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DJI OSMO ACTION

DJI refers to itself as the ‘world’s leader in civilian drones and creative camera technology’. There’s no argument about the drones – DJI is the default consumer drone brand. And it puts up a strong showing in creative camera technology with some very smart gimballed camera solutions. But DJI has never managed to challenge market leader GoPro in the action cam arena, which it dominates with a string of ever better Hero branded products, culminating in the latest and greatest Hero7 launched earlier this year. Until now. Because DJI’s brand new Osmo Action looks like it could beat GoPro at its own game.

The concept is very similar to the GoPro – a small, tough, waterproof, droppable cube with a camera lens