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Today I'm going to give you 18 Things To Knowabout the new GoPro Hero 8 Black. I'mgonna go into a little bit of the detailand stuff, kind of the under the covers ofhow things actually work on thesecameras and I'm gonna talk about thegood, and the bad of these camera. Theyare definitely not perfect and there'ssome things that I love, and some thingsthat drive me absolutely bonkers. Alsonote that I have a ton of sample footagein this video but I also have adedicated footage video up there in thecorner. That's like the extravaganza of samplefootage. Comparisons of four differentcameras at once, all sorts of cool stuffthere. So check that out as well as the in-depth review that you see on thescreen right now. With that let's getinto a bit of a freebie that is notincluded on my 18 Things, which is thepricing on this. The Hero 8 Black is at$399, the Hero 7 Black moves down to $329, the Hero 7 Silver goes to $199, and thenthey've introduced a new Hero Max at$499, which replaces the older GoProFusion 360 camera. Still 360 degrees, andI'll talk about it at the end of thisvideo. So with that let's get into #1 on the list, which is the new frame. Orrather lack thereof: the new case design.So in the past you had to put a framearound the camera in order to go aheadand mount it to a GoPro mount. Now themount is built into the bottom. It's asmall metal mount that unfolds outwardsso you can put it flat on the tablewithout the mount, which is pretty awesome.Or you can just simply pop the mount outand then attach it to an existing GoPro mount.It works with all existing GoPromounts, so if you already have mounts outthere, that stuff works great no problem.But it won't necessarily work with allcases. So if you had for example anunderwater case, not so much there. If youhave one of the rubber silicon type cases,that does actually fit around a camerayou just need to make a little hole forthe mount at the bottom but that'llat least still kinda work. But if you're one ofthe five people left still flying one ofthe GoPro Karma drones - that's notcompatible with this. Neither is theKarma Grip gimbal that came out the sametime frame.  Uhhh...at least not without duct tape.You could maybe kinda make itwork but it's honestly not worth it anymore.While on the whole this designis definitely an improvement, there aresome downsides. Number one is thatopening up this battery door is miserable.Especially in the cold, in kindof a windy scenario - like up in themountains: That really sucked. You need toput your fingernail down there, and it'seasy to kind of...it's not good at all. Theother catches there is no smaller dooraccess to the USB charger [port]. You have to have the entire door. You can take thisoff if you want to. But then you have thebattery just chillin' there. It's notreally ideal, but that probably gets tothe next one on the list which is thenew GoPro Mods. These new 'mods', oraccessories as the rest of the worldcalls them basically extends thefunctionality of the GoPro itself froman integrated electronic standpoint. Nowthere are three mods, the first one is aMedia Mod. That most notably includes ashotgun mic, so it's pointing directly atyou - ideal for vlogging, or any sort ofholding it out, like holding it out type setup.It also has a 3.5 millimeteradapter in case you find that [included] shotgunmic sucks. And then it has a USB-Cpass-through so an additional USB-C portthere, as well as having a mini HDMIbecause this camera itself no longer hasmeaning HDMI on it the second mod is aflip up screen so it's 2 inch screenthat flips up off the back to allow youto see yourself again holding out infront of you again really design kind offor that vlogging snare or anythingwhere you want to hold and kind of walkand talk and then thirdly there's a new200 lumen light as well that you can addto this whole entire kit now thedownside here is that none of these modsare available today or anytime neartoday GoPros talking sometime later onthis year so that's a hugedisappointment there and of course asyou may have realized with these newmods GoPros actually taken out featuresfrom the hero 7 black that are not inthe hero right black for example there'sno more mini HDMI port on the side ofthis in addition if you want to chargethis on the go that kind of suckscompared the way it was in the past withthat smaller door that made it reallyclean to keep the battery locked tightbut you could still access that USBcharging port so all in all I'm excitedby the mods I think they're really gonnabe cool once I get my hands on them butI'm also disappointing the fans they'vetaken some of those features away fromthe hero 8 next on the list is the newhyper smooth 2.0 now hyper smooth wasintroduced in the hero 7 lineup and itdramatically improved the stability ofthe GoPro camera it was pretty much agame-changer for a GoPro hyper supose2.0 is a modest upgrade to that it goesahead and extends hyper smoothing toevery frame rate in every aspect rationow for certain groups of people this isgonna be a pretty big deal for thosethat you're doing 4 by 3 and thenreframing and post this is solid forthose that are shooting at 1080p 240frames per second you can now leavehyper smooth on and then slow down thatfootage when it gets the right point offootage as opposed to have to make adecision between having really stablefootage in really smooth footage forthat one split second that you wanted toslow down into slo-mo so that takes usright into the next feature which is anew hyper smooth boost what this doesthat basically crops in the picture justslightly and it goes ahead and offerslike even higher level stability thisisn't offer in every mode but it isoffered in things like 4k 30 for exampleand you definitely notice the differenceit's much smoother compared to justregular