Customer Ratings & Reviews

Hard to use at first, still learning. The directions are useless, has a good quality picture when recording.

This is a great product and would recommend to anyone creating videos for business or creating great memories with friends and family.

This is a great action cam which eliminates the need for a Gimbal for stabilization, Hypersmooth 2.0 (this is what GoPro calls their stabilization software) works great. It seems GoPro 8 uses a new battery which can sustain the processing power required to support it on higher resolution. So your older battery, though still are compatible, will not enable these higher drain scenarios. Menu is changed and it is now much easy to change resolution, FPS etc. It will take you more clicks to do same in previous versions. ONe thing which is not changed is the screen size, and the screen usage while you play a video. It would have been nice to increase it or make the aspect ration 16:9 so that the video can use it all. Built in mounting fingers is another thing which I really like in this version, you do not need frame anymore and there is none in the box. Plus the mount fingers can be replaced as there are screws to hold them. Battery cover is new and is at the side, it looks very durable and speaks quality. It use HVEC (H265) for 4K 60 FPS recordings and in order to play that you will need a computer with hardware support. One of MY PC with Intel 4790K/GTX 970 was struggling so much while playing a 4K/60 FPS that I have to go and check. I could gather from web that Qualcomm Snapdragon 805, 810, 820, ... supports 4K HEVC decoding. Apple A8, A10, A10x support native HEVC decoding. The A11 supports 10-Bit UHD + HDR. To give you an idea, only 6th generation of Intel CPU supports h/w accelerated H265 decoding(8 bit). Nvidia does it 10 series onward with 960 and 950 from 9 series(so your 970/980 etc will not be able to do it). I noticed that standby battery drain is higher in this camera, I have seen sometimes more than 10% drop when it is switched off and I think a firmware update should fix that. Charging wise It can charge very fast if you have a USB C phone charger (Pixel/Galaxy). Now one of the thing which no one liked is absence of removal lens cover. I have tempered glass applied to the lens but I in general prefer not to do that and a replaceable lens cover allows me to do just that. Additionally the size is changed from Hero 7, so your cases will not work with this model. We have already seen that this needs a newer battery to work in all resolutions with stabilization. I think it is perfect new camera to buy for all your Action Cam usage, there are mods coming (I am going to buy Media Mod), which makes it suitable to many other use cases like vlogging. All the accessories you will buy should work with next generations of GoPro as they typically change it in 3 yeas or so.(based on past changes) Though if you already owns a GoPro 7, all your cases/extra batteries will be rendered useless or of less use. So see if the new features offered are worth for you to upgrade.

Good device works well. The only thing is I wish is for the display to be larger and a display in the front so that I could see what my selfies would look like

Nice camera but the app that goes with it is hard to figure out. No directions come with any of this stuff. So far I'm kind of regretting getting this.

I purchased to this GoPro to capture footage while on vacay! I’m excited so far and look forward to using it!!

It is what it is and it works how it works. Straight to the point.

I filmed video of monkeys living under the sea with this

Bought for my Grandson. He says it's Great and works fine. He wishes he had one a long time ago.

I captured so many good videos with this go pro. The quality was great

Used this on the boat and it performs amazing! I wouldn't have imagined that it would have performed the way that it did

This is the best gift I have bought myself in yearS. I have had the same digital camera for 8 years so I was due for a upgrade

Amazing recording quality, only wish the application to transfer video to device was a bit quicker.

Nice little camera. Takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'. As with all Gopro's, spare batteries are a must.

Battery life is horrible. I carry back up battery’s and lowered video settings and still not enough

Got for a Christmas gift for my kid. She seems to like it and it seems pretty easy to use

My first ever GoPro, I use it mostly on the water an with my kiddos. I like that I can sync up to my iPhone fast

Purchased this for my son who is a true outdoorsman to record all his outdoor adventures. He loooooovvves it !!

If you already own a gopro, it doesn't matter, this one is a must have. Not having to use a case is amazing, the audio, everything.

This is a great action camera and the live streaming let's everyone be involved in the moment.