I'm going to tell you 12 things about the new GoPro Hero 9 Black. First of all, it's not being paid for in any way. I'm going to tell you about the Hero's good, bad, and ugly sides.
9 Black has a lot of video clips, comparisons, data, and other good things. So you can sort of decide for yourself. The price comes next, which is not one of the "12 Things."
It costs $449, which is more than it used to, but there is a catch. So, it was a good catch? Now, if you have GoPro Plus, all you have to do is So that's definitely less than it used to be. First on the list of new features, though, is
the front of the new screen. Now, this is the screen on the front. It looks a lot like the screen on the DJI OSMO Action. This way, you can hold the GoPro out like this and see yourself on the front screen. And the back screen at the same time. There are two ways to see this. One of them kind of gets closer. It fills the screen and sort of centers itself, but the edges are cut off. And there's one that shows the whole picture on a tiny square screen, so there are black bars on top.
My favorite is the one that shows the whole picture, so I can kind of see what I'm doing.
The way this is put together is great. People talk about vloggers and stuff like that, but I think a lot of us take selfies with our GoPros all the time, and this makes sure I'm not cutting off things and got the best part of the picture in the shot. Now, one problem I've had with this front screen is that the frames per second, or how smooth it looks, is pretty limited. This doesn't affect the recording rate, but when I switch to 5K mode, 4K mode, etc., it just looks really slow, so it's like three frames per second...GoPro says five frames, but I think that's a bit optimistic.
At lower resolutions, such as 1080p, there are no problems. Again, it doesn't change what you record. It just changes what you see on the little screen. Oh, hey! A quick note: If you find this video helpful, interesting, or anything else, all you have to do is hit the "Like" button. It does a lot to help this video and this channel.
The new 5K resolution is next on the list. In the past, GoPro's highest resolution was always 4K, but now you can get up to 5K/30 in different modes.
You can do it in a wide or a straight line. Linear is when you get rid of the "view" from the GoPro. So it's pretty straight and clean, like this shot right now. Clean, with no fish-eye effect, and the stabilization is still there, so you can go all the way up to hyper smooth boost mode, which is the highest stabilization GoPro has, and it looks pretty silky smooth. Here, you can see some of this video.
now again If you want to see all of this compared footage, there's a link to a comparison footage extravaganza video in the corner or somewhere on the screen right now. It has a ton of footage from all of these cameras side by side, so you can check them out and make your own decision. You may be wondering why you need 5k, and the answer is that you probably don't. However, 5k is good for cropping in, so if you have something that's a little bit too wide, you can crop it in and get a lot more pixels. The jump from 4k to 5k isn't just a single number; it's a multiplier. Also, you can get 14.7-megapixel stills from 5k footage. Here's a still and then the heroes
But if you do want to take photos, the Hero 9 has a new 23.6-megapixel photo mode, which is a lot more than it used to be and is definitely noticeable. I'll show you a bunch of photos I've taken with it to show you how much better they are:
Next on the list is 30 percent longer battery life. This is an interesting claim because it's 30 percent averaged across all the different modes, so some modes have better battery life and some have a little bit maybe worse battery life. I'm going to put all those modes in the battery life on the screen right now. From a practical point of view, this is pretty clear because I've been out riding in these mountains for hours and hours today, and every single time I've had to charge my phone, it's been Now, that battery does weigh a lot more, and there's also a new battery. The hero9 battery is a new chunkier, beefier battery, which is a lot like the hero9 in general: it's heavier, and with that came that heavier battery. If you want to see a full comparison, check out my unboxing video in the corner. I have weight comparisons between all the action cameras and the full unboxing of the hero 9 black.
Next is a new cold weather performance. It's not cold today, but I've got a freezer, so let's jump in there right away. Let's start these over there, and then we'll start these over here, and we're all set. put that on Netflix and chill, and here we go with the cinnamon rolls. Okay, this guy just started, and it looks like we already have a "do not start" down here because the hero 8 won't even start in these conditions because it's too cold. You can see the hero line there is starting to warm up and its screen is turning off because the battery is low. That's disappointing, so the hero 9 is already in the freezer.
so the next item on the list is the removable \slens uh if you remember from the hero a black \sa lot of people hated the fact that you couldn't remove the lens \snow you can oops there we go done removed \ssimple as that it has a lock system that locks in there like it goes around twice \sessentially and that has some interesting implications not only for \sme dropping on the ground but also for third-party lenses and even a \sfirst-party lens we'll talk about later on so the ability for you to swap out \slenses uh if you wanted to more than just \ssimply like a nd filter of sorts and of course the obvious as well if you \sscratch this thing you can now replace it \suh every other camera up until the hero8 had that so it's really going back \spre-hero 8 to get back to the removal lenses that people enjoy
Next is a small change: the size of the back screen has grown by about 16%. I kind of notice it when I use side to side, and it's definitely much easier to read than the hero 8 was.
Next, there's the new hypersmooth 3.0, which is basically the same as hypersmooth 2.0 but with a little more flexibility. It comes in two ways. The first is the resolutions and frame rates it supports. It goes all the way up to 5k 30 and supports all the versions, so you can do boost in everything. In the past, there were some limits, but gopro got rid of a lot of them in the last firmware update for the hero8. Now, boost doesn't have The hero 9 is, without a doubt, the smoothest of all the cameras I've tried. I've used it on very rough mountain bike trails and while driving, and it's always been the smoothest.
And with that comes the next new feature, horizon leveling. You may be thinking, "Wasn't horizon leveling around before? It was in the app." Yes, it was. Horizon leveling makes it so that if you mount your camera slightly off tilt, it will automatically keep the horizon level. You can turn it on in any of the linear modes, and it does a great job of doing what it says it will do.
Next is the new time warp 3.0. A time warp is basically a time lapse where you're going somewhere and the footage is all stabilized and smoothed across. A time lapse is just a collection of photos. In the past, time warp has been great, but if you wanted to stop and go back to real time where you could talk to the camera, record audio, and do all that kind of stuff, you had to stop it and change modes. easy to understand
Next is a feature that gopro just started adding to the hero8 black a couple of weeks ago but hasn't quite finished and hasn't moved out of beta yet, so it's new here. It's called webcam mode, and it lets you plug your gopro into your computer and use it as a webcam with apps like skype or zoom or teams or whatever. It works on both pc and mac, and it's been very helpful for me because I've been using
new and improved ways to live stream In the past, you could basically only live stream to youtube and facebook. Now, you can live stream to twitch as well as gopro's own platform, which they say has the highest quality live streaming resolution experience out there in terms of bit rates and other things. I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but you can go ahead and add twitch to that natively straight from the camera, which is pretty handy.
