GoPro Hero 8 Black Review: 18 Things to Know

            Here I am telling the best camera I ever seen .you have to go ahead and get it back to GoPro support to get swapped out now GoPro does note though that with their GoPro Plus subscription package that allows you to get it replaced on the fly without any questions asked so that at least is positive and of course GoPro Plus has like the uploading bit and 50% of accessories and other things that that are already useful but that is definitely a bummer because in the past it was just like 20 or so bucks to replace the lens versus now paying five bucks a month.

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                Also I was concerned that there would be no way to put ND filters on it but GoPros hasn't launched they've partnered with polar pro so there will be ND filters available for the killer 8 black so that's not all bad news next the hero 8 includes a new front microphone now there are three microphones on total on the hero 8 there's one on the front on the side and on the bottom and we saw a ton of audio improvements in the hero 7 and with the hero 8 they said this new front microphone is better suited from a wind standpoint and then with that they paired a bunch of algorithm improvements as well to go ahead and not only deal with the wind side of things better than they have in a hero 7 but also to go ahead and improve ambient noise in quieter environments still talking to you though and cruising down this little section right here now definitely got a head blow at this point I'm still talking to you though okay we're getting in the homestretch here but don't worry you got a few more cool things to talk about starting off with the Auto leveling in the GoPro app so if you ever mounted your camera just slightly off-center but didn't realize it and then captured a bunch of footage you're like that's not ideal - GoPro app will just automatically level for you and I'm not gay straightened out again so that's handy because certainly you could have used third-party apps in the past to do that but this is now in the GoPro app itself next a brief note on battery life I'm gonna put all the battery life estimates right now on the screen from GoPro those are the official specs in my testing it's pretty close to that in more or less similar to what I saw on the hero 7 block in the past overall no real shifts there either positive or negative in my experience next it's worth noting that GoPro says they've changed a little bit of the coloring on the camera between the hero 7 and the hero black and you can see that in certain scenarios by and large it seems to color better and more true though have seen like one maybe two scenarios and last month where it didn't quite nail that overall though it's definitely either equal or better than I've seen in the past the colors are just popping on everything I do for photos to videos.
            I have no real complaints there finally let's talk briefly about the new GoPro Hero max that is again the fusion replacement of the past now the first thing you'll notice it's a heck of a lot smaller than the fusion camera was so that's positive number twos I've gotten rid of the requirement to have two SD cards in it which was a pain in the butt and post-processing and all that kind of stuff they've also added a 1.7 inch screen on the front of it which is super handy for framing and figuring out what's in frame router frame because while it is a 360 degree camera you sometimes want to go ahead and use just a single chunk of that frame as opposed to the entire thing further they've added a shotgun mic to it as part of their six microphone array on the camera so there's a ton of microphones on this camera itself and.
          So then they've added 1080p live streaming as well so something that the older fusion didn't have but I want to kind of caution you that this isn't a case of having two GoPros for the price of one plus a hundred bucks for example if you're gonna use a single front lens there it's still 1440p you're not gonna be able to do 4k like you could on the hero a black so just keep that in mind it's a different type of camera which is a great camera potentially so stay tuned for later on in October when it comes out and I'll go ahead and do a kind of a full new things review on it then okay so there you go that is all the new things on the GoPro Hero 8 black you know from my perspective if you're trying to slide between buying a hero 7 and a hero 8 for the extra 70 bucks I'd easily go hero 8 I don't think it's probably to be worth it for most people to upgrade from the hero 7 to the hero 8 and I think you know for me personally I really love the new stabilization of the hero 8 but I'm also a bit bummed about some of the trade-offs they've made around this especially around some of the accessories stuff and finally if you found this video interesting don't forget hit subscribe Derek's I got more videos on the way of course including eventually the GoPro Hero Max when it comes out and then down the road the new mods and plenty of details on all that goodness as soon as they're out have a good one...