The GoPro Hero5 Session is much more compact but lacks the touchscreen of the larger Hero5 Black. With GoPro Plus, the camera can automatically back up your content while you charge the battery. A free sixty-day trial is included, after which the service is available for $4.99/month. The Hero5 cameras can also automatically upload photos and video to the GoPro Plus subscription-based service. This can be invaluable if the camera is mounted out of reach or you’re using your hands for something more important like not falling off a mountain. Both models also support Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity.īoth new models now support voice control which can be used to take pictures and record video as well as changing settings. Both come with a microSD card slot supporting Class 10 or UHS-I rated cards or those marked with the ‘Works with GoPro’ logo. The Hero5 Black also adds a micro HDMI connector, allowing you plug the camera straight into a monitor or TV for display. This is important to keep in mind as a Hero 5 Session will need to be kept charged, whereas the Hero 5 Black can be instantly replenished by popping in a spare battery.īoth models come with a USB-C socket which doubles as the charging port. The Hero5 Black battery is also removable, whereas the Hero5 session is not. To support its additional features and that big touchscreen, the Hero5 Black uses a larger 1220mAh rechargeable Li-ion battery than the 1000mAh version of the Hero5 Session. It comes with two control buttons and a small LCD at the front which are much trickier to operate than the touchscreen of the Hero5 Black, but both models can be controlled wirelessly via a smartphone app which helps get around the fiddly controls on the Hero5 Session.Įxternal dimensions of the new cameras are as follows: This does make it a little more versatile in terms of where you can mount it, but both cameras are really pretty small anyway. The cuboid Hero5 Session lacks the touchscreen and is therefore much smaller than the Hero5 Black. Obviously this last example is a very controlled environment and the image stabilisation had very little work to do, despite being switched on, but it does suggest that you could get a fairly decent amount of run time in the right conditions.The GoPro Hero5 Black Features a 2-inch touchscreen, not found on the Hero5 Session (Image Credit. In total, after clearing the full card and continuing recording, we had a total of 1 hour, 50 minutes and 15 seconds of recorded video. When I left the camera on my desk for a full-to-empty run-down test, the 32GB memory card actually ran out before the battery did. On one of our BikeRadar group rides at the Forest of Dean, the Session recorded 1 hour and 58 seconds of video before the battery showed less than 10 percent battery life, which isn’t entirely unreasonable for the mid-single-digit celsius temperatures. So, with Protune on, native white balance, connections off and the camera set to 1080p 50fps, here are a few examples of how it performed: The Session comes with a built-in 1000mAh lithium-ion battery. Here’s where the SD card and USB-C charging port goes Reuben Bakker-Dyos / Immediate Media
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