Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

UPDATE 2 stars instead of 1: So I initially reviewed this camera wanting to use it more as a general purpose camera than ONLY an active outdoors camera (though as you'll see I am using it for both). This is my first GoPro so I didn't expect all the overheating issues that all of them suffer from, apparently. Also the DJI Action 3 is apparently no different from what I've seen. Unfortunately even when doing 4k 30fps indoors, as the max the manual suggests for indoors recording, I would still get overheating issues after about 27 minutes. I did take it to a race track this weekend to film in-car sitting on the windshield, and I was able to get almost every session without overheating at 2.7k 60fps except a few times. It was kind of tucked away from the sun but often had direct sunlight shining on it. I tried 4k 60fps but was never able to get a full session without overheating (about 25-30 minutes record time). So I started doing research at the race track and found a lot of people having luck by adding heatsinks to certain parts of it, and so I was intrigued to try to find a better solution, that still allows the GoPro to be in a case, since the GoPro 11 performs great in everything other than thermal dissipation. I thought of the idea to find a metal case that might be able to dissipate some of the heat itself to help, and so I found an aluminum one by SmallRig, that happeningly other people in the reviews commented on as helping their overheating issues. I decided to try that out and sure enough, I get much longer recording times indoors and the (limited) outdoors recording I've done. Unfortunately i couldn't get it and test it while at the race track but I have no doubt it would be able to record a full 25 minute session at 4k 60fps (or at least close to it depending how hot it is). I know some people won't understand why you'd want to record a 4k 120fps video for 30 minutes, but one of the reasons I bought this camera was to be able to take highly detailed videos for videos taken from the dash of my car on the race track. Even at 4k 60fps it's not up to the task. Unfortunately the unreliability of the overheating makes the use case more limited than what it seems like the product should provide. I think GoPro needs to focus on refining their product to dissipate heat better in the future iterations, it has incredible quality in all other aspects and shouldn't be so limited in how it can be used for such an expensive product IMO. I haven't used it yet, but I am going to use it on my helmet when mountain biking, but I very much doubt it's even up to to that task at 4k 60fps. I'm going to keep using my GoPro for various things, but my main recording device is going to end up just being my phone, since it's the most reliable way to record high quality video in a small form factor. With the SmallRig as an added buy it should do most of what I want fine, but unfortunately it's not a perfect fix. 2/5 stars, if you can use it within it's odd limitations, don't mind buying and running it with a SmallRig, have no problem shooting at lower resolution or frames per section, and/or live in a colder environment, this might be the perfect product for you. Otherwise I'd look into a different solution altogether. ORIGINAL REVIEW: I'm not sure what they were thinking by not fixing the overheating issues that the Hero 10 had. At 4k 120fps I get 15 minutes out of it before it overheats and shuts itself off, and at 4k 60fps I get about 17 minutes. Neither are maxing out it's capabilities either. Both tests were done indoors in an air conditioned environment, I can't imagine how much shorter it'll be if it's sitting directly in the sun or just plain outdoors at all in a hotter environment. Sure the quality is great, but you'll want to look into something else unless you're happy with the fact that the camera is fundamentally flawed and only allows 15 minutes of use before shutting off for 10 minutes to cool down. This thing is getting returned immediately, I am extremely disappointed in GoPro and probably won't ever trust any of their other offerings given how badly engineered this is for 500 dollars.