GoPro is back with another Hero—but this time, it’s focusing more on your social space.
Last April Fool’s Day, there was a story about creating a large circular cinema camera sensor that would be used to capture single footage that could then be used for multiple aspect ratios. It was a joke, to be sure.
To anyone but GoPro, it seems. That’s because the action camera company has developed a larger GP2 sensor for its new GoPro Hero11 action camera that can capture 16×9 and 8×7 vertical video from the same video file. Cue “Hero” by Enrique Iglesias.
I Can Be Your Hero, Baby
With the introduction of the 1/1.9-inch GP2 image sensor, the GoPro Hero11 will enjoy a 16% increase in the camera’s field of view, and will be able to use the same video clip for both traditional aspect ratios and social media-centric vertical video without the need of reorienting the camera or cropping the image in post, which could result in the loss of detail. All with the same waterproofing of up to 33 feet (10 meters).
Author: James DeRuvo
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.
