welcome back to Berm Peak I'm Seth and today I'm going to be telling you all about the GoPro Hero
10 black this is GoPro's newest flagship camera and it's pretty interesting but the question is
is this different from the previous GoPro or is it kind of the same so what did we discover
about the Hero 10 well i'll tell you about video quality first and then we'll go into usability
now the most noticeable thing that's different about the Hero 10 is the color if you get any
of the last four generations of GoPro and you just start shooting with them they look pretty
good right out of the box they have these bright vibrant colors everything pops but videographers
and professionals don't really like that we like to shoot a little bit flatter a little
bit more washed out so that when we put it into the computer we can then choose how the colors are
going to look and so I think every GoPro back to the 4 gives you the option to change from flat to
GoPro color now it's interesting the Hero 10 black has a new color profile that it comes with out of
the box it's called natural it's not too contrasty it's not too colorful and it's not washed out and
flat it looks like real life so if you know what you're doing you can take an older GoPro and make
it kind of look like this with a little bit of work but now you don't really have to it has
this natural setting default right out of the box and it looks really really good now another thing
we noticed is there is a little bit less noise in low light situations if it's getting late in the
day if it's a little darker out it's just a less noisy image it just looks better in low light and
if you're a professional or you shoot in lots of challenging lighting environments that's kind of
worth it then there's stabilization GoPro claims that this has the best stabilization of any GoPro
they've ever made and it probably does but to be honest on a bicycle I can't tell that much of a
difference if you strap let's say a Hero 7 to the chin bar of a full face helmet it looks incredible
and so does this if you take any GoPro and you put it on your chest and you're going down a really
bumpy trail you see all sorts of weird artifacts in the stabilization and it doesn't look perfect
the same is true for the Hero 10. it doesn't look perfect on a chest mount later on the day when it
starts to get a little bit darker out it's not going to have as easy of a time stabilizing the
image it's still just an incremental improvement over the last one now with all that said strapped
to the chin bar of a helmet it looks absolutely incredible but in the right lighting conditions
so did the last three generations of GoPro they're all incredible cameras
now the big news that everybody's talking about on the Hero 10 is 5.3 k resolution with 60 frames per
second and full stabilization so this thing is doing resolutions and frame rates that
really really high-end dslrs can't do but are you gonna notice it when you upload it to facebook and
it plays in a little square compressed probably not now what it does give you is a little bit of
flexibility if you're the kind of user that edits your videos takes them into final cut pro or adobe
premiere you're going to be able to punch in crop do additional software stabilization and you're
going to have tons of pixels to work with so while a typical consumer isn't going to really notice a
big difference in image quality in 5.3 k what they are gonna be able to do is take stills from their
video so if you have some frame that just looks amazing you're watching the video you pause it
oh my god that's incredible the dolphin was like pooping as a I don't know you can just
take that frame and get a picture out of it and you can post that picture and it's going
to be super high resolution it's going to be bigger than the image on a 4k tv
so to me the really exciting thing about 5.3k is grabbing thumbnail images grabbing photos getting
more out of your video than just video now it's also worth noting that you can't use 5.3 k in time
lapse mode which is perplexing to me I would love to be able to punch in on my time lapses
or pan around the frame and yeah I can only do it in 4k which is pretty good
but other GoPros can do that too but there is a mode I'm really excited about and that is
4k 120. in plain english 4k 120 gives you amazing quality slow motion we were getting shots of jack
whipping over this huge jump and it just looks incredible it looks like something
that would come out of one of my much higher end cameras and anybody can just like walk into
best buy buy one of these and get incredible shots as long as there's some decent lighting
now on older GoPros to get 120 frames per second you would have had to lower the resolution
so in other words you're sacrificing image quality to make the video really smooth
when it's playing in slow motion on the Hero 10 you can shoot buttery smooth slow motion using
all the pixels that will be on a typical high-end tv in your living room now the other video quality
features I'm not going to bore you with in this video you can look up the specs on GoPro's
website you can go to like a real tech reviewers youtube channel where they're going to tell you
every little thing let's just say this does have a lot more shooting options than the previous GoPro
so let's get into the other features that make the Hero 10 unique and that make it a little bit
better than the previous models now the first feature is an absolute game changer and that is
a usable touch screen i've used them all the insta 360 the dji all the imitation cameras
they all have better touch screens in the GoPro but not anymore this goes toe to toe with any
touchscreen i've ever used on any camera and so that alone might make the upgrade worth it if
you're using your GoPro a lot the next feature is with the GoPro app when you're pairing your camera
with the app it does so quicker for me it was noticeably quicker and noticeably more reliable
now overall I don't know if the camera is more reliable because I didn't really get the chance to
use it for very long I'm filming this a week ago and so it probably doesn't have the same software
you're using my GoPro locked up on me twice both during playback mode it never locked up when I was
actually using it to film anybody who's used the GoPro knows they fritz out every once in a while
and you need to pop the battery out and put it back in but like I said I'm not using the same
firmware as you will and I'm sure it's going to improve now another usability feature one that I'm
really excited about is scheduled capture you can put your GoPro in any mode you want and set a
time for when it should start recording that means you can use a GoPro for a construction time lapse
this is a construction time-lapse camera I bought it for construction time lapses
you'll have somebody building a wall or building a trail or grading something you set it up you
program it to turn on at seven o'clock in the morning and turn off at the end of the workday
and you get this big long time lapse now you can take a Hero 10 plug it into a usb battery
mount it in a tree somewhere and watch like a swimming pool being built you program it
to start recording at 8 o'clock in the morning and turn off at the end of the day that's a
really cool feature you could also set these up on a racecourse somewhere and program them all
to start recording at the same time when the race starts that's not a feature that everybody's going
to find really useful but I will because I went and spent 400 on this thing that doesn't even
have good video quality now you can do it in 4k on a GoPro so let's just review everything really
quick the biggest new features are really good touch screen 4k and 120 so amazing slow motion
the ability to do scheduled capture a quicker and more reliable interface with the GoPro app
a new natural color profile incremental video quality and stabilization improvements all around
and a new 5.3k resolution which is pretty good for grabbing stills every time a new GoPro is released
you're gonna hear that it has revolutionary image quality and revolutionary stabilization in that
it's the best GoPro ever and yeah it's way better it's more powerful but most users are not gonna
see any difference you're gonna see a way bigger difference between good lighting and bad lighting
than upgrading to a better camera so to me the big news today is that GoPro's amazing older cameras
that are very powerful are now more affordable to everyone thanks for joining us today I know
tech reviews are not normally what we do here but the GoPro is very relevant in mountain biking
and so I wanted to give you my perspective as to whether or not it's worth buying whether
you should spend your hard earned money on a brand new GoPro if you like this video if
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