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Its slightly unresponsive touchscreen is also a little frustrating, even if a firmware fix is en route. These cameras are some of the most expensive consumer action cams around, but zipping around their interfaces always felt a little labored. The battery life of the Hero 9 Black is rated by GoPro at 101 minutes when filming in 1080p, while the Hero 8 Black manages 75 minutes. WIRED may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. Digital Camera World is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher.

capture isn’t going to change how many people shoot, and the main image quality change we see here versus the Hero 8 Black is increased contrast. There's more good news too, as the occasionally-buggy voice controls of the HERO7 and HERO8 are now improved. You can also add another two-inch front-facing display via the Display Mod, if the included second screen isn't big enough for you. You can pick up a mount for every eventuality at this point, but there's also GoPro's own range of accessories to get stuck into.

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While the latter give you a generous live preview of your whole shot, the Hero 9 Black's is more of a rough guide. In practice, it’s not quite as dramatic an upgrade, then, but certainly useful if you won’t need the extreme sports-ready maxed-out stabilization mode all the time. While there was a firmware update earlier this year to allow the Hero 8 Black to be used as a webcam, the Hero 9 Black includes it right out of the box. The WIRED conversation illuminates how technology is changing every aspect of our lives—from culture to business, science to design.This is because it's much more reliable than GoPro's standard battery when it comes to starting up in extreme cold. The Hero 9 Black also adds HindSight (a 30-second buffer for video to avoid missing unexpected moments), Scheduled Capture (for waking-up and videoing a sunrise while you sleep-in) and Duration Capture (set to record for between 15 seconds and three hours). With the release of the Hero 9 Black, the Hero 8 Black has been discounted, but for many users, that's an opportunity to get exactly the camera they need. H.265 encoding allows the Hero 9 to produce video files that are roughly half the size of those recorded with H. Our test of it running at 5K saw the Hero9 Black last for 90 minutes (though completely filling a 64GB microSD card and running really hot).