GoPro HERO11 Black + 1-year GoPro Subscription £346.98 @ GoPro

Exactly this - someone made a similar observation in an earlier GoPro deal before Christmas so I've been watching the price of the Hero 11 before during and after the 15% off deal - so people aren't getting quite the deal on the Hero 11 that they think they are. That said, I don't think they're mucking around with the prices of accessories, so there might be some good deals to be had there when the discount is available.

Eindhoven, NL

There are some things that cannot be directly compared, but I would say overall the Gopro has better footage.

The go pro has a fixed wide angle lens with fixed focus, so you'll have to live with that, but for the intended usage scenario, it's usually fine. The lenses are good and sharp, too. There are some different modes that approximate different lenses but they are basically just tricks where different sized areas of the sensor is samples.

Phones have the advantage that most recent high end ones have multiple lenses so you can have a decent telephoto and a wide angle besides the standard one. I find that on most phones, though, that the additional camera module never have sensors as good as the main module so may have more noise, lower frame rates, inferior detail etc.

For pure video quality, though, I would hand it to the gopro.

The 5.3k mode is absent in most phones. A few can do 8k but not with the same kind of bitrates or at 60fps.

You can either keep footage at 5.3k or downsample it to 4k to make footage that is much sharper at the pixel level than any 4k video from a phone camera is likely to be

The gopro can also do 4k at 120fps for amazing slo mo footage without sacrificing resolution. Of the small handfull of phones I've seen that claim to do this, the image quality is nowhere near as good normal 4k, as more compromises are being made to achieve it. With the gopro, the 4k120fps footage looks pretty much the same as 4k60 or 4k30

The Gopro also records at a higher bitrate than most phones up to 120mbps from the box and using gopro labs custom settings you can up it to 200. Even that isn't considered that high in the scheme of things, but it's better than a lot of phones that average closer to 50 and can have more obvious compression artifacts. (it's worth mentioning that some 3rd party phone apps allow you to use much higher bitrates than stock)

The gopro also records at a constant framerate whereas many phones still use variable framerate as a means to save storage space and an extra way to control exposure. It's considered non-standard and can be frustrating to work with as sometimes videos have juddering or uneven motion and some video editing software doesn't like it, either.

The hypersmooth stabilisation is pretty much unmatched by any phone or even any other action camera. I've seen a few phones that come close to matching the smoothness but at a huge cost to resolution (pixel 6 and 7 for example) The gopro can perform absolutely amazing stabilisation whilst still delivering very high quality footage. It really is the best I've ever used, even better than using a dedicated gimbal because it can dampen out movement from walking, too. The horizon levelling ability is unbeaten, too.

When it comes to photos, for pure quality, I would probably hand it to the very best smartphones now that they use computational photography to do stuff like combine 4 photos into one to reduce noise and increase detail. Having said that, the gopro has a great amount of manual control and it's more accessible so there's some things you can easily do with a gopro photography wise that are difficult or impossible because the phone doesn't want to hand over the reigns. The gopro is a little more like a mini DSLR camera in this area, because you can manually take control of many things and lock settings etc. The pixel 6/7, latest few Galaxies and iphones etc have immense image quality but the manual modes tend to be less intuitive or come at the cost of losing some of the clever image processing. My Pixel 6 is maddening in terms of how limited the manual controls are, knowing how capable it is of such good quality on a technical level.

You'll probably also find features like time-lapse are more comprehensive and customisable on the gopro vs most phones.

Anyway, really blathering on now!

But in terms of outright video quality, I have to hand it to the gopro. Phones have their own advantages, too, though. (edited)

Mines fine. I think it's when people try and make long videos with it stationary. It's designed to be air/water cooled and shoot short videos.

It's clearly marked in the sale and during checkout. You can cancel the subscription at any time too.

It depends what is your priority.
You are loosing floaty handle, strap and clip but gaining one extra battery (3 in total) and dual charger.
And right now, head strap and quick clip is £11.36 on Amazon - hotukdeals.com/dea…250

You are right but their accounting team do…..in the favour of the company lol

Mine has never done any of those things

I was very tempted by that too, but got put off by some complaints about focusing and some other things. From what I've seen, they're pretty good with updates so I'm sure it will be sorted in a firmware update (if it hasn't been already).

It depends. They're a great addition to holidays if you want to capture footage in the pool, day trips etc. They can do photos too, but I'd still use my phone or compact camera for most photo opportunities.

A GoPro is a nice compliment to your phone. For example, you could use your phone to vlog around the city and use the GoPro for action shots, day trips, slow motion etc.

What would be a good alternative? A different brand 360 camera instead but just use the regular view options? Or any recommendations of other just straight up action cams?

edit: maybe there's some good ones here but curious what you offer hotukdeals.com/dis…236 (edited)

Go to checkout and it applies 15% off. Now £347.48