Today we are talking GoPro Hero 8 black. I've got five reasons for you to upgrade
I'm David Manning here today with Micro Center Micro Center has 25 stores nationwide with a massive
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Grab a product ask some questions and have have someone answer them for you
unlike most of our lives in a digital online world
You don't get to see the things and touch the things
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You can do just that click the link in the description find your local micro Center where you can buy a GoPro Hero
8 black you can also check out my channel here on YouTube where I talk photography videography and gear reviews
including a bunch of GoPro tips tricks and
Just information in general
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Alright, let's jump into our five or reasons. Why
Upgrading to the 8 is worth it. Number one and most obvious is the GoPro Hero eight black is now
Frameless, which means it does not require a frame to mount these feet are now built in to the bottom of the camera
You just pop them out like that
And boom the camera is ready to mount. That is unlike
the Hero seven black which requires a frame to mount the camera pops out of here and
This is the frame that you use to put on mounts and this is the camera itself
Now that also means it's a battery door from the hero 7 moves from the bottom to the side
which means that you can also keep your GoPro mounted while accessing both the battery door and
SD card right there on the side and honestly, I think this is it's probably the biggest
usability upgrade that we've seen from GoPro and a long time since
Since the hero 5 when they remove the need for the cage and they made the actual camera with self waterproof now
removing the frame itself
Everything is built-in to the camera
The number two reason to upgrade to the hero 8 black is hyper smooth 2.0 hyper smooth
1.0 was introduced on the hero seven black and
It was bananas good by far the biggest leap in digital stabilization
that that we've seen in a camera of this size the hero seven black was called the gimbal killer for a
Reason and GoPro has upgraded that system with hyper smooth 2.0 and the biggest part of that upgrade
Is that hyper smooth 2.0 is now available in all frame rates and resolutions
So I could be in 4k 60 frames per second or 1080
240 frames per second and still have hyper smooth 2.0 active which again is just
amazing amounts of
Processing power that's now in this camera the number three and four reason to upgrade to this camera both have to do with the user
interface we get a huge upgrade from the hero 7 to the hero 8 with user interface and
settings the main one being we now have presets
so in all three modes of the GoPro
Time-lapse video and photo you can go in drop down and see multiple different quick select settings
And basically these are just settings you can set up for different scenarios and quickly be able to jump back and forth for instance
I have one for slow motion and I have one for
Cinematic motion on the hero 7 black I had to go into the settings and change everything each time
I wanted to switch back and forth now on the hero 8 black
I just tap the settings swipe down to find the one that I want tap on it and boom
My camera is ready to rock
The number four reason to upgrade is also in the user interface and is now four different
On-screen controls that can be customized pretty much however you'd like
So right from the screen now I can tap on here and I can change my exposure compensation
Make it brighter make it darker
I can tap to go into a boost mode, which is even more hyper smooth than just a regular hyper smooth 2.0
I've also got a control to switch to a quick
slow-motion mode just
Jumping the two times slo-mo and the last one is actually my number 5 reason to upgrade to the hero 8 black and that's digital
Lenses now on-screen I can tap this bottom left corner and I can switch from super view to wide to linear
Without having to dig into the settings without having to go through any sort of menu system
it's just right there on the screen and digital lenses is just another way that GoPro is looking at how
Filmmakers are using these cameras and and making them easier to use
yeah, the user interface on these things has just gotten ridiculously good and there's a bonus number six reason to upgrade and
That's something GoPro is calling mods so far
they've teased us with
Three mods a media mod a light mod and a display mod
and basically what the media mod is going to be you'll be able to take off the battery door on your GoPro Hero 8
This media mod will kind of wrap around it like a cage
Immediately give you a shotgun mic internal built into the media mod system
It'll give you a few extra ports
Then it'll have to cold shoe one on the top one on the side where you can mount a light and eight
External display and that's for sure GoPro addressing the many many people that are using GoPros
Solely for vlogging but we're gonna find out much more about those mods come December when they're available for pre-order. Alright?
Those are my five reasons plus a bonus reasons to upgrade to the hero eight black
Once again, click the link in the description find the Micro Center nearest you go
Uh, go play with one go check one out
ask some questions in store and walk out today with one and so that whole
Ordering it online and waiting for it to show up
And then once you have your GoPro head over to my channel and I'll teach you how to use it. This thing is just sweet
the built in feet really are
Are more amazing than you'd think they'd be that is just stupidly convenient Wow
The door really is Oh
Quite hard to open although that makes it feel durable. If I don't break my finger first