(dignified cello music) - It seems like every action
camera has pros and cons, but now a lot of the cons are gone, so I wanted to share why
I think the GoPro HERO10 is in fact a perfect 10. (dignified cello music continues with dignity) Well, I am super excited to talk about this awesome
little camera right here. I do wanna let you know right off the bat that GoPro did send this to me
for free because I'm awesome. (laughs because it's true) GoPro sent this to me
for free, which is great, but there's no obligation on my part to make a video about it,
to say anything about it. They don't get to look at any
video I'm making about it. I was very interested in the HERO10, but honestly, I was really
happy with the GoPro that I'd already been using
for the past three years, which was the HERO7. The reason I'm making
this video, which again, I don't have to make a video, I'm choosing under no duress
to make a video about this is because this is a pretty
much the perfect GoPro. It's what I wish GoPros could have been from the very beginning when it literally was not technically possible for that to even have been the case. So aside from the HERO10, which was sent to me and that's awesome, everything else you're
gonna see in this video, all the other GoPros and accessories were all paid for by me. And so throughout this video, we're gonna look at image quality, we're gonna look at some
of the specifications, and more than that, I
wanna try to contextualize where this camera fits in my world as someone who's been
using GoPros for 10 years, but hasn't gotten a new
one in several years. When it comes to the HERO7, aside from a great form
factor and good image quality, is 7 got a really cool feature, which is HyperSmooth stabilization. I believe this was pretty
much the first GoPro that had a really, really,
really good stabilization. OG, it's the HERO3 with 2.7K resolution. This is the HERO5 with
helicopter in the background. This is the HERO5. This is the HERO7 with HyperSmooth. Feel the view is probably
different though. This is HyperSmooth
stabilization on the 10. That was kind of its selling point and that's definitely the
thing that sold me on it. And that made it really powerful. So I've been using it for a
lot of recording over the years and I've also been using
it for a lot of streams. Anytime you've seen an overview
shot of my entire studio in a live stream or a
podcast, that's the HERO7. So to better understand not
only why I like the HERO7, but why I liked the HERO10 so much better, we need to go back in
time all the way 10 years to my very first GoPro, the HERO HD. You probably recognize this. It comes in that old like
blast-proof crazy case that looks like a SCUBA diver's
helmet up on the top here. And if I pop open the camera itself, it's got like a rubbery coating on it. So it's all very sticky and gross to touch because sometimes those
matte rubber coatings break down over time. Fun fact, though, if your rubber coating does start doing that on any electronic, you can use isopropyl alcohol and a little bit of elbow grease to just basically wipe it off and go to the clear plastic underneath. For example, the Zoom H4n that I'm recording backup
audio into right now originally came with the same thing and it got so gross over the years that I just had to spend an evening basically wiping it all down,
and now this is perfect. The original GoPro HERO, this
is sort of where I came into. What the heck is a GoPro? Somebody sold me the idea of a GoPro as it's this super durable camera that can stand up to pretty much anything. It's virtually indestructible because of the case that it comes with. It's waterproof and it's got a super wide, like fish eye field of view, which basically means that
you just mount it somewhere and you don't have to think
about framing your shot or missing anything. The original GoPros,
as you might remember, they don't have a screen or
anything just on the back, it just tells you the
different resolutions. And the camera itself, as
I'm sure you can see here is really relatively flimsy,
it's just cheap plastic, it's not super durable. What made it durable was this case. This thing is like, even
though it's 10 years old, you cannot break this case at all. I would make the case that
you can not break this case. That would be a breakthrough
case of breaking the case. Mine, unfortunately, is broken and it just like literally stopped and shut down, like the battery had died, but then it never turned on again. So that was the end of this one. At the time, it was really cool. In 2011, I was like, God,
this is amazing, you know? Looks great on my iPhone
4, but in today's world, it's not like amazing footage. And so after this one died,
I upgraded to the HERO3+. If you wanna compare it to the 10, it's quite different in size. It feels a little more
durable than the original one, but it's still pretty plasticky, and very similar, it has
no screen on the back, but it does have a better lens. This one could shoot up to 2.7K, and had a lot more features like that. This is also when the app came out. So that way you could now
control it with your phone a little more easily. And then once it was in its case, it was a little more streamlined than the first one that I had. I put this on crooked. Oh God, it broke, oh no. it just straight up, like
it didn't come unclipped. It literally like broke. But this one was quite a good
upgrade from the original and I really liked it, but
it still wasn't perfect because the biggest
downside to this is, again, you can get all that. You could buy a little
screen that went on it, you could adapt it, and
you could do all that. But everything felt kind of clunky. And using the app was
okay, but I app-solutely, I'm not a huge fan of apps
