GoPro - HD HERO2

Good luck on your ski trip with your Hero3! I still have my Hero2 and had to purchase new (aftermarket) batteries on Amazon last year as the original ones wouldn’t charge anymore. Glad I never got rid of it. Last year I purchased a Hero13 Black for motovlogging on my motorcycle. Now I have 2 GoPros to film forward and what’s behind me. I just wish GoPro would make a Windows compatible editor like they had in the old days.

I still have a soft spot for the HERO 2. Couldn't bring myself to get rid of it. There was something special about it.

I have gone 4 generations between upgrades so far and it has always been a major improvement. 2-6-10-14 is my current plan unless someone convinces me I need to go 10-13

I've had a GoPro Hero 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, and 10, as well as the Max. I've go over 2,000 skydives with GoPros on my helmet, including world records and jumps into the Blue Hole in Belize. I've taken them to every continent (including Antarctica) for running and scuba diving and overall travel. So I use GoPros a lot, and I use them in environments that are pretty tough on them. One thing that's been annoying is the heavy push to GoPro subscription. Their cloud storage is just awful. The money is better spent on something like Dropbox or Box. Their software has been pretty terrible too. Hardware wise, they've been hit or miss. Sometimes it's software, sometimes it's hardware. They can corrupt video files, do a weird "gets hot after charging and locks up so that you have to pull the batteries", they can stop mid recording. All of that with the proper recommended cards. Some have just been lemons, probably a bad solder or heatsink contact. Sometimes it's fixed in a firmware upgrade. They're notorious in the skydiving community. "Did you get it?" "No, it stopped recording 5 seconds in." "It froze up". That kind of thing. Not all the time, not even frequent, but enough that it's annoying. And each model seems to have their own little quirks. My Hero 7 and 10 has been solid for the most part. My 9.. not as much. My Max is a piece of shit. My next 360 camera will absolutely not be a Max, and probably won't be whatever they come out with next. My next action camera probably won't be a GoPro.

They forgot half of them😥 At the time I really liked the Hero 2. I have so many great memories and clips.

For me GoPro always had the best mic/audio balance. insta always sounded baseless and sucked at eliminating wind noise as well