 I'm just gonna fucking do it! I'm just gonna fucking do it! It was freezing. Yeah. DJI has successfully put cameras in the sky and pockets of everyone from professionals to amateurs. And now they're looking to enter your bike frame. Or maybe your car hood. With the Osmo Action. It's building on the many small, successful, super stable cameras DJI is known for. But in the form of an action camera. Before we dive in and swim around some more, the model I'm using is final hardware, but it's pre-release software. So think of this more as an extended hands-on rather than a full-fledged review. So the Osmo Action. It looks and feels like a camera that's been around for a long time. But it's not a camera that's been around for a long time. It's a camera that's been around for a long time. So think of this more as an extended hands-on rather than a full-fledged review. So the Osmo Action. It looks and feels very familiar, down to the two prongs of its housing. It weighs about 0.3 pounds, shockproof, dustproof, and waterproof up to 11 meters. There's a double-locking battery compartment on the bottom and a single-locking USB-C port. It feels super rugged and solid, and it even has a screwable lens cover and a front-facing screen. With the cover, you can easily and securely put on ND filters, which is great for filming on a bright sunny day, and especially if you're going to be bouncing in and out of water. You don't want your ND falling off. Now the front-facing screen was even more helpful than I thought. And you can switch between it by double-tapping with two fingers on the back screen. The double-taping screen, it makes it super easy to set up a shot of yourself without having to use an app. Or while you're riding, you can quickly look down and make sure that you still look like the damn champion that you are riding a city bike. It's amazing, and you're going to love it. Just try not to look down at yourself too much. Now internally, you have a 12-megapixel camera capable of 4K 60 frames per second video at 100 megabytes per second or 240 frames per second video at 1080. The photos are clean in good lighting conditions and with the graininess you would expect out of such a small sensor in lower light. The warp in 60x9 photos is very alive and well, but with a 145-degree angle lens, I really wouldn't expect anything different. Now the shutter button is extremely responsive with no noticeable lag at all. But where this camera excels is stabilized video, or what DJI is calling rock steady. It's their attempt at in-body stabilization, and it puts the Osmo Action in direct competition with the GoPro Hero 7, which introduced its HyperSmooth feature last fall. Much like HyperSmooth, Rock Steady is just impressive. You can run, you can jump, you can skate, and the footage just comes out like super smooth, with the teeniest, tiniest crop, which it does a bit more than GoPro's HyperSmooth. But the feature at large is incredible, and I think anyone coming from anything other than a GoPro Hero 7 will just be super happy to have it, especially without the hassle of having to have a gimbal. Now where I do think the GoPro has a bit of an edge is the auto exposure. When you look at the footage side by side and quickly the light changes, the GoPro just adjusts to that higher, brighter light a teeny bit faster. I've used a whole bunch of cameras, and one of my favorite things to do when I get a new camera is to check out its menu system. It's something that all users will inevitably face at one point or another, and I got a hand into DJI. They kind of nailed it. It's like really intuitive and easy to use. Swiping in any direction on the main screen will lead to camera and video settings, playback, or the main menu, which consists of eight icons to get you started. Most of them are single action, such as the sun icon leading you to brightness controls, while others like the screw brings you into a longer scrollable menu for the nitty gritty controls, such as voice commands. The touchscreen is super responsive, and I was actually really surprised at how fast clips played back on the camera itself. I would need a bit more time to know for sure how the battery life is, but in my use it's been pretty good and extremely comparable to the Hero 7. Yes, the compartment gets a little bit warm when you're continuously recording, but it doesn't get so warm that I wouldn't mount it to my body. One more note on this pre-release software. When shooting video, the lag of the screen is almost dizzying, and it makes me wonder if DJI is going to be able to fix this before this camera hits the store shelves. Now software in such a small body and such high resolution is a really difficult problem, so time will tell. GoPro put action cameras into the hands of many, and they were the first to do it, and they broke all the ice, made many mistakes, and lots of versions of one product. But it allowed newcomers, like DJI, to come into the game late and jump up to that high pedestal that GoPro worked so hard to build. Look at the footage of the Osmo Action vs. the GoPro Hero 7. You almost can't tell them apart. I mean, even down to the mounting systems that these cameras use, which is a super clever move by DJI considering that GoPro accessories exist almost everywhere in the world, and there's one for anything you could want to mount this camera to. So as a consumer, it might come down to the price, and at $349, the Osmo Action is just a little bit cheaper than the GoPro Hero 7. Or it might come down to the brand. If you already own DJI products, you're going to feel really comfortable picking up an Osmo branded gadget. And that slightly cartoonish, low-key awful sound that DJI products make, well the Osmo Action has them too, and you're going to feel right at home using it. I do have a quick question. I see a lot of people using GoPros in Times Square or just on like selfie sticks. What are you guys using action cameras for? Are people still mounting these surfboards or have they just become small cameras you can take everywhere? Let me know in the comments and we'll see you next time.