Dragon Touch 4K Action Camera 20MP Vision 3 Underwater Waterproof Camera 170° Wide Angle WiFi Sports Cam with Remote 2 Batteries and Mounting…

I’ve owned one other GoPro knockoff “action cam” before, and this is a definite improvement. The accessories are useful, the picture quality is good, and the price is great. I’m still a very satisfied customer with the drawbacks below that you should expect to live with.

The battery life on my first use was not good. My wife and I took a long motorcycle trip and it drained the batteries in 18-30 minute spans of recording. However, on the way back home, I got a full hour+ of recording each battery swap. Not sure how to explain that, but I got much more footage of the journey on the way back home, and it all looked good.

The helmet mount works fine, once you really tighten it down. The first leg of the trip I got some great video of the sky because the wind pushed the camera back. However, once I really cranked it down, it was fine. I don’t expect to use the camera for anything but this use case, so it’s fine for me. But I wonder how it would be if I had to change mounts for any reason, as the size and placement of the tightening screw is difficult to use, and I hope the plastic swivels and the threads of the nut hold up to that pressure.

Sound sucks, but that’s to be expected. If you wanted to record audio to narrate your trip or do a motorcycle review or something, you should use a separate device. This will record a lot of wind noise, and any impacts you might encounter, and not much else. That’s fine by me.

The one time I tried testing 4K recording, I ended up with a 10-15fps video clip. I’m guessing this is something the camera chose to compress down to due to the write speed of the memory card I had in it at the time. I haven’t had reason to record in 4K since then, because I valued recording time over resolution.

Speaking of recording time, my entire journey, which amounted to about 8 hours each way (nearly 7 hours not counting breaks and fillups), fit on one 64GB SD card. I brought others, but never needed them. I uploaded my clips to Google Drive when we reached our destination, so at 1080p/30, expect about 8 hours on a 64GB card, maybe more.

My first attempt at a “dashcam” for my motorcycle was using the handlebar mount. It held on well, but in the footage, it was vibration city. That’s why I used the helmet mount thereafter; plus that way it recorded everything I saw.

And finally, the app is… quite bad. It’s unreliable, it doesn’t really transfer recorded video files, and it makes my phone get very warm with use, which is strange. It does have one use, which is functioning as a viewfinder when mounting your camera to the top of your dome. You can dial in the right angle, then close the app and move on.

I do like the remote on the velcro strap. I don’t see how the strap can be long enough to attach to your person if you were snowboarding or something, but it stuck to my handlebars just fine. There is no feedback on it to assure you that you’re recording or have stopped recording, but once you get the routine down, it works well.

In my virtually nonexistent free time, I’m trying to assemble all my clips from that trip into a sped-up timelapse video, and if I can add it to this review when it’s done, I will.

If you just need an action cam that does the basics in HD+ resolution, this is a great value for your money. I like the battery charging dock and that it can charge off any USB port you have handy. The name is a little misleading, as this does NOT have a touchscreen, but you wouldn’t be able to use a touchscreen when mounted inside it’s waterproof housing anyway. Maybe it touched a dragon before it left the factory? Who cares? It’s pretty much the video quality of a GoPro at a fraction of the price, and that’s exactly what I was looking for.

Additionally, as many motivated sellers on Amazon, this seller offers accessories in exchange for honest reviews. This of course adds value to this already good value package. Would recommend.

So overall, I loved this camera. I took it to mexico, and took it snorkeling and swimming with sharks and it was great! That being said. I know I missed a lot of footage because of the dumb factory setting to black out after like….30 seconds and it doesn’t keep recording. I’d seen the reviews and completely forgot about it by the time I received it. I think this is just a poor decision to have as the base factory setting when I cannot think of a single reason someone would want to have to constantly be pushing the button to keep it awake (I finally realized what was going on while snorkeling and managed to finally get a lot of footage because of that). If I were them, I’d change the default setting to no time out.