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I disagree. GoPro is not Premium. For me GoPro is cheap for what it does. I had bought Sony and Canon DSLR in the past. THIS IS PREMIUM. Several thousand dolla

I disagree. GoPro is not Premium. For me GoPro is cheap for what it does. I had bought Sony and Canon DSLR in the past. THIS IS PREMIUM. Several thousand dollars each. My Gopro does things NO OTHER CAMERA in the thousands category could do. In fact , the people at Canon, Nikon, and Sony disable features on the hundred dollar category so it does not compete with the thousands. E.g You want instantaneous electric controlled shutter on your NEX X Sony camera? Sorry, you need to pay thousands of dollars. You want uncompressed HDMI video output? Same answer. They have an HDMI port!!, they simply disable it!! They provide you with crappy analog output. With my GoPro, I can do it all way cheaper, smaller, lighter, great video, and rock solid. Connecting it to a HDMI grabber provides amazing quality. You could stabilize it with cheap motors as it is so lightweight. Control via the Web?,mobile phone?with my own apps? no problem with the GoPro. I love this camera so much, and hate the others. If Gopro decided to make a DLSR, I would buy it. The other companies could burn in Hell, they had abused so much.

saiya-jin 12y ago
good for you to be such a fan, for one I am not, although owning their devices. Overpriced products, some botched updates (yes, most companies screw up more than once, but that's not an excuse), not really caring that much for customers (cases oficially usable under water were only included in Hero 3, which is roughly +-5th generation, till then they were just waterproof & completely out of focus). Image quality is a joke compared to recent cell phones. Price wise their top model is ridiculously expensive, without delivering anything special (ie better picture quality). Battery life is bad, and no sign of improvement (apart from PR talk every single release). THis is exactly the type of device needing long battery life, since it's often in environments where switching battery is impossible/very hard, and often being exposed to cold. They are chasing 4K video and ridiculous frame rates, but picture quality was never paramount (problem is, competition is worse). This is niche interest, most people don't need nor want 1080p / 120 fps. For nice slow-mo movies, you need anyway much higher framerate (at least 240 fps). They have good marketing, no doubts. As for products, not so much. I repeatedly end up with sundown images/videos being one ugly orange-oversaturated mess, that cannot be fully corrected in post processing (and why the hell should I? Even my 4 year old phone can cope with it automatically). I was recently considering whether to go for top of the line GoPro or buy small but good camera. Usages - underwater, climbing & mountaineering side camera. GoPro lost on all but small form factor, and I bought Canon S110 with underwater housing. It costed me same, picture quality is completely differetn level, and form factor is sometimes actually better with Canon. If you look around, there is quite a lot of people disappointed in them. But as I said, they have good marketing.
- Htsthbjig 12y ago
  I am quite emotional because the people at canon and Sony had f*cked me so many times in the past. The Gopro has solved most of my problems. I am a geek and use my cameras for crazy things like 3d recognition of spaces, with my drones, robotics. The GoPro is the camera that gets in my way the least of all the cameras I had tested. Image quality for me is quite good. But nothing replaces basic knowledge of video making that probably would solve most of your issues. When you say they have good marketing... well their videos are made by professionals. Any pro with any camera could do marvels, but with some cameras takes more effort than with others.

saiya-jin 12y ago

good for you to be such a fan, for one I am not, although owning their devices. Overpriced products, some botched updates (yes, most companies screw up more than once, but that's not an excuse), not really caring that much for customers (cases oficially usable under water were only included in Hero 3, which is roughly +-5th generation, till then they were just waterproof & completely out of focus). Image quality is a joke compared to recent cell phones. Price wise their top model is ridiculously expensive, without delivering anything special (ie better picture quality). Battery life is bad, and no sign of improvement (apart from PR talk every single release). THis is exactly the type of device needing long battery life, since it's often in environments where switching battery is impossible/very hard, and often being exposed to cold. They are chasing 4K video and ridiculous frame rates, but picture quality was never paramount (problem is, competition is worse). This is niche interest, most people don't need nor want 1080p / 120 fps. For nice slow-mo movies, you need anyway much higher framerate (at least 240 fps). They have good marketing, no doubts. As for products, not so much. I repeatedly end up with sundown images/videos being one ugly orange-oversaturated mess, that cannot be fully corrected in post processing (and why the hell should I? Even my 4 year old phone can cope with it automatically). I was recently considering whether to go for top of the line GoPro or buy small but good camera. Usages - underwater, climbing & mountaineering side camera. GoPro lost on all but small form factor, and I bought Canon S110 with underwater housing. It costed me same, picture quality is completely differetn level, and form factor is sometimes actually better with Canon. If you look around, there is quite a lot of people disappointed in them. But as I said, they have good marketing.

Htsthbjig 12y ago
I am quite emotional because the people at canon and Sony had f*cked me so many times in the past. The Gopro has solved most of my problems. I am a geek and use my cameras for crazy things like 3d recognition of spaces, with my drones, robotics. The GoPro is the camera that gets in my way the least of all the cameras I had tested. Image quality for me is quite good. But nothing replaces basic knowledge of video making that probably would solve most of your issues. When you say they have good marketing... well their videos are made by professionals. Any pro with any camera could do marvels, but with some cameras takes more effort than with others.