{"id":702,"date":"2014-07-28T22:52:04","date_gmt":"2014-07-29T03:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2014-07-28T22:52:04","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T03:52:04","slug":"gopro-upgrade-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/archives\/702\/gopro-upgrade-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"GoPro: Upgrade Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May, I said my next upgrade would be a GoPro. Last week, I confirmed that, as I bought a GoPro Hero 3+ Black. (Thanks to my employer, I even got a 40% discount.) For the first few days, I played with it &#8212; did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZXo2HqB9cCg&#038;list=PLjj2uycFdhzBPj16d9WhCvuxlkiLci42L\">sunset timelapse<\/a>, and contributed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C3UbS4LIg5A&#038;list=PLjj2uycFdhzBPj16d9WhCvuxlkiLci42L\">the internet cat database<\/a> by adding pictures of the kitties in a charming 2.7k video. (2.7k probably only available in Flash or Chrome.)<\/p>\n<p>But in part, my reaction was &#8220;Enh. What did I think I needed this for?&#8221; After all, I already had a camera for my quadcopter (in the form of the A5-powered FC40 camera); I had a DSLR (which can shoot great 720p videos); I had my phone, which could do decent 1080p video, and I always had on me. Why exactly did I need *another* camera?<\/p>\n<p>Today, I finally took the GoPro up on the Phantom, and that particular concern is no longer. <\/p>\n<p>I was recording video, so I didn&#8217;t get any particularly high res stills &#8212; but that wasn&#8217;t really a concern. Shooting 1080p video, I was able to get great shots of both the storm clouds looking out west of town:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crschmidt\/14586719490\/in\/photostream\/player\/\" width=\"320\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And another photo looking East towards Boston.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/crschmidt\/14750490176\/player\/\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The colors, the clarity, the overall picture and video quality &#8230; this is what I kept seeing in everyone else&#8217;s photos, even though I wasn&#8217;t getting it in mind. I always wondered if the problem was just my tools&#8230; and now I know. As with everything, the user makes a difference&#8230; but the tools certainly help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In May, I said my next upgrade would be a GoPro. Last week, I confirmed that, as I bought a GoPro Hero 3+ Black. (Thanks to my employer, I even got a 40% discount.) For the first few days, I played with it &#8212; did a sunset timelapse, and contributed to the internet cat database [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crschmidt.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}