Hi everybody welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography
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On this episode
I want to talk to you about
why I think the GoPro HERO5
is the best GoPro ever made
and some things that you need to know
about when you start using your HERO5
or if you're considering buying one.
Also, I want to talk about
this guy right here.
This is the Karma grip that
I absolutely love.
But again, there's some
things that you need to know about when
you're using this guy.
Specifically, the audio.
How you can hold it and what it is
not meant to be used for
and so we're
going to get into that.
First let's talk about the audio
quality of the
GoPro HERO5.
We're going to get to that right now.
This has some pretty
interesting features.
Built-in to it, there
are two different types
of microphones.
There's one that's built
for lots of winds,
so if you're in a moving vehicle
or running down a ski slope
or something like that,
and then stereo and the GoPro
will automatically switch between those
two things based on what it thinks is best,
or you can override that and tell
the GoPro Hero5 to only use stereo
or only use wind,
which is awesome.
You can also use
an external microphone,
a wireless microphone, or lavalier.
There's a bunch of different options.
The way that works is,
with this guy right here,
this is the external audio interface,
it also allows you
to plug in an external battery.
It's got USB-C
that lets you plug that in,
so that's pretty cool.
Except, you can see
that this thing is pretty huge,
I mean, it's almost as big
as the GoPro itself.
So there been a lot of complaints
about the size of this thing.
So if you're doing a vlog
or something to try
to figure out how that mounts,
is something that, I don't know,
it's not one
of my favorite things about this camera.
Well, let me talk to you about
how this works.
On the side of the waterproof case,
this case doesn't need any kind
of enclosure, it's totally waterproof,
there's this little door
and you open that door
and you can take this off.
Now once you do that,
then your USB ports are
exposed right there
and this can then plug in.
Now you've got this big dongle
that's plugged into your USB ports
and then you can plug in
an external microphone.
So I'm using a Dörr
lavalier mic.
There's a bunch of different lavaliers
or external mics that will work.
You can use a non-powered,
a powered,
there are a bunch of different
options for this
so that's really nice.
Once you have this,
now you have the ability to get the
camera away from the audio component.
Your audio is going
to be much, much better,
I think that's pretty cool.
The other thing that's pretty cool
about this is
it allows you to put it in the case
and there's a little cutout here
and so you
still have access to plug in this
through the case.
So if you're in a car or something
that works really nicely.
One of the things that I think is a failure,
that GoPro hasn't addressed yet,
is if you want to use
an external microphone
with the Karma Grip, you can't.
I'm not sure why.
On the bottom here you
have your USB port that you can charge
and do all kinds of things
but when you
plug in an external microphone well,
guess what, it doesn't do anything.
It doesn't work at all.
I talked to GoPro about this
and they said, "Nope, it doesn't work."
So maybe that's coming
with the firmware update
I don't know, but for now,
Karma Grip, no external audio,
that is a
negative in my book.
Now I have the external microphone
hooked up to this camera
and you can hear that it is much
clearer than the built-in microphone.
The nice thing about this
is if I want to stop
and maybe put it on a table
or something,
I can go quite a distance
from my GoPro HERO5
using this long cable
and it is going to absolutely
sound perfect.
If I was going to do this
in real life I'd probably
have an external wireless microphone,
so you wouldn't have a cable.
But you can see how
this would work great
on a motorcycle,
or maybe on a different
kind of vehicle,
or in a shop,
or if you're doing a vlog,
woodworking, that kind of stuff,
you can have an external
microphone that works just fine.
So it's well worth the money to spend.
It's about $100 to get a nice lavalier
microphone and get awesome audio quality.
Now what we're going to do is,
we're going to do
is we're going to check
the image stabilization and audio.
This is something that might
be useful if you're a vlogger or you want
to record yourself.
So this again, field of view,
'Wide', image stabilization turned on.
This has image stabilization turned
on with the gimbal.
This is set to Auto
so it's going to switch between
Wind and Stereo.
But this camera,
I've set it to stereo only
because I know that
that's what I want.
So GoPro start recording,
we'll start this guy.
Now we're just
going to walk and talk.
So hey everybody,
here I am in beautiful
Frankfurt, Germany
on one of the most amazing streets ever
because they've got coffee,
they've got schnitzel,
they've got all kinds of
really amazing things.
Let's see what that sounds like
with just the audio here.
So here's my Stereo audio,
this is this camera right here Stereo only,
and then this is this camera right here,
with the gimbal with Auto audio.
So we'll see how that sounds.
What we're going to do now is,
we're going to
compare the image stabilization
on a GoPro with the image stabilization
on a GoPro Karma Grip,
so both of these are
set to a Wide field of view,
1080p, 30 FPS
and so we're going to
start right now.
So GoPro start recording,
I'll start this guy and now we're going
to walk down this street and you can see
side-by-side what it looks like with
image stabilization and image
stabilization with a Karma Grip.
When you get your Karma Grip
you need to be able to
hold it correctly.
You're thinking maybe like this?
This is not the correct way
to hold the Karma Grip.
You need to hold it either
horizontally like this,
or at a 45-degree angle like this.
That will give you
the full range of motion.
So either this, or this,
but never this.
If you do this you're going to get
the best results.
Now with the HERO5
the time-lapse ability is built-in,
not only is it going to shoot
a bunch of stills
but you don't have to put them
into After Effects or Premier
or something to
make your time-lapse video.
It comes out ready to go
and it couldn't be easier
with the touch screen.
So let me show you how this works.
So I go to my
Mode button
and say I'm in my time-lapse video
and then down on the bottom
I've got all my options.
So I want to set
this to a one second interval
instead of five seconds.
I can choose my field of view,
Linear looks pretty good.
Once I have that
I can choose different options.
I'm just going to go with the normal
time-lapse video.
That's all there is to it.
I am ready to go
and so I'm going to
shoot a time-lapse video
on our way to
our next segment.
So follow me.
In addition to holding
your Karma Grip
correctly like this or like this,
one other thing
I discovered is that
it is not meant to be a vehicle mount.
I learned that by accident.
So I sort of mounted
this to my motorcycles pannier,
just sort of stuck it on like this
and I took a little trip
through Barcelona.
What I found was,
as I was zipping around
the corners
my GoPro started to tilt
more and more
and more until it was
almost at a 90-degree angle.
I thought,
"What is going on here?"
So I looked on GoPro's website
and sure enough it says
clearly; this is not
meant to be a vehicle mount.
So if you're looking
for a vehicle mount
you can do that with
a GoPro, just not with the Karma Grip.
One of the things I've learned
about the Karma Grip
is, sometimes the GoPro
can be a little bit off level
and the way to solve that
is to calibrate the Karma Grip.
It's really simple.
So you have to make sure
that the whole thing
is turned off,
so I'll turn off my Karma Grip.
There it is, it's turned off.
Then all you need to do
is find a flat level surface,
like a table or something like this
and make sure that you put this
with the buttons up and then you just
press and hold
the Tilt Control
for 8 seconds.
Once I count up to
8 seconds what's going to happen
is, this is going to start going through
a bunch of gyrations
and it will
calibrate itself
so that it is
totally level.
So if you see that your GoPro
is a little bit off on your Karma Grip
just do this calibration
and things are going
to be fantastic.
I'm going to let this go
it'll take a little while.
It'll do this a couple times.
Once it finally shuts off
the buttons, the little lights are
going to stop flashing
then I know it's all good
and ready to go.
There you have it,
the GoPro HERO5 and Karma Grip,
it's a match made in heaven.
I hope you learned
a few things that will help you get
the most out of your GoPro HERO5.
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