all right today go for another new flagship camera the hero 11 black
and we got our hands on it so let's try it out
now at first glance you may be asking yourself what has really changed and that is a fair
question because it is practically the same body as the hero 10 which is in my opinion a good thing
because you can use your same batteries your same mounts your same filters and don't have to
invest in new stuff but it's also the same gp2 processor that they introduced in the hero 10
and the same max frame rates of 5.3k at 60 frames per second and 4k 120. so what has really changed
well to me there are three standout features that we should care about and we'll dissect in
this video first the 10 bit color depth making it the most colorful gopro ever the 8x7 almost
square larger sensor and three interesting and intriguing night effects so we'll jump into the
details in this video but this is not sponsored by gopro they sent us the cameras but had no say in
it so you will definitely hear my honest opinion in it i hope this works out looks a little sketchy
gopro it's action and waterproof
now all gopros to date only had a bit depth of 8-bit and you still got these
beautiful colorful images that you've seen over the past couple of years so
why should we really care about a 10-bit codec with 120 m bits of a bit rate for
that we really have to understand first what bit depth actually is
now each image you capture no matter if it's a still or video is comprised of three color
channels red green and blue hence rgb and once you combine those you get their final image
in an 8-bit image each color channel captures 256 different shades of that respective color
equating to 16.7 million colors in that final image now in a 10-minute image due
to the exponential nature of bits each color channel has 1024 different shades of that color
equating to over a billion different shades of colors in the final image now tempered images
have less banding these blocky lines that you have in large gradients like blue skies it's certainly
a pro feature that you will notice the most when you grade it in post and you can push around the
footage more especially if you apply a heavier lut so let's get out of the water into the sky
and pit the 8-bit footage of the 10 against the 10-bit footage of the 11
and i meet you back in the editing bay and we can see if we can see a substantial difference
that was officially epic i mean that halle flight but also big shout out to nikolai who did all the
drone fpv shots in this video he's just insane but now it's time to compare the footage of the
11 against the 10 possibly something you've been waiting for so let's see how far we have to push
the footage in order to make the 10-bit show now the first comparison that we're looking at here
is a shot downtown with a large gradient sky and i want you to pay attention in this basic color
correction that we're doing pay attention to the left top corner we're just going to play it
back it's not quite obvious right it's not like as extreme so if you crop in you may notice the noise
pattern a little bit in the hero 10. now the next stress test is to apply a look blood a heavier
color grade to your image now this is possibly a little bit more than what i ever would do but
some people go a little bit harder and it i think exemplifies what the 10-bit codec does so this is
one of the shots that we got from the helicopter ride just before we jumped on and pay attention
to the left top corner of each of the images in the clouds you see on the 10 the banding is
extreme now if we crop in you see it even better and on the 11 the exponentially higher number of
shades of colors calm down the image and make that gradient way smoother now one more extreme
comparison here is is one clip in the helicopter uh so this is the normal color correction but if
we do some keying let's say you want to change the color of the sky and you want to select some
certain images or if you do screen screen i don't know who does green screening with gopros but may
happen so you use maybe a chroma keyer so let's jump into that and then it becomes even more
apparent so we're selecting here the sky and now pay attention to the top right corner here
on the hero 10 you see those almost like iso lines in a map that you don't have on the 11.
as we've just seen we do see a difference between the 10-bit and 8-bit footage between the two
cameras so it is an upgrade for certain i would argue it's still a very much of a pro feature that
mostly us filmmakers are appreciating when we apply heavy outlets oh before forget it gopro
also announced a mini version of this camera with the exact same camera specs it just got
rid of the two screens and has a built-in battery making it lighter and more compact
we'll get our hands on that soon so definitely stay tuned and join the notification crew
and we gotta go our buddy lee is waiting and here's a harley to strap this gopro
all right so while we're heading there let's talk about the larger almost square sensor and
what implication it has on the image it's now one over 1.9 inches in size at an 8 by seven aspect
ratio now the horizontal pixel count and size actually stayed the same it just grew vertically
on its height and it's now actually 16 larger than the hero 10. now this has actually a couple
of benefits and implications now the obvious one is getting horizontal and vertical footage
at the same time with the boom of vertical video in social media brands clients and creators alike
we're always struggling to find uh the right aspect ratio to shoot in horizontal or vertically
so with this little larger sensor you can capture basically one clip at one photo
and crop in a horizontal or vertical image in post which is super convenient just keep
in mind that it is super wide angle so you need to apply some distortion in the end
now this whole full sensor mode is available up to 5.3 k in 30 frames per second and
at 4k and 60 frames per second but i'm realizing also we're short on type so we gotta go now
now the other cool feature this new larger sensor enables
is 360 horizon lock now this basically allows you to flip around the camera upside down
with the horizon sting steady it's it's actually quite crazy if you see it when you see it for the
first time but this feature was available with a max lens mod on the 9 and 10 but it's now in
camera on the 11 and i think it opens up really some interesting creative opportunities especially
when you shoot it on the 11 mini which i'm looking forward to try but just check out
this comparison between the 11 with horizon lock and then the 10 with horizon leveling
now i got here a little early but that allows me to tell you that for those of you who are
flying fpv drones the four eight by seven readout also works now with real steady so all the drone
footage that you've seen in this video was shot in the 8x7 readout and also the new hyperview is
possible in 5.3k at 30 frames per second so that's what you're seeing right now super immersive also
the superview that you possibly already know is now available in 5.3k at 60 frames per second
and 4k at 120 and that's what we're gonna try out now on that holly did you see the police coming by
come on in come on in
well this is lee you may know him from previous videos
uh he's a good friend a colleague and an overall badass [ __ ]
but this is his holly what what harley is that it's a 2018 low rider all right let's figure
out some places where we can mount the gopro and get him cruising with hyper smooth 5.0
