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Sonia's had a couple of attempts of taking a slice of the action Kampai but maybe third time's the charm I'm Lexus Avedis for Sina this is a review of the sony action cam is 100 V if you're familiar with any of the shotgun style action cameras from Sony then the a s 100 feet won't come is too much of a surprise except that now it's in white the body is also splash proof and of course if you want to have full waterproofing you can get the optional deep dive case that goes down to 60 meters or the standard 5 meter case that comes with the camera operation is fairly simple there is a giant record button on the back of the camera open up the flap and this reveals the battery compartment as well as the microSD slot at the front there is a previous and next button you can use these in combination with a record button at the back to change between options with a firmware update you can also use this camera to livestream to use stream and there's within the actual menus themselves you can set the recording mode of video to be either a regular 28 megabit per second now this is a standard kind of video or if you want to have what sony is calling the pro mode this ups your bitrate to 50 megabits per second and it should give you a higher quality video as well you also now get a really useful little adapter now you screw this as a bottom of the camera and then you can use it without the optional casing if you want to mount it on certain accessories though not all also with some of the configurations of the action cam denoted by a s100 VR you get an included live view remote now this has a built-in battery charger over microUSB and you've got a power switch a couple of buttons to change some settings and a record button now this attaches with Velcro and it slips over your wrist and obviously you can do a bunch of things with it but it's really quite limited because you can't review or playback any of the photos or videos you've taken really only use this to control up to five cameras at a time that is 5 action cameras or look at the live stream from recordings so if you want to actually have that full functionality of playback - you want to use the app now speaking of the app there is Wi-Fi and GPS onboard in this camera as well as NFC for Android phones easy one tap configuration now - the all-important photo and video quality on the regular 28 megabits per second recording mode that's probably what you're going to be using it most of the time at either 60 or 30 frames a second in 1080p quality is decent if you put it side-by-side with something like the GoPro Hero 3 plus you're going to notice that exposures are probably a little bit more dynamic on the Sony that means it's a lot more contrast II and there's a lot more areas where there are blown out highlights as well the GoPro is a little bit more even however if you change things to the 15 megabit per second recording mode image quality becomes a lot better as you would expect compared to the GoPro the trunk card of the Sony is its image stabilization which makes all the difference especially when you're shooting moving subjects shooting handheld when you're walking and so on the other thing with the Sony that is slightly problematic is that you have to use micro SDXC cards in order to record that X ABC s or that 50 megabit per second high bitrate video as always if you want to see more text and video samples from this particular camera you can head to the full review on CNET