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GoPro has become a virtual proprietary eponym, akin to Hoover, Kleenex and Jiffy Bag (insert Team Sky joke here). However, in recent years a slew of other manufacturers have attempted to burst the action-cam’s bubble – and this is GoPro’s reply.
‘The list of improvements is long,’ says GoPro’s Isabel Pakowski. ‘The most prominent one is probably the LCD touchscreen on the back, which is now part of the Hero5, not just an add-on. Then we made it fully waterproof down to 10m, even outside its housing. It can now be voice controlled, has cloud connectivity and additional capture modes too.’
Those modes include improved wide-angle video and photo, GPS tagging, on-screen exposure control, stereo audio, enhanced video stabilisation… the list goes on. It’s almost overwhelming, but Pakowski…