You can hear it on the Hero4 Session, but it still does a pretty good job with it. The flipside of that is that neither of those two picked up the wind at all. Both the Hero+ LCD and the (housed) Hero4 Silver sound much quieter, and muffled. The unpredictable nature of the wind, however, makes it hard to test this dual-mic feature with any level of confidence - it's not always coming from the same direction, after all.Īs you'll hear in the clip, in terms of volume, the Hero4 Session wins out. I chose a location where there were high levels of background noise (thanks to the crickets), and a bit of wind. The Hero+ LCD is also waterproof, but while it doesn't have a separate housing either, that's because it's effectively glued into one permanently as such, its audio is always of the "housed GoPro" variety.īelow are three audio clips lifted from their respective videos (it wasn't that interesting, sorry). The naked Hero4 Black or Silver record much better audio when not in the enclosure, but with the Hero4 Session, this simply isn't an option. The challenge is providing good audio in a camera that's waterproof without a housing. The idea is that, when one camera gets bombarded with wind or background noise, the camera switches to the other one for clearer audio. One of the key features in the Hero4 Session was a new dual-microphone configuration. This wasn't consistently the case, but I picked this image out, as it shows how, on occasion, the other two cameras can best the Hero4 Silver. The slow shutter speed caused the image to come out blurry. Even more surprising, is how the Hero4 Silver struggled. The Hero4 Session doesn't do a terrible job, but for some reason introduces an orange hue, particularly noticeable on the hood of the car. The colors are natural and despite the contrast between the dim street and the sky, you can still make out details on the buildings. In a flip of the script, the Hero+ LCD delivered the best image. What's interesting with this photo is how different all three cameras performed. When there's not much light, any camera is going to have to work harder to deliver a good image that's true across the board. The Hero4 Silver shows a punchy green, whereas the Hero+ LCD and Hero4 Session look too strong - and unnatural because of as a result. But, like watching a TV with the colors juiced right up, or with added saturation, natural tones can feel a bit pale by comparison, even though they are actually more authentic. When viewed side by side, the Hero4 Silver can appear a bit weak. At 3PM on a hot day in Valencia, Spain, the sky is much closer to that as captured by the Hero4 Silver. Conversely, the blue of the sky is paler in the Hero+ LCD and Hero4 Session, and more vibrant in the Silver. Both the red tiles in the mosaic and the terracotta tiles surrounding the column are considerably warmer than the more natural tones as captured by the Hero4 Silver. The screen grabs/video stills above are a good example. Reds are slightly hot, and blues are cool. One thing I noticed while doing this test is that the Hero+ LCD and Hero4 Session appear to have a very similar color profile. Larger images are available in the gallery above. All the images in this article have been resized in Photoshop to fit the post width. When it comes to image quality, there are a number of factors to consider, but two of the biggest concerns are color reproduction (how authentic they are) and image sharpness/detail. It doesn't matter what the spec sheet says it's real-world results that count. The Hero4 Silver was set to the nearest equivalent, which is seven megapixels (wide) it's possible to shoot at 12MP, but I wanted to keep things as close to like-for-like as I could. For images, the Hero+ LCD and Hero4 Session were set to their default/highest setting, which is eight megapixels (wide). For video, I set all three to 1080p/30fps (wide), with Protune turned off - a standard configuration for multiple use cases. All three GoPros are mounted on a K-Tek Norbert Sport Junior (as seen above, and recommended in our accessory guide), and controlled via WiFi remote to trigger them all at the same time.
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