Antuan Goodwin/CNETĬontour's rail-mounting system allows for more flexible mounting than the Ion Air Pro, which only features a single mounting point at its base.
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The Ion Air Pro is small in form, fitting easily in the palm of my hand. At only 4.5 ounces, the Ion Air Pro is also the lighter of the two cameras by a hair. However, because the Ion camera lacks the protruding lower hump of the Contour cameras, the Air Pro ends up looking sleeker from most angles. Put side-by-side with the ContourRoam, the newest of Contour's cameras, the Ion Air Pro is slightly longer, partially thanks to its convex lens glass. And while that may not be the case, both cameras do look a lot alike. Comparisons to Contour camerasĪt first glance, the Ion Air Pro may appear to be a bit of a ContourHD-alike.
However, the GoPro's connections are largely unreachable when the camera is locked into its clear housing. GoPro's HD Hero2 features more ports and the more robust (in my opinion) full-size SD card slot and Mini-USB connection. That's nearly a port for port replication of the Contour+ with the addition of that analog AV output. Here, you'll find a microSD card slot that accepts up to 32GB of storage (no card is included in the box, so be sure to factor that additional cost into the total price), a 3.5mm AV output, an HDMI mini connector (type C) for AV output, a Micro-USB connection for charging the 1,200 mAH battery (approx 2.5 hours of recording time) and syncing files, a pinhole reset button, and a switch for choosing among user-preset HD recording modes. A ring of six small screws around the Ion Air Pro's lens seems to indicate that it may be possible to replace the glass if it does get damaged.Īt the back end, the Ion Air Pro has a locking cap that twists and releases to reveal the camera's connections. However, I'm convinced that the protruding glass dome will be easier to scratch than the Contour's (which is mostly protected by a raised metal bezel) if the camera, for example, falls off of a moving vehicle. The lens sits behind dome-shaped glass, like that of the GoPro HD Hero cameras, which Ion claims allows the Ion Air Pro to shed water better for a clearer shot than the ContourHD camera's flat glass. The business end of the Ion Air Pro is where you'll find its lens, an ultra-wide-angle job with a 170-degree field of view that puts it on par with its main two competitors.
Ion also will sell separately other mounting options, such as a Panavise suction cup mount (the same mount, in fact, used by GoPro and Contour) for automotive applications. The Cam Lock clip can be removed with a flat-tipped screwdriver (or a coin) to reveal a standard threaded tripod connection for attachment to the included flexible mini-tripod or any user-supplied tripod or monopod.
#Ion air pro video format plus
The bottom edge is where you'll find Ion's Cam Lock system - a plastic clip attached to the base of the camera that allows easy attachment to and removal from the plethora of mounting options included with the Ion Air Pro Plus and Ion Air Pro Wi-Fi kits. Personally, I like the audible beep that Contour's and GoPro's cameras emit during these events, but the hum and buzz of the Ion was certainly less obtrusive and less annoying to those around me during testing. All inputs (power on/off, still snap, and video start/stop) are signaled with haptic feedback from the Ion Air Pro's internal vibration motor.
Slide the recording slider forward to start video capture and slide it back to stop. Along the top side you'll find a power button that doubles as a still-photo shutter release and a recording slider.
The camera is waterproof (up to 30 meters) and features a waterproof microphone that allows it to keep recording even when submerged. The Ion Air Pro (which is the basis of all three of Ion's new sports camera packages) uses a bullet camera design with a metal tube chassis.
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