Our Overall Score:
8.9/10
Thanks for stopping by to read our BG-AC-1 Action Camera review. Here we’ll take a look at a range of the key features, benefits, positives and negatives to help you decide if BG-AC-1 Action Camera is right for you, or if you should be looking for a different product in the Digital Camcorders category.
Latest price search at Currys PC World: £129
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There are many factors that we consider when buying, and reviewing products like BG-AC-1 Action Camera. In this review we will take the 4 main considerations and look at how they stack up against the competition, be it other products from the same brand, Bear Grylls or alternative products in the Digital Camcorders category. The 4 factors that we’re going to explore now are, Quality, Price, Reviews and the overall score.
Quality of BG-AC-1 Action Camera
BG-AC-1 Action Camera scores 8.3/10 for quality in our review.
Quality is a very important factor when it comes to buying any product, but it’s particularly important with Digital Camcorders. It’s never going to be easy to get a real feel for the quality of a product without being able to see or even test it.
This is why it’s so important to read lots of customer reviews, where you will be able to get an understanding from many of the customers of BG-AC-1 Action Camera, just how good it is, in terms of quality. Take your time to read through the reviews looking for specific comments about the quality. It’s worth spending time looking for reviews from customers that have owned the product for some time as that will give you a really good idea of the product’s durability.
Our best advice for checking out the quality is reading reviews, but also use some of these to help you get an idea of the quality:
- Price: The old saying “you get what you pay for” is a good indication as to how good quality you should expect from a product.
- Specification: Check out the specs for BG-AC-1 Action Camera and see how they compare to your expectations and other products.
- Brand: Some brands are known for delivering amazing quality products, it’s a case of trying to find the Rolex equivalent for Digital Camcorders, but at a realistic and reasonable price.
- Previous experience: Have you ever owned any Digital Camcorders? Think about your experience of the product and how good it was. What brand was it? How much was it? What was it made from? All of these can help you when considering your options.
Price analysis
BG-AC-1 Action Camera scores 8.6/10 for price in our review.
Price is normally the most important factor when considering a purchase. Especially when you’re shopping online, it’s really easy for us to shop around now so we can easily compare prices of the same product against many retailers with just a few clicks. In fact here at Review Pros we do that leg work for you, by comparing many different retailers to find you the best price. But price is also a big factor for which product we choose too, not just which retailer.
To give an example, the most expensive product that we found in the Digital Camcorders category was £1249.00, whilst the cheapest we found was £49.00 so there’s a significant variance in the prices that different products are available for. For this reason we always recommend that you set yourself a budget before you spend too much time shopping around for a product. It’s easy to get carried away and buying a much more expensive product than you really need, but setting a budget will help to avoid this.
As part of our price analysis we’re going to break the price of BG-AC-1 Action Camera down and compare it and analyse it in the following ways.
- Compare to other products in the same category
- Compare to other products from the same brand
- Compare to other products that fit both of the above (the same category and the same brand)
Prices of products in the Digital Camcorders category
Here we’re going to look at the prices you can expect to pay for products from the Digital Camcorders category. we’re opted to use Currys PC World for this comparison, as they offered the most competitive prices for BG-AC-1 Action Camera.
To start with, we look at the average price of a product in the Digital Camcorders category. This was £298.28 from the 37 products we found in that category. So BG-AC-1 Action Camera actually comes in below average at £129.
We then looked at the most expensive product in the category, which was £1249.00 and the least expensive, which was £49.00. In total we found that of the 37, 33 were more expensive and 3 were less expensive, some products may have then had exactly the same price as BG-AC-1 Action Camera.
Prices of products from Bear Grylls
Next up, we wanted to look at products from the brand, Bear Grylls. Again we looked at the average price you can expect to pay for a product from Bear Grylls, which was £74.62 of the 8 products we found. So BG-AC-1 Action Camera price is above average for the brand.
The cheapest product we managed to find from Bear Grylls was £18.99 with the most expensive coming in at £149.00.
Prices of products from Bear Grylls and in the Digital Camcorders category
Then finally on our price analysis we wanted to dig a little deeper by looking at products from Bear Grylls that sit specifically within the Digital Camcorders category.
For this we found that the average price was £139.00, making BG-AC-1 Action Camera at £129 actually below average price.
Then we looked at the highest priced item that falls under this criteria, the price of this was £149.00 with the lowest priced item being £129.00. In total there were 1 items that were more expensive and 0 that was less expensive.
Reviews of BG-AC-1 Action Camera
BG-AC-1 Action Camera scores 9.8/10 for customer reviews in our review.
Perhaps one of the most important steps in choosing a product that you’re going to be buying online, is reading reviews. The more reviews you can read the better. Take your time to look through a range of different reviews, both good and bad as these will really give you the best insight into how good BG-AC-1 Action Camera is.
Overall score
BG-AC-1 Action Camera scores 8.9/10 overall in our review.
This part of the review takes the various scores for quality, price and customer reviews and combines them in order to provide you with one simple score to help you determine how good the product is overall. This score can then easily be compared to other products and be used as a benchmark.
There are of course many alternative products from Bear Grylls so feel free to take a look at some of the alternatives, but in the meantime check out the many reviews for BG-AC-1 Action Camera by clicking the View Reviews button at the bottom of your screen.
Additional information: BG-AC-1 Action Camera
- Brand: Bear Grylls
- Model Number: BGAC1
- Full HD 1080p video (60 fps)160° lensWaterproof to 30 m with included housingBuilt-in WiFi2″ LCD touchscreen
- EAN: 5060587230011
- Description: Top features: – Shoot and share your adventures in Full HD – Be prepared for any situation with the included pack – Simple to use with the 2” rear touchscreen – Take on the elements with a IP68 rated case Shoot and share your adventuresMake like the survival expert and share footage of your own adventures with the Bear Grylls BG-AC-1 Action Camera. Whether you’re exploring old ruins, scaling a cliff face, or white-water rafting, you can capture it all in Full HD at 60 fps, for clear and smooth footage that’s worth uploading.Be preparedEvery keen Scout knows you should always be prepared. Luckily, you get a bunch of useful stuff with the camera, including a variety of mounts, cases, and tools, all bundled into a water-resistant pack. There’s an adhesive mount to attach to a surface such as your helmet, and a tripod mount for stable shooting from unique angles.Simple to useYou can check you’ve got the perfect composition thanks to the 2” screen on the rear. The touchscreen makes it easy to navigate menus, change settings, and playback footage. You can also shoot 14-megapixel photos, or make an impressive time lapse of the world going by.Take on the elementsWherever your adventures take you, this camera can handle it. Pop it in the waterproof case and it’ll be sealed from the elements – it’s IP6 dustproof and IP8 waterproof to 30 m, so you don’t need to stop filming when you discover a waterfall, need to cross a river, or want to hit the dunes in a buggy.
- Product ID: 22544964029
