GoPro HD Hero Camera

[NordieBoy]

Originally Posted by StuartV

What is ProTune mode?

A bigger main jet and a different needle profile.
Improves the bottom end considerably.

[RideFreak]

Originally Posted by rtadlock

Got my H3 black yesterday. The low light video quality is freaking awesome. Took this picture on 30/1 burst mode this morning:



There's a lot of features I didn't realize were going to be available:

1. Constant loop
2. Take pictures and video at the same time
3. Protune mode

Of course, since it's a GoPro, it needs an update out of the box to work with the new app. Supposed to be ready in December...I won't hold my breath.

Nice PIcture
I got the black ed being delivered this week, I should get to shoot some desert riding monday if the weather cooperates.

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by StuartV

What is ProTune mode?

Let me Google that for you

[rtadlock]

Originally Posted by RideFreak

Nice PIcture
I got the black ed being delivered this week, I should get to shoot some desert riding monday if the weather cooperates.

Looking forward to more rear camera slow mo action from you.

[RideFreak]

Originally Posted by StuartV

What is ProTune mode?

Sounds pretty interesting, biggest thing I see is they enabled 35MB/s which is double the cap bandwidth, it's supposed to eliminate allot of artifacts created during the capture stream. It applies to the Hero II also.

ProTune

The Hero 3 Black edition arrived today, the USB/Micro SD and HDMI ports are protected by a little removable plastic cover, easy to loose trailside but it should help reduce introduction of dust into the cam. The multipin battery backup connector is still open, I'll probably tape over that. The cam and case is noticable smaller front to back. Batteries now have a little grab tab

I need to buy some memory to try it out.

[RideFreak]

Originally Posted by rtadlock

Looking forward to more rear camera slow mo action from you.

We have a hero HD that is probably going to become a roost cam

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by RideFreak

Sounds pretty interesting, biggest thing I see is they enabled 35MB/s which is double the cap bandwidth, it's supposed to eliminate allot of artifacts created during the capture stream. It applies to the Hero II also.

I need to buy some memory to try it out.

It's worth noting that ProTune requires fast cards. I was given a 16 gig Class 4 card when I bought my Hero II and when ProTune was enabled, it regularly stopped recording on its own at about 90 seconds.

[swimmer]

FWIW, I got my hero3 black yesterday and needed to get a micro SD card. Radioshack has 32gb high speed ones on sale. Seemed like a good deal so thought I'd share. Expires saturday I think.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...uctId=13239509

[rtadlock]

Playing with the 720p/120fps today:

[StuartV]

Originally Posted by RideFreak

Sounds pretty interesting, biggest thing I see is they enabled 35MB/s which is double the cap bandwidth,

What is cap bandwidth?

[Jon_PDX]

Speaking of ProTune, does anyone use the free version of CineForm Studio that GoPro offers on there website?

http://gopro.com/3d-cineform-studio-how-it-works/

Jon...

[Jon_PDX]

Originally Posted by RideFreak

We have a hero HD that is probably going to become a roost cam

[Jon_PDX]

Originally Posted by Emmbeedee

It's worth noting that ProTune requires fast cards. I was given a 16 gig Class 4 card when I bought my Hero II and when ProTune was enabled, it regularly stopped recording on its own at about 90 seconds.

So how fast of a card do you think it will require?

Jon...

[Emmbeedee]

Originally Posted by Jon_PDX

So how fast of a card do you think it will require?

Jon...

Class 10 at least.

There's no shortage of people who found out the way I did, when my camera kept stopping the recording.

[RideFreak]

Originally Posted by StuartV

What is cap bandwidth?

Sorry, I meant capture bandwidth, if I'm reading (and understanding it) corectly they've doubled the speed at which the cam processes (samples) the captured video stream.

The black edition get a 3x increase in the capture bandwidth, the rest haxe 2x.