GoPro or ...?

[Badger-Roy]

My latest camera, Veho K2 pro has died, it's the second veho to die, i'm not over impressed with their brand as a whole anymore. So GoPro Hero 5, or Session 5? I understand the session has been discontinued, so can be had for £130, whereas the cheapest Hero5 is £250 or thereabouts, for as far as i can see the addition of a touchscreen, though that makes it a more versatile camera, and the battery isn't fixed. Anyone got an opinion? Recc another brand, etc? I use the camera occaisionally on the M/bike, always on the road cycle and sometimes on the mtb, and always on beach hols etc.

TIA Mitch

With action cams it depends what you want it for, Personally I don't use my cameras to record for posterity, I just like to record everything for my own use in case of having an accident to hopeful prove I was in the right, for this reason I need no features apart from loop recording. In the past I paid out for a GoPro and riding back from Somerset it fell of the bike and I lost it (Iv always had visions of someone finding it one day and watching what's on it and seeing it fall of my bike and bounceing through someone's windscreen ) , as it was expensive I was REALLY peed of so all I buy now is the cheapo Chinese GoPro copy's for £9.99, features are very basic but they record and in HD and Iv yet to have a fault with one. I brought 10 of them and have put 2 on each bike (front and back) and 2 in the car and including buying memory cards for each Iv still spent less than half the price I spent on my original GoPro and over a year on they are still going strong.

[Burbler]

so all I buy now is the cheapo Chinese GoPro copy's for £9.99, features are very basic but they record and in HD and Iv yet to have a fault with one.

Wossit called ? Where ? Waterproof ?

[Badger-Roy]

Wossit called ? Where ? Waterproof ?

they are the same as this, https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mini-DV-S...oAAOSwlptaFiMs
the battery's are crap I admit but it's easy enough to hard wire them in so they charge as you ride, I tend to wire them into the headlight so it only works when the engines running.

[Burbler]

Why are there dozens of different prices for what looks like the same item, and from the same supplier ?

Baffled we are, yes.

[Badger-Roy]

Why are there dozens of different prices for what looks like the same item, and from the same supplier ?

Baffled we are, yes.

thats just eBay making sure nothings easy for the buyer .

[Burbler]

Cheapo one just arrived. Now awaiting thingummy card.

Decisions, decisions...where to put it ?

[WR6133]

Why are there dozens of different prices for what looks like the same item, and from the same supplier ?

Because madly enough there are fake SJCam's (cheaper hardware/firmware).

Specs of the real ones here https://sjcam.com/

[Badger-Roy]

Because madly enough there are fake SJCam's (cheaper hardware/firmware).

Specs of the real ones here https://sjcam.com/

oh they are with out doubt fake but they work and cost next to nothing. They are really a copy of a copy as the SJ was basically a copy of the GoPro, copy of a copy, where will it end.