because they are kinda clunky, and I hate when I have a physical thing, but the only way I can interact
with it is through an app. So the first GoPro for me was 2011. The GoPro HERO3+ was 2014. And then in 2017, that is when I got what I thought was the perfect
GoPro, the GoPro HERO5 Black. The 5 is still very much
alive, it still works. I use this a lot on streams
and consultation calls when I need to just mount
a camera somewhere else. Like if I need something
over my RØDECaster Pro or I just want a different
angle or something, I still use this one quite a bit. The form factor changed,
it lost that super sleek, like spy camera feel
that the 3 and the 4 had, but it gained a lot because
I didn't need a case that would eventually break into pieces. Instead, the camera itself was the case. It's waterproof without anything
else, that was a big deal. I think we're taking that
for granted nowadays. And then you could put
on the skeleton housing, if you wanted the extra mounts and stuff. Plus the biggest feature of all, this was the one that had
a built-in touch screen. So now without needing
any other attachments, I now had a touch screen, which I could see what I'm recording. And then I can also go in and start playing around with the menus. And that changed everything
because now I wasn't scared to dive into the full features and the full capabilities of the GoPro because it was so easy. And then I could use
the app as a supplement. And that's when I really love
apps is when their supplements and they let you do cool
things if you want to, but they're not required. And honestly, I'll
share something with you that I feel is kind of silly
and goofy, but it's true, and it still is why this camera holds a very special place in my heart. When I got the HERO5, on the back of it, it had a little plastic piece
to like simulate the display that had a lady and a golden
retriever and a kayak on it. And it really reminded me of
our golden retriever, Ben, who I love very much,
and he's a very good boy, and I really wanted to use this camera to do fun stuff with
our dogs and everything. And for some reason, that just like, it just hit me, it just hit me different, and it made me really wanna
have fun using all these tools with the people and the
animals that I care about. And I know that that is silly and weird. And by the way, these are
just GoPro cases from Amazon. They sell GoPro basic
cases if you want them, but you don't need them with the HERO10 because it comes in its own little case. We'll get to that later, just
in case you were wondering. So that made the HERO5 a
very special camera to me, and I had really no
interest in upgrading this, except that when the HERO7 came out. The HERO7 is basically
the exact same form factor as the HERO5, it's just a little
different, it's more black. It's like this is gray and kind of black and this is like really black. It's like how much more black could it be? And the answer is none, none more black. And so I did a video comparison when I got the HERO7
between the 7 and the 5. And I'd recommend checking that video out because that's the video
that sold me on this. My own video sold me on the HERO7. I never had or used a HERO6,
which had the same form factor. I don't have a HERO 8 or 9, but to sum those things up really quickly, the HERO8 was basically the one where the HERO5 tried
to combine the camera and the plastic housing all
into one smaller compact unit. The HERO8 tried to do the same
thing because in this case, you still need to, if you
want to mount the camera, you still need to put it in its housing and hopefully not break it. And then now you've got a
slightly bulkier camera. That's not really a problem to me. It's more the like, do
I put it in the housing or do I not put it in the housing? Do I take the housing with me? Do I not take the housing with me? That's kind of the annoying thing. And then if you wanna change the battery or take out the memory card, then you take it out of the housing. Again, very first world camera problems, but just enough friction
to be kind of annoying. And so the GoPro HERO8
came out and was like, hey, not only is the camera waterproof, but the mounts are built into it. So in a very similar way, the GoPro HERO10 has the mounts just built in to the bottom of the camera right there, and that's all you need to mount it. And when you're done, they go away. And the HERO9 took things
another step further by adding not just an
informational LCD on the front, but a front-facing LCD. And I think it might be slightly smaller than the one on the 10, but
it's basically the same thing. And that way, you could
see yourself there. I think that was in response
to what some other companies like DGI and maybe Insta were doing with their action cameras where they didn't just
have screens on the back, but now you could see
yourself on the front. And then from the HERO9, the HERO10 takes things even further by bringing in a lot more frame rates, a lot more options, and as I mentioned, super good HyperSmooth stabilization that is kind of completely unreal and absolutely a selling
point on this camera. I should also mention that
whatever processor is in here is significantly better
because while the 5 and the 7 do have touch screens that work okay, they're a little bit laggy. Whereas the HERO10 is
very, very responsive and really works much
more like a smartphone, like you would expect
a smartphone to work. So, like I said, you might
notice a running theme. The original GoPro, I
was introduced to as, hey, this is an action camera that you can just mount on anything and it's virtually indestructible and it can go underwater, crazy, right? 'Cause maybe you might not
