This past September I took a trip out to Colorado to visit my friend June. We drove down from Boulder to Salida to hike at the Sand Dunes National park. The Sand Dunes are deceptively big. They don't look it but once you get up close you see that they are HUGE! Before hiking up (which was the most difficult and fun hike I ever experienced) I set my GoPro Hero 2 on a small Joby Gorrillapod by our camp site and set the time lapse feature to take a photo every 2 seconds. This very short video of the sunset is all 2700 plus pictures - which was about an hour and half. You'll me in the last few frames. :-)

Last month I purchased the newest GoPro Hero 3 which sports much better low light. I am going to do another time lapse around my town to see how the new model handles sunsets.

Anyway, I thought I would share this Sand Dune Sunset video with everyone. Enjoy!

Stay tuned for official announcements soon!

Biggest improvement is in snow and surf - lots of latitude for color correction, white balance is fixed, and compression is gone.

BELOW > Side by side uncolored 1080 in high motion, moving camera super fast side to side (which is almost all the time for POV)

OLD FIRMWARE VS NEW FIRMWARE

Shot in Hong Hong in killer humidity two weeks ago, minimalistic, everything in a 10kg carry-on bag No tripod. ( I wore the same shorts and top for three days - how's that for commitment ...lol)

I know the editing is poor in this video. I shot WAY TOO MANY things this weekend and just didn't have time to do the editing justice. Take it for what it is. Just a bunch of samples from both cameras.

I tried editing the colors on the first few clips but after that I just didn't have time. I shot in 720p 60 FPS and F2.8 for the GH2 shots(Can you tell which one those are?). And I shot at 720p @ 120 FPS Narrow angle non-Protune, 720p @ 120 FPS Wide angle Pro-tune, 1080p @ 60 FPS Medium Angle Pro-tune, and 2.7K @ 30 FPS Pro-tune for the Go-Pro 3.

Can you tell which clips are what resolution and frame rates for the GoPro? Hint, several of the clips having very bad aliasing in the fence in the background. That is eliminated by using a narrower field of view.

There is also a sample image below of what the GP3 looks like on the GH2 + 35-100mm.

Print it, fold and match the tabs, glue it ..... make 100 of them......be the envy of all your friends.:-)

What do you think to this?

The lens costs roughly £100 and I already have the GoPro HDHero 2. I would like to try this but have no experience for skill with modifying electronics... so I would get someone to help me if I tried it...

I think before I buy my GH2H, It might be a good idea to make the most of my existing camera and modify it... Im not sure though as there aren't many videos of actual footage shot with this lens online that I can find.

Any thoughts?

thanks.

Update procedure on GoPro Support site http://gopro.com/support/wi-fi-bacpac-wi-fi-remote-with-hd-hero2-product-update/

Video tutorial update procedure.

No reports yet of any successful updates or even anyone using the new hardware, so probably best to wait a few days to see if any bugs appear.

This only enables Wifi remote function, the streaming and controlling by smartphone and iPhone is still pending Apps being released. As is the ProTune Technicolor 35mbps mode.