The release of GoPro Hero 5 was reportedly pushed back because the American camcorder company wanted to make sure that its next-generation action camera will come out with more brand new features instead of mere upgrading from the specifications of the GoPro Hero 4.
It may also be a business decision on the manufacturer’s part since releasing the GoPro Hero 5 barely a year after the GoPro Hero 4 made it to the market will really put the clamps on its predecessor considering the initial reports that the latter device would come out with practically the same price as the older gadget.
That would sure to draw buyers away from the old and into the new, which would not make any business sense at all for GoPro.
The American company is most likely considering competitive pricing too as latest reports have it that some action cameras these days cost far cheaper than GoPro devices and they have comparable features too, notes Latinos Post.
In order to justify its rumored pricing of anywhere from $400 to $500 for the GoPro Hero 5, the company really needs to make sure that it is loaded with brand new features that no other action cameras available in the market today can match up to.
Several firsts
Already, reports have it that the GoPro Hero 5 will be capable of recording 8K resolution videos and capturing 3D videos too which are firsts for any action cameras.
The capability to capture 3D video would dramatically improve user experience particularly in filming extreme action and adrenaline-filled moments. In order to do that, GoPro Hero 5 shall feature dual lens which would enable it to capture 3D videos, making it the first-of-its kind for any GoPro devices.
Technically speaking however, it is still not clear how the 8K resolution would blend with the 3D video recording capability of the GoPro Hero 5, and also the supposed faster processing speed of the camera.
The 8K resolution would be a marked improvement from the 4K resolution video recording capability of the GoPro Hero 4 and other upcoming devices and gadgets in the market.
The current mainstream Full High Definition (HD) standard for video resolution today is 1080-pixel. 4K resolution is referred to as Ultra HD and is twice today’s standard with 2160-pixel. Thus, 8K resolution is twice the 4K resolution and is 4,320-pixel. It is also called Full Ultra HD.
Power under the hood
Apparently, it would be the new A10 processor that would enable the GoPro Hero 5 to record Full Ultra HD videos but at a lower frame rate. The device will likewise be capable of recording 4K resolution videos at 60 frames per second.
Produced by AMD, the chip is the flagship of the Trinity series and features a quad-core CPU with up to 3.8GHz base clock and 4.2GHz turbo clock. It usually provides best-in-class performance in 3D gaming but GoPro is taking it to the next level in video recording.
4k is greater than four times resolution of 1080p. so that would make 8k four times the resolution of 4k.
8K recording will only work if first, the GoPro has a bigger sensor as a little sensor as the GoPro Hero4 has, doesn’t even even give us decent 4K (its not bad but in no way as good as it could be) and the noise grain isn’t the best either, so for the new GoPro to be better than the Hero4, it would in my view, really need a sensor size comparable in size to the Micro Four Thirds of the Blackmagic Micro Cinema Camera which is an action camera.
Also how many computer monitors are there out there that support the large 8K resolution when 4K is just starting to become more normal? Not many and those that do are quite expensive so for now if it does record 8K, 8K, I don’t see many benefits of it at all, especially if it still will have a small sensor.
That would be really cool but here are the pros and cons of the camera 1 if you are going to record in 8k there is no tv or screen that can have that small of a pixel size so therefore gopro will have to most likely make a screen made just for the 8k resolution 2 if they are going to record 3d that would require 2 cameras because it’s the same way our eyes work 2 different angles aiming at the same object equals 3d that will probably make the camera beefier because of the 2 cameras but thesis would be a great addition to the gopro community as how people are starting to do crazy stuff with gopros not like they haven’t but really crazy things this would also make the battery go down a lot as well but if you want to record 3d with a hero 3 or something get 2 of the same cameras strap the cases together and that’s your 3d case just combine both of the videos and there’s the 3 d
The advantage of high res recoding (6 or 8k) is for post processing. With 6 or 8k you can use software to achieve a very nicely done image stabilization even, zoom in, or just down scale and have really good quality 4k or 1080p
8K would be terrible in the gopro 5. Yes it can downscale to better 4k but it wouldn’t be worth it.
First of all 8K is 32 mega pixels (almost 3 times the gopro 4’s sensor size) meaning the pixels would have to be very small. Small pixels would make an 8K gopro max out at around 1600iso and the footage would look noisy around 200iso (terrible low light performance).
Second, 8K uses far more battery than 4K. an 8K gopro would have around 30 minutes of battery life with its wifi off.
Third, 8K takes up 4 times mores space and micro SD cards are simply not fast enough or large enough to handle this yet.
Also 8K would require a complete redesign of the Hero 5 since it would produce massive quantities of heat. It probably wouldn’t work in the gopro underwater housing.