First of all I would like to mention how small this camera. In particular, when they are taken out of the housing. The one really gets still somewhere below. The housing carries because even back a little bit, but the little device is then still very compact and above all waterproof. At the processing of camera and housing else can really complain much.
The camera is up and running quickly, with the battery must first be loaded once. Is this common to send a completely empty battery really still? Do that the battery well? A minor annoyance but is indeed quickly recharged. Then perform the mode settings. And here really shows the huge advantage of GoPro silver: I can not imagine how one wants to go through all the options with only 3 buttons and a small LCD on the front. Since it is (almost) always depend on the app. With the silver and the permanently installed touch screen on the back is not a problem. With the app, the GoPro is also connected very quickly and shows both options and a slightly delayed preview there. Much I tested it, however, not yet.
And now to the most important image quality. First of all, the Blickweld the GoPro is well that's W_E_I_T If you have not experienced it yourself, you can times it is hard to imagine. It is thus quite possible a Selfie of 5-8 people to shoot at arm's length without the need to squeeze! The picture quality here is decent but not outstanding OK. Better than any cell phone, maybe as good as simpler compact cameras. But we must not forget the festivals wide angle! A car license plate is being recorded from about 30m distance to decipher as yet. But that is the fact that stand by the point of view just a few pixels available for this purpose. For videos, you can the image area usefully also restrict equal from the beginning something. The image quality is convincing. Especially in the sports area, the camera can not surprisingly mainly by the high frame rate, in the first test, fully convince. Being my personal favorite because the 720p are seen through the 120fps because the slow quite impressive from.
Shooting at night copes quite well with the little you have to pay attention to appropriate settings of spotmeter and maximum ISO!
The battery lasts depending on the task and the stress between 1:30 and 3h which is quite ok for such a compact camera. If you record only photos of course tended to be longer. Nevertheless, you should change a battery (also very compact) always schedule
A few annoyances but there is still cause the total for depreciation:
The scope of delivery is a bit too meager and the pricing policy of GoPro very brazen. There are, for example, to order any lens covers supplied with to 20 euros; a cloth bag for the camera 15 euros; USB Charger 30 euros. For other companies is such a thing as a matter of course, without having to once again have to spend about 60 for standard accessories!
The camera is charged via USB OK that's normal. But wiso it uses a Mini instead of the now ubiquitous standard Micro USB port so you always have an extra cable tow with rum.
The GoPro software for cutting (editing is one of them) zickt permanently rum. When connecting the camera to your PC you should synchronize all pictures actually. This also makes them sometimes when they feel like doing so. There's only remedy through the card reader. Importing Time Laps shooting for a lapse lasted on my Ivybridge i7 with 16GBram and SSD for several minutes as you can skip ahead a hollow coffee. Besides, I had already been recorded 4 crashes with a no longer responsive program that is hopefully better with an update!
Conclusion:
Cute Camera and gimmick that is quite good on the image quality when you get used to the wide angle. However, the scope of supply and the pricing policy of Gopro have a small flaw, just like the quality of the software
1st Supplement:
The camera masters course action scenes wonderfully. These are not too far away from the camera must play by the wide-angle! But if you have the right cut affects the very exciting by the movement and 120fps in the 4x slow motion. This combined with the robustness and small dimensions make the GoPro Silver one of the best actions Cams on the market that can also be used for emergency as compact photo. (The sub-optimal price / performance ratio and the incomplete delivery but is still annoying)
