Monday, 25 June 2018

GoPro Hero 5 Black

It has been awhile since I have bought anything from an IT Show. At the recent PC Show from 31st May to 3rd June 2018, I bought the GoPro Hero 5 Black for SGD440. There was a good package for that price because it includes:

- the GoPro Hero 5 Black
- the Shorty (Mini extension pole with tripod)
- the Casey which is a hardcover accessories case
- the Chesty, which is the performance chest mount. Must be tough for them to think of the names of their accessories.
- 32GB Extreme Sandisk Memory card

All these worth about SGD610 originally.

In addition, I bought the Dual Battery Charger. It comes with an extra battery since the GoPro already includes a battery. Having a spare battery is always good as I found out the GoPro battery does not last long, especially after extensive usage.

The GoPro Hero 5 specs:
Photo: 12MP / 30fps Burst
Video: 4K30
Waterproof: upto 10metres
Voice Control: Yes
Video Stablization: Yes
Touch Display: Yes
Karma Compatible: Yes

Advanced Settings
Auto LowLight: Yes
Exposure control: Yes
Protune: Yes
3.5mm Audio Mic In: Yes

Audio Features
Advanced Wind Noise Reduction: 3-mic processing
Stereo Audio: Yes
RAW Audio Capture: .wav format

Connected Features
Wifi + Bluetooth: Yes
GPS: Yes
Connects to GoPro App: yes
HDMI Video Out: Yes

Unboxing

Hero5 - Front

Side with items included

QuukStories is the GoPro app to edit the
videos.

Summary of capabilities.

Includes the frame

Various Youtube videos mentioned about
keeping the blackbase

Standard package items. The GoPro uses USB-C as
the charging and data cable.

With the documentation.

Another view of the items and the battery provided.

It comes with 32GB Extreme Memory card.
I bought this 64GB in this picture. 
I have used the GoPro video on my recent trip to Bali, a few weeks after I purchased it. The video quality is amazing, even in the water. I can see that it tries to stabilises the video during shooting but the best result will be using a gimble. At night, the GoPro is almost useless. So I have to switch to a normal point and shoot camera.