Of course, that’s not the same thing as affordability – many people will find its list of features overwhelming, and go for the Hero 5 Session (£249 / US$299 /AU$469) instead. The Garmin ViRB Ultra 30 price now is £369 / $399 / AU$699, which is pretty good value for money when you consider that it’s absolutely at the top of the market at the moment. Garmin ViRB Ultra 30: price and availability We also tried running it from a full charge at 1080p on 25fps, with no GPS or additional connectivity, and got 1h51mins, which is still a bit disappointing. Garmin claims that battery life when recording at 1080p/30fps is 2h15mins of battery life – a big difference from what we got. You could certainly get more battery life with the GPS switched off. We measured the Garmin ViRB Ultra 30’s battery life with the camera set at 1080p/30fps, and with GPS on, and it lasted 1:31hrs. The battery is removable and replaceable Reuben Bakker-Dyos / Immediate Media The G-Metrix overlays work really well, so you add metrics like speed, distance and heart rate to your video edits – good for race footage. The desktop editing package Garmin ViRB Edit is a really nice, responsive bit of software. But if you persevere, it could be quite a fun feature in a cyclocross race, for example. We tried it and it does work, though we did find that it takes a few attempts to work, and we tended to lose patience with it. You can stream live footage to a YouTube channel via the Garmin app on your smartphone. We might do that if the camera is out of reach, but it’s not a feature that we couldn’t live without. The Garmin ViRB Ultra 30 has lots of wireless connectivity for sensors like heart rate, and GPS, and you can control it on your Fenix 3 watch or Garmin Edge computer if you’d like. Now it works solidly, whether you’re running the camera on your handlebars or chest mount footage is noticeably smoother, even when hammering the bike out of the saddle or over rough terrain. After speaking to Garmin, it looks like the company made improvements to the image stabilisation feature in software version 2.60. We didn’t get on so well with the digital image stabilisation feature until we updated the camera software from version 2.20 to 2.70. We like the fact they continue to use GoPro-style mounts Reuben Bakker-Dyos / Immediate Media Now we don’t know if that’s a bug in the software, and the camera has only just been released, so hopefully it will be fixed in a firmware update. We did find an occasional glitch with the smartphone app: you try to connect it and there’s just a black screen – no preview – although you can still change the camera settings. It’s got four quick modes – video, slow-mo (up to quarter speed at 120fps 1080p = 30fps slow-mo), time-lapse and expansive, which changes the aspect ratio to make it a bit more square. It’s also got a quick menu that’s accessible by swiping from left to right on the touchscreen, where you can change settings like frame rate, resolution, WiFi etc. it’s definitely one of the better camera menus we’ve used, a huge improvement from its predecessor the ViRB XE. Video playback is good, too. With simple, clear colourful icons, you know exactly where you need to go. The user interface of that menu is excellent, too. The user interface is among the best we’ve seen on an action camera Reuben Bakker-Dyos / Immediate Media
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