the new gopro hero 6 black is the best action cam ever but if we're being
honest we can kind of expect that at this point right it's kind of like this
iphone 8 plus right here if it isn't the best iphone that they've
made yet wouldn't they just throw it in a bin where it belongs and keep selling
seven pluses so the question is just how much better is the hero 6 black
compared to last year's hero 5 black and at this price for something that is just
a camera how much better is it than this
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so the hero 6 black has nearly the exact same body as the hero 5 meaning that it
is waterproof without an external enclosure it works with the same
accessories including the karma grip and drone and it has the same 20 milliamp
hour batteries and usb type-c charging port
gopro's companion app remains an option for remote control and monitoring but
like with the hero5 you don't have to use it anymore because the integrated 51
millimeter touchscreen makes it super easy to adjust settings like shutter
speed white balance iso and beep volume
and to review your footage in the field as long as you aren't underwater at the
time with that said once you've dialed in your favorite settings i think you'll
probably give most of your commands to the hero 6 black by voice
and i know i know it's everybody's favorite gimmick right
now along with ai but think about it it actually makes way
more sense here than it does on most devices
if your camera is mounted to your head and your hands are full of you know
sports balls and athletic peripherals
you have no easy way of knowing whether the camera is recording or even what
mode it's in but that doesn't matter with voice commands because it will
actually change from photo mode to video when i say gopro start recording
so yeah i know voice operation was
introduced on the hero5 black but it's also been expanded here in a couple of
meaningful ways including the ability to turn the camera off and up to eight
hours later back on which is theoretically awesome for saving battery
gopro turn on gopro turn on
as long as you can get it to work reliably okay then Linus that's great
how about something that the five didn't have
sure while it might not look new on the
outside instead of using a commercially available processor from amborella like
just about every other action cam on the market
under the hood of the hero 6 black we find something really special a brand
new custom processor called the gp1
cool name by the way you guys i wonder what that stands for
so this new chip has double the processing
power boosting nearly all of the camera's capabilities allowing it to
record at higher bit rates capture higher dynamic range videos and even HDR
stills and perform electronic image stabilization along more axes
but most of that stuff doesn't actually even make it to the bold print on the
front of the box there the focus is on the frame rate
4k video at 60 frames per second up from
30 last gen and 1080p video at 240
frames per second for some wicked slow-mo up from 120 on the last gen
videos recorded at these high frame rates used the new h.265 hevc codec
while the rest used garden variety h.264
it also has a new recording format called 4k 4x3 or about 4000 by 3000
pixels and it can do this at up to 30 frames per second this mostly adds
vertical space to the recording and the purpose is to help the editor ensure
that the action isn't getting cut off at the top or bottom of the frame if the
camera gets accidentally misaligned while you're running around out there on
the subject of framing you can also zoom now sort of hero 6 black has a linear
slider now for digital zoom though you cannot adjust it while you're recording
so i would think of this as more like an
infinite number of field of view options and indeed the old narrow and medium
field of view modes are no longer with us finally the new photo burst mode
called auto takes up to 30 photos per second but can actually take fewer if it
thinks that each shot requires more exposure time
which all sounds nice but
bearing in mind that the hero 5 black was only 400 when it launched just a
year ago is this refresh really worth the 500
price tag i mean we are getting close to flagship smartphone territory and come
to think of it on top of everything else it does the iphone 8 can take 4k video
at 60 FPS too is there any point buying this thing at
all side by side you can see that video
quality between the two is actually pretty comparable though
keep in mind that it is not exactly an apples to apples comparison given that
the hero is wide angle and the iphone 8
plus has a more conventional lens and a telephoto lens on its two discrete
sensors the hero 6 also lacks image
stabilization at 4k 60 while the iphone
8 has optical image stabilization all the time
with that said when shooting at 4k30 where the hero 6 black's electronic
image stabilization actually works it does work really well
now obviously though these cameras are very different gopro products are rugged
and have an ecosystem of accessories that have given them their reputation as
the primo action camera brand and even if you go
out and get a gimbal for your iphone or you tape it to your forehead like i did
last week you're still not going to get the immersive first person experience
that gopro's wide angle lens delivers
so does the fact then that the hero 6 black
is arguably the best action cam ever made mean that you should run out and
buy it well if it were 249 that i would say
hell yeah man but
and this actually seems intentional gopro has priced it
out of the range of you know your casual
music festival attendee and closer to the prosumer threshold where the target
buyer for this probably makes some money
maybe even to attract sponsors for their downhill racing or motocross or whatever
with epic action cam footage
this strategy shift will probably result in fewer units sold but let's face it
that was happening anyway and at least this way gopro can make up for it with
higher margins from the people who can more easily justify the higher price tag
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