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Pros & Cons

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Pros

Removable battery is awesome. Gb micro sd card bundle is also great, it’s just another microsd card, no complaints. Only complaint is the battery door and the fact you cannot remove the front lens.

This is more of a compliment to our amazon overlords, but i appreciate the service. Pretty self explanatory. Its waterproof, i took it to the water park here in orlando & it performs perfectly.



Cons

After contacting amazon as well as the seller, no remedy has been met. What’s the point of having warranty if they’re not going to fix the problem. Its not brand new. I understand why that is after researching.

The camera freezes often and sometimes locks up. It's slow and stutter even on a very high end gaming pc. Synch with phone app disconnects, stops, halts. There’s a bug in gopro os where the camera freezes with certain brands of memory cards.

When charging it turns itself on by itself and drains the battery so unless you stand over it expect no more than an 87% charge on average. Then transferring that video takes nearly 20 minutes and draining the battery down to 8%. Comes with 20 min bat...  Read More

And therein lies the rub, or major shortcoming of this entire gopro ecosystem. It is not easy to simply move your videos from the camera to your pc or to even upload them. Mounting inside is fake not a go pro mount.

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Highlights

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Quality


I am amazed at the quality of the audio and video of the hero8


Easy to use good picture can be used in any position


The camera itself shut off after 30 to 45 min and the battery was totally drained


Battery no to good get hot quik

Price


Not extremely worth the price it cost


But i didnt renew my subscription to costly


So if you happen to break that lens it will cost you

Competitiveness


I did some research on the comparison between hero 789,chose hero 8 and it works perfect,just the battery running quick,recomme...  Read More

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  • This product had a total of 2,198 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jan 23 2024.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    My issues were that i couldnt zoom while taking a video and the camera overheat very easily which may be a problem if youre like me and live in a hot place like az


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Could be a longer lasting battery


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Not extremely worth the price it cost


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Just the battery that lasts about 2 hours can be a draw back but thats why i got a spare battery


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The only thing its missing is a 360 mode


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Sure the jumper t16 an the skyzone sky02c an all the quadcopters ive build are the major point


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Yet with out a action camera to collect the flight footage i wouldnt be able to share the experience


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The hero8 is bar none one of my favorite cameras

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