I was pleasantly surprised with the DBPOWER EX5000. I'm a cyclist and purchased an action camera so I would have some kind of evidence in the event of an accident or road rage incident. After getting it out of the box I had a quick look at the instruction manual and realised that it's written in poor English, it is however still easy to understand.



I initially tried the camera mounted to my bicycle handlebars and was very dissapointed with the footage I got. After fiddling with the camera I changed the resolution to 1080p and turned on the 'anti-shake' mode. The footage was marginally better but I still wasn't very impressed. I decided to use one of the included mounts to attach the camera to my helmet and that certainly did the trick. The footage in 720p (30 frames per second) came out very nicely on my 2 hour long ride and the few stills I took with the camera were perfectly adequate however I am used to using a higher resolution camera so this may just be me. I am incredibly impressed with this camera and for £46 I couldn't really ask for anything else. I've not yet tried the Wifi function so cannot give my opinion on that but in all honesty I didn't really buy this camera for that function. The mounts it comes with give a wide range of different mounting options however I experienced poor quality footage when it was mounted to the handlebars of my bicycle, I believe this was primarily due to the vibrations transmitted through the bars and imagine all action cameras would have this issue to some extent.



If you're looking for a cheap gopro alternative then this camera is definitely worth considering. It's also worth remembering that it's priced at less than 1/3 of the base model gopro and for the money it is incredibly good. The video quality in 720p is very good (I've not used 1080p yet) and the sound is similar to other action cameras (pretty much non-existant).I probably wouldn't use this camera to become the world's next best blogger but it serves its purpose well and I am likely to recommend it to friends and family.