Sena 50C watch before you buy

[@RageAgainstTheSystem-FTW]

I think you're missing the point. The Sena 50C is primarily an intercom with a BONUS feature of having an in-built camera. I could understand your arguments or point IF it was just a camera, but we're talking about an intercom here with an added built-in camera AND Sena are the only ones that offer that. It's a niche product. You should be arguing from the POV that it's an intercom first and foremost and camera second, instead you've argued that the camera image stabilization and low light quality is poor, coming from the point of view where you've just focused on the camera like it's something commonly found on an intercom. Bit uninformative considering that.

[@ScoutsOut]

Thanks for your opinion Pete

[@shaunussy]

There are numerous intercoms with additional cams. Most aren't that great, but r3 from freedconn isn't bad for a quarter of the price. Sena video quality is excellent in comparison mind.

[@Dontasticats]

@@ScoutsOut As a counterpoint, I viewed it as a replacement for the gopro / communicator bundle that most people look at getting, and you've very accurately shown that it's a horribly expensive communicator with a shitty camera on it lol. I didn't think the video was uninformative at all, it addressed what probably 80% of the people searching for this thing on youtube are trying to figure out.

[@ckMTB]

A great video and very interesting Scout. I liked the comparisons very much. Thanks for sharing and have a great Sunday buddy. Ride on🤙

[@ScoutsOut]

Thanks ck, cheers buddy

[@KnifeTalk365-l1k]

We picked up one mainly to capture the dual audio. I have used a small clip in one of our videos, but the quality isn't good at all. Especially compared to a gopro. For some reason, the video we recorded doesn't look nearly as good as what you recorded. I have it set to 1080 with EIS turned on.

[@ScoutsOut]

I mainly used a GoPro for most of the vid and just dropped a few clips of it in, I agree it’s just not good enough footage

[@antoniobaak146]

U gotta put the micprohne sensitivity on high if you also wanna hear your engine and outside noise. Atleast thats what helped in my experience

[@ScoutsOut]

I tried all three settings and none were good enough in my opinion but still a really cool back up

[@antoniobaak146]

@@ScoutsOut thanks for the reply, what would be ur opinion on the best settings with quality? Should u film in 4k 30fps with no stabilization or 1080 60fps with stabilization. I heard eis can also decrease quality

[@ScoutsOut]

Hard to say between 1080 and 4K both have been good and bad for me so far, but I agree with the eis not being worth using

[@TrailTales]

Nice one Scout... Not ideal for Moto Vloggers... But I cam see a lot of potential there for more of a "dash cam" type role... And like you said... Catching those random events that would otherwise have been missed when your traditional cam isn't with you... Nice review as always mate.

[@ScoutsOut]

Yea a decent on the go dash cam. Thanks bro 🍻

[@ardaacar759]

Hi,thanks for the great video. How long is the battery life when using the camera?

[@ScoutsOut]

Varies a lot with what your doing, for just audio it lasts for a week or so

[@lassebrustad]

@@ScoutsOut searching the web says up to 22 hours with BT intercom, up to 12 hours with mesh communication, and 1 hour and 40 minutes of video. saying "a week or so" doesn't help anyone, as nobody knows how much time you spend riding. my Sena SMH10 should be able to do up to 14 hours of BT intercom, but I can easily charge it every 2nd day of riding, as I'm listening to music or talking in phone calls most of the time. anyway, I'm going to buy either the 50C or 50S, because I really want mesh and the HK sound, as I love listening to music when driving, and being able to use open mesh on long rides would be awesome in case someone else is in the same channel as me

[@here2enjoy-bt8jq]

Thank You, just ordered osmo action 4 andi might stick with it and get a Sena 20s or something similar.

[@ScoutsOut]

Yea man I have the 20s on my other helmet, that’s a good choice!

[@SeducedMonk3y]

I would advise you not to get the 20s. The speaker quality was terrible, and comms wasn't great but not terrible. I got the 50s and was a night and day difference between the sound and comms quality. It's also so much easier to link up as well.

[@StrikersLG]

I just found this video when checking out the 50C. I would like to do a similar setup to your GoPro/Road Lav mic setup for when Im drag racing. I'm hoping to be able to communicate with my dad while he is staging me then hear me race etc. Just curious if you ever use that setup to communicate with others while riding?

[@ScoutsOut]

That would be cool. But no I haven’t tried to use it for Commo might be worth a try

[@NereidPL]

One thing I picked up is that Sena makes 60 seem faster than 90 with a Gopro 😆

[@ScoutsOut]

😂 so true

[@garycook5125]

Thanks for the honest review.

[@ScoutsOut]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@rickeyvarga5432]

Thanks for breaking down and sharing, great review! My wife gave me one for Christmas, have yet to unbox it, I want to make sure its a good fit for my purpose. So my takeaway is, for someone like me, who will primarily use the unit for music, gps commands, communication and memorializing portions of my Adventure Ride to the Northwest National Parks this summer, the Sena 50C would be a good fit? Any challenges/concerns with the amount of battery life, storage or downloading? And my apologies for what may seem to be ignorant questions, I'm not at all savvy when it comes to video technology, would you recommend to bring along a laptop or device to download the video while on a 4 to 6 week trip or just simply store the SD cards and work on downloading upon my return? And if you recommend the latter, can one review video through the app to insure that a video clip, one that you may want to really make certain you captured, has in fact been captured without any problems/issues? ...thanks and again, my apologies if my questions seem ignorant, I'm just looking for some knowledge & guidance.

