GoPro HD Motorsports Hero Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,416 words · ~7 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the GoPro be a hero Motorsports hero
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this is a true HD video camera that is
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designed with a mounting system that allows you to mount it to your car or
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your motorbike these are the pictures they have on the front let's go ahead
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and have a look at this very fancy box from the side you've got it mounted on a
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dirt bike there it's waterproof to 180 ft okay this is a
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takes 5 megapixel photos included mounts
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are right here supports suction cup two
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curved adhesive mounts three flat adhesive mounts three-way pivot ARM and
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cables are included all right uh you know what let's do this side first where
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we've got it mounted on what appears to be a go-kart then we've got a dirt bike
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again and here it is mounted in a car all right on the back we see the overall
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specs so in terms of video we can support up to 1080p at 30 FPS or 720p at
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30 or 60 FPS light sensitivity video for
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okay the video format is h264 and it also supports mp4 file
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format cool all right mono audio so it
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does capture audio it uh has a 5 megapixel resolution
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okay for photos that's good storage is done by SD card up to a 32 gig Max and
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average record times are here so if you're recording at wow it looks like
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you actually don't get much additional recording time for stepping down from
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1080p to 720p so 12 minutes at 1080p
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with uh per gig and 16 minutes per gig
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at 720p okay USB 2 is included and it has a
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battery that runs for approximately 2.25 hours per recording supports OSX as well
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as Windows uh Vista but I suppose it will also support Windows 7 without much
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difficulty as well so this was a complicated box to get open because of
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the stick that are on the side here but why don't we have a look at the included
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accessories and wow we've got some pretty uh Fancy Pants looking cables
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here okay so that looks like a component HD video out okay then we have a
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composite video out including audio I don't know why it has stereo audio
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connectors when it only actually supports uh mono audio recording but
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whatever I'm not going to not going to question it there's the USB cable for
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transferring your data all right we got suction
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Mount
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H okay so these can be loosened oh yeah
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there we go there we go so you can actually adjust that a number of
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different ways there you go you press in
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order to I guess attach it here let's
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see yep press to attach and that one will in theory
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release it or we press to release
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well it comes off okay next we have some
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double-sided tape Mount
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ones okay so there's something there's something
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else there's other more different thing no that's the same
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thing okay let's just dump these out here got another one of
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those there's one of these and another
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one of those so it looks like these Mount by by sliding in
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here okay so yeah you can clip that guy on there and then uh this guy can o I
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don't know how to get it out now there we go so you can slide that off so basically these allow you to position
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them in a bunch of different places where you are might be likely to attach
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the GoPro at some later point in time so then there's a couple different options
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for mounts that go on there so there's this one and this one okay
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and last but not least that one okay wow
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it's kind of neat that it includes all these different accessories so you can mount it on a variety of different
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Vehicles just by by grabbing it and clipping it on all right here we
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have wow all right I'm just going to cheat
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because that's what I do when I don't know what else to do okay so here we go
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two curved adhesive mounts that's these
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here you might as well look at these while I while I talk about them oh no
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these must be the two curved adhesive mounts yeah they're curved so that
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they'll stick to something that is rounded see that two curved adhesive
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mounts uh three flat adhesive mounts
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that is these guys right here so these are flat on the bottom all right we have
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three-way pivot ARM that must be this
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guy okay then we
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have just a bunch of mounts fine okay
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documentation is all included Within instructions which I will definitely
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definitely need at this point in time we've got a couple different languages
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for instructions hopefully there's an English one somewhere consult
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consult consult okay that's okay we'll figure
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that out later and warranty so warranty
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is guaranteed for one year from the original dat of purchase here we have
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the battery and now finally let's extract the GoPro camera unit itself
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give me a minute on this one so here it is extracted it's
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attached to the base via the sliding clicking mechanism that you use to
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attach it to either your flat or your curved mounts here so there you go you
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can throw it on one of those like that or we can go ahead
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and okay it is a little tough to remove
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from those once you've got it on there there we
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are all right so let's have a look at the unit itself so so here we have a
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button here we have the lens here we have an LCD screen here we have other
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more different button here we have a latch which appears to assist us in
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removing the waterproof
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cover there we are oo and this is where
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all the magic happens so there's your
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microphone there is your USB there's your TV output there's your HD TV output
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this is also your sound output if you're running HDTV all right you've got your
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battery compartment on the back there there's your SD slot and oh yeah here we
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go here are all the different modes so R1 is wide VGA R2 is 720p at 30 FPS R3
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is 60 FPS 720p our four is 960p at 30
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FPS and our five is there you go 1080p at 30 FPS so for best sound in high wind
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use at less than 100 mph use the non-waterproof door so presumably that
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is the one okay and for greater than 100 mph
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use the waterproof door so let's go ahead and see how complicated it is to
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install the battery aha very uncomplicated so we're just going to
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open this up I mean step back for a minute and
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check this out there's so much stuff in this package I would not have guessed
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that one small package could contain so
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much HD goodness
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all right so let me just make sure I haven't missed anything critical here in
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this video it is shock proof apparently
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bombproof and waterproof okay it can
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shoot handsfree excellent audio recording that
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removes unnecessary noise and Ambience
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okay uh the camera connectors and cables are available with PC connection and
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HDTV out which we've seen already and then
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finally the yeah professional quality full HD video 1080P 960p and 720p okay
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so yeah so we've pretty much covered everything so we'll have a quick look at
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the waterproof casing so you can replace this backing with the non-waterproof one
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for better audio capture at low speeds all right and then you can also remove
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this particular mounting system and you can take the whole thing ah there we are
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and you can mount it to any of the other number of arms or other different arms
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depending on how you want to attach
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the GoPro to your vehicle or Helmet or
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whatever it is you want to attach it to to take some cool 1080phd video