Customer Ratings & Reviews

Was longing to buy were better than Best Buy finally gone pro!

Display screen crashed and exchanged for a new camera

Great for daytime shooting. Very bad for nighttime shooting.

I just received this for christmas, still have not used it.

This is my 2nd one.. had the battery door not seal correctly.. the temperature of the camera is always hot.. hard to remove lense cover to put in super suit.. battery doesn't last that long.. and when WiFi connect the camera keeps turning on. Even when u turn it off

Battery is super bad and camera started giving problems after 7 month only use it 3 times a month. I was better off with the Cheap Amazon cameras

Good product and we can many things with this. So excited.

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The camera is good. But I barely use it. but i like it.

Bought for my son for when he snow boards. He loves it

I have the hero5 and I decided to upgrade! Love it.

It’s a very good camera!..........................

It’s bad at all but I just didn’t like the way the whole thing was set up , like I can’t shot 4K with 60p I believe it’s too much for the DJI is the best no doubt as you can tell I’m so new to that game but I’m having fun with it

Came with defective battery I know it’s the battery Because I bought an extra one and that one works. So battery that came with it in the store was defective and there expensive.

I returned the GoPro because I wasnt happy that the camera option kept shifting when underwater. It went from Video to Timelapse automatically when I shot underwater. This turned several videos to timelapse without me knowing.

This is a really great camera french fries. That stability functioning illuminates the need for a stabilizer Accessories are compatible with previous miles however They can be pretty expensive.

Great for small things but it will eat a battery Fast!!! I appreciate all that it can do but I had to purchase two more backup batteries and a charging station.

Awesome picture quality Over heats and shuts off in a 70degree day App is a pain to edit with so just load them in your PC and use what ever software you already have

I bought two of these. Have had GoPros over the years. This version has very poor communication with the app. The batteries will not hold a charge. When it was crucial that one worked, the battery dies and I went to swap with my other and the removal tab came off the battery first time I tried to remove it. Then once I was able to get it out and replace with my other battery it died in about 10 minutes. Will prob return because I can not have gear fail on me when I need it to work!

I’m not an adventure thrill seeker -- I don’t do 720* back flips on a snowboard, BMX bike stunts, or base jump with a wingsuit. No, I’m just a dad with two kids who are into basketball, baseball, diving, and swimming. My main draw to a GoPro then was having a rugged waterproof camera, dedicated to the task, that I could often just “set and forget” without having to give up my phone. In that role the GoPro H7B delivers in spades. It’s not perfect, but my family is having a lot of fun with it and it rarely sits idle… somebody always wants to do “something” with it. The main thing I personally wanted it for was underwater shots for swimming self-evaluation. I’m an avid swimmer and have long wanted the ability to shoot underwater video to evaluate my swim technique. Using the GoPro “shorty” tripod I was able to setup the H7B on the floor of the pool to capture high quality and slow-motion capable video of my swim position, catch and pull, and flip-turns to objectively see what I was doing right… and not so right. The H7B earned itself a place as my “assistant swim coach” the very first outing as I was able to immediately identify several aspects I wasn’t doing nearly so well as I thought I was. That specific application aside, here is my my general appraisal of the GoPro Hero 7 Black. It’s a very capable and flexible little camera -- there’s honestly too much to cover thoroughly without writing a book so here are my highlights. First you’ll probably want to install the GoPro app on your phone. It’s not strictly required for basic use of the camera but it is the most convenient gateway to most of the advanced features and all-important camera updates. The app also allows you take a certain degree of remote control over the H7B and see through its lens, take photos and videos, change settings, and initiate live video streams. It does this by triggering the H7B to start a private Wi-Fi network, your phone then switches to that network, and then starts streaming a live preview to your phone. I never got more than a dozen feet away in this mode but it worked well for spot-checking what was in the H7B’s view without having to constantly stay behind the camera. It also allows you to see what media is on the camera and then download it to your phone, make QuikStories, etc. The H7B is capable of live streaming to both Facebook and Youtube (and other RTMP video services) pretty easily, but you have to use the app to initialize those sessions. Once initialized and setup correctly, the H7B can switch to a different WiFi network and start the video stream without the continued intervention of the phone… but you have to use the phone to setup the stream -- there is currently no way to configure and start the stream directly from the H7B itself. Updates -- make sure you check for and install camera updates! Out of the box my H7B was pretty unstable. It locked up repeatedly. A day or two after I got the camera update v1.51 was released and, though not perfect, it seems to have helped quite a bit in my case. Even so, there were still a couple of lock-ups, boot-loops, and “all the red LEDs stuck on” issues that occurred even after updating to v1.51, all of which I was only able to resolve by physically removing the battery. I won’t be too harsh on it for this as it is a brand new device, and I’d expect future updates to improve on this. When it comes to updates: check early, check often. QuikStorikes are a feature of the app that examines your media, factoring any highlight events you’ve tagged yourself, and then automagically makes short videos of segments it thinks you might like. If you don’t have even basic video editing skills then they’re better than nothing but I quickly found QukStories results to look pretty gimmicky, bland, and mechanical -- frequently cutting off the clip at awkward moments. It’s better than nothing, and works for putting together something you can show in a hurry, but if you have even basic video software and skills you will get much better results on your own. Good for video. Pictures… not so much, with one noteworthy exception. The video in all modes was excellent though I found myself gravitating toward 1920x1080 @120FPS as providing a really good balance of video stabilization, resolution, file size, and capability for making smooth slow-motion effects. For photos though, even though both the H7B and my phone have 12MP cameras, the H7B was obviously inferior for simple photos. Given how capable the H7B sensor is for high speed video this really surprised me. But in anything but bright sunlight the H7B photos showed noticeable grain. If it was the only camera I had available the photo capability would suffice, but in all other cases I’d easily prefer to just take the photo with my phone instead of the H7B. Or, just take a short video with the H7B instead of a photo and then just snag a frame you like later and make a picture out of it. It actually looks better than taking photos directly in my opinion. The video time-lapse features are fun and functional too -- I was easily able to capture and create some pretty stunning sunrise and sunset time lapse videos. Just switch to time lapse, change a few basic settings, point the H7B at the horizon of interest, and then start the time-lapse video and do whatever you want for the next hour or so. Come back later and, voila! One aspect of time lapse videos that really surprised me is how capable the H7B is at some basic NIGHT astrophotography! (Night lapse) You aren’t likely to image nebulae or other Deep Sky Objects with the H7B, but I was surprised at just how well I was able to capture the stars themselves! It wasn’t too hard at all to capture several hours of star movement and then play it back accelerated. It requires more post work (color correction, etc) than sunrise/set lapses for good results, but this wasn’t something I even had in mind at all when I first got the H7B -- that I could easily set the exposure on the H7B to long enough to respectably image the basic night sky at all was pretty exciting stuff to me. Voice control is a nice option for remotely taking self/family/group photos on-demand without having to set a timer and then rush to get into the picture. Though there is a timer option as well, whichever you find best suited to your situation. Despite several little problems -- which were relatively minor individually -- the H7B has earned a permanent spot in this dad’s bag of tricks for family and hobby video. I’ve had it about a week now though and the one thing I’m certain of is that I’ve just barely scratched the surface of ways to use it.