New GoProHD3

I'm glad I'm not an early adopter anymore ....because that gopro demo reel was outstanding. Now that the dust has settled, I'll go pickup one of those little sony's for $200 bucks immediately, and on the first pricedrop....a rx100 and maybe this , for wet hostile environments ! Maybe gopro is working on a pro version with a 1 inch sensor...if they're smart .
 
Has anyone tested the Go Pro 3 in low light? I am looking for Go Pro for some extreme stuff. However, there will be no scope for supplementing the sunlight. I guess it will not work in moonlight like a C300.
 
Does anyone know if the Gopro2 battery/backpack is compatible with the GoPro3?

I understand that the batteries are different but I've heard mixed views if I could plug in my battery backpack (w/ Hero2 battery) into my Hero3
 
Yes that is possible. I had to go abroad and the hero 3 battery's didn't sold in Netherlands yet so I went for this solution.
I used it 3 days with the backback. I noticed that in the end of the day the gopro crashed all the time.
I think this is when the hero 3 batt is emty and it is only running on the hero 2 batt but I am not sure of this.
 
indiawilds said:
Has anyone tested the Go Pro 3 in low light? I am looking for Go Pro for some extreme stuff. However, there will be no scope for supplementing the sunlight. I guess it will not work in moonlight like a C300.
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I've got a Hero3 Black here that I haven't tested at all yet, but I can say this: when you say "Has anyone tested the Go Pro 3 in low light", you have to specify the "edition", because they are not the same. Look on the GoPro site and under low light you'll see that they list very different capabilities for the White, Silver, and Black editions. So if you're looking for extreme low light, your quest probably should focus solely on the black model.
 
low light on the black edition is pretty bad, so i imagine it is worse throughout the range.

from my field tests, it is pretty much unusable in anything but mid/high light levels. The noise is not just ugly.... but big blocks and random splodges (to use the technical term)

if you are in low light, make sure to only use 24p mode. this will help a little.
 
Does anybody know how to get 1080i60, 1080p30, or 720p60 out of the HDMI port of a GoPro Hero3 Black Edition? My DP6 monitor tells me that whatever I set the recording format to, HDMI is sending 1080p60, and I don't have any HW converters that will change that to something my monitoring infrastructure can handle. I don't care about using the Hero3 as its own POV recording device, I want to use it as a POV feed into a switching system. Thanks!
 
The whole GoPro thing really intrigues me, but I wonder how they compare to the "rugged" cams built all the majors. I have a Panny TS-2 and I am always surprised how good it is shooting AVCHD lite. I get a real lens with a real zoom, live view and more. I don't get a fish-eye and some of the whiz bang stuff, but really the footy is pretty decent.

Grant
 
BTW, I heard back from GoPro about the video out of the Hero3. Apparently, somebody thought it would be "better" to change the functionality of the HDMI output. It used to be that if you recorded in a "standard" mode, such as 720p60 or 1080p30, that's what would come out the HDMI port. Now everything is forced to 1080p60, regardless of the recording mode. Unfortunately, that makes it utterly unusable with any standard converters to use the GoPro camera as a POV camera in a live studio. Too bad.
 
So, how's it going for this camera? (Not refering to sales...) It's negativity everywhere it seems, and as far as I understand there's still no firmware fix for the Black Edition's problems?

Eoshd tweets about a rumoured "cinema" Gopro at NAB, never heard of that elsewhere. Thoughts?
 
I've been using a black edition since Christmas and it's only locked up 4 or 5 times in total where I had to take the battery out. Other than that it's been flawless.

My pet peeve with the thing is that it doesn't do continuous sequential file naming any more. Every time you format or delete all the files from your card it starts then next shot at 0001 and you can't change it. Completely idiotic. You end up with 4 million gopr0001.mp4 files on your hard drive.

The other issue is that it creates a bunch of useless thm and lrv files with every clip. You can't turn that off either. I still can't find an app online that actually uses these files.

I would love to see a 4k 30p version and have a sneaking suspicion that they might be releasing something like that at NAB.

Cheers,
Pete
 
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