Why I regret buying the GoPro 7

Hello and welcome to my review video of

this GoPro 7 Black made by GoPro.

Okay, so the first reason why I really

bought this was because, well, I wanted a

new wide-angle camera because my LG G5 is

getting a bit old now. And instead of

buying one of those new fancy Samsung S10s

which has a wide-angle lens, I decided to

get the GoPro 7 instead because it's a lot

cheaper. This costs about £340,

whereas the Samsung S10 would have cost me

£800, which is, um, it's nearly triple

the price of this. So I think that this is

a pretty good value for money compared to

one of those fancy new smartphones.

Bloody windy, how am I supposed to do this

review?

As you can see, there are no buttons apart

from this— well, there's 2 buttons on the

GoPro that takes pictures and starts

recording, and this one turns it on and

off. But apart from that, there are no

buttons, and there's a little touchscreen

where you control things. In a minute,

I'm going to turn it on and show you what

it looks like. When it's turned on.

There's also a little screen on the front

which has some information on it, and

that's the wide-angle lens, as you can

see. See if we can get a bit closer.

Yeah, looks, looks nice. It's very small,

as you can see. It's very tiny, which

makes it very good for secretly filming

things, which is the main reason why I

bought it. And it's supposed to be very

robust and sturdy, so I should be able to

toss it into that pond and it should be

fine. It says it's waterproof up to 10

meters, but I'm not going to do that

because I'm a bit scared. Okay, that's

enough rambling. I think I'm going to turn

on the device, and this is my main— not my

main problem, my first problem with it.

It takes far too long to switch on.

Watch, I'm going to press the power

button. Pressed it. Now watch how long it

takes. It took about 3 seconds to power

on, which isn't very good. Look, I'll turn

it off.

And turning it off is a bit annoying as

well because you have to press the power

button, but the power button also switches

modes. So you have to hold down the power

button and then it will turn off. Okay,

let's turn it back on. 1,

2, 3. 3 seconds.

It's a bit slow. 3 seconds. Oh look, I

have an SD card error, and now I have to

format everything and lose all my data.

Great, thank you very much, GoPro.

Stupid SD cards. Why can't they make SD

cards where the data doesn't get corrupted

when you just yank it out? I don't have

time to be ejecting SD cards all the time.

I'm a busy man. So now we're waiting for

that to format, which is taking bloody

ages by the way. So while it's formatting,

let's talk about this little screen on the

front. So you get some information,

it says 1080p 60fps

and L means linear, we'll get back to that

later, and it says SD error and also

displays the battery Percentage— well,

not the percentage, how much battery you

have left. Still formatting. Okay, well,

I think they've really missed a trick on

this, this little display, because it

would have been nice if when, when you're

taking a selfie like I am now, it'd be

nice if I could see my face on this little

screen. There's no flip screen on it, so

if you're— if you want to film yourself,

it's a bit tricky because you can't really

still see what you're filming. And they

could have used this second display as a

little preview view so you could see what

you're filming. I think that would have

been a really good idea, but GoPro didn't

seem to think it was important. And as you

can see, it's still formatting. I'm not

sure why it's taking so long. I might have

to force reset it. Okay, so it

finally finished formatting and we have it

switched on, and this is what it looks

like. As you can see, the screen is

extremely tiny, which makes it a bit

difficult to see what you're filming, but

that's okay. And I think, I think it looks

like it's gonna rain, so let's get this

review wrapped up. Okay, so it's touch

operated like this, so you swipe left and

right to change from photo to video to

time-lapse,

and then you swipe down for menu stuff and

you swipe up for your gallery,

picture gallery, and you

have different, different settings. You

can set the resolution, FPS, and the field

of view. There are 3 different settings

for field of view. We have linear, which

is what I just showed you, and then

there's wide angle, which is— wait,

okay, so this is linear, and then you go

to wide, you go to It's

a bit tricky, I can't seem to get it

to work. You go to wide and

it's wider, and then you go to Superview

and it's even wider, but the more wide—

the wider you go, the more distorted and

fishey it becomes. So I quite like linear

personally.

For this part of the review, I'm going to

be using the GoPro 7. I'm using it right

now, not sure if you can tell. Maybe

there's not much difference between this

and the iPhone X, which I was filming on

And this is, this is just to give you an

idea of what it looks like when you're

filming. I'm filming in linear mode, so

keep in mind it can go wider, and it can

also go a lot wider than wide.

There's wide-angle and then super wide,

but I think this looks okay. So I'm going

to walk around a little bit to show you

how stable it is. It is pretty stable,

as you can probably tell. I'm not using

any kind of stabilization— stabilizing

gear. I'm just holding it in my very,

very cold hands. My fingers are freezing.

It's freezing today.

So I want to talk about the main reason

why I regret buying this, and that's

mainly because, well,

the image quality doesn't look that much

better than my LG G5, and the only reason

I bought it was to replace my LG G5. But

if it's not that much better looking,

then I might as well carry on making

videos on the LG.

