GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition

adowling92

Got my new GoPro Hero 3 Black Edition yesterday, and decided to take it for a spin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOrzUdpBGvI
Enjoy

meanredspider

Felt a bit seasick with the swaying :?

Trying to decide if the image quality is really that much better than my old GoPro HD

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Qs5gMz8cM

I have a GoPro 3 Black Edition coming to replace it - just not sure it's worth the money (even with the 40% customer service discount I got) over and above the HD

mtb-idle

I've got the Mk1 GoPro HD and TBH shooting footage on bright sunny days like in your video or like they have endlessly in California is never an issue.

I'd be more interested to see how it performs on dull, overcast, soft northern light days because that's when the Mk1 struggles.

cyclingprop

You'll never be able to judge image quality on Youtube.

The swaying is less of a problem than the soundtrack for me.

adowling92

MTB-Idle wrote:

I've got the Mk1 GoPro HD and TBH shooting footage on bright sunny days like in your video or like they have endlessly in California is never an issue.

I'd be more interested to see how it performs on dull, overcast, soft northern light days because that's when the Mk1 struggles.

I'll try get some footage in those kind of lights.

cyclingprop wrote:

You'll never be able to judge image quality on Youtube.

The swaying is less of a problem than the soundtrack for me.

Each to their own.

mtb-idle

for example, here's some footage in decent light

Col de Lauteret

and here's some taken this winter

Hit or Miss

meanredspider

To be fair, my HD performed fine at races at Knockhill in pretty much all weathers (tends not to be too sunny at Knockhill).

YIMan

Is that in slo-mo?

adowling92

meanredspider wrote:

Felt a bit seasick with the swaying :?

Trying to decide if the image quality is really that much better than my old GoPro HD

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Qs5gMz8cM

I have a GoPro 3 Black Edition coming to replace it - just not sure it's worth the money (even with the 40% customer service discount I got) over and above the HD

Did you change the youtube video to stream full HD? 1080p.

meanredspider

adowling92 wrote:

Did you change the youtube video to stream full HD? 1080p.

It didn't give me that option. 720 was the best I could get (running through an iPad). But that doesn't really matter on a smallish screen anyway. I'm looking forward to the greater resolution only so I can crop the image. The greater frame rate might be useful for Slo Mo but I don't know I'll have much use for that.

Kieran_Burns

meanredspider wrote:

adowling92 wrote:

Did you change the youtube video to stream full HD? 1080p.

It didn't give me that option. 720 was the best I could get (running through an iPad). But that doesn't really matter on a smallish screen anyway. I'm looking forward to the greater resolution only so I can crop the image. The greater frame rate might be useful for Slo Mo but I don't know I'll have much use for that.

FYI - I run my Contour HD at 720p / 60 fps as it gives clearer images than 1080p / 30 fps. While moving at any kind of speed the 30 fps gets motion blurring very quickly. The 60 fps capture rate sorts this out.