GoPro HERO 8 Deals & Offers

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Well if you liked the 7 you'll love the 9. Better stabilisation and pretty much everything is better. The 9 is heavier than the 8 though and I think bigger too

Okay.. I had 7 black previously and I was very happy with that (I used it for like 2 - 3 years) so I got the 9 black but haven’t tried it yet. My tv is 4k only so unfortunately I won’t be able to see its full potential,yet. According to the net there is nothing better than 9.. must try mine

Yeah I used it a fair bit, not that impressed. Yeah the quality is good, and stabilisation is good, but it freezes a lot. And the loop recording feature is crap. It only loops the current file. So if you turn it on next time and record again it creates a new looped video file. Which completely defeats the point of looped recording. Used it twice and then it wouldn't work because these card is full lol. I had some old Chinese 1080p ones which actually had decent loop recording and car mode, where a power signal would turn it on and start recording in loop mode automatically. Gopros are extremely overhyped and expensive, but the quality of the image is very good.

Have you tried it yet? Any previous model you used by gopro for comparison?

You can get them from gopro for for £279.98 with a 32gb sd card and a 1 year sub to gopro https://gopro.com/en/gb/shop/cameras/hero8-black/CHDHX-801-master.html

Any offer on 9 ???

It's basically a quick action / vlogging camera, people should be aware of this based solely on the battery life.

Hi Does anyone happen to know if this will fit the Hero 2018 which I bought on a deal here a couple of years ago ? Link GoPro seem to be selling the Hero 7 charger for £34.99 delivered but I’m not sure what the difference is.. Link Thanks in advance

I've already got 2 batteries for my Hero 8, still only enough power for 90 mins recording at 2.7k! (fierce)

No it didn't, I've edited the deal rather than reposting.

Did the previous price include gopro plus? I think that's around £50 a year.

No it's not. The Hero8 is this price with a subscription. Hero9 is £329.98 with a subscription.

https://twitter.com/gopro/status/1305491324452438017?s=21 New version due out .. Might mean further drops if you don’t need this now

Thank u for your reply, very much appreciated. I am a bit of a noob with all this stuff but I want to use it for live streaming and also recording long videos on my bike.

If you shoot at say 120fps when creating a 30fps video, you can slow the footage down 4 times. Helps create smoother footage too if you’re not using a camera without stability built in.

People shoot above 60fps? Is that for fast action stuff?

I’ve just checked a couple of comparisons and Tom is right (imho). Colours look really washed out, stabilisation and audio are no where near as good as GoPro. Also looks like you’re limited to 30fps whereas you can shoot up to 240fps on the Hero8. If the GoPro image processing isn’t to your taste, there’s the option to film in a flat profile giving you raw footage that can be edited in post. All of these extras do mean the battery doesn’t last as long which is the main negative but I’d rather buy spares and carry a power bank than have poor video/audio quality.

Not sure which vids you saw or if it was the right model but people have gotten used to GoPros high saturation video. It makes people look like mannequins and a natural blue sky looks bright blue. So when compared with the competition, the competition looks 'washed out', but real life colours are more washed out. Depends if you want a more natural image or an artificially colourful one

Based on YouTube comparisons, pretty poor video too, specifically washed out colours compared to a GoPro. Of course, much cheaper than a recent GoPro model, but i still think people are better off buying older GoPro models than those Chinese ones, if picture quality is important

Clearly you can get 50 cameras off wish.com for this lol

Yea nearly jumped on that but prefer uk warranty myself. Each to their own i guess

Nope just use code welcome at checkout

Do you sign up as a new customer and get a code emailed to you ?

There was one from german amazon for around £238 4hrs ago. Expired quickly. Heat from me tho