GoPro Camera Questions

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What's so great about it and how does it differ from regular camcorders?

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Have you never seen a go pro commercial? Main thing is you can mount it and use it for various outdoor activities(biking, skiing, water sports, etc).


We've used ours when my husband goes mountain biking, while white water rafting, zip lining, rappelling, stand up paddle boarding, climbing and snorkeling.

They are great but not the most user friendly. If you are buying one with a certain trip in mind.....buy it a month or so before to give you time to learn how to use it.


Also....don't buy Sandisk memory cards for it. We lost ALL of our recent vacation footage because Go pros and Sandisk cards don't get along.

My brother bought one around this time last year. He uses it when he goes mountain biking and on fishing trips to the everglades but he doesn't really get much quality film out of it. His wife always bitches that he wasted money buying the damn thing.

If you do a lot of outdoor activities like mountain biking, climbing, zip-lining, etc. I'm sure it's cool but otherwise just save your money because you won't get much use out of it.

My brother owns a skateboarding company and uses it to make badass promo videos and stuff.

Bought mine for my honeymoon. Jet skiing, scuba diving, zip lining, etc. Came out great. Don't really do too many adventurous things back home that would normally justify it. But since coming back I've found ways to use it. I've used it for hunting, fishing, gonna use it riding in endymion. It's got a great time lapse feature too that I've recorded some sunsets and storms moving in at the camp and the beach as well as us setting up our tailgate. Also when my nieces and nephews all get together to swim at my parents' house they like taking pictures and movies underwater.

Used mine for snow skiing, snorkeling in BVI, and a day on the water at false river. Those are the few times I use it, but the video footage itself is pretty awesome.

One cool feature it has is the ability to do time lapse videos for up to 8 hours I'm pretty sure.

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What's so great about it and how does it differ from regular camcorders?

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It's better than film and spinning hard drive camcorders because it can take heavy impacts without disrupting the video capture.

It can be better than a lot of SSD camcorders because of it's small form factor and mounts to attach it to pretty much anything.

It's ideally made for extreme sports.

They can take heavy impacts/damage as well. Seen them survive after falling off during skydiving, seen them fly off speeding race cars/motorcycles and get hit by other cars/motorcycles and still work fine. Most camcorders would get destroyed.

I use mine for motorcycle road racing. Best $250 I ever spent!

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It takes some getting used to but they are fun to use. I've used mine for canoeing, etc and enjoy it. A lot of possibilities...

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My brother bought one around this time last year. He uses it when he goes mountain biking and on fishing trips to the everglades but he doesn't really get much quality film out of it.

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The quality of a finished video is about 90% dependent on the talent of the person that edited it, and maybe 10% on the quality of the raw video stock.

My old man got me the HeroBlack3+ for Christmas this past year. On NYE I was taking it out of the box to inspect everything. I took the camera out of the protective case and laid everything out on the kitchen table. I then went out for a half hour to eat lunch. When I came back to the house, i noticed the camera (only the camera) was on the couch. Well, what luck, my GF's dog (great dane) had plucked the camera off the table and commenced to chomping down on it. He killed it and killed it good.

The GoPro people are being kind enough to knock 40% off a replacement. Really looking forward to sinking MY teeth into it to film my little girl doing cool stuff with me!