GoPro - HERO7 White
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Last updated: Jan 18, 2026 Scoring
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"Have run 3 half's and 2 fulls, never have ran out of battery provided they are properly charged beforehand."
"I use it for the same reasons and love it. ... I would not consider the regular Apple Watch because of battery life."
"the battery life easily lasts 10+ hours."
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"GoPro is still the best action cam for fpv because it lets you record in 5.3k 8/7 aspect ratio. ... When you stabilize fpv footage you crop in this will make you loose resolution. ... If you want the image with the best quality possible go with gopro. ... Its better for cropping in post since you get a larger image."
"The picture quality is amazing ... the footage is really sharp"
"The GoPro has much better color science right out of the box."
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"in the water it is unbeatable."
"My current Gopro 12 takes pretty damned awesome pictures, especially in RAW if you know how to use lightroom. ... Here's a shot of some coral I took 2 weeks ago in Cozumel, with a cheap dive housing, no lights, no colour filters, depth around 12-13 meters. ... Even on simple jpg mode, in lineair lens, the pictures are more than decent ... This one was in super green, much less clear water, on a day with clouds, from the surface as you're not allowed to dive near the turtles here. The bottom is about 2.5-3m deep here. Simply point & shoot in raw mode and then process the RAW."
"The mini has been drug all over golf courses and gotten wet countless times."
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"the stabilization is incredible ... it’s the coolest coolest footage"
"Max2's image quality is insanely good ... in full resolution, the detail is super impressive. ... the quality is great ... the daylight quality is ridiculously sharp. ... the image quality and stabilization are incredible ... nice detail ... The footage looks good"
"I've never had unstable video while dirtbiking"
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"I've had a couple of GoPros and they've worked flawlessly on everything from countless mountain bike rides to snorkeling all over the world. ... I still have a 7 Black because it just wont die."
"My Hero 7 Black has been through snorkeling in Hawaii, outdoor expeditions in Alaska, and 18 mile hikes up Half Dome and back... for years..."
"as for myself - I have this projector for 2 years and 0 issues"
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"The go sucks, it's no where near wide enough"
"One of the things I didn't like about the GO3 I had, and returned, was I felt the FOV was too narrow. ... It wasn't a full 180 degrees, so if the camera wasn't aimed properly, I couldn't adequately reframe in post. ... Ie: I was on a rollercoaster, the camera was tilted upwards on my chest, and all Ingot was sky."
"It only has wide angle lens. You can't get a standard shot."
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"my biggest issue is with the crashes causing me to lose footage ... it's annoying resetting it once or twice a day if I'm filming ... has a crashing problem. Probably once or twice every few hours of filming, usually after you start or stop a video it will crash"
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"the thing gets extremely hot"
"If you're mounting in a vehicle interior with limited/no airflow, you will probably be able to run it indefinitely at 4K30, but at 4K60 you'll almost certainly get a shutdown due to overheating. ... Go Pros just weren't designed with that kind of operating environment in mind - they're meant to be mounted on your head or chest or whatever outside whilst doing action sport, which inherently provides plenty of airflow."
"Big downfall was that it overheated with ease."
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"Low-light performance has been my one complaint for sooo long. ... You say that you shoot in sunny days, but I find that a lot of my use cases are low-light, indoors where the performance hit has been hugely impacting. Gymnastics meets and dance recitals with my granddaughter, plays with my grandson. School events. Birthday parties. Family game nights are a blast with the camera sitting in the middle of the table capturing the fun. Camping, especially sitting around the camp fire, or capturing the beautiful night sky in the mountains. Nighttime swimming parties with family and friends. One of my favorite videos was in an aquarium with the grandkids petting rays in a shallow pool, in very dimly lit conditions. Even treks through heavily wooded areas can be dark enough to cause issues."
"As for night-time footage, my X2 was always horrible. ... Modern cell-phone (2d) cameras are SO much better at night that I stopped trying to use it since night-time image quality was more valuable to me than the 360 capabilities."
"I had horrible experiences with go pro 11 mini black… ... GoPro sucks for low light dji easily wins here."
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"If you're mounting in a vehicle interior with limited/no airflow, you will probably be able to run it indefinitely at 4K30, but at 4K60 you'll almost certainly get a shutdown due to overheating. ... Go Pros just weren't designed with that kind of operating environment in mind - they're meant to be mounted on your head or chest or whatever outside whilst doing action sport, which inherently provides plenty of airflow."
"Go Pro's, generally, will record anything at a given resolution (say 4K, or 1080p), at the same bitrate, regardless of the framerate. ... This means that for any given second of video, it only has 100 megabits of data to encode every frame. Shoot more frames, and you get less data per frame. ... The result of that is that at 30 fps you get 3.3 megabits per frame, while at 60 fps you get just 1.6 megabit per frame. ... Playing back in real time, you might not immediately notice the difference but particularly in complex scenes... you'll see a massive reduction in overall image quality as the camera struggles to fit all the detail into the extremely limited data available for each frame."
"The sensors are so small. They are the same as my hero 7. You can't beat physics."
