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I Wish I Was Excited About The GoPro Camera Craze

Posted by Manfred Dickgiesser on March 22, 2013 at 1:00pm

I Wish I Was Excited About The GoPro Camera Craze

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I was about to by a GoPro, but I’m not so sure about it anymore, after reading this.....

Not to a few hundred people, not to a few thousand people, and in no way should you be selling hundreds of thousands of cameras around the world with a critical firmware or software bug that arbitrarily limits the number of photos you can take with it. But GoPro did exactly that.

But according to the latest reviews on Amazon, it doesn’t look like I’m alone at all.

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  • MR60
    Hugues March 25, 2013 at 3:04pm
    Hello,
    I have got this great full hd cam at 128$ on amazon: http://www.liquidimageco.com/
    Better and smaller than gopro
  • Fernando Costa Pinto March 23, 2013 at 6:05pm

    Hi Manfred ..you might like to take a look in this "baby " http://www.photographybay.com/2012/08/29/gopro-killer-new-sony-acti...

  • T3
    healthyfatboy March 23, 2013 at 6:37am

    The 9999 bug the blogger talks about was actually fixed in a firmware update in September 2010 and isn't an issue.

    Yes, there are definitely firmware issues with the new cameras, but I have enjoyed my HD Hero 2 for a few years now and haven't had an issue with them. Occasionally, when I added a new BacPac, I had issues but once I updated the firmware, again, it wasn't an issue.

    Now, them using DMCA to take down a bad review isn't good of them and seems sleazy of them to do. I have heard of people writing reviews on the GoPro site only to see them taken down. That gets under my skin.

  • Noth666 March 23, 2013 at 6:20am
    Heh, I never got the gopro thing... I wound never spend that kind of money on a camera to fly with, not to mention the gopro is way too big and heavy for anything I have anyway.
    I dont use cameras on them at the moment but if I would feel the need Id stick a 50bucks board cam on :P
  • Jake Bayless March 22, 2013 at 6:24pm

    In other news, some lame programmers made software in the 1900's that only used the last two digits of the year.

  • Manfred Dickgiesser March 22, 2013 at 5:20pm

    Thanks Jason for that link, might be a good alternative.

  • Developer
    John Arne Birkeland March 22, 2013 at 5:16pm

    Since this seem to be talk crap about GoPro day, here is some more ammunition. :)

    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/03/gopro-can-fall-from-plan...

  • Jack Crossfire March 22, 2013 at 4:59pm

    It's a board cam with very good marketing, when it works.  Consumers recently became focused on ergonomics & less on picture quality, thanks to Apple & kenrockwell.com.  Gopro realized they couldn't afford to make very good optics, but they could make a lot of money on very cheap improvements to the button & LED layout that no-one else was doing.

    The Dec 15, 2012 firmware on my hero3 constantly crashes, requiring the battery to be cycled.  The crashes are when starting the 1st recording of the day.  Wifi is there in name only, but doesn't do anything useful.  Having spoken to him, their software manager is a jerk, so it's not surprising where the quality is lacking.

  • Cosha March 22, 2013 at 4:11pm

    Was never impressed with Gopro myself.

    I brought a LCD screen for mine (well had 4 in total)

    It was made aware to me that GoPro would not take fault (gopro camera gopro lcd, no aftermarket stuff) and somehow my brand new camera was my issue

    So after they sent me a 'F### you we are GoPro we are epic, your only a customer' email, i sold the camera, ripped the gopro sticker of my stuff and moved on...

  • Alexsey Novik March 22, 2013 at 3:58pm

    I have 2 Hero3 BE's ordered in a different time

    And i don't have any problems with it since FW update.

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