GoPro has been on the market for just a few years now, but it has turned the sports action video recording game upside down. The super small, very easy to use and hard to damage video cameras have been attached to everything from a speeding car to a pelican to record the views that many of us thought we would never see in our life. With top of the line hardware and super slow motion recording, the GoPro cameras have given us everything we ever wanted in an action camera.
The latest model of the GoPro family has been released this year and even though it comes with a price tag that reads almost $500, it has not stopped many from buying it to see what it can do. The GoPro Hero 4 Black Edition has been reviewed thousands of times online and all of the reviews are putting the camera right at the top of the pile compared to many other sports action cameras that are trying to compete in the market.
The video that the GoPro Hero 4 records has been labeled as rich and detailed, with an amazing dynamic range. GoPro hit the market and was immediately popular due to the fact that it could record in HD and it made amateur producers of the short clip out of all of us in an instant. Shortly after GoPro realized how popular the camera was going to be, the specs were bumped up quickly and in today’s model, you can record up to 4k resolution at 30 frames per second.
4k resolution is the new standard, but that is not the shooting mode you will likely use that often. The Hero 4 comes with other shooting modes that include 1080p HD video at 120 frames per second slowing things down very nicely for you to see every captured detail. Using this mode, you will be able to playback a video in full frame and slow it down up to 5 times, easily the most popular feature of the camera.
The GoPro Hero 4 Black can also shoot in 2.7k resolution, 1440 time lapse, night lapse and it also offers RAW video allowing you more options when editing. The setting allow even the most novice user to load up the default options and still take some of the most breathtaking video you can imagine. GoPro also has other models on the market, that are a little more affordable, but they come with fewer options. If you know what you are doing with editing RAW video files, the Hero 4 Black is the best option for you.