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Better still, you can pick up a Contour Roam3 as a very
affordable option if you are in the market for a new
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The Roam3 is an excellent POV camera, streamlined,
hardwearing, simple to use and shoots good quality
footage. Ok so it does not compete with the later
GoPro on fps and still megapixels rating but on
function and usability it excels. Its ease of use makes it a
perfect all-rounder – it mounts to a standard quarter
inch screw thread to fasten to any gorilla pod or tripod
and there is a wide range of accessories available such
as ski goggle mounts, suction cups and MTB kits for any
mounting needs.
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Contour have added a new feature on the Roam3,
which is a single button on the rear of the camera for
taking stills. Although the stills are five-megapixels, which
is low, the quality is ample for on the go shots. Let’s face
it, most people will only be uploading these shots to
Facebook/Instagram anyway and not printing them out.
You can simple hold the back button for a few seconds
and it beeps to let you know it is on stills mode, then
you press the back button to snap whatever you want.
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The Roam3 defaults at 1080p 30fps and 720p 60fps
and you may also use 960p, 720p and 480p at 30fps or
480p at 60fps and 120fps. I personally have only used
the 1080p at 30fps and 720p at 60fps and always been
very happy with the resulting footage – especially as
most video sharing sites compress the footage down to
720 anyway, unless you buy the pro upgrade.
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All Contour camera’s have a single record mode.
Located on the top, it is a simple slide switch, which is
ideal if you have wet hands or maybe skiing or
boarders’ gloves. It makes for easy recording rather
than having to check if the red light is flashing and you
are on the right recording method.
Note: you will have to pre set your recording method,
which can be easily done by selecting the settings you
want whilst plugged into a computer – it takes two
seconds and isn’t any hassle at all. There is a small
switch that you can preset. I have mine programmed
for 1080p 30fps and photos (one per second) on one
camera and the other 1080p 30fps and 720 60fps. You
can time-lapse one, three, five, 10, 30 or 60 seconds in
photo mode.
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