Tuesday 23 August 2016

HUE HD Pro Camera - Review!

Last year we reviewed the HUE Animation Studio and we loved it....Recently the lovely people from HUE got back in touch and asked if we wanted to review the HUE HD Pro Camera....Of course we said yes and have had a great time trying it out.

The HUE HD Pro Camera is a lightweight, portable document camera and visualiser.....


I loved the look of the camera as soon as we opened the  box....It looks fancier and sleeker than the old HUE camera.....

The length of the neck is longer which makes it easier to move about and there is built-in LED lights which helps  help illuminate whatever you are capturing...

Even though the HD Pro camera is bigger than the older camera they both actually weigh about the same....

The HUE HD Pro camera also comes with specially designed software HUE Intuition which allows you to master the full functionality of the camera with ease.

HUE Intuition allows you to:

Record video and sound and save movies locally, email or upload to YouTube.
Annotate images and save as JPG/BMP/PNG/GIF.
Take snapshots.
Take multiple images over time.

Setting the camera up and installing the HUE Intuition programme was simple and within minutes we were taking photos of random things that I had to hand. A jaffa cake, an orange, a ring and Stu's fingers....lol 

The detail it captured was amazing....


My favourite part of the HUE Intuition programme was the image capture setting....You can set it to take a photo at set intervals....


We decided to use it to make a time lapse video of a candle burning....It was only a birthday candle so I set it to take a picture at every 15 seconds....I just clicked the button and let it run until the candle was nearly burnt right down to the base....


Becky also had a play about with the camera and the different features and here is what she made. It was her first ever real vlog. I think she did so well. She now has more respect for the vloggers she watches on YouTube. hehehe

Again I thought it was brilliant....The camera is fab and it picks up Becky speaking well....



You can use the HUE HD Pro camera to project video or pictures onto a whiteboard if you have a projector....This would be perfect if you home school....

We did try to use the camera with the HUE Animation studio programme and it wasn't up to the same quality that we had when we used to old camera last year....I think we are going to have to have more of a play about with it and see where we are going wrong because we must be somewhere....The HUE website says the new camera and the Animation studio programme are compatible....We have came up with a lot of new stop motion ideas which we want to create so we will figure it out soon.



You can also use this camera to chat on Skype and you are able to take the camera off the stand and connect it straight into a USB slot on say a laptop....

I think I will be using this camera a lot in the future for various things and I can't wait to take some more time lapse videos....

The HUE HD Pro camera will work on all computers which have a USB port and support UVC ‘plug and play’ cameras, including Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8, 10), Mac OS X 10.4.3 and later and most Linux distributions.

The HUE HD Pro camera costs £44.95 + VAT.

We were sent this free of charge....This is our review. All thoughts and opinions are our own.

18 comments :

  1. My 13 year old would LOVE this. On the Christmas list methinks x

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    1. I think he would too...He looks like he is in to things like this ;) x

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  2. Oh this is so cool. I love how you can adjust it and not prop it up on a million things (like I do with my iPhone :)) #triedtested

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    1. hehehe! The neck of it is so flexible too...You can get it just where you need it :D

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  3. Wow, those close up shots are impressive. HUE cameras are pretty awesome.

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  4. This looks fab and so much you can do with it. The videos were great X #triedtested

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    1. It really is...We have plenty more ideas to make and create videos x

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  5. I used a visualiser regularly in the classroom but have never done a stop animation before!

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    1. I didn't even know what a visualiser was until last week...lol
      Stop animation is such fun.

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  6. Looks good. Hope you get the camera working - sometimes these things need playing around with to get the hang of them don't they? #TriedTested

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    1. The camera works fine. I think it's all me. lol A bit of playing around and we'll have it working perfectly in no time :D x

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  7. What a fab camera for you all to try out, I'd love to have a go at some stop motion videos here on the farm! #TriedTested

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    1. We love it...Ohh! It would be great for on the farm :D x

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  8. Oh this is brilliant! Stop animation looks awesome :)
    Great video! xx

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  9. Ohh that's awesome, love the time lapse video!! Popping over from #triedtested

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