Gopro 9 superphoto upgrade#

For example, you could go to bed in Iceland and set your Hero9 Black to film the Northern Lights for you … ditto a sunrise while you sleep-in. There’s also a new ‘scheduled capture’ mode for filming video or, more likely, time-lapses, at a pre-ordained time. Low-light video in ‘night mode’ is far less impressive and a touch noisy, with a new HDR night-lapse of the night sky for an hour looking reasonably good. In all other modes the Hero9 Black captures peerless video that has plenty of color, contrast and shadow detail, with a Boost option to really smooth things out when the action gets choppy.

It’s another feature for vloggers, and in practice it’s imprecise and laggy expect it to improve on future GoPro cameras. In theory, that means easy-to-watch footage where the horizon stays level.

The linear view also has 360º camera-style auto-correct horizon leveling that happens in-camera. The general step-up in resolution also means the abandoning of 720p, with faux-lens options comprising SuperView (16mm), wide (16-34mm) and linear (19-39mm) and narrow (27mm).ĭespite the appearance of 5K the must-have feature is Hypersmooth 3.0, which means cleverly stabilized footage across all resolutions, with a ‘boost’ feature also available. If that’s impressive, it’s also incredibly capacity-hungry the 4K 60fps is probably the one to go for if you’re after both efficiency and smoothness. Hero9 Black has a 23.6 MP sensor, which in turn means it can capture video at 5K in 30 frames per second (fps) at 100Mbps. (Image credit: Jamie Carter/Digital Camera World) That front screen can also be switched to ‘status only’ to show the remaining battery power, resolution and the current mode – as on the Hero8 Black (albeit now in color) – or even completely deactivated. Even more usefully, that can be done in ‘actual’ format, which presents it as a widescreen image with black bars above and below, or ‘full screen’, which works fine if you just want to make sure you’re in the centre of a shot or a video.

Gopro 9 superphoto upgrade#

It’s on the front where you’ll find the biggest upgrade with a built-in 1.4-inch display (identical in size to the DJI Osmo Action, but slightly smaller than on the Akaso Brave 7 LE) that can be used as a live preview screen for framing a selfie or a piece to camera. Bright enough in all but the sunniest conditions, this touchscreen is nevertheless not as responsive as it could be. That’s 16% larger than on the Hero8 Black, slightly bigger than on the Akaso Brave 7 LE (opens in new tab), but a tad smaller than on the DJI Osmo Action (opens in new tab). On the rear it’s a simple upgrade, with a larger 2.27-inch display. That’s largely down to the inclusion on the Hero 9 Black of two new displays. It’s larger in every aspect at 71x55x33.6mm and 158g, which is something of a surprise, though it’s hardly obese. While there are many similarities between them, the Hero9 Black is physically different to the Hero 8 Black (opens in new tab). (Image credit: Jamie Carter/Digital Camera World) (opens in new tab)