It can do 4k30 or 2.7k60 - but it’s also 56g, and durable enough that I “recovered” it from the top of a metal building a few days ago by knocking it down with a quadcopter and letting it fall 12’ onto pavement.
Tradeoffs have to be made somewhere :)
I mostly use it for hobby stuff. While I can record on my goggles, the image quality is extremely poor and completely unsuitable for any real use. This is what I see while flying: https://youtu.be/xywVVS8eLSw
It looks quite a bit better in the moment, and on a screen that’s optimized for it. I use a Skyzone 04X, which was 1280x960 OLED screens with a 46º field of view. You can’t really get much better for analog video at the moment in this form factor. There are a couple of digital options (DJI and SharkByte), but I don’t want to spend the money on those until I feel like the technology has matured a bit more and I’m not going to need to spend another $500+ on goggles and ~$80 per airframe to upgrade. The RunCam 5 Orange gives me the ability to make videos for sharing with others and is “good enough” for some light commercial work.
In addition to flying FPV as a hobby, I have my FAA 107 certificate and do some photography/videography as a side hustle. I use an Autel Evo 2 Pro for that most of the time, which is capable of 6k30/4k60 and is stupid good for night photography. I occasionally mix in some video from my FPV quads if the situation calls for it. I rarely need to produce output that’s over 1080p, and 30fps is pretty standard there. If I were doing more interior fly-through and such, I’d pick up a more capable camera for that purpose. I’d still want the RunCam though, because of its balance of weight and durability.
Fyi with the 1W VTX soon to be released for Sharkbyte now is a great time to jump in with the recent release of the HD Zero cameras - your Skyzones are some of the best goggles you can use for SharkByte / HDZero
