RunCam have released a new Insta360 GO style lightweight camera called the RunCam Thumb which could prove to be useful for micro quads and other sub 250g quads if you don't need anything higher than 1080p footage. Details below.

RunCam Web Shop: https://shop.runcam.com/runcam-thumb
Manual: https://store-m8o52p.mybigcommerce.com/p...nglish.pdf

Specifications:

• Model: Runcam Thumb
  
• Resolution: 1080P@60FPS
  
• Video Format: MP4
  
• Gyro: Built-in
  
• Communication Interface: Micro USB
  
• Support Micro SD Card Capacity: 128G Max
  
• USB Power Input/Terminal Power Supply: 5.0V
  
• Dimension: 52mm*13mm*21mm
  
• Net Weight: 9.8g
  
• Price: $49.99 USD
  

That is really, really interesting.

No battery to save weight, will take an SD, relatively cheap, and saves gyro data? It's like someone's actually listening to what micro-quad people want!

That fish-eye does look very aggressive, though. I'd be curious to see how it looks chopped down to 4:3 and then dynamically stretched back out. You'd lose the FoV, but if the extra pixels look like that I'm not sure they're worth it.

I will buy 2 or 3 kajillion of these.

This product seems ridiculously good!

10g awesome!

I would still wait for some reviews on the image quality. I am not expecting Gopro colours but hopefully the image doesn’t have weird artifacts.

Another overview of the RunCam Thumb by Lee below...

This looks pretty good I agree on the fish eye effect being a little off putting but to me its almost worth $50 just to have the audio I have one video in all my years of flyin with audio on it and that was with the air unit when it actually decided to record to the SD card that day lil

(08-Feb-2022, 05:36 PM)joey Wrote: This looks pretty good I agree on the fish eye effect being a little off putting  but to me its almost worth $50 just to have the audio I have one video in all my years of flyin with audio on it and that was with the air unit when it actually decided to record to the SD card that day lil

If you look at Lees video where he is showing the gyroflow stabilized video vs no stabilized there is a massive reduction in fish eye. To me this is a winner. 50$ and I could put it on my babytooth or even a whoop!

Yes I've been watching the insta 360 go 2 all shiny eyed since it came out just couldn't bring myself to part with the $300 this is a very affordable option that's awesome on runcam

Here is Albert Kim's overview and thoughts on the RunCam Thumb...

As if the RunCam Thumb wasn't light enough at 9.8g, Albert Kim takes it to another level by more than halving that weight with a naked version

xD nice, i need a naked one :-)

Been hounding the local retailers about this lol.  Should be seeing these in a couple weeks!!  

Also anyone looking to buy a Go v1?  LOL jk  

For the price and weight, I can't help getting one to try but it's on backorder from Runcam store.