. Goodness knows why this fault was not noticed by quality control at the manufacturer's! I therefore returned the camera for a second time. I eventually received a third, but this time, the price had increased by £30! This camera appears to be holding up! Fingers crossed! I was eventually refunded for the increase in price, and, rightly so, but this was after much communication, hassle and returning of cameras! Such a shame when this is a great, little camera at a much more affordable price than the more expensive models out there. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I purchased this camera for my new wild-swimming hobby and would certainly recommend. Having never owned a waterproof action camera before, I have no other action camera to compared this one to, but I can safely say I'm very impressed! Great battery life, really clear pictures/videos, easy to use and download the footage. It took really clear photos of the fish swimming near me in the river ( I had popped the camera underwater in front of me as an experiment to see what was there!). It's also useful not to have to place the camera in a separate waterproof case. I'm still trying to work out what all the attachments are for that were included! 😄

After much research I purchased the Akaso Brave 7 as starting out I wanted the best alternative to a costlier GoPro. Very easy to set up and use. Spent about 10 mins playing with the settings, then took it camping for the first trial. Really pleased with the excellent video quality and how easy it was to use for a complete novice.. I initially filmed (the same to compare) in 720/60 and 1080/60. Overall I found 1080 optimum. The audio was fine, better than reviews I had read and the remote was a great asset. The photo quality doesn't quite match the sharpness of the phone, but if you're not planning to enlarge too much its more than fine. Overall for the price this is a fantastic action camera, comes with lots of accessories.

After searching for an action camera for our first family holiday, i decided to go with this one due to the reviews and the fact it said it was waterproof IPX8 waterproof to 10m without a case, as we had a trip planned to a waterpark. The camera work great for the first 2 day, and was impressed with the images and video quality. On the second day we use it in the hotel pool which was 1.2m deep. We got some great footage of the kids. On the third day we went back to the pool, as i took the camera out i noticed moisture in the lensed and the LCD screen. The camera turned on for a few minutes, then went off with a fully charged battery. When i went to remove the battery there was water all over the battery and in the compartment. I removed the lense, battery and SIM card and left the camera to see if it would dry out. The next day, i put them all back in but this time it wouldnt switch on at all, and the moisture inside seemed alot more visible. I contacted customer services over the issue, whose reply was to leave it in a tub of white rice first to see if it would dry out. We were absolutely devastated as we only got to use it for 2 days, and didn`t get to take it to the waterpark. I just only hope i can recover the images and footage from the first 2 days.

I bought 5 of these to film some scale ship trials out on the water and they were perfect for the job. I’m not jumping out of aeroplanes or snowboarding off mountainsides so I can’t comment on how they perform in those environments but attached around our trial vessel on suction mounts taking 4K video they were ideal and I bought them for about the same cost as hiring a set of GoPros :) What I really like about them is they’re very small and they’re fully waterproof so I don’t need to faff about with cases. The main screen is bright and clear, there’s also a screen on the front and they come with two batteries, a wireless remote and all the accessories I needed. The only extras I bought were a set of waterproof hard shell cases and the suction mounts. The menu system is straightforward and the setup was really quick, didn’t really need any outside help. Battery life seemed to be as claimed although we’re doing more testing later and will check this out. Image quality looks pretty good although our application is relatively slow and stable so it’s not going to challenge the image stabilisation. If I have one criticism it’s with the remote control, which is both excellent and frustrating. its excellent because the included remote units are small, Bluetooth, display a lot of useful information and they seem to work well with each camera. It’s frustrating because I have 5 cameras and I want to start and stop them all together but you can’t with a single remote, you have to use all 5 of them which is pretty cumbersome . There is an iPhone app which uses Wi-Fi to the cameras but I didn’t get this to work well, it wasn’t too reliable. You connect to each camera ad hoc so you have to switch Wi-Fi networks on the phone to control each camera. What I’d really like is to connect each camera to my phone Wi-Fi ad hoc and control all 5 at once from the app, but haven’t figured out how (or even if) I can do this. In the end I went round and operated each camera manually which was a shame but I hope in future I can either solve this or hope Akaso do a firmware/app update to improve this. I like the cameras and at the price still give them 5 stars but if this one aspect was fixed they’d be outstanding.