hey guys let's explore eight standout features of the new GoPro Hero ID and
see if it's worth the effort off your [ __ ] stick to your old GoPro let's go
okay
everyone hi from Colorado Breckenridge we're here on snowboard vacation it's been six years the last
time I was on the board and frankly I was a little bit terrified but so far so good and we are having
a blast this trip gave me the perfect excuse to pull the trigger on the new GoPro Hero 8 and give
me the opportunity to do a review for you guys and put it your like through the wringer a little bit
of a stress test GoPro releases a new hero camera every year but in my humble opinion I don't think
the innovation cycle in this very mature category of action cameras justifies an upgrade every year
so I've been using the hero 5 for the past two and a half years and it grew very close to my
heart because it's the perfect camera for these in the moment action shots unusual angles as well as
time lapses so let's see if the GoPro Hero 8 can win me over and you maybe two let's go oh my god
okay let's touch on the basics first this camera can do 4k 60 frames per second in
linear mode the linear mode is an equivalent of 24 28 millimeter lens and gives you it doesn't
give you this fish I love which is great for just shooting generally stuff and you want to
make it look a little bit more cinematic moreover this camera comes in with an improved bit rate as
well and you can shoot up to 100 M bits per second in simple terms more data gives you
more flexibility later in post especially with the color grading we'll talk about the slow-mo
features in just a minute because we're now at the end of there this left here see you up there
alright - smooth 2.0 I'm very very impressed by this technology it is basically gimbal
like stabilization for your little camera which is absolutely needed well bigger cameras due to their
weight give you inherent stable footage DSLR since the especially these small action cameras when
they're mounted to snowboard need stabilization and this technology was introduced with a hero 7
but they made significant improvements to - its - its the stabilization it's now also available for
all resolutions and focal lengths so which is great as you can see so as someone who's who's
using gimbal salade I'm very very impressive it might be a gimbal killer in future so let's go
without being scientific you can clearly hear that the all you improved on the hero
age compared to previous models and particularly wind noise reduction their microphone now on this
model is placed right beneath the lens this with the improved audio quality and the fact of the
image stabilization makes it actually a perfect lens for vlogging isn't it beautiful ok let's go
okay let's talk about chimo 2.0 which is basically a stabilized time-lapse allowing
you to do time lapses through the space and it's also known as hyper lapses or
motion lapses and frankly I've never tried it with my with my I've never tried it whoa
whoa oh yeah yeah I've never tried it with my DSLR because it's quite quite tricky to
pull off but with the with a mode with the time warp function whoa for the time
off function of the GoPro I'm stuck with a timer function of the GoPro yeah here
we go but with the time warp function with the GoPro it's really easy but see it for yourself
okay so the weather turned on as you see the Slavs are practically empty we're just awesome
so we can talk about slow motion which has been a key selling point for GoPro since the very first
one to get these super cool action shots but the hero aid really really delivers on that front too
while the hero 5 that I've been using for the last couple of years can only do 20 120 frames
per second at 720p resolution this camera can 120 frames per second at 2.7 K and I will put in some
shots of that and not only that you can also go up to 240 frames per second at 1080p so really dope
this combined with a higher bitrate allows you to get really smooth buttery slow-motion shots
this weather is unbearable so I'm gonna go and take you all back home to Chicago let's go whoo
all right it's much warmer here so let me get changed we switched to this camera and I will see
you just in a second real quick here so let's talk about time lapses at night now eventually I used
my GoPro Hero 5 mostly and primarily for shooting time lapses because it was so easy to set up and
you can hide your camera with no problem and just leave it there without other people finding it but
what didn't really impress me was the quality of the night lapse function basically a time lapse
at night with longer exposure time however the overhauled HDR processing of the hero 8 had a nice
side effect providing us with improved quality night lapses so don't forget to pack your battery
pack because the GoPro batteries do not have the highest capacity so if you want to run for
a while especially longer exposure times you need a battery pack and then you're good to go next up
is the menu design coming from the hero 5 the menu design has been completely overhauled and that's
certainly for the better what I really love about the menu design is that you can create an easily
access now precess this makes swapping between the various functions of your GoPro easy and fast you
can jump from filming 4k 62 time walk to slo-mo to 4k 24 to film yourself super easily and super
fast and if that's not enough you can also add up to 4 shortcuts on your screen to tweak things
like white balance exposure adjustments focal length or give your hyper smooth an extra boost
last but certainly not least let's talk about the build the design because there's one major change
this camera the hero 8 doesn't need these stupid cages anymore this is such an improvement because
you always lose I'll always forget your cage so you cannot mount your camera anymore here they
just have these little flip out legs so that you can use all your existing GoPro accessories that
you have and it also overall reduces the size of the cameras you can also access your USB port
easily if you want to hook up a battery pack to shoot time lapses so overall well done well done
all right so to wrap it all up here's my verdict if you're coming from it three generations older
hero five or even the hero six you will be certainly impressed by the hero eight black
and I would totally recommend upgrading it if you are currently in market for a action camera if you
have the sea hero seven you may not be seeing such a difference in its video quality certainly design
changed a little bit but if you have no go pray at all or come from an older model go get it if
you want to capture action shots unusual angles time lapses or even vlog I mean the audio quality
on this little piece really surprised me and certainly an upgrade from this tin can here yes
you still get a few SD card errors and the menu froze a couple of times for me but nothing major
that would be a red flag so as always thanks so much for watching have a good morning have a good
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