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Its great, just not great for what I wanted to use it for.I set this camera up in my garage to be used as a surveillance.There was plenty of light so I did not need to have the infrared LED lights on.First off this is not a 1080p, its 720p pushed to 1080p, the pixels clearly get blurry in 1080p.The motion detector seems to be light intensity variance and not actual motion. I stood in front of the camera and moved and it didn’t capture any video until a I turned a flashlight on.I did some in home testing.I set the camera up using 720p with infrared and it drained the battery in 40 minutes. Clearly those 2 LEDS drawing a lot more power.I then setup the camera with 720p without infrared and It drained the battery in 50 minutes. So not exactly the 5v * .2 Amp = 1 hour of use.I then setup the camera with 720p without infrared and sealed it in the water tight case and it worked as expected for about 50 minutes.I then setup the camera with picture mode and took several pictures which turned out to be 72dpi with a depth of 8, which on par with low quality web images.I then setup the camera with 720p motion detector on and infrared turned off and then connected the camera to a 10000 mAh (10 Hours) external battery and it lasted for 2 days, 48 Hours. Pretty good power savings.It also recorded 3.5GB on the 32 GB card during that time.Overall it works good but not great, The light variance motion capture would work since the car light would turn on when the doors opened and the person would also have to walk pass 2 lights causing significant light variance.The limited battery life is the biggest downside to this camera, 1 hour in video mode is just not enough time. Most go pros would last 2 hours at this frame rate, you have to wait and recharge this camera or swap out cameras since the cost is so inexpensive.The second issue is the sound quality is terrible because of a design flaw in the casing. The microphone would work great if it had a hole to actually listen to sound clearly. It instead has a muffled sound because it has to hear through the plastic. I made a small hole in mine and sound quality was as expected.I took mine apart to see what it was made of and found a block of aluminum installed to give an illusional customer weight value. I removed the weight and the camera was noticeably lighter and performed the same.As an action camera I would say it can be a fun capture unit at a throwaway price, it won’t break your bank if you lose it. The limited battery life is the only downside. You must turn on and setup the camera first and then connect the external power supply otherwise it will not work.The LEDs are tiny and are very hard to see, lucky you can remove the back and see them clearly.There is an update to this review: I set this up in 720P filming mode, with infrared LED Off and started recording, it created 50 files of 633 MB (633-725 MB depends on sound level recorded), each 5 minutes long and it LOOPED, yes it reached the 30GB limit and started Looping and incrementing the Videos with sequential numbering): wow this is better then advertised. It recorded the previous 4 hours, (5 Minutes per video at 50 files = 250 Minutes divided by 60 Minutes equals 4.16 Hours of looped recording ~ Thats Nice)!Another Update: Been using this camera as a security camera with a 20 amh Battery, 32 GB card, in motion capture mode, Infrared OffI found a issue. when recording 1080p mode, it will not LOOP, it will stop recording. Best to keep it in 720p mode.

This is actually a cheap knockoff this is not the SQ12 it just looks exactly like it. this is a no-name camera. if you notice around the lens they're supposed to be white writing. and it was shoved into a little generic box with no protection for the camera or the parts at all.. And all the parts were just floating around in it..

got this as a cheap dashcam. starts recording when plugged into a power source which is the feature i was looking for. note that it does not automatically start recording if plugged into a computer or any other device where it mounts the sd card for sharing videos.

No good

Camera stop charging 2 days ago and the footage that the camera took had missing frames which made it look laggy