Go Pro Hero3

[I<3BMW]

Should I get one? I would use it for driving and snowboarding and other picture taking and video filming... READY GO!!!

[Jean]

Should you?

[ak-]

Should you?

[MR E30 325is]

My roommate just got the Hero 3 silver for christmas.

Mind has been blown. Awesome piece of engineering.

[I<3BMW]

I probably should, and most likely will. Just wondering if anyone has one and can speak to the functionality of it.

[MR E30 325is]

Just imagine the first two go pro heros, but smaller, crisper and better in every category.

[I<3BMW]

^^ nice.. Done

[TurboJake]

I love my hero 2.

[thebutcher37]

love thy hero2, Cant wait to get a Hero3 when I get more in my saving$.

[gearheadE30]

I got one for christmas, and it is fantastic. The only minimal things I don't like are that it uses a micro SD card rather than a normal one, and I would still love some kind of vibration isolation. The latter can be taken care of with good mounting though. Oh, and battery life isn't great. Overall, awesome piece of engineering.

[z31maniac]

Oh, and battery life isn't great.

Details?

Like at X resolution it will only take Y minutes of video. I'm wanting to pick up a camera for track use this year.

[j0oftheworld]

Is the sound still pure dogsh*t?

[DRTSRFR]

Just picked up a Silver this weekend. Pretty incredible resolution.

I've use a standard Hero in the past and the sound was horrible, especially on my Supermoto. The Hero3 is much better, and seems to cancel background noise well.

The video resolution is AMAZING.

I haven't had time to experiment yet, just took it out for a mt. bike ride and a couple of Banzai runs in the e30 near the house.

The WiiFi feature is a big plus, but I just downloaded the App to my Commando(Droid) and haven't been able to get it to pair. I only spent a couple of minutes on it this morning though.

[gearheadE30]

Details?

Like at X resolution it will only take Y minutes of video. I'm wanting to pick up a camera for track use this year.

Well, it seems to depend a lot on the battery. I have a Black, and haven't used the wifi remote or anything, and wifi takes a bit of battery. The battery that came with it, recording 1440, only lasted maybe an hour. Recording 1080, 30fps was about an hour and a half, tops, until it was totally dead. I have a second battery though, and that one lasted 2.5 hours at 1080 30fps and still had one blip left. I also would charge the batteries off a 1 amp or 1.2 amp ish charger rather than a 600mA USB port, because charging off the computer USB takes forever.

Sound quality seems to be pretty good so far. I had it out on a dirtbike today on my helmet and it picked up the bike pretty well, had a bit of wind noise, and you could still hear me talking to myself like a crazy person occasionally.

[z31maniac]

That's lame. 1.5 hours wouldn't even get a full track day on one battery.