GoPro Hero 9 is the camera that I like for many reasons, but it is also a camera
I dislike for some reasons. Mostly because in longer recordings, which is what I do quite often,
it can tend to fail. I have noticed this camera heats up a lot. Trying to see or think of ways to
remedy that. The first thing that I did was switch from high bitrate to normal bitrate.
I'm not totally sure it improved things. Maybe it does maybe it doesn't. We'll see in the longer
term. I have done quite a few recordings since my last video about this camera. And I had one early
on failure where the second half of the video was gone. Not totally sure what happened there,
but that kind of ties into the other thing that I do with this camera is that I double format
inside the camera. Where you put your card in and you just go through the format process twice.
I've seen people mention that online. Various forums.. messages.. comments all that where
double formatting is probably a good idea with that. Of course depending on what memory card
you're using there can be good ones there can be bad ones. It's just overall a quirky camera,
but I do like it enough that I'm really trying to make it work as well as possible.
The main thing it's wider than the DJI Osmo Action that I have.
I still use that camera but there are definitely benefits for various situations.
I have all of the mods. The media mod thing which is nice.
Audio actually in the car like this sounds pretty decent and I've used it for a few videos.
It is plastic though. The casing... so it kind of, holds, traps the heat in even worse
than if it you know we're not on there. Also, let's see if I can find it in here...
The max lens mod, which comes in its little case. So you've got this rubber thing where you put your
regular cover, glass cover, on there. And the nice big lens for the max lens mod.
I use this quite a bit with the third-person view stuff which works really well.
It did film me once in one of those situations, but overall it's worked. That uses 2.7k,
which I think might be slightly less strain on the camera than 4k.
My latest addition to see if I can improve the situation are these metal connection points for
the camera. Of course you have the two feet on the bottom of the GoPro Hero 9. These are metal.
I've noticed that they get pretty hot when using the camera for longer periods of time.
So I'm thinking the camera wicks away some of the heat and
definitely getting metal ones might help. Who knows? Maybe a little bit here and there
if it gives me more time or it helps the camera not completely fail... should be good!
These ones are from Fotodiox they're called the
GoTough series. Tripod connector... They have some weight to them, which is nice. These are aluminum.
Here's a plastic one I have for example. You can see that gives me a little bit
more height or thinness so it should help with the media mod especially.
Before I get to the media mod I'm going to talk about memory cards a little bit.
I have a Sandisk Extreme Plus 128 gigabyte card. You do not want to use these with the camera!
Another memory card that I've used quite a bit, this had one failure. I'm not sure which
of my two of the same card had it. But I rely on these more often of course than the Sandisk one.
These are Samsung EVO Plus UHS-3. Pretty nice 128 gigabytes.
This PNY Elite-X v30 card. I haven't used it a ton, but so far I haven't had any issues
at all with this one. But who knows if I will in the future or not.
So I'm going to put that PNY card into the camera. You have to be really careful
with this. If you don't get it locked in into place right away you might shoot the card off
into... pretty far. Because the spring in here has got some kick to it.
Another thing to take note of is with the external charger.
At least the one that I have. It can only charge these batteries to like 95.. 96 percent usually,
which is weird! Just something to take note of. If you want a fully 100
charged battery you have to charge it through the camera itself with some type of usb adapter.
With the media mod on this side you've got this little spring-loaded thing to open up,
and you have to slot in your GoPro. From there and it kind of there's a little clink when it
goes into the usb connection. Unusual design, I can't say it's the best ever but it works.
Now you have to pull your prongs up. On this side it's curved down. That's going to be
where your screw comes into the camera. I do think using the media mod is an
especially bad situation because of the plastic surrounding it.
Keeps even more heat into the camera, which is not good with the GoPro.
So you can see that it is set to around 95 battery this was fully charged
maybe a day or two ago let's turn this on real quick and you can get an idea of what
it sounds like with the media mod compared to say the M50 with the Boya microphone.
Of course I'm hand holding the GoPro instead of with the M50 that's on a mount.
Not an especially fair comparison.
With the M50 I have it set to auto levels plus optical stabilization on the 11 to 22, so I don't
have digital stabilization. But the auto levels is kind of like that. It's just not as extreme.
All right, here we've got the GoPro in linear with standard bitrate and also auto leveling. In this
case it's likely using a lot less of the GoPro sensor, which makes it worse in darker situations,
I'm sure. Actually I can go through this little path here..
so I.. we can get an idea of what it looks like.
Not too bad!
This Fotodiox mount actually is a little easier to hold than some of them. Because it's... the base
is wider, which is nice. That's the update on the GoPro Hero 9 this little addition to it. Using
normal bitrate and just hoping I can get this camera working consistently without major issues.
Scott of Photography Banzai.
Hope you enjoyed the video, thanks!