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★★★★★
Awesome sauce!!!!!
Awesome!!!! just plain awesome.I've been wanting one of these for a very long time. I did not want to pay full price for one of them because my main use is to put them on RC planes. I was afraid if I had one of these expensive cameras on my radio controlled planes that I would lose it in the event I crashed one of thme and break the camera itself. the camera itself only last a few specifications that are in the higher end models. My only concern for having one of these was the full 1080p resolution mode which performs with no problems at all. After mounting this on one of my planes I took off for a 15 minute flight using a 16 gigabyte micro SD card. With a 16 gigabyte SD card I can take full 1080p video and record up to hour and thirty minutes. After loading the video on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 7, I was blown away with what I saw in regards to video quality, viewing angle and just overall awesomeness. I have a friend who has a Hero3 and he was pissued off to see what $129 got me versus $300 got him. The biggest drawback for most people is the lack of LCD screen and removable battery. If you really think about it though, the LCD screen on the other models is so small anyways, you really can't experience the full depth of the video playback anyway so what the point? Yes it's more convenient to go to the settings menu using the LCD screen but if you can read an instruction manual it's quite easy to go to the settings using the little LCD screen on this model in the front to choose the settings you want. the removable battery is quite a good option to have but as long as you can charge the unit and get its full use out of every time you use it you should not have a need for replaceable batteries unless you're doing professional filming or other things that require you to have extra batteries for long recording times. The newer models provide WiFi transferring and Bluetooth which are both awesome featurea but you pay $200 more, so if you want all the features of the higher end models minus the bells and whistles, this is the Gopro to have hands down! I never review a product on Amazon if its straight garbage unless its something that's advertised that it's really not. I've never been happier with something so affordable that produces it's uses so well. Thank you Amazon and thank you GoPro!
October 2014 · Electronics
the product in question
GoPro Hero
4.5★ · 2,750 ratings, as of 2023