The DJI Osmo Action 6 (Image credit: Future/Peter Fenech)

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• The DJI Osmo Action 6 can now record in 8K
• This comes via a firmware upgrade with other goodies included
• You can update now via the DJI Mimo app

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Have a read through our DJI Osmo Action 6 review, and you'll see we were very impressed with the action camera – it got four-and-a-half stars out of five – but the device is now even better, as its latest firmware upgrade ups the maximum video recording resolution to 8K.

News of the update was posted to Instagram by DJI (via PetaPixel), and you can see from the post that that 8K recording is now available at 30 frames per second, at a 16:9 aspect ratio. It's a pretty sweet free upgrade for owners of the camera.

There's more in the update too: it also adds the ability to upload footage direct from the camera to various cloud services, including OneDrive and Google Drive, or a personal NAS. This can be done automatically or manually as needed.

Owners of the action camera now have access to new film-style tone presets in Photo mode as well, plus additional customization options, and a few other minor tweaks (the grid overlay in Custom mode has been tweaked for the better, for example).

Better than ever

The DJI Osmo Action 6 was already one of the best action cameras on the market, and these new upgrades improve it even further. It offers excellent photo and video quality, in a wide range of lighting conditions, and an easy-to-use interface.

"With the Osmo Action 6, DJI cements its position as a real threat to GoPro's dominance in the action camera market," we wrote in our review. "The Osmo Action 6 is yet another step in the right direction for DJI."

If you own one of these cameras, you can get the new update through the DJI Mimo app – it should appear automatically as a prompt on screen inside the app, when it's ready (firmware 01.02.05.21 is the version you're looking out for).

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