A slim little camera that fits snugly in your hand and has only a few buttons. When you turn it on the camera head starts to move about to get itself in the best position. The moving parts about the lens serve as a gimbal to give you as smooth a video as possible as you move about. They can function in different ways depending on which mode you are using.
Once you have the camera on, the clear screen on the back is interactive. This is how they have kept the physical buttons to a minimum. The menus are accessible by swiping the screen up and down and left to right.
There are many menus, and many sub-menus, attached to all the different modes. I have not gotten that far yet, but I see that in expert mode you can even adjust things like the ISO and so on.
There are several standards of video mode, and the camera can flip around to film yourself as you move about. You can film time lapses, and motion lapses where the lens moves from one set position to another as you take your time lapse. The slow-motion function is fun as well. The camera also takes decent still photos.
There is an app for the phone that controls all the functions and is useful if you want to include yourself in any of your productions.
There is a standard socket on the base to attach a tripod – essential for time lapses and panoramas.
It is taking me a while to get familiar with all the different possibilities with this camera, but there are some useful videos you can watch that do help.
Altogether a fun device that I will probably get as much entertainment out of figuring it out totally as I will creating video with it.
The video included is on time lapse setting.