Go Pro Hero 4 or Session

[Toymotor]

Rode with a couple of mates round the Hunuas' today, was able to film the ride with the battery bacpac installed no worries with room to spare. Will have a trawl through the footage see if there's anything worth keeping. Very happy with it though. Got home and decided I didn't want to hang the riding boots up quite yet, so spun the camera around and took the niece for her first ride. Might make her a biker out of her one day

[awa355]

which resolution size are you recording in?

[Toymotor]

which resolution size are you recording in?

1080p, but had video+photo enabled, so this is just a still image.

[awa355]

I will upgrade sometime to the silver 4. Better low light capability, and more options for faster fps rates would be nice. The Hero3 white is fairly limited in those areas. 1080 at higher fps would not playback so well on my existing laptop, but I would love to have a smoother slo-mo playback than the 720 x 50 setting.

[R650R]

I will upgrade sometime to the silver 4. Better low light capability, and more options for faster fps rates would be nice. The Hero3 white is fairly limited in those areas. 1080 at higher fps would not playback so well on my existing laptop, but I would love to have a smoother slo-mo playback than the 720 x 50 setting.

The problem might be in what you edited it/rendered it with afterwards. Eg today I shot at 30fps then while editing noticed photoshop was defaulted to 25fps on editing window (I could change it just couldn't be arsed), little things like that can cause problems in final vid.

Well I dipped a toe into the gopro world today with the Session. Given it quick test on the mtb and it coped well in low light and severe vibration on forest trails.
The one touch recording is not quite idiot proof, I did flaff about a bit but then I hadn't fully read the instructions... lol
Only thing I don't like is there is very little space to drill holes in the proprietory mounting system for custom installations and mounting in odd spots. But I do like the form factor.
Will suss things out bit more then get it mounted on the dR in some interesting places and blat up to the hotpools for offroad ride....
Sound recorded was ok given wind noise, mic must be in good spot or have decent noise cancelling algorythims.

[awa355]

Looks like some good advice on the Hero 4 video formats here.

http://abekislevitz.com/understandin...-in-the-hero4/

Probably the best site I have visited concerning 'knowing your gopro'.

[5ive]

Rode with a couple of mates round the Hunuas' today, was able to film the ride with the battery bacpac installed no worries with room to spare. Will have a trawl through the footage see if there's anything worth keeping. Very happy with it though. Got home and decided I didn't want to hang the riding boots up quite yet, so spun the camera around and took the niece for her first ride. Might make her a biker out of her one day

Was a good ride, especially since the weather was good, and you got some good quality photos with your Go Pro. You've inspired me further towards getting a video camera myself. Maybe I'll get one for summer.

[Scubbo]

couldn't it be fixed with just a fixed focal point? that look in videos from velocity change is the reason I havent bought one of these things yet @_O do they have a setting to stop the auto focus?

Its a technical issue known as rolling shutter and will always be present on low end (compared to DSLR or better) devices, especially with the wide angle type lens these small cameras have.

[Toymotor]

Was a good ride, especially since the weather was good, and you got some good quality photos with your Go Pro. You've inspired me further towards getting a video camera myself. Maybe I'll get one for summer.

I think Heath sounded like he wanted one too Yeh i'm wrapped with the quality of the photos. Looking through the videos, there is some rolling shutter like the video posted up before. Will have a play around with the settings next time around, see if it improves. We got some nice views from the plateau heading down to Kaiaua that were picked up in vids. Might try knock something together when I've got the time.

couldn't it be fixed with just a fixed focal point? that look in videos from velocity change is the reason I havent bought one of these things yet @_O do they have a setting to stop the auto focus?

It is a fixed focal lens afaik.

[Toymotor]

Better late than never. Did a ride out to Muriwai via an access road so had my 1st tutu editing with that. Then this evening i went back and edited some footage of the hunuas. So got a mix of sand and seal, to cater to all lol unless you hate metal/rock music

Editing maybe still a bit rough, but I've spent some time on it so i'm happy, but i'm by no means accomplished hahaha.

Muriwai:



Castle to Kaiaua:

[5ive]

Nice vids!

I forgot about that stupid bitch trying to get a Darwin award, shaking my head at her as I slowed down as much as I could, and riding the white line.

Letterbox positioning failure.

[Toymotor]

Cheers. Haha yeh, i moved to the left as soon as i spotted the car, then to the right once i realized it was someone with a death wish. I guess she never got over playing chicken as a child?