reminder now on the handlebar facing lee and let's see how what kind of shots we can get
and off it goes so there's actually a new function within hyper smooth
which is called auto boost so when you activate the auto boost function it actually automatically
detects and enables the boost function only when there are shakes noticed so that way you
can always get the widest shot possible so i'm curious how that looks now just just don't ask
why we are posting up in the dodgiest alleyways yeah we're heading out in 30 seconds i just got
i just got uh notified that we cannot be here so let's go let's have night flips over here
hey never stop believing in wonders i found a unicorn
all right we're going to do a little side by side between the 11 and the 10 to see what
this auto boost function actually and how much it helps you without keeping this wider field of
view so it's boost on the 10 and auto boost on the 11th so let's see what difference it makes
all right since we have them set up side by side we've got to try out
the expanded field of view that you get from hyper view compared to
super view on the hero 10 and maybe we can also see a difference in the 10-bit coding
when you cross the bridge look up to wrigley building yeah
see that that shakes legit now
actually there's one cool feature for the general consumer those who don't like to video edit
the gopro now can automatically upload the footage to the internet
and then it creates it automatically it creates a video for you
that's wild but it's getting dark soon sun sun is setting so we gotta shoot some time lapses
so we're in the middle of a baseball field i believe we're heading to the next location but
with new camera releases there are always these media improvements on the specs front like in
the case of the 11 it's the 10 bit codec and the larger sensor but then over the recent
decade i would argue with the improvements of the in-camera computing power they're always like some
interesting software solutions that are coming out when new cameras are released and some of
them are gimmicks some of them are actually useful and with a gopro 11 there are some three
new night shooting modes that we're gonna try out now and see how
good or bad they are you ready for this paul all right gotta get into some shenanigans
oh yeah oh yeah we're here so the first one up is called vehicle light trails
i think it is pretty self-explanatory but we're gonna set up here a little c-stand gonna put the
gopro up here in the middle of the highway all right so it's pretty easy you just turn it on
go into the time-lapse mode and then you have vehicle lights and then you can also choose
the length of the light trails between short long and max so we're gonna take all three of them now
and see what what looks best all right so while the time lapse is shooting over there
we just moved away a little bit from the noises to talk about batteries because that's always a
big and hot topic with gopros so the good news is that the hero 11 comes now with the white enduro
batteries in the box these enduro batteries not only have a longer battery life but they also
perform way better in cold conditions if you ever shot with your gopro on a snowboard and like minus
10 degrees celsius you know how frustrating it can be according to gopro's official specs the hero 11
with the enduro battery has an extended battery life of up to 38 compared to the 10 with a normal
battery now i didn't find this really apple's apple so i took the enduro batteries and put them
in the 11 and the 10 and had them both running at the same settings except for the fact that i
set the 11 to 10 bit and then we got the following lasting results in 4k 24 frames per second
we have the 11 lasting one hour 32 minutes and 38 seconds which is very solid i think though
the hero 10 runs 16 minutes longer so i reckon that's the effect of the 10 bit maybe but because
i was also trying out to shoot in 5.3k at 60 i accidentally also did an overheating test because
rather than running out of battery both cameras overheated and the 10 overheated after 23 minutes
and 16 seconds while the 11 overheated a little earlier at 19 minutes and 56 seconds so certainly
not as bad as some of the sony or actually what is it the r5 the r5 always overheated right
certainly not as bad as the r5 all right check it out check it out come on come on
and play
that looks sick right all right so between short long and max i prefer something either between
short and long max the lights just stay constantly there so
between the two i think i i prefer short so far in this kind of highway situation but it also
depends you just gotta have to try it out and see what works best for any particular situation
so next one up is the light painting and it is exactly what it sounds like it basically uses
a long exposure and possibly the same technology and software processing that the light trails do
to use the light source as a paintbrush and then you just go around put the camera all
the way up here on this chitty rigged version of a c-stand and an extension pole all right
paul you're in charge of the pink light now i'm gonna switch this over to blue right so
let's check it out it's always a little bit of a surprise game processing the reflection
and then there's a third mode called star trails pretty self-explanatory but chicago does not have
any stars really i mean we not only are we overcast today but there are barely any stars
to see anyway so i'm gonna try this out in a couple of weeks when i'm out in the middle of
the pacific ocean definitely stay tuned for that but paul what do you think about the three night
modes just a quick sound bite here um yeah the night mods you can do some pretty cool stuff with
it pairing it with like uh led got some pretty cool results earlier um i like how the light kind
of looks like lingers on the screen it's kind of like you're getting a long exposure photo but then
it's kind of like turns into a video and it fades out um so definitely pretty cool holds impressed
all right now i'm at odessa concert time to check out the low-light capabilities of the hero 11.
let's see it
all right so that party is over but before we part ways let me share with you my final
thoughts on the 11. on the upside same form factor great to use all your accessories
lenses filters batteries and that's a big money saver i really appreciate that gopro actually
did this on the other side the 10 bit codec i'm someone who's shooting in 10 bit on the sony in
442 i'm shooting also 12 bit 444 raw and on the red so having that bigger flexibility especially
if i want to grade this footage a little bit heavier that i can slot in the gopro now
is a nice addition to that and then lastly also the larger sensor and the flexibility it gives for
cropping and vertical plus horizontal shooting now in the areas of opportunity here if i can address
some feedback here to gopro i would love to have a one inch sensor in here especially to boost also
the low light performance then we have the 10 bit why don't we have a log image profile giving us
even more flexibility the even the flat profile is not really flat so log is on my wishlist
all right now i want to hear from you are you going to upgrade to the hero 11
what do you like about it what's missing is the 10 bit enough for you to upgrade
let us know down in the comment section below what you think about the camera what do you
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