Another skiing season is here. Compared to other extreme or niche sports, skiing stands out as one of the most popular winter outdoor activities, combining entertainment and fun. On a sunny winter day, gather your family or invite a few skiing buddies, whether you head to the professional slopes at a ski resort or venture into the backcountry for fresh powder, and enjoy the thrill of speeding down the slopes together.
Besides choosing the right skiwear, helmet, goggles, boots, and skis, an action camera has also become an essential piece of gear for skiers. And every skiing season, a host of questions about action cameras emerge: How can you manage battery life effectively? Where is the best place to mount your camera for the optimal shooting angle while skiing? How do you adjust the lens to capture the most exciting moments?
These concerns of skiers have finally been addressed. On December 15, Drift, Europe’s top action camera brand, launched its annual flagship modular action camera – the Ghost 4K, which perfectly solves some of the common issues that action cameras face during the skiing season.
Ultra-long battery life: ski as far as you want, shoot as far as you go
Unlike other outdoor sports, skiing is a “time-based” activity. Whether it’s just a few hours or a full day, there’s no doubt that the fun increases the longer you ski. Skiing itself is a time-consuming sport – sometimes, you’ve already spent half a day just trying a few runs and taking a couple of chairlift rides. Therefore, having ample battery life for your action camera is crucial. The Drift Ghost 4K modular action camera comes with a removable battery module equipped with a 2000mAh high-density lithium polymer rechargeable battery, capable of recording up to 150 minutes of 4K/30FPS video. No matter how far your skiing adventure takes you, the Ghost 4K will keep filming right alongside you.
Always by your side, freely capturing beautiful moments
The 2014 Spring Festival Gala song “Where Has the Time Gone?” touched the hearts of many listeners. What moved the audience the most were undoubtedly the photos of a little girl growing up from birth to adulthood displayed on the big screen background. Imagine recording the most exciting moments of your family on skis as cherished family memories or the best gift for your children. On the ski slopes during the skiing season, what we see the most are undoubtedly “family packages.” Parents watch nervously and attentively as their children practice on the slopes, witnessing their heartfelt falls and brave efforts to get back up. Many people take out their phones to record, but holding a camera means you can’t play and interact freely with your child, nor can you ski without constraints. Plus, in the cold outdoors, an iPhone may enter low-temperature protection mode and “temporarily shut down.” This makes choosing the right action camera especially necessary.
Mount the Ghost 4K action camera on your child’s or family member’s helmet, adjust the 330-degree rotatable lens to find the best shooting angle, and you won’t have to worry about keeping up with the action – you can fully enjoy playing with your family. The heartwarming and humorous moments, such as a child’s wobbly learning process seen through a parent’s eyes, or a parent’s care and companionship through a child’s perspective, will all be captured by the Ghost 4K action camera with its ultra-wide 140-degree lens. While you no longer have to worry about battery life, recording 4K ultra-high-definition video can quickly fill up your memory card. Here, we recommend that skiers opt for a high-capacity Micro SD card (the Ghost 4K action camera supports up to 128GB Class 10 Micro SD cards).
Time capturer: turn back the clock
For skiers who have already mastered advanced techniques, the fixed slopes at ski resorts may no longer hold much appeal. The freedom of skiing through snowy backcountry mountains becomes a rare opportunity for skiing enthusiasts to hone their skills and challenge themselves. Making sharp turns at mountain passes, snow spraying up from your board, snowflakes in the sky colliding with snow kicked up from the turns on your chest before scattering in all directions; speeding through the scattered snow, jumping off a raised mound, becoming airborne with your board, and descending at a forty-degree angle to the ground, leaving only a trail of snow behind. Most of the viral skiing videos online are shot by skiers during backcountry adventures. To capture these exhilarating off-piste runs, all you need is to mount an action camera on your helmet.
The challenging and unpredictable nature of backcountry skiing fascinates many skiers. Backcountry runs typically have no fixed trails, requiring you to head to alpine areas where skiers assess routes based on experience during the climb. With rich experience and extraordinary courage, even unfamiliar trails can be mastered with ease. To not miss those moments of carving through turns or soaring off cliffs, it’s recommended to activate the video marker mode on the Ghost 4K action camera. The camera will continuously record video without using up memory card space. When you make a stylish carve turn through a bend or leap off a cliff edge, simply press the Bluetooth remote on your wrist, and the camera will automatically save the key footage from the minute before the “marker.” This mode also offers optional marker durations of 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 2 minutes, 5 minutes, and 10 minutes. The Ghost 4K also comes standard with flat/curved adhesive mounts + a standard clip, making it easy to attach the camera to your ski helmet.
Drift’s Ghost 4K action camera, launched this winter, is now exclusively available on Tmall (https://fengyunke.tmall.com). Isn’t it time to upgrade your skiing gear and start freely capturing those beautiful moments?