What about issues with the cameras crashing? I have a GoPro 7 a friend gave me and I do want to upgrade at some point but my biggest issue is with the crashes causing me to lose footage. I've heard is still an issue on the new cameras plus overheating problems. The 7 doesn't overheat luckily but it's annoying resetting it once or twice a day if I'm filming. And I'm using the recommended SD card.
r/gopro • why does every comparison video on YT seem like to bashing Go pro 13 ? is it really that far behind the competitors ? ->Does this firmware help the older models? I have a go pro 7 that has a crashing problem. Probably once or twice every few hours of filming, usually after you start or stop a video it will crash. I'm using the suggested SD card.
r/gopro • why does every comparison video on YT seem like to bashing Go pro 13 ? is it really that far behind the competitors ? ->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.
r/MTB • Is GoPro dying? ->Get whichever Go Pro is in your price range. Anything Hero 7 and above will have hypersmooth and as long as you’re not running it at max resolution and fps it shouldn’t overheat, especially with a fan or AC on in the car. 30 fps would be my recommendation, and most should be able to handle that at 4K just fine.
r/gopro • Best camera for Beginner for recording POV car driving videos ->A GoPro 7 or 8 then. I don't recommend less know action cameras brands like Akaso, not terrible but not great either. Sound quality is really bad and the image stabilization performance is inferior compared to the GoPro or the DJI Action cameras.
r/Cameras • Wearable action cam? ->For me GoPro always had the best mic/audio balance. insta always sounded baseless and sucked at eliminating wind noise as well
r/Cameras • I don't know what vlogging camera to buy ->7 was a big improvement for sure and the last to work with the gimbal. Big downfall was that it overheated with ease.
r/gopro • Which is your favorite GoPro? ->Gopro hero 7 white is a great camera if you can find one used. Doesn't have super good stabilization or GPS like the black model does. But I've never had unstable video while dirtbiking, and the battery life is often about 2 hours at 1080p 30fps... Better than the black models..
r/motorcycles • What camera should I buy to record on a motorcycle? ->Within reason, whatever you've got. I had a GoPro 7 for years and took that thing around the world. It never let me down. We've now upgraded to DJI Action 5s. They're great, but not *that* much better. Horizon leveling is great and all, but the 7 still took good video.
r/motorcyclegear • What camera is best for recording riding. ->An iPhone 17 pro would be far, far better than a GoPro. GoPro is intended to be an action camera, meaning it’s great for video. It *absolutely sucks* for still photography, especially smaller stuff or macro. I will note that if you plan on using your iPhone, please make sure that you have AppleCare+, or a separate rider on your homeowner/renter’s insurance. Given a long enough timeline, every housing fails. All it can take is a piece of your hair falling on the seal as you close it to end up with a flooded case and totally ruined phone. Last, always back your phone up before you go diving (or at least, before your trip, assuming that you’re OK with the possibility of losing anything added that isn’t also in the cloud since your last backup). Oh yeah, and have a game plan for how you will communicate if your phone does flood - for example, bring along an unlocked older gen iPhone to use until you can get yours replaced. As others have mentioned, you need a light source if you want to have the best results. The fact that you have a new phone doesn’t change that. As you descend further underwater, certain colors (like red) gradually disappear - that’s just physics for you.. a new phone won’t magically add that red back into the water. So yes, if you plan on shooting ambient light photos deeper than snorkeling depth, you’ll need a light source or red filter. Or an app like dive+ to do post processing in. If you have the money, I’d recommend a used Olympus tg6 and backscatter mf2 strobe for macro and small critters. Pt059 housing. It’s the best combination of quality and affordability.
r/scuba • Photography during dives ->For video I use my GoPro without lights then run it through the dive+ app. Sometimes I use my tg6 if I need to zoom, but for the most part, video = GoPro. If you check out my posts from around March to June of this year, and a year before that around the same time, you can see various shots with both devices. Actually, I’ll just link a sample of a few of them below. Regarding your friend, without seeing the video, I can’t really comment… But most of my GoPro video are natural light. I use a strobe that has a guideline, but it’s not powerful enough for a video work. Not unless it’s super small critters. If you usually shoot video, yeah, I would go with something like a GoPro, DJI osmo, or insta 360. I haven’t really seen many videos shot on an iPhone underwater, but of the few that I have, I do remember the quality being pretty good.. so if I had to answer, I would say that you could pick either/or. Although one of the benefits of the GoPro in my opinion is that you can throw it on some pair of cord with a bolt snap, and then just clip it off to a d-ring when it’s not being used. That’s how mine is set up, so I don’t have to think about it. Here’s what it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/yclKbMG One of the drawbacks to GoPro is that you can’t really do much in terms of optical zoom - whereas with a iPhone, you can. So an iPhone would definitely be more versatile if you’re going to do stuff like small seahorses and also large manta rays. GoPros generally are best for wide angle videos, not small stuff. Edit: GoPro 7 with dive+ processing: https://www.reddit.com/r/scuba/s/fGUw8MIpaT Tg6 video with dive+ processing: https://www.reddit.com/r/scuba/s/Xvj8FEWy4o Tg6 macro photos with mf2 strobe: https://www.reddit.com/r/nudibranch/s/iSzO8AJhEu Tg6 small critters with some macro + mf2 strobe: https://www.reddit.com/r/scuba/s/PlQgpBBuyP
r/scuba • Photography during dives ->I use a GoPro Hero 7. https://www.instagram.com/riderofcopenhagen
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