GoPro Hero 4 - My Review...

There is another item I got to test during my recent hike to Rax. I have been having issues with my camcorder for the past couple of month. The most likely culprit is probably the memory card. That would be an easy fix. But I wasn't really happy with the size and the weight of the camcorder. So I did my research and figured that the GoPro Hero 4 would most likely do the best job for me during hiking season.
On top of that I got my Hero 4 on sale with about 100 bucks off the regular retail price. The Hero 4 is a really tiny camera and does both great pix and great video. And it's really super light. Fits in every pocket of my hiking shorts easily. And the additional housing makes it pretty much waterproof. And that can be a good thing when hiking in Austria's mountains. The downside of the housing is, that you have to take the camera outside when recording vlogs of the hike. That's something that I still have to get used to.
Another thing that I still have to get used to is the wide angle lens. It's great for taking pix while hiking, but it means that you really have to keep your fingers off the front side while shooting or you end up having your fingers in the picture. This happened to me which several pix during my recent hike.
Still can't say much about the video quality. This will have to wait until I get around cutting the first video segment together. Supposedly it shoot 1080p. But as far as the quality of the pix go, I'm very happy with that and it is definitely worth the investment.
And love the thing that I just plug it into my MacBook Pro and it transfers all the media to my iPhoto or asked me if I rather have the media stored on a cloud service instead.