Here is a quick review of the new GoPro Session and the new GoPro "The strap" mount. (It's was an early Father's Day prezzie!)
All-in-all, I like them both!
A few comments on the Session:
1. Very small and easy to use
2. Easy to mount in the innovative housing
3. Video quality seems fine to me
4. The red button powers it on and it starts recording. Press it again and it stops recording and powers down. Should extend the battery life.
Some
small concerns:
1. You can't replace the battery and you can't add the backpack battery - but unless you leave it recording the whole time, that shouldn't matter
2. There is no floaty backdoor - you better mount it securely
3. The sound/wind noise is pretty crappy as you will hear at the start of the vid - but you will probably turn it off and dub in music anyway.
4. The clip on the housing makes it a little vulnerable IMO - if it opens the Session could end up on the sea bed. See below.
I tried mounting it on the paddle shaft. You'll see some samples from Big Left at the end of the vid. It is nice and light and low profile, but it got tangled with the leggie a bunch of times... But it has to be better than the bigger Hero4.
I also bought the new "The strap" mounting product. I like the quality and the flexibility. It provides a bunch of new mounting options. I thought I would try strapping it to my thigh. It was easy to start and stop recording. It didn't get tangled in the leggie (to my surprise) and you can judge for yourself if the viewing angle is OK.
(As always, the waves were bigger than they looked...
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(The movie is a bit long but I didn't want to cut too much off Snoop.)
