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hi,fancy picking up a used gopro for the mtb and road bike.which is the pick of the bunch around £100-£150?
any help appreciated ta.
Hero 4 was the default we used for TV, the 5 and 6 only really added 'features' which are of limited use unless you really needed them with very little improvement in image quality (at HD resolution).
Image stabilization on the 7 is obviously a big step up.
So whatever 4/5/6 Black is within your budget, might even find a 7 at the top end of it. Black Vs Silver modles varied with the years, some years it was a better processor (so gained fps or resolution) others it was a plastic Vs glass lens. Always get the ones with the glass lens! Either check the specs or just get a Black.
Also budget for a cheap set of chinesium accessories, some non-branded bits tend to break, but there's enough useful stuff to make them worthwhile, just replace the bits that break with genuine go-pro bits over time.
My most used bits are a gorilla pod (cheap knock off of one anyway) and a velcro on 'tube' mount, which is basically a 4" long 1/3 section of a cylinder with a tripod mount on it, and some old toe straps. Turns any tree into a camera mount! Any shots you get off the bike make videos 100x better than the usual unedited 5 minutes of mediocre trail center chest mount footage. Last video I did (1st one in a long time!) was about 90minutes riding, covering only about 2 miles, with three cameras, to make 1 minute of video (and I could still have cut another 20s but likes the slow fade into the distance of the last shot).
Does it HAVE to be a GoPro? There's tonnes of Chinesey variants with similar specs but a fraction of the cost. Almost affordable enough to use for a year and upgrade the year after?
Gopro are selling refurb Hero 6 Blacks on ebay for £159 plus 2.99 delivery.
They come with brand new battery and a 1 yr warranty.
Tbh the one I bought looked brand new.
all good info there thanks.id buy chinese but it would have to be a recommended choice.hoping to buy used so hopefully comes with some mounts rather than bare camera.
I have had a 5 for years and bought a 7 in January. The image stabilisation is a big step up, without going to an 8 and not being able to use the spare batteries I have.
If you are just looking for bike use, have to considered a Garmin Virb? I have one for bike duties and it syncs well with my Edge and the XE has good stabilisation features.
Being not a GoPro means they are not the most sought after, so you can get a bargain. Also comes with a waterproof housing and is compatible with GoPro mounts.
Does it HAVE to be a GoPro? There’s tonnes of Chinesey variants with similar specs but a fraction of the cost. Almost affordable enough to use for a year and upgrade the year after?
While go-pro's aren't always great, at a professional level there are better cameras, we used to have a box of cameras at work that were 'like a go-pro', they all had insurmountable or unforgivable problems even compared to Go-Pro's.
It's a bit like comparing a £300 Voodoo with a £100 Apollo, neither is going to be great compared to a Cannondale/Trek/Specialized but the Voodoo will be a lot closer. c.f. copy, go-pro, Panasonic GH4.