Whether or not you are mountain biking, snowboarding, or leaping out of planes, GoPro has been a family identify for taking movies of your most adventurous actions. Proper now, you possibly can scoop up the GoPro Hero 13 Black (7/10, WIRED Recommends) as a bundle with each the usual and extremely extensive lens mod for simply $330, a full $150 off the retail value, and the bottom value ever for this bundle.
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Hero 13 Black Extremely Broad Version
Regardless that it options the identical 27-megapixel sensor and processor discovered within the GoPro Hero 12 (8/10, WIRED Recommends), the brand new options and bigger battery make it our favourite choose among the many present GoPro fashions, a minimum of for normal video. GoPro additionally returned GPS to the brand new mannequin, which impacts battery life, however is a vital function amongst customers. You have got a large set of choices for decision and frames per second too, with as much as 60 FPS at 5.3K, and 120FPS at 4K. The brand new slow-motion burst mode can supercharge these numbers for brief durations of time, like taking a 5.3K video at 120FPS for 5 seconds.
The interchangeable lenses are undoubtedly the important thing promoting level for the GoPro Hero 13 Black, letting you alter the sphere of view and filters to fit your sport or state of affairs. Usually you’d must pay round $120 to get the extremely extensive lens by itself, however with the low cost, you are mainly paying full value for the digicam and getting the lens included. It makes an enormous distinction too, taking the sphere of view as much as 177 levels, which GoPro says is 36% wider and 48% taller than the common lens.
Older GoPro customers can even recognize the brand new magnetic mounting adapter, which brings it consistent with a few of our different favourite motion cams. There are different high quality of life adjustments too, like a water-proof pass-through charging door for longer periods. The largest draw back of the GoPro might be its battery life, which nonetheless falls wanting opponents just like the DJI Osmo Motion 5 Professional (8/10, WIRED Recommends), which can also be a terrific motion cam.
Should you’re upgrading from one other latest GoPro mannequin, this may not be worthwhile, particularly should you do not plan on utilizing the extremely extensive angle lens. For brand spanking new house owners, particularly these seeking to swap their lenses, that is our favourite GoPro for good cause, and a welcome low cost on its greatest function.
