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GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera
GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera
- Professional-grade full HD video up to 1080p
- 60 frames per second option in 720p and WVGA resolutions provides liquid smooth slow motion playback
- Videos can be easily edited with iMovie or Windows Movie Maker
- Industry’s widest angle (170º) and sharpest lens captures more of the scene, including you
- Includes easy-to-apply mounts for attaching camera to any helmet, motorcycle, car, ATV, jet ski, snowmobile, boat, or virtually any vehicle.
- Impact-resistant housing is waterproof to 180 ft (60 meters)
GoPro’s HD Motorsports HERO is the world’s highest performance 1080p HD on