Fair warning – this article is a personal opinion piece pointing my finger at the dubious practice of throwing unfinished cameras onto the market. Are you curious to hear what happened to me when I was supposed to test the new GoPro Hero 12 alongside the DJI Action 4? Then read on... It’s the end of September. As every year around this time, new versions of the popular action cameras from DJI and GoPro have already been announced, more or less ready to hit the shelves. In my particular case, both the GoPro Hero 12 and the DJI Osmo Action 4 were sent to CineD to be reviewed. As we typically try to use new cameras on “real” jobs, we discussed what we could do with the two new action cams. GoPro Hero 12 Black and DJI Osmo Action 4 – the specs Please have a look, as we covered the specs of both cameras in articles here and here. Just the mere numbers/specs on both cameras didn’t do much to excite me as they were too similar to their predecessors – but there were a few things to take a closer look at, among them GoPro’s new 10bit GP-Log encoding mode that caught my interest in the official press release kit: Official press release, the section from the reviewers’ guide. Credit: GoPro It is advertised (also on the GoPro website) as the thing to choose for “professional creators” for “the most lifelike colors and to max out dynamic range”...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 4 January, 2024