thanks to you all, folks. Veeeeeeeery interesting!
@m@Robertson: how long ago was that? Just to understand if they fixed the issue because GoPro looks as "the standard" in the field and I wonder why.
Amazon tells me it was a Gopro Hero 5... in 2017. So its been awhile. What that should also tell you is I have been doing this just fine without GoPros for 6+ years.
The native 4k 30 fps thing is really a big deal. Native operation means the 4k mode is pretty much the optimum for the system
Here I did this sample footage at Sea Otter last year, when I was riding out of Laguna Seca and going home. Youtube does not want to display at this resolution because of bandwidth. What you want to do is first view it on Youtube, and not in this forum. Then, click the little gear icon, choose Quality from the menu and select 2160p, which is 4k resolution. You can pretty much blow up the screen and do things like freeze frame the display to see the license plates of the oncoming cars (pretend you are the police trying to figure out who ran you over, and you'll see the evidentiary value of 4k/30fps resolution on a dashcam).
Using Windows video software you can freeze frame and then zoom focus on a license plate over and above what you can do on Youtube and the plate lettering is enlarged and clear as a bell.
Bear in mind the above is also using the 'EIS' mode in 4k/30fps, which is something else you cannot take for granted. First of all, EIS is 'electronic' image stabilization and you want that rather than the lesser mechanical stabilization that IIRC the EK7000 has. Try running with a lesser stabilization quality, or none, and your ability to see what the camera records is severely compromised. Something you REALLY want to look out for is which modes your chosen camera will run EIS in. It won't do it in all of them, or maybe not even in any of the better ones. This is partly why you want the camera running native in a hi res mode like 4k.
That article series I linked gets into all sorts of details like this.
