Why It'S Time For Apple To Acquire Gopro

Superphoto is a collection of tools rather than a single image enhancement technique. Alongside the HDR element are local tone mapping and multi-frame noise reduction.

Though responsive and gorgeous to look at, the touchscreen suffers in bright light. The inclusion of some additional mechanical controls would’ve been nice. Although not waterproof on its own, the Garmin VIRB becomes so with the addition of an external housing, which is rated at a maximum water depth of 131 feet. Amazingly, the touch screen and voice recognition controls still work with the housing installed. They won't show up immediately--all comments are moderated so that I can try to respond.

Even though .gpr are based on Adobe’s dng format, there aren’t many imaging apps that can work with them.2 The most notable exception is Adobe Lightroom Classic. If you don’t use Lightroom, I’ve posted a workaround that uses a free app to convert GPR files to DNG. In most of the ways you can shoot in the Photo mode, you’ll have a choice of output formats. The first is now called Standard; it used to be called JPG. So here’s a rundown of the photo modes available on the GoPro HERO8 Black.

No zoom means you can’t shoot insects or get a closer look at intriguing landmarks off in the distance. GoPros shine while it records your activities during the day or in brightly-lit rooms. However, their performance starts to degrade as soon as there isn’t enough light. Unfavorable weather conditions like dark clouds cause the color palette to become cooler and add a blue tint to the footage. Shooting past sunset or indoors with little light produces videos with lots of noise and detail loss.

GoPro has revamped the way you access Protune options on the HERO8 Black. With earlier models, you had to turn on the kind of expert mode before Hero 9 Black you could access these enhanced settings. While I can see the appeal insofar as simplifying for users who don’t want the clutter, it also means that it adds unnecessary clicks, steps, and menu items to those of us who do want to access those controls.

You can offset this by bringing a portable light or flash, but these take up space, and the results are never as good as shooting in sunlight. Even though they come closest to perfection, GoPro cameras do have a few shortcomings you should be aware of. These aren’t deal-breakers, but you’ll want to take them into account before buying.

Overall, the photo modes of the HERO8 Black are very similar to those on the HERO7 Black. There have been some tweaks here and there, as well as some handy new features, but there’s a lot of overlap between the two models in terms of the general approach and feature set. With the new HERO9 Black just released, GoPro is running a great deal on the previous model, the HERO8 Black.

That’s partly to make them look better—unprocessed RAW data doesn’t look very good—and partly to put them in a file format that other people, labs, and online services can actually use. That part is true of RAW files from any camera, but where it becomes more of an issue with GoPros is that there are very few apps that can read the GoPros’ RAW image format.