[@ScoutsOut]

Thank you. Yes that about sums it up, it will bring home some small amounts of ok footage to remember your rides and give you good music and coms. The battery life has been pretty decent but it is new and as all of the sena’s ive owned the battery fads quicker as time goes on. As for a long journey with a bunch of footage, the safe way is to download it on to your computer. You can review the footage through the app to check the clips just remember if you are going with the multiple SD card or download to your laptop always format the SD card before use even if its a new card and even if you erase the card on your computer after you download the footage. Hope this helps, sounds like you have one hell of a fun adventure coming up cheers!

[@rickeyvarga5432]

@@ScoutsOut Thanks for all the info, extremely helpful! And I will for sure format the SD cards before each new use ...um, it can't be that difficult to figure out!!! LOL

[@Rubenenmoto]

I had the 10S, later I had the 10c evo and know I was surprised to discover that 50c is probably the worst of them 😅. I was thinking that mine could be working bad, but actually no, is just worst quality than previous generations. My testing videos are so poor as yours, 10c evo is much better

[@ScoutsOut]

Yea man, I read up on all of them and had high hopes for the 50c kinda sucks. Go pro needs to work on another helmet imo

[@tobiasdietz28]

Lol i live like 10 minutes from where you shot that video in germany 😅 were you stationed on the nearby base?

[@ScoutsOut]

😂 such a small world, that’s awesome! I’m not stationed there just go there on an occasion to teach a course for a month or so. I absolutely love it there though!

[@ThrottleAddiction]

OMG... the footage and audio are terrible. Thanks for helping me eliminate buying the 50C.

[@ScoutsOut]

Right, I wasn’t going to make the vid then I though peeps just need to know

[@1000750]

Aloha, a couple shots from it looked like a video game. 0-100 on that bike is amazing oh yeah KM;s 😂 nice looking area to ride around, what's the nearest city🤙

[@ScoutsOut]

Aloha bro, haha yea man it’s weird over there riding looking down and your going 100-140 with ease lol. I was in Parsberg which is about an hour north of Munich, I love it out there

[@kyfisher3662]

Cameras go out of date so fast

[@ScoutsOut]

Yea they really do

[@omarleon532]

hello I'm a big fan, I started watching your content due to having a Yamaha r7 myself, one quick question, i just recently changed the stock exhaust to a full yoshimura system aftermarket exhaust like the one that you have on your r7, my question is, do i have to tune it or it is not required since is only the exhaust, if so would you recommend a dynoyet powercommander 6 on it? or do the ecu flash like you did?, however if i haven't changed the air filter element is it still required to tune it?

[@ScoutsOut]

I’ve been told even with the exhaust and dna set that your not going to hurt the bike if you don’t tune it. As for the tune I would recommend sending the ecu in to be flashed it’s just an easier process and will give you good results.

[@omarleon532]

thanks for the feedback much appreciated! by any chance do you have videos on how to do a spark plug change/removal on the r7 as well as the brake pads?@@ScoutsOut

[@ScoutsOut]

I’m at 7800 on the r7 now, the plugs are done at 8k so i will make a vid on it for sure soon

[@omarleon532]

nice, I'm currently at 14k now, however i think they are the same spark plugs since at the 8k mile i took it to the dealer to service yet apparently there was no need to replace them, and at the 12k one i did not checked them when i did the service on my own, still turns on solid lol@@ScoutsOut

[@prashantsanikop4192]

Bro I should connect sena 50c to mobile all the time without connecting mobile can we make the video

[@ScoutsOut]

Yea you need to connect to change the settings so totally needed

[@SundayServiceTDS]

Go pro for the video for sure.

[@Mikkel111]

2:05 - Audio isn't recorded in fps. Dunno what you meant by that.

[@ScoutsOut]

A mismatched can make sync issues, the audio video may not line up correctly

[@Mikkel111]

​@@ScoutsOut That's only if you don't match the clips to the timeline. The audio track has nothing to do with framerate. You could record in 24 fps and 60 fps and the audio is still the same. You just need to import the audio separately. Audio is sampled at a rate of 44100, 48000, 96000, 192000, 384000 or 768000 samples per second or Hz.

[@EVRider]

Do you no whether the 50c can record phone conversations between motorcyclists while recording video? I've not seen any reviews mentioning this. To me that would be a big plus since not all motorcyclists are going to have MESH and there might be times you would be out of range of MESH when recording video and conversations.

[@ScoutsOut]

Yes I should have mentioned that. It did pick up the music I played very well, the negative I had with that was my voice still sounded terrible and like I was in a metal tunnel

[@spldrong]

Will it loop record like a dash camera?

[@ScoutsOut]

Yea but it will kill the battery quick when recording

[@nielsyoh]

Thanks!

[@new5057]

30FPS is not enough for smooth video

[@ScoutsOut]

Yea

[@TheFastphill]

i having lots of trouble get the app to run at all on my s23 phone

[@ScoutsOut]

Dang, it seems to work good on the iPhone. If you get someone’s iPhone or iPad maybe you can just change the settings once set you really don’t need the app anymore

[@erikhusbands5443]

The Sena 50 C is junk in my opinion! The bluetooth connection is maybe, sometimes. Maybe sometimes, it connects...maybe it doesn't! Updating the thing is stupid! The custom cord it comes with works at times, and sometimes it doesn't! Grab a normal USB C and try that...again...maybe sometimes! I spent a crapload of money on a device that won't work about half the time!

[@ScoutsOut]

That sucks your having that many problems with it