GoPro

HERO5 Session (CHDHS-502)

GoPro HERO5 Session (CHDHS-502)

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Sentiment score66% positive
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Last updated: Jun 26, 2026

Reddit Reviews

Reddit IconBaldyBaldyBouncer
7 months ago

Cheap tat. Fine for a dashcam but if you want to make proper content then you'll be disappointed. I bought a GoPro Session 5 about 6 years ago and it's still pretty decent. You can problem get a used one of those for the same price as this.

Reddit Iconed_423
5 months ago

I do a headrest mount from the passenger seat to get in cabin videos. Have done this with an old GoPro hero5 session and will be doing another track day this week with DJI hero 5 Pro. The DJI being years newer is much better quality. I keep stability on and on normal mode and it performs very well with how shaky the arm gets from driving without over stabilizing it. I did a few test runs with the DJI and I’m gonna do 4k 30fps, ev -1 and auto ISO 100-800. And 10bit color (so I don’t have to do too much color grading/correction in post and can just use the raw footage). This was able to get me some decent videos in bright day time and see everything clearly! If you can, do some test drives with your settings. Nothing worst than recording a full track day to find the footage unusable.

Reddit IconFunAdhesiveness1097
9 months ago

I have my GoPro 5 Session… no needs nothing more than stabilizer… with low light works like every newer models, When they launch a gopro that really works at night I will update!! : ) nobody have 8k TVs or can look vids in 8k in social networks…

Reddit IconGudge2007
8 months ago

Session 5 my beloved

Reddit IconImportant-Bar-4896
2 months ago

Yeah, had a Hero 5 Sessions for years. - Now I have a DJI Action 2.

Reddit Iconinih
2 months ago

My favorite GoPro (I have) is the Hero 5 Session, the 1 inch cube. On DJI I haven’t moved from the OG Osmo Action, it’s very enough and smaller than other osmo actions with the same form factor. Also I’m poor so I may biased.

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