hyper smooth 2.0 or otherwisein boost mode GoPro says they'releveraging more the accelerometers andthe gyros in the camera itself to kindof predict what's gonna happen in thescene and then go ahead and smooth basedon that now just a little tip heredouble check and always ensure that theblue icon is on if it's blue you gotboost if there's no blue there's noboost now it's a good time to mention ifyou are funny this video useful orinteresting or whatever go ahead andjust watch that like button the bottomthere it really helps with the video andthe channel quite a bit okay next on thelist are a few things that aredefinitely making me as a video heatpretty darn happy number one on the listis ability to do 4k linear which isawesome so now I can mix all my footagefrom normal camera so you don't havethat kind of fisheye look at all thatused to be required for the 4k mode sonow you can do straight linear and ontop of that there is now the ability todo 100 megabit per second a bitrate youcan select that within the protuneoptions and you'll notice the proteinoptions also a little bit cleaned uphere as well now you go down and youjust see all the options you choose whatyou want you don't feel like you'reenabling everything you just choose whatparticular settings you want to switchand you're off and running next on thelist is probably one my favoritefeatures which is the new live burstmode now the rest of the world againcalls this live photo mode or at leastApple does anyways and that allows youto take a picture but actually get theframes before and after it so every timeyou take a picture in live burst mode itrecords 1.5 seconds before and 1.5seconds afterwards it's actually takinga three second long video clip and thenit goes ahead allows you to pull out theexact frame that you want it's beensuper handy for me because I take mycamera a lot of times when I'm runningand riding and stuff like that I justtake photos along the way for Strava andother social media apps but this allowsme to get the exact right frame which isuseful again when you're in actionscenarios next on the list still in thephoto realm is the updated super photomode so one of the things I said theyworked a lot on is reducing ghostingartifacts and ghosting happens when youtake a super photo which is usually avery kind of HDR like photo and itmerges those photos together but thereis these weird ghosting artifacts thatdon't quite line up and you see trailsit just you know it when you see it sortof thing and GoPro says they've done alot of work both at the processing sideas well as the algorithm side to reduceor eliminate those I have yet to see aghosted image on the here right blackthus far versus I've seen him a fairnumber of times on the hero 7 black overthe last year in addition they've alsoenabled ability to go ahead and manuallytoggle on and off HDR as kind of asubset of that so in case you did ordidn't want that you can now do thatnext on the list we're gonna slide backto the video side of stuff and talkabout the updated time work goprointroduced time warp in the hero 7 blackand what that allows you to do isessentially do a hyperlapseso it's taking a time lapse and kickingup the next level where it's stabilizedbut we thought you had to choose atoggle of exactly how fast to make thathyperlapse and for a lot of peoplemyself included you weren't really surehow long that one that to be so whatGoPros done is that new auto mode soinstead of choosing an exact timing youjust choose auto and we'll figure outfor you which has been pretty useful Ifound in my testing thus far it'sactually nailed kind of what I wantedit's sped up and slowed down wereexpected so that's pretty good stuff ifyou want the manual modes don't worryit's still there they didn't go anywherenext we got the new digital lenses nowthis is probably more of like amarketing term but you'll see itdifferent in the user interface so I'mcounting it as a new feature heredigital lenses essentially gives amarketing term to what used to be widesuper wide linear narrow etc so GoProhas kind of made this whole digital lensconcept where they've moved stuff to theforefront it made it much more clear asto which mode you are and made it mucheasier to switch between those differentmodes next up the new capture presetsnow one of the things that GoPro saidpeople generally struggle with the pastif they were new to GoPro is figuringout which mode they should be in sothey've simplified that down now whereyou these capture presets and by defaultthere's four of them out of the box thatallows you kind of pick what you wantbased on what kind of activity you'redoing but what's cool about this you canextend this now and create your owncapture presets so in my case I cancreate one that is for 4k linear thatI'm shooting when I want to mix in youknow DSLR cameras footage and then I canshoot something for slo-mo and so on allthis though is more or less a take onwhat DJI did with the Osmo action havingcamera presets there which in turn is ittake on what Garmin did with the verbultra series back like two years ago sokind of what's old is new again fromsomeone else and then someone elsebefore that up next on the list is thenew 1080p streaming option last yearwhen GoPro introduced live streaming forthe GoPro cameras they did it at 720pwhich was a bit weird since the rest ofthe internet often streams at 1080p butthey did that and now it's up to 1080phere which is awesome in addition tothat you can go ahead and live streamdirectly to YouTube now just simplyselect that in the live options there atthe bottom and you're good to gonext there's a new battery on the heroright black but fear not it's stillcompatible with the hero five six andseven batteries you'll notice thedifference right away that onehas blue pants and the other one is theblack one for the past they both