So now we know the GoPro Hero 8 is coming out this month how will it
compare to the GoPro Hero 7 versus the DJI Osmo action we're gonna talk about
it in the video coming up all right guys I'm Brett Garamella with BrettGaramella.com
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right into this video so the GoPro Hero 8 images and specs were released on a
German website called win future and on this website you can see these photos
here and we're gonna get to the specs at the end of this video but the specs
weren't really the most impressive part about what was released for this GoPro
Hero 8 what we're gonna see from this new GoPro action camera what we're gonna
see is a lot of accessories and features for the accessories ok the specs are
pretty much the same like I said we're going to talk about at the end of this
video but let's talk about this thing they called the media module which is
built into the GoPro Hero 8 so this media module has two hot shoes one on
the top and one on the side and basically you can add an LED light you
can add an external microphone you can add an external screen if you want this
module also has a little bigger mic on it looks bigger than the previous GoPro
action cameras and it looks a lot better it's bigger obviously it's probably
going to be better and you can add an external mic hopefully it will be a
legitimate external mic out port that we can add good audio that'll be great
so that's a huge upgrade for this new GoPro now one nice feature for people
who like to be in water I'm right near a lake right now I like scuba diving too
and snorkeling for those type of people if you're with your GoPro and you're
just holding it or you're worried about dropping it here in a boat and stuff
like that it has a little orange floaties so you can put this around just
like the media module and the GoPro will just float to the top okay so if you
drop it you're not gonna lose this it's not gonna sink to the bottom so that's a
nice feature as well a nice little accessory that you can get as well and
another nice feature that I think longtime GoPro users will appreciate is
the bottom little hinge so as you can see on you know the action camera right
here this little bottom part it's gonna be able to fold up used to be able to
not fold that up so you can fold it up and I don't know if they're gonna have
another attachment they might and accessory where you can add to a gimbal
stabilizer a tripod without using this that's what I think they'll they'll have
so you'll be able to fold it up which is kind of nice
gives you a little more options for using it as a media module so to speak I
was hoping for a better sensor however the specs as we're gonna talk about now
don't seem to be that big of an upgrade so I think the specs were a big letdown
but the accessories were pretty good now the specs are basically the same thing
that we saw from the GoPro Hero 7 so 12 megapixels 1/2 point 3-inch CMOS sensor
not a bigger sensor not a one-inch sensor which a lot of us were hoping for
which is kind of a letdown same 4k up to 60 frames per second and shooting 1080
and super slo-mo up to 240 frames per second I was hoping for at least 480 or
maybe like 900 or a thousand frames per second in 1080 we're not gonna see it
that I was kind of letdown about the hyper smooth this is the same I'm fine
with that I thought the stabilization was great
with the hero 7 and the fact that the hyper smooth is gonna be there again the
same thing that's not that big of a deal another nice thing is that it's gonna
use the same battery so if you have another GoPro you don't have to buy new
batteries that I like a lot I like the fact that GoPro keeps the same battery
alright I would have like longer battery but the
fact I can use my old batteries is nice some of us may be saying to ourselves oh
why don't you just upgrade and give us a longer battery because these batteries
do die pretty quickly it's kind of a gift and a curse you know you can use
your old batteries but for new new users it's kind of gonna be a little bit of a
bummer the size and weight is basically the same exact thing so it's almost like
a GoPro Hero 7 with a few upgrades for accessories that's the way I see it ok
same size same way it can go down to 10 meters so for your divers you're gonna
have to get the housing unit to go down further than 10 meters or about 30 feet
30 35 feet I've gone down to 35 feet with this when I was diving and it's it
was perfectly fine now the price everybody wants to know the price now
the new price is gonna be 470 euros or 520 American dollars which to me seems
kind of I especially since the DGA Osmo action
just dropped in price down to $2.99 on Amazon right now and I'll put a link
below to that so for five twenty when you can get a GoPro Hero seven that is
really great now the GoPro Hero seven I believe it the internal audio is pretty
good I mean it could be better but for an action camera I can actually vlog
with this and I thought the audio was was better than the DGA Osmo action so
having that external mic will improve the audio but do you need it not read
that really for some of you you know who want to have really professional videos
really great audio yeah but it's not really necessary okay one thing I forgot
to mention I want to keep this video too long is the fact that you can also
livestream with this new GoPro so the GoPro Hero 8 you can live stream to
YouTube and other platforms social media platforms which is a nice feature and it
also shoots h.264 and h.265 so shooting h.265 for you people who have the
computers and capacity for that that's a really nice feature but for most people
it's probably not going to be necessary so I think GoPro is targeting people who
are into making higher-end films or making their films a little better
making the audio a little better with these accessories adding a light which
is nice and it's gonna have a night mode so low light and anything in night I
think it's gonna be better but we still have that small sensor which is still
kind of annoying we'll see what they do sometimes you these camera companies and
these action camera companies can do amazing things even with the small
sensor so well we'll have to wait and see but other than that it's pretty much
the same specs seems to be like this the same camera and one last thing I would
have liked to see that I haven't heard for the GoPro Hero 8 is a front screen
like the DJI Osmo action so for $299 you get a front screen and it's very
comparable now the GoPro I put other videos you can see them over here that
I've done comparisons and you can see this video here as well and to me it has
more dynamic range than the DJI Osmo action also has better audio but the
Osmo action has that front screen so if it's really a medium
module and they want to talk about media why didn't you add the front screen it
really doesn't make sense to me maybe they will update that but it seems like
it's not gonna have that front screen which is kind of a bummer a lot to wait
and see leave your comments below what do you
think about this new GoPro Hero 8 I'm Brett Garamella with BrettGaramella.com
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