GoPro - HERO11 Black

Definitely the GoPro Hero 11

If you only asked a couple days ago walmart had a deal on the HERO 11 for $222 That was a great price even better than Amazon Renewed.

MTP is completely garbage and has always been complete garbage, it's also 21 years old now. Go Pro just doesn't give a single flying fuck about the comfort of their customers because back when they started they where the only ones offering that video quality, so customers to just sucked up the bullshit. But now there are like 6 more companies that offer that quality so customers don't have to take Go Pro their bullshit anymore. Want to hear even more bullshit? I got a Hero 11 black and if you connect that over a usb cable to your computer and keep the battery in during file transfer it will drain the FUCKING battery, and if it goes dead your file transfer will fail even though it perfectly works without a battery because ONLY then it decided to get power over usb. Plus if you keep the battery in, high chance it will overheat and you still have a failed transfer. You know why it overheats? Cause it can take 3 hours to do the file copy since that garbage MTP copies at like 900 kb/s or. You know how I get my stuff of my Go Pro's? I take the sd card out and slam it in to one of my DJI drones, then connect those to my PC. Fuck go pro. Such a bullshit arrogant American brand that should just die already.

I film and make hiking videos and have a ton of cameras. I do not like iPhone footage. Looks too sharpened and saturated to me. I used a GoPro for years. My current one is a GoPro Hero 11 Black and I absolutely love it. The 9 & 10 were buggy. The 8 was solid but the 11 is so much better. The 12 and 13 don’t have enough upgrades to justify. For better footage, set the field of view to linear. Gets rid of the fisheye look. Set sharpness and saturation each to -2. Set color profile to natural. Get smooth, steady shots and don’t swing it around like crazy. It’s a great starting point. Once you get the settings dialed in, you just need to press record for 99% of shots. So it’s easy to use. It’s durable and waterproof and small also. I don’t mount it to anything (unless I’m climbing or rappelling). I got a cheap tripod/extension handle off Amazon and just carry it. You won’t want all your footage to just be a straight ahead shot anyway. I just bought an action 4 but the verdict’s still out on that. If I were to recommend one camera it would be the DJI osmo pocket 3. I absolutely love it. But it’s pricey and if you’re starting out the GoPro will do good enough.

Do you already have accessories for the types of activities you want to do? Or is that a different amount you would spend? I have a Hero 11 Black Creator Edition with about $200 accessories. As well as an Action 5 Pro Adventure Combo with $150 of accessories. None of which includes water. I’d recommend doing some research on what you will need for the activities you want.

Nice, mine is an 11, I must check!

I've a Hero 11 black and I'm thinking the same

no, best buy has open box new hero 11s black that can go for 150 excellent condition. I got mine for 100$ with a car mount and 3 batteries. Also, they have minis for cheap as well.

I have the pocket 3 and just ordered the action 5 pro, they are different cameras for different situations. For instance I can't/won't take the OP3 in the rain when I run, or at the beach, or in any situation where it might get damaged. The A5P is a tank so I can be way more careless about it. That is not to say it can't be used as a travel camera, I will actually bring it with me in Bologna next month, as my only camera. I had a gopro 11 black for this but with the amount of stuff that are wrong with it and the abysmal app situation, I switched to the A5P

I mean that is just bullshit or you are using a temu go pro 😆 I own several o3 quads and none can even beat a go pro 11 black

You can just compare the footage. But purely for image quality gopro is quite ahead of DJI. Higher bitrates, three times the pixels in video for better cropping ability, way better stabilization.  Personally I prefer gopro colors since the 10-bit era starting from GP11. 

The thing with gopro is to shoot unstabilized and stabilize in post with the gyro data and adjust the level of stabilization in post. No automated system works well if you are purposefully not using it as intented. I could never consider the current DJI offerings for flying fpv since the stabilization is unpredicatble and baked in to the footage.

My point was gopro handles even that better when used correctly. The fun part about gopro especially for us professionals is that it allows you to do anyting. No limitations so you can end up doing stuff that doesnt really work if you are not familiar with the art of videography. That said, I'd never use stabilization on driving footage when hard mounting the camera on the vehicle or when using chest mounts. I've learned to never mount the camera to a helmet since that just produces awful to look at footage that moves way too much.