Gopro 3 Black Edition

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• Versatile shooting modes for pros
• More detail in brightly-lit areas
• Wi-Fi built in
• Lighter and smaller
• Reduced fogging in the housing
  
  
  
  "Hi. I bought the GoPro 3 Black Edition after looking at the market extensively. All the various products have +/- depending upon what you are trying to do. I was wanting to film sports events from interesting vantage points and so the GoPro's higher video quality was persuasive.
  The camera and related pieces are well built if you are a reasonably careful person. If you are hard on equipment, especially during setup... this is likely not your camera... consider one of the tubular metal ones instead.
  
  A few useful learning curve items:
  
  The very first thing to do is to UPDATE the camera's FIRMWARE. It is available on the GoPro web site. At this writing the latest update was in late April 2013. Working with the camera absent updating its firmware will be a frustrating waste of your time. The update cleans up all the issues that others have mentioned in the various blogs.
  
  The camera comes with a battery that runs about 75 min. when filming in High Def (1080) at 48 frames per second (fps). With the case that comes with it there is no way to charge while filming. You can buy an extra battery to swap-in mid-filming, buy the bigger GoPro battery pack, use the camera uncovered (significantly exposing it to the elements) with a power cord attached, try to drill a hole in the case it comes with (ruining it for water use), buy the $50  GoPro 3 Black Edition protective case with a connectors' hole already cut in it, or buy the GoPro "frame" case that also has a connectors' hole already cut in it. Depending upon what you are trying to do, different choices make sense.
  
  The camera uses micro SD cards up to 64GB. I bought a SanDisk 32GB and have had no disk related problem/s. Note that the GoPro camera formats the disk to Fat32. The good news is that this is an older, well known, and very stable file system. It does have some limitations including a maximum file size of 4GB and a maximum card size of 128GB. After filming you will find, when you look at the created files, that the camera has created a series of 4GB files as a work-around. Each segment is about 17 minutes of video. When you playback from the GoPro itself, using its HDMI out, it strings the 4GB files together into a continuous video. When you playback by computer, you get individual 4GB segments that play.
  
  The video quality of the camera is amazingly good. This includes in relatively low light conditions. Again, video quality is VERY impressive. The video files are in MP4 format.
  
  After filming, I moved the files to a USB thumb drive and tried to play them back on the USB port on our BluRay player. They would NOT play. It turns out that BluRay only supports up to 30 frames per second and I had recorded at 48 fps. I made a new recording at 30 fps and it played back nicely via USB on the BluRay player. The original 48 fps recordings played back with no problems when using the USB connector on an Apple MacBook Pro. I also tried removing the micro SD card, inserting it into its SD card adapter, and then importing the files to an iPad2 via the SD card reader that comes with the Apple Camera Kit. iPhoto sees the card and asks you which files you would like to import. They run well on the iPad but are very big and quickly use up your iPad's available memory.
  
  I you are thinking that the built in WiFi means that you can wirelessly stream video, that does not fully work. What it does mean is that you can download an app for your iPhone/iPad that allows you to monitor and line-up the camera's view and control the camera remotely. This works well. Note: the GoPro camera broadcasts ITSELF as a WiFi source and you have to go into your iPhone's (or iPad's) WiFi controls and choose the GoPro WiFi signal to get the app to work.
  
  A final thought would be planning for video file storage. The video files are very large and you quickly need to delete or save to somewhere. I am currently looking at a BluRay writer that Samsung makes. One could try a cloud storage service, USB storage drives, lots of USB thumb drives, or lots of micro SD cards. Something to start thinking about early anyway.
  
  I would buy the GoPro camera again. An important note is that when you add all the extras you end up needing, it ends up being enough money to buy a very nice regular video camera. For me, the GoPro's small size offered some interesting filming vantage points that a regular camera could not support. If you don't need that nor weather-proofing, consider a new traditional digital video camera instead.
  
  Support notes: GoPro support by email works well. They get back to you within a few hours and the answers tend towards the better side. GoPro's written documentation, available online, is rather spotty. They leave a lot out that would be helpful and would save everyone's time, including items reasonable people would consider core must be included items.
  
  Good luck !"