What else? Okay, so one thing that

I remembered was that when it comes to

making videos on YouTube— when it comes

making videos on YouTube, it's nice to be

able to make the videos on your phone and

then just edit it straight from your

phone. But when I film on the GoPro, I

have to fuss around taking out the SD card

and then putting the SD card into an SD

card reader and then plugging the SD card

reader onto my phone and then transferring

files. It just makes the whole process of,

of video creation for YouTube a

lot more complicated. It makes it so there

are more steps to getting things done,

and it's just a bit of a pain, pain in the

backside. I've found a solution to this,

which is by pairing the GoPro to

my iPhone, and then you can transfer files

over Wi-Fi, which works pretty well.

So I think I'll be doing that. Another

irritating thing is the screen keeps

turning itself off after about a minute.

I have to change that in the settings.

What else don't I like about this? Well,

you can't really see your face when you're

doing a selfie video like this.

Can't really see what I'm filming,

but since the lens is so wide-angle, I

guess it doesn't really matter. Should be

capturing everything. Also, you can't

really focus very closely. If you can see,

you can focus about this closely, and then

closer than that gets— starts to get very

blurry. It's not really good for macro

now, is it? But I had to come back inside

because it was just so windy out there and

it was freezing cold. So I'm using the—

I'm using the GoPro now.

And I'm not sure why I bought it, to be

honest. Okay, another problem I've just

discovered is that the battery drains

extremely quickly. I started today at 100%

and I've only filmed about not even 5

minutes worth of footage and it's already

gone down to 71%.

71%. It went down by 29%

just after filming about 5 minutes of

footage. That is really bad, and I

don't know if that's normal. I don't know

if my battery is faulty. I know you can

get spare batteries, but then if you're

gonna— you're gonna have to carry about 10

batteries if you want to make a 20-minute

video. It's not very good, is it?

Another design flaw that I've noticed is

that there's no screw hole for, for a

tripod. So if you wanted to use a tripod,

first you have to put this into a plastic

case and then buy a special mount which

has the tripod threading on it. It's kind

of irritating. I thought it would just

have it built into the bottom like most

cameras have, but no, it doesn't.

I'm now using the super wide setting,

which is the widest wide angle on the

GoPro. And as you can see, it's pretty

wide, so you could attach it to your chest

and you can see quite a lot,

or you could attach it to your forehead

like this and you could see quite

a lot. But the problem with it is

if you stand at the side, it makes you

look really ugly. It makes, makes your

face look really fat,

which isn't ideal,

especially if you do selfie like this.

Then, um, makes you look a bit strange.

But I guess it's good to have, for

example, if you are inside of a building

like I am now, and maybe your

building isn't very big. My house is a bit

big, so it doesn't really count. But let's

say you are in a very small building.

Um, yeah, it would be very nice to have a

really big wide angle. I mean, look at

this, I can capture the entire bedroom

Okay, this, this bathroom is pretty small.

So as you can see, we can actually capture

the entire room. It's pretty impressive.

Uh, don't worry about those black bags,

there's no body in there. Don't worry

about that, it's just, um, let's go into a

different room.

Okay, so if I had to give you my honest

thoughts on the GoPro, I would say that

image quality, it's a bit better than your

average smartphone, which is okay, I

guess. Uh, wide angle is very wide, which

is good, and the audio quality Not sure

if you've noticed it, but does sound very

good, doesn't it? There are several holes,

and I think those are microphones. So

there's several microphones all over it,

and it does a good job at telling where

the sound is coming from.

Um, but like I said before, the main

problem is the battery. I'm not sure if

you can see the display here. Well,

it's at 55% and I've only used it for

about 10 minutes. Jesus Christ, it drains

so quickly. Yeah, the battery is shit.

I'd give it 2 out of 10. Battery, 2 out

of 10. Image quality, I would say, uh, 7

out of 10. And audio quality, I would give

a 10 out of 10. Sounds really good.

I don't know. So if I was making a video,

it would kind of go like this.

Oh, okay, so I just got this brand new

GoPro Hero Black and

just doing a quick video test to see what

it looks like. Um, it's pretty

wide angle, as you can see. I'm not sure

if I like wide angle. I might go back to

linear. Oh look,

the screen has turned itself off.

That's weird. So the screen goes

into screensaver mode. Oh, my game

started. Well, I'm playing my game now.

Okay, so we're on linear mode now. As you

can see, um, it's still pretty wide,

but this time you don't get that weird

fisheye kind of distortion around the

edges of the video, which is quite nice.

So you can video yourself and your face

doesn't look all distorted and warped,

which is nice.

I think the TV's still on.

Oh, I can hear people talking. Don't

worry, it's just my uncle. I don't

like the way this screen keeps turning

itself off. Uh, yeah, I can't really

do selfie mode because I can't see the

screen unless I stand in front of a mirror

like this. That's my

nose. Looks very shiny right now because

Um, my light is shining off it.

Let's go back to Rainbow Six and download

these videos to my iPhone and then have a

look at how the footage looks.