GoPro or ...?

[Mitch9128]

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

[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 ?

[Mitch9128]

I've got an sj4000, cheapo gopro copy, i use it as a dashcam in my car, needs resetting every so often though, and battery is now dead, only runs when ignition on, supposed to run on for 3 mins after i switch off. Also got an Ion Air pro, but i don't really like the bullet cams any more either, and i guess i've answered my question on the session, as i don't like no screen.

[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 .

[Dabz]

Yup cheap Chinese GoPro copy for me too, does the job and if it falls off the bike it’s cheap enough to just be a nuisance rather than a disaster

[Burbler]

OK. I'll fall for it.

One on order. If satisfactory I'll get another.

[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/