Firefly 5S, Feature Packed Camera For Drones

Firefly 5S Sports Camera from the brand hawkeye is another addition to the the list of rapidly growing Sports Action Camera Segment. Firefly 5S seems to be a featured-packed sports camera, yet another HD camera to consider for aerial photography, to go with drones and quadcopters

The compact size and shape of the sports cameras, and their ability to attach to something (relatively, Drones and Quadcopters) rather then being hand held, making this market grow rapidly faster. In the recent past, one such camera is Xiaomi Yi, which outperformed GoPro 3 for $66

Now back to the context, Firefly 5S is Adopting Sony 12 MegaPixels CMOS sensor for a better image Quality and can capture videos at 1080p 30 FPS and 720 at 60 frames per second with large 1600 mah Lithium-Ion battery, which lasts upto 2.5 hours of recording. Unlike the Blackview or the recent Dazzne, 5s does not come with the preview display screen at the back, but has a OLED status screen at the the front which indicates the battery level, resolution, mode and the date.

Firefly 5S Sports Action Camera

Featuring ISO, WDR, Adjustable Sharpness and USB Powered Auto Record

Firefly 5S is capable of capturing time lapse videos and images, videos can be captured at 0.5 and 3 seconds intervals and the images can be captured at 3, 10 and 30 seconds and the cycle recording feature comes handy when this camera is used as dash-cam, allowing to override the first captures with the most recent ones with 5 minutes interval.

ISO (AUTO/100/400/1600) WDR (Wide Dynamic Range) and sharpness adjustments (Low Medium and High) are worth to mention features of Firefly 5S, these features give more flexibility in capturing the images in low light and cloudy conditions, best suited for aerial photography when Gimbal attached to drones or quadcopters.Honestly this is not an option i have seen in the recent releases like Xiaomi Yi.

Technical Specifications of Firefly 5S Sports Action Camera

GENERAL
Brand	Hawkeye
Model Name and No	Firefly 5S Sports Action Camera
Chipset	Novatek 966955
Colour Options	Black-Silver \|Black-Gold\|Black
Image Sensor	Sony 12 Mega Pixels CMOS
Storage	Supported TF Card 64GB Class 10
Battery	1600 mAh rechargeable battery, GoPro Compatible
WIFI	Yes
Interface Output	USB 2.0, Micro HDMI, AV-Out (PAL, NTSC), TFT Slot

Camera
Resolution	12 Meg Pixels
Photo Resolution	Can capture at 12MP, 8MP and 5MP
Video Resolution	1920 * 1080 at 30 FPS 16:9, 1280 * 720 at 60 FPS
Recording Time	2.5 Hours
Video Image Format	.MOV, JPG \| Compressed Format: H.264

Dimensions
Product Size:	59 x 41 x 21 mm
Product Weight	70gms

Optical
Diaphragm	F/2.8 ，7 glasses
Angle	Horizontal 105 degrees and Diagonal 140 degrees

Color adjustment (Vivid and Standard), Burst mode - ability to captures 11 shots in a second along with the USB Power Up Auto-record (Automatic recording when connected to external power source through USB) are some of the unique features,which makes Firefly 5S a Featured packed camera. don't you agree?

That's not all, the built in wifi (powered by Realtek High-effect Wifi chip) allows to connect the Firefly 5S camera to the smartphone or the tablet via the firefly app available for both iOS and Android platforms, making it easy to view and download the captured videos and photos to the phone. In-addition, the AV-out for FPV is definitely much appreciated feature by Drone and Quadcopter Flyers, Firefly 6S with 4K Resolution is announced, check here for the detailed overview