![]() MACROMATE MINI Works Great on HERO5 The wildly popular +15 MACROMATE MINI lens looks even sharper on the HERO5 and offers an increased depth of field over the HERO4. If you're down with DIY, you'll see it's an easy hack, but the new FLIP10 will fit like a glove and will come with a new set of filters. Unfortunately, the FLIP4 frame is also a little too thick and could cause vignetting (dark corners) in the edges of superwide shots. For our underwater tests, we simply used a few 0.35mm thick stickers to shim out the FLIP4 frame. The lens port of the new GoPro HERO5 Super Suit (Dive housing) is slightly smaller than the Hero 4 dive housing. The new FLIP10 is now shipping.Hack a FLIP4 to Fit a HERO5? If you're like us, you'd like to dive a HERO5 tomorrow. The FLIP10 Filters and Macro Lenses will actually work on the GoPro HERO5 Supersuit, but require DIY shims. For full diving use, the new $49.99 Super Suit is all you really need other than a spare battery and micro SD card. The $399 price tag includes the built-in LCD back and is waterproof for snorkeling. New Lower Price - Includes LCD The GoPro HERO5 Black boasts the feature set & price we had hoped for with the HERO4. This is an awesome feature for land use, but unfortunately not available when your camera is wearing its Super Suit. Further, a pulldown menu on the bottom of the screen will allow you to lock exposure. You can position this box to an over or under exposed area to dial in a better exposure. When you release your tap, a spot exposure box will appear on screen. ![]() Exposure Lock - For Use On Land Tap and hold on the touch display until you see brackets in the corner of the screen. This is a very cool feature to minimize shutter response time while maximizing battery life. A second top button press will stop recording and automatically power the camera off. A top button Quickcapture press will automatically turn the camera on and begin recording. With the GoPro HERO5 Black you can turn on the camera with the side button for traditional use or even better tap the top button for Quickcapture mode. Older GoPros required a two button press to power on and start recording or a menu setting that typically started recording when you really just wanted to turn on the camera. As underwater photographers we're always trying to save batteries by minimizing power-on time. One Press Quickcapture - Less Fiddling and Longer Battery Life If you're new to GoPro this might not seem like a big feature, but some of us consider it a godsend. While it's not the preferred optical stabilization on higher end cameras, the HERO5's digital stabilization looks great in our tests. Image stabilization does not work in 4K, but does work in 2.7K and lower resolutions. In our tests, we found it does not correct the left and right twist motions common to pole users, but will have a huge impact on the amount of watchable footage in the future. The HERO5's new image stabilization feature will smooth out the up and down bumps producing a much more watchable video. Image Stabilization - Might Save Your Friendships Nothing is worse than making your friends seasick with your wobbly video. Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) mode helps correct for bright backgrounds in camera further streamlining your workflow. The GoPro HERO5 Black now has RAW photo capabilities that allow stronger image corrections with a much cleaner result. ![]() Since the photos were JPEGs they would quickly fall apart with editing in post. With earlier GoPro cameras we captured photos where the background was too bright or the auto white balance was too green. The smaller GoPro HERO5 Session does not have an LCD screen and is only waterproof to 33FT (10M).RAW and WDR Photo Modes - Cleaner Corrections in Post Raw file capability is a huge bonus for GoPro photographers. With a waterproof rating of 33 ft (10m) in the nude and a Super Suit rating of 196ft (60m) this is indeed the best GoPro ever made for underwater use.The GoPro HERO5 Black is the choice for scuba divers as the optional GoPro HERO5 Super Suit provides depths up to 196FT (60M). The entire camera is now more drop-proof and crash-proof than ever before. The new battery and cable hatches are indeed a bit tougher on the fingers to open, but they are now watertight. HERO5 - First Waterproof GoPro We're excited to see GoPro embrace folks like us with a true waterproof design. Follow Patrick Webster on Instagram and VimeoIn this video Robin Dodd of Backscatter walks you through the new GoPro HERO5 features. The new image stabilization helps make camera moves rock solid. Backscatter test pilot Patrick Webster used the GoPro HERO5 Black to record a cormorant capturing a fish and other great underwater scenes in Monterey Bay. Watch the videos below for an overview of new features and great underwater footage. We've put the new GoPro HERO5 through a series of test dives and have explored all the menus.
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