remember how hard it was to film anything underwater prior to that. It was like a whole ordeal. When the HERO5 came out and
it had the built-in screen and it was waterproof without
a separate waterproof housing, that felt like, oh man,
this is what the GoPro should have been like from the beginning. And then the HERO7 came out
with that same form factor, except it had better image quality and really, really,
really good stabilization. Then it felt like, man,
that's what the GoPro should have been like from the beginning. And then when the 8 and
the 9 iterated on that. But then the 10 came out and
it has all of those features, plus the front-facing screen, plus really, really good stabilization. You've probably seen
this in some other videos about the GoPro, but really, what it means is when you have HyperSmooth
turned on to the max, you can turn the camera
to like a 45-degree angle before it actually starts
shifting the angle. And you can see, I turn
it and nothing happens, and then there's a jump. And that's because this
whole thing right here, as I'm recording this,
actually a press record. So as I'm recording this right here, even though I'm turning
the camera like this, the image itself is gonna look
pretty much entirely steady until I turn it far
enough that it switches. That makes this incredibly usable, and of course, you can turn that off because sometimes you do want
that not super steady motion or you want some camera shake. So you can disable and everything's back to normal shake and bake like before, but there are a lot of
quality of life upgrades in this camera that I've noticed, especially coming from one that was just a couple years older. What the heck? It's this one. For example, when you do time lapses, you still have the option to
manually control everything, but if you want to do something
like a time warp time-lapse, it can adjust the speed automatically. So if I'm on a bike ride or something and I push this to do time warp, I don't have to think of like, well, I should do five-second intervals. And that means I need to record
for 18 minutes or whatever. I can just press record
for as long as I want. When it's done, it just makes it look good through magic somehow. So it can do 5.3K at 30 frames per second. And I believe they said
they're gonna do an update, a firmware update, maybe by the time you're
watching this video, it's already done, where
you can do 5.3K at 24 FPS. Otherwise, you can do
24 FPS at 4K, of course. And then you can go all
the way up to 4K 120 if you wanna do 240 frames a second. You can get that all the way up to 2.7K. And let me tell you, 240 frames per second
is really, really fun. (upbeat violin music) (cymbal clanging) And even though it is 2.7K, depending on what you're filming and what your lighting conditions are, you might notice different
levels of image quality there, but it's really fun just to be aware that if you're filming at 240
FPS, you need a lot of light. It's not gonna work like indoors at night or anything like that. You're gonna get just a grainy mess. But if you're outside
on a bright sunny day, or you have a ton of studio
lights to do something, you can do a lot of really cool stuff with some really high
quality, high frame rates. What I like about this interface is it almost reminds me of
the Blackmagic cinema cameras, where it's just really easy to understand. So instead of trying to
go through each resolution and then seeing what I want,
if you tap on the resolution, the available frame rates will light up and the unavailable
ones will be grayed out. If you tap on a frame rate that you want, then the available
resolutions will light up and the unavailable
ones will be grayed out, and that is great. But what's also great with this is it has built in really common settings. So as you go in, you have three profiles that are right there, there's like standard
activity and then cinematic. Cinematic is really cool
because that basically puts it in linear mode, which gets rid of that GoPro super view, super wide look and makes it look much
more like a regular camera. So if you're going to try
to match GoPro footage with footage from like a mirrorless camera or another regular camera, then you want it to be in linear mode. Past GoPros, like a lot of past GoPros, at least back until the 5 have that, but you have to go in
and change it each time. I love that this not only
comes with it out of the box, but has the ability to just keep it in a really easy to access place, and then if you wanna add
your own custom settings, you can just press the plus button and then you can just create
your own video profile. Like many GoPros, it has the feature where when the camera's off, you can press the record button and it will turn on and start
recording as quick as possible to try to capture the moment. So if I have the camera
totally powered off and I press record, (GoPro beeping) 3.04 seconds for it to
actually start recording. I think the hardest upgrade
decision in this case is if you're gonna be somebody
who uses a GoPro HERO9, and you're like, "Eh, is a 10 worth it?" And to be honest, I can't tell you 'cause I've never used the 9. If you're coming from
something before that, something like the 7, which is still, by all
means, an excellent camera, but you still have the
regular LCD on the front. You don't have built-in mounts
that come with the camera and you don't have the
super good HyperSmooth, that's where I think the 10
is gonna be a massive upgrade. But speaking of massive, you will notice it is significantly larger than something like the 5 or the 7. But if you take these and you
put them in their housing, then they're roughly the same size. I have this upside down just because it can't stand up there. But if I hold them like this, then you're gonna see that
