GoPro - GoPro MAX

Max2, you are already in the goPro ecosystem, has replaceable Enduro batteries, and you can attach it to your head and reframe later or just hold onto a stick and it reframe later and it makes life much easier. I had an original GoPro Max when my kid was young, and it worked great. The Insta is also a great option, but is much taller and in my opinion harder to find good mount positions. Edit: best advice is get them used to all the equipment and strapping into the board at home inside before they have to do it outside in the cold at the mountain. This way when you are at the mountain, the only new thing is the mountain not the gear.

Upgrading from GoPro Max 😅

Gopro max or max2 or insta360. The 360 cameras are awesome as hell for snowboarding.

It's simple to me. GoPro Hero cameras are a huge PITA to use. They're horribly unreliable and nowadays DJI/Insta look just as good. It's been like this since at least Hero 10. They have done nothing to fix the Hero line and continue to push out a new model every year. It's corporate greed and it's killing the company. I've spent a lot of money on GoPro gear only to be burned by them over and over again. I go out of my way to recommend against GoPro any time some asks. I will give credit where it's due though. The MAX 360 has been a great camera for me. I don't have any of the issues that are so abundant on Hero cameras. It's the only GoPro product I've had a good experience with but I still can't recommend it because of the culture at GoPro. I know if anything comes up that requires them to lift a finger to fix, it will remain broken forever while they work on the next yearly model release.

I've had * Hero 3 White * Hero 4 Silver * Hero 7 Black * Max (1) * Hero 12 Black and I still have all but the 3 white. The 3 white was the only 'bad' one I think, one where the camera really didn't live up to the hype for me and hence I upgraded quite quickly. As for my favourite? In the context of when they came out the 7 felt the most incredible, it really was a big jump with the stabilisation. But I probably shot most of my coolest footage on either the 4 Silver or the Max, just because of the time in my life I was using them and the novelty of 360 footage at the time.

Send me a dm I have a go pro max and a hero 11 I would love to get rid of

The x5 doesn't shoot in real 8k,though, and isn't much better than the Max in video quality in the end result. So I've stayed with my max. But hope a max2 might move the needle.

I like my Gopro Max for riding with my toddler because I don’t have to frame anything. I basically turn it on, hold it on a stick, let it record, and just focus on making sure kiddo is safe. It’s so easy to reframe later as if you were pointing it at them the whole time. The OG Max is pretty cheap right now (300 or less I think), but if you’re open to switching brands/ecosystems there are some good deals for the Insta360 X4 around the same price (they’re on Chewey.com the pet website right now for $300 being sold as a pet cam…). I don’t have a lot of personal experience with them, but I have friends who use them the same way I use my Max, and it’s newer tech and higher resolution. But overall a 360 cam is the way to go for filming small kiddos. They’re very set and forget.

Sorry to steal the thread but I ended up selling my gopro max because it splits videos every 4Gb which is about ~20min so recording and editing long flights is a pita, and also they removed the capability to disable "world lock" while editing (before you could just point to a fixed angle and have a regular gopro style video, but not anymore). Do you know if the Insta 360s have these issues too?

I'm feeling pretty good. The weather's nice. My commute was better than average. Oh the GoPro Max 2? Preordered 2 days ago. Honestly even if it's exactly the same quality as my GoPro Max, the durable and replaceable external lenses pushed me over the edge. The prior Max would scratch if you looked at it funny and then you had to do the replacement process. I'm expecting the footage will look better than the original Max, I'm just saying even if it was the same it'd be worth half it's price just to not have to replace the whole camera every time it's accidentally set down without covers. We'll see how much better the 8k is than the 4k, might be great. Any increase in resolution will be nice for reframing. Because I'm on Gopro's $49/yr subscription, I got $100 off. The subscription's a great thing for that discount and more importantly the fact that I can set the cameras to upload their footage to the cloud and then clear their memory card. It's a nice set-and-forget process that just happens when I plug the camera in to charge. I run [this command](https://github.com/dustin/gopro) periodically on my computer to download all the footage from the cloud so I have a local copy. As far as I know the DJI and Insta do not have this kind of auto-upload-and-clear feature (I could be wrong). Nothing in the review videos I've seen so far pushed me to break out of that ecosystem, and GoPro is good about not overhyping their camera's specs or quality. I like shooting 10-bit log at high-bitrate on the Heroes, and will continue that practice with the labs firmware.