My wife has an aging OG paralenz that she likes a lot, especially the depth based white balance / colour correction. Since these cameras are no longer easily repairable or replaceable, I'm curious about replacements. Do any of the newer action cameras have an auto whitebalance system that works comparably well to the the paralenz?

The insta360 ace pro 2 has underwater Mode but no WB lock.. and its only 8 bit

The dji action 6 has scuba mode and QRS button that can be personalize to lock white balance underwater

The Gopro 13 has gopro labs firmware and its possible to create permanent preset for WB lock, bitrate up to 200Mbps and new feature called DIVE=1 that remove underwater distortion, dont forget to Keep Denoise settings at low to avoid a soft video.

The Gopro 13 also has 5.3k mode with resolution of 5312 x 2988, perfect for 16:9 or 9:16 for media viewing for later crop the video without any loss of quality.

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With Gopro 11 it was necessary to use Wide Color gamut (wide=1) + oMLOGB=400 to get GP-log Profile lookalike.

But on the Gopro 12/ 13 you can simply use Gp-Log + wide=1 for more details, and later a specific LUT to convert back to Rec709 during color correction.

Basically Wide color gamut + oMLOGB=400 are able to push dynamic range and get better details in dark shadows, but is also recommended to apply NR01=1 (permanent disable denoise but more details) and later remove noise in post-production with Neat video 6 or davinci resolve studio (both paid options)

ps: this hacks can be applied permanently using QR code once,

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Wide angle lens from AOI UWL-03 are great upgrade for any of the action cameras above.

Ps: The insta360 or DJI can be an easy underwater actions cams for the untrained eye, or the average joe for viewing in small smartphone screen, especially if you do shallow dives with natural lighting their color sensors accuracy can be enough for some people, but has soon you pass certain depths you are limited by firmware, Gopro labs unlock that limit.

Edited 6 hours ago6 hr by Nando Diver