Comments on: Release of GoPro Hero 5 Intentionally Pushed Back to Equip it With More Brand New Features

By: TJparker

TJparker — Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:08:23 +0000

In reply to manjyot.

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.

By: manjyot

manjyot — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 17:09:53 +0000

In reply to Kyle hewson. 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

By: Kyle hewson

Kyle hewson — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 21:17:08 +0000

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

By: David

David — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 15:41:45 +0000

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.

By: Joe C

Joe C — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 20:22:26 +0000

4k is greater than four times resolution of 1080p. so that would make 8k four times the resolution of 4k.