The Hero 9 has a bigger back screen, more powerful front screen and is doing more inside with some of the settings so does it actually lead to better battery life? But what we know from our phones is that increased battery size doesn’t always lead to longer battery life. The battery has a larger capacity at 1,720mAh, slightly larger than the 1,220mAh in the 8. If you have a frame that fit on older GoPros, it will be too small for the 9. GoPro says the 40% larger battery leads to a 30% boost longer battery lifeīecause it’s got exactly the same mount on the bottom as the 8 and all the other GoPro mounts it’s still compatible with all the mounts you already own. To accommodate the 2 screens and larger battery, the whole thing had to get a little bigger. It’s slightly thicker, slightly taller, and slightly heavier. SizeĬompared to the Hero 8, the 9 has gotten a big bigger. The Hero 9’s sensor was upgraded from 12 megapixels to 24 megapixels which helps enable some of these new options. But if you filmed them at 5k, like the Hero 9 has, then you’ll have some extra space to pan left and right or zoom on with your shots when you edit them.ĥk video is big enough that if you like a still image from the video you took you can still pull 14 megapixel photos from your video. If you filmed those clips at 4k then you’d be out of luck. But what if you wanted to make a 4k video and be able to zoom in a bit sometimes?
#Gopro 9 superphoto 1080p
Filming at 2.7k or 4k will let you zoom in and still have a good picture for a 1080p video. When filming for small videos just for phones 720 or 1080 is plenty to get a good image but if you want to go bigger or want to zoom in on your video clips then you’ll need more pixels to do that. 1080p video is actually 1920 pixels across so you could basically call it 2k. These numbers really just refer to the video resolution being around 50 pixels across. Hero 9 Specsĥk video is, you guessed it, just a big high resolution than 4k.
#Gopro 9 superphoto upgrade
What are all the features? What’s it like to use? Should you upgrade from your 8 to the 9? Let’s dig into it. While you can’t zoom in much with it, it can do almost anything else. Not only being one of the best action cameras, the GoPro is really turning into one of the best small cameras for backpacking too.
I see a lot of technology in my work and travels but it still blows my mind to see the clunky Wide with it’s waterproof cover filming in 640×480 transform into the Hero 9 we get today. I’ve had a number of GoPro’s along the way, starting with one of the old Wide’s, 3+, Hero 8 and now Hero 9. Aside from DJI releasing a front screen first in 2019, GoPro has lead the pack the entire way. The first GoPro came out in 2006 (well 2005 if you count the 35mm film version) and has defined the action camera market since. GoPro Hero 9 with GoalZero Sherpa 100AC battery Yet again, they set the bar for action cameras and all other companies are left to hang on.
When there doesn’t seem to be anything more to pack into one of the smallest cameras in the world, they add 5k, horizon levelling and a front screen.