workinginterchangeably in either camera so youcan use a hero 8 battery in hero 7camera or vice versathe only difference is that GoPro sayson some hyper smooth 2.0 modes andparticular with Boost it may not work aswell on the old batteries as a newbatteries also I have tested third-partybatteries I tend to use myself a ton ofthird-party batteries and all those seemto work just fine I haven't seen any ofthe issues that the GoPro is talkingabout on either older batteries orthird-party batteries with hyper smooth2.0 next on the list there is a new lensnow this lens GoPro says there's twotimes stronger in the past I haven'ttaken out a hammer and swung it harderto see if that'll pull true but they sayit's 2 times stronger they did that viaincreasing the thickness of the glassitself so it's up to 2 millimeters fromthe past it was 1.3 millimeters and withthat whole thing they got rid of theability to remove the lens off the frontso that is definitely a bit of a bummerespecially if you break it then you haveto go ahead and get it back to GoProsupport to get swapped out now GoProdoes note though that with their GoProPlus subscription package that allowsyou to get it replaced on the flywithout any questions asked so that atleast is positive and of course GoProPlus has like the uploading bit and 50%of accessories and other things thatthat are already useful but that isdefinitely a bummer because in the pastit was just like 20 or so bucks toreplace the lens versus now paying fivebucks a month also I was concerned thatthere would be no way to put ND filterson it but GoPros hasn't launched they'vepartnered with polar pro so there willbe ND filters available for the killer 8black so that's not all bad newsnext the hero 8 includes a new frontmicrophone now there are threemicrophones on total on the hero 8there's one on the front on the side andon the bottom and we saw a ton of audioimprovements in the hero 7 and with thehero 8 they said this new frontmicrophone is better suited from a windstandpoint and then with that theypaired a bunch of algorithm improvementsas well to go ahead and not only dealwith the wind side of things better thanthey have in a hero 7 but also to goahead and improve ambient noise inquieter environmentsstill talking to you though and cruisingdown this little section right here nowdefinitely got a head blow at this pointI'm still talking to you though okaywe're getting in the homestretch herebut don't worry you got a few more coolthings to talk about starting off withthe Auto leveling in the GoPro app so ifyou ever mounted your camera justslightly off-center but didn't realizeit and then captured a bunch of footageyou're like oh that's not ideal- GoPro app will just automaticallylevel for you and I'm not gaystraightened out again so that's handybecause certainly you could have usedthird-party apps in the past to do thatbut this is now in the GoPro app itselfnext a brief note on battery life I'mgonna put all the battery life estimatesright now on the screen from GoPro thoseare the official specs in my testingit's pretty close to that in more orless similar to what I saw on the hero 7block in the past overall no real shiftsthere either positive or negative in myexperience next it's worth noting thatGoPro says they've changed a little bitof the coloring on the camera betweenthe hero 7 and the hero black and youcan see that in certain scenarios by andlarge it seems to color better and moretrue though have seen like one maybe twoscenarios and last month where it didn'tquite nail that overall though it'sdefinitely either equal or better thanI've seen in the past the colors arejust popping on everything I do forphotos to videos so I have no realcomplaints there finally let's talkbriefly about the new GoPro Hero maxthat is again the fusion replacement ofthe past now the first thing you'llnotice it's a heck of a lot smaller thanthe fusion camera was so that's positivenumber twos I've gotten rid of therequirement to have two SD cards in itwhich was a pain in the butt andpost-processing and all that kind ofstuff they've also added a 1.7 inchscreen on the front of it which is superhandy for framing and figuring outwhat's in frame router frame becausewhile it is a 360 degree camera yousometimes want to go ahead and use justa single chunk of that frame as opposedto the entire thing further they'veadded a shotgun mic to it as part oftheir six microphone array on the cameraso there's a ton of microphones on thiscamera itself and then they've added1080p live streaming as well sosomething that the older fusion didn'thave but I want to kind of caution youthat this isn't a case of having twoGoPros for the price of one plus ahundred bucks for example if you'regonna use a single front lens there it'sstill 1440p you're not gonna be able todo 4k like you could on the hero a blackso just keep that in mind it's adifferent type of camera which is agreat camera potentially so stay tunedfor later on in October when it comesout and I'll go ahead and do a kind of afull new things review on it then okayso there you go that is all the newthings on the GoPro Hero 8 black youknow from my perspective if you'retrying to slide between buying a hero 7and a hero 8 for the extra 70 bucks I'deasily go hero 8 I don't think it'sprobably to be worth it for most peopleto upgrade from the hero 7 to the hero 8and I think you know for me personally Ireally love the new stabilization of thehero 8 but I'm also a bit bummed aboutsome of the trade-offs they've madearound this especially around some ofthe accessories stuff and finally if youfound this video interesting don'tforget hit subscribe Derek's I got morevideos on the way of course includingeventually the GoPro Hero Max when itcomes out and then down the road the newmods and plenty of details on all thatgoodness as soon as they're out have agood one