they're basically the same. So the HERO10 is like that housing really is just built into the camera. And what I can't show you on camera because it's impossible to communicate is how good this feels. This is a really nice,
like chunky. (laughs) Maybe that's not the word that GoPros marketing
department would like to use, but it's a really good,
solid-feeling camera. Sometimes everything
doesn't need to be as small, thin, and delicate as possible. In case you're wondering what
I always do with my GoPros is I did buy a glass screen
protector for the back and the front since the front
is now an important screen. They came with ones for the lens, but I didn't put them on the lens since it is possible to
just twist off the lens. All the way from the HERO5 and up, you can just replace the lens. You still don't wanna damage your lens or anything like that, but it's still possible to replace it. And the HERO10 also has a
fancy coating on the lens that I can't remember what it's called, but it's supposed to
repel water a bit more. So in the past, if you took GoPros, if they're underwater, they look good, but if you're just out in the rain or you go from underwater to above water, sometimes droplets and things
would stick on the lens and you'd get this amazing shot, but there'd be like a
water droplet in the middle that just ruined it. Now I've been praising
the HERO10 here a lot, but I just, I really like it. But while we're here,
I'd like you to hear-o about all of the things that
I don't particularly like about the HERO10. And there aren't really,
there's like 1 1/2 asterisk. So the asterisk in that
case would be overheating. And if you've been watching
videos about the HERO10, you probably have seen people
talking about overheating and it is a thing that can
happen with this camera. Personally, whenever I'm
recording with the GoPro, it's extremely short bursts of recording. It's a few seconds at a time,
maybe a couple of minutes if I have it like on a bike or something, maybe I will have it going
for 15 or 20 minutes. I haven't had any issues with overheating on any of these cameras. However, there have been lots of reports and lots of evidence, like actual proof, where the HERO10 can overheat in some of the higher frame rates, resolutions, and that kind of stuff if it's running for awhile. Also, I'm not gonna dive into it because David Manning did
a really, really good video all about overheating on the
GoPro over on his channel. So instead of just copying all
of his tests and what he did, I'll just recommend that you go check out his video about overheating. But to sum up his conclusions, if you're using the camera
in a normal setting, it shouldn't really be an issue unless you're trying to
do something like 4K 120 for an extended period of time of more than 15 or 20 minutes, which if you're doing something that you need more than 15
minutes of 120 FPS footage or 240 FPS footage or whatever, that's a very specialized project that probably requires something
more than a GoPro anyway. For the vast majority of people who are spending a few hundred
dollars on an action camera, I think it's very reasonable that it can't record indefinitely at an insanely high frame rate. It would be cool if it could, but if it can't, I shan't complain. Now I tried to explain my
opinion in the comments section of David's video, and as you can imagine, I was met with a lot of really intelligent, polite discourse. So while overheating doesn't affect me, I don't have any issues with it, I've not experienced any issues with it. And when the camera is just
being used as a video source for like a live stream or something, even after hours of being turned on, I've not had it overheat. So I think that only applies
to when it's recording. But if you're thinking about
getting the GoPro HERO10, it's probably important
for you to just check out some of the overheating stuff to see if it's going to work
with your workflow or not. Now the other couple of things
that I'm not a huge fan of with the cameras really aren't a big deal are the battery life. Considering everything the camera's doing, it's recording, it's
super high resolutions, it's really small, it's
powering two displays, not getting eight hours of battery life from one battery pack is fine as was the case with any other
GoPro that came before this. Just get some extra batteries
and then you'll be fine. So while I have found
that it does seem to drain a little bit faster than
the previous cameras, I don't really consider that a problem because the benefits that the HERO10 brings over the other
cameras to me are worth it. Now, the last complaint that I have in the same way that
overheating doesn't matter to me 'cause with my workflow,
it's not an issue, but it could be a big deal
with some other people. This is something that does matter to me, but other people are
like, "Ah, who cares?" And that is the lack of ports really, especially most importantly, there's no HDMI output
on the GoPro HERO10. But on all of my other working
GoPros that I use regularly, they have not only USB power, but they also have a micro HDMI output. And in general, micro HDMI is terrible, but on a teeny tiny action
camera, it makes sense. You can't have mini or
full-sized HDMI in here, and that's so great because
I can just run these cameras directly into my ATEM Mini and then they can be an
HDMI source for streams and stuff like that and
I do that all the time. That's how I've been
using these three cameras specifically as part of
podcasts and live streams for like a couple of years
now and it's been awesome. And I got the HERO10 and I
was super excited to do that. And then I went to go plug it in and I was like, wait,
there's no ports over here. There is the battery and the
memory card and a USB-C port. On the other side, it looks
like there's something, but there's nothing you
can actually open up. There's no other doors
besides this one on the GoPro. And so this is for the Media
Mod, which kind of looks like one of the old traditional housings, except it connects to that. And then on the back, it
gives you extra ports, so you get like a microphone output, HDMI, I think you get something else. It seems cool, but I
don't need any of that. I just want HDMI out, and I don't want to have
to buy that whole thing just to get an HDMI output, especially because from what I have seen in a lot of the videos I've been watching and I've watched a lot of them, the Media Mod microphone is not as good as the built-in microphone on the HERO10. So this is my Sony a7S III with my Sony 24 millimeter f/1.4 lens running through a lavalier microphone that's mounted directly onto me. And this is the GoPro HERO10 just sitting on a slider next to my camera in the exact same settings. But now this is the microphone
that's from the GoPro HERO10 and it is beyond arm's reach away. So it's probably 3 1/2, maybe even almost four feet
away from me at this point. If I pick up the camera
and I bring it closer to me because I was talking to it like this, then you can hear how the sound changes. And if I were to turn the camera around because I wanted to
show you something like, look, there's the camera
that I have set up. So you could see the stuff
here, look at me talking. That's not the same quality of audio you're getting from the rest of a whole video production experience, but I think it's pretty darn good, I think it's pretty usable. It also works well when
it's windy outside, it blocks out wind pretty well without needing to attach
anything else to it. The reason I'm not listing
that as like a true negative is because I do understand
that maybe number of people who were actually
connecting their GoPro to an HDMI output was
really, really small. Unfortunately, they didn't
totally leave me out to dry because I can use the USB port and connect this to my computer, and then I can download
the GoPro webcam app, which is free, and it's pretty good, but it's pretty limited,
but it's functional. And then when you turn the camera on, the screen is just gonna say USB connected and up in your menu bar of your computer, there's gonna be a little GoPro icon. The blue dot means that
something is connected. And if you click on that, then you're gonna get some options here. And if you click on Show Preview, it will give you a little window where you can see it right there
and you can mirror it even. You have some other basic options, like you can change the lens
from wide, narrow, to linear. And there's a few very basic preferences about resolution and stuff like that. But the reason that that is super cool is for somebody like
me who uses Ecamm Live, or I guess whatever streaming
software you're using, the GoPro, once it's
connected to the webcam app, will just become a video
source in Ecamm Live. And so the benefit now is that even though this is not running through the ATEM Mini, it's actually a second video source. So now I have the ATEM
with all of its connections as a video source, and then I also have the GoPro
as a separate video source. So the reason that that's a big deal and actually really cool for my workflow is I can still have these
running through the ATEM, but I can have this as a separate source and then I can build scenes
and stuff around that. So I can do picture in picture, I can do like all kinds of
really cool creative stuff that I can't do if everything is just running through one source, because the ATEM Mini with
all of its eight sources is just one input. It's almost like having
another little capture card that's GoPro specific in the
camera, which is pretty fun. The weird thing about this though is that while it's connected via webcam, the battery still goes down, like the battery still
drains just more slowly. The other day, I did a live stream that went for two hours exactly. And at the start of it, the
camera had 100% battery life, had it mounted on my boom arm. And it was like, it was
really cool and goofy. And at the end of it,
it had 20% battery life so it lost 80% in two hours. Using the power of math, you could probably figure
out that rate of like (mimics battery drain effect) but it just means that you're
not gonna be able to use it all day in webcam mode, but it did last the two
hours, it's just fine, it didn't overheat or have
any problems like that. But something like the HERO7 where I have a video output through HDMI and then I also have a USB
plug to keep it charged, this thing can be on indefinitely. So I do wish that worked
a little bit different, it's not too big of a deal, but those are the only negatives that I've found while using the camera. But this really is
everything I wanted a GoPro to be from the beginning. Every single pain point,
every single frustration I had with the original
GoPro is completely remedied and improved upon in here, including more stuff that wasn't
even possible at the time, like 240 FPS, insane stabilization. The fact that this is a fun camera means that I want to use it more, which means I make more fun stuff with it. And I just, I have more
fun because of this camera. So now, I would like to go ahead and professionally thank all of the people who help support my channel so that I can make all
these ridiculous videos that I have a lot of fun doing. I really appreciate your support. And if you wanna check out a couple of my other camera-related
reviews and videos, I've got a few of 'em for you
right here, so check 'em out, and I will see you over
in one of those videos. (upbeat violin music)
