Hello. Today I'm going to be looking at the GoPro Hero4 Session Camera.
It's brand new and it's got a whole lot of stuff to play with.
AdoramaTV presents 'Capture the Action' with Martin Dorey.
Hello, I'm Martin Dorey and you are watching AdoramaTV.
Now, today I'm going to be mucking about with this little beauty; the very small
and very pretty and very beautiful GoPro Session 4 Camera. It's brand new. It's
very tiny, it's very easy to use to a point and, yeah, it's a lot of fun. In
the last episode I looked at everything that was in the box and we looked at basic
functions and the fact that this camera is waterproof in itself which is great
so when you go in the water you don't have things like fogging problems from housings.
And also I talked about its one-touch control using the single button on top here.
Now, press the button once and it records video. You press it, hold it and it will record
timelapse so it's really easy to use on the run and it will power up and power down each time
you use it, so conserving the battery power which means you could be out for a
whole day on your mountain bike or for three or four hours surfing, press the button
to shoot when you want to shoot. Press the button to turn off and it powers down so
it doesn't have to use up all that battery power. That's something that's really useful
Now, those one-touch controls have to be controlled somehow so you need to have a little
bit more control over this camera than just using the onboard menu. And the best way to
do that is to use either the remote control or the GoPro app. Now, we've used these before, we
know what they're all about. You get into the GoPro app and you can really start
to get into all the camera's functions so that's what we should do now.
OK, so the first thing we need to do to get into all its functions is to turn on
the wifi which you do by pressing the little button at the back here and that will light up the screen as
you'll see and it will offer you the wifi mode at some point eventually. There we go
wireless control. Press that. App and mike, press yes. There you go and you'll see we have...
the blue light starts flashing which means its wireless is on. Now, what you then have to do
is to pair the GoPro app with the camera. Now, I've already done that but it's all
in here. This is your homework, ok? Read through the manual before you start
using it. Pairing your camera is really easy, it's all straight forward. It's actually
easier on this camera than it was on the HERO3 + which is great news so for
the time being, what I've got to do is go to my GoPro app, go to the wifi settings on
my phone and choose my Session Camera, which will then pair up the wifi. Then I go to the GoPro app.
Connect my camera. Now, the app has changed since we last used it. It is updated and
will now show you all the potential pairings that you've got. I've got three
cameras on here. I'm going to choose 'sessionnemeton' and you'll hear it power up.
and it will give me a nice preview of Chris, the cameraman.
There you have it. Now,
from here, obviously, as per usual, this is how you can set your shot. So if you need to frame up at any point,
Let's take a picture of Chris. If you need to frame up at any point,
you use the app because it would give you a live picture. The app, as we know,
will also give you access to all the functions. Now the default setting for
the camera when it comes out of factory is going to be NTSC and 1080 and
a photo burst every half a second so if you want anything different from that you're going to have to go
in and change it. For a start, if you're using this in the UK or Europe you'll need
to go to power, so you go over onto the app, switch it over
to power. But here in the States, no problem, it's set up for you guys already. OK, we can
change the resolution on here, we can go from 1080 super view, we can shoot it
720 and we can change the frames per second, shoot at 720, we can shoot up 200
frames a second which is great, slow-mo, we'll try that out later.
Basically, all you're doing is setting up your camera so that your one button functions and
will work properly for you and that's perfect. As we know, the app
will also allow us to review some footage so here's some stuff that we shot
recently. There we go and you can see it on there. Here's some stuff that we shot with the
camera recently, Maggie surfing.
She did quite well there.
So you can review all your footage and you can delete anything you don't want.
Also, of course, as we know, as usual with all the other GoPro's that we've been playing
with, you can record straight from the app, so if you've got this remotely, you can record straight away,
which is actually, I think, one of its best features, so there it is. Now, there you go.
So that's recorded that. I can review that straight away.
There you go. Clever, huh?
OK, so the thing we need to do now is get out there, get some footage strap it to a
few bits and pieces, chuck myself off some stuff and go and review some of that footage. The thing
to remember about this camera is that it doesn't have all the huge range of settings and
capabilities that you get with the HERO4 and the HERO3+ because it's a smaller and more compact unit
so it will only shoot 100 frames on 720. It will shoot 25 or 50 on power or 30 at 60 in NTSC on 1080. It won't
shoot in 4K,
but, you know, I don't have a 4K telly, so it doesn't really bother me to be honest, and actually a lot of the stuff
that I do, I'm going to be uploading for youtube anyway in which case 1080 is more than
adequate. In fact, what this is being shot on at the moment, on a big camera is 1080 anyway so
its full broadcast quality so you get as much as you could possibly ever want
and that's it really. Time to go and have some fun.
I've got the GoPro now, tethered to a FCS leash plug with the special Leash plug adapter.
I've got the tether attached to a sticky tether mount, it's pretty secure and if it did come
loose, hopefully it would be pretty safe. I've got it set to 1080 at 25 frames, which
is the highest quality, it's super wide and it should be on one button control so I can just paddle out when I
think I'm going to catch a wave, press the button and go. It's quite rough out there today so
I'm not sure if I'm going to get anything but for the sake of the film, I shall soldier on!
I love this little thing. I have to say I really, really, really like it. It's so small and tiny and it's kind of cute
but it's also really easy to use and actually, pairing up the app and the camera
becomes second nature and when you're used to using the
3+ it just happens, you get used to it. I love the fact that it's one
button control. I could have it all day on the car or bike or whatever and just
press the button and it goes straight into powering up and shooting and also with
the long press you could shoot a time-lapse again so that's fantastic.
You've got two basic controls, giving you two, I imagine, of the most popular and
most wanted
functions, which is great so GoPro really have got it right there getting smaller
and smaller, maintaining the quality. Yeah, I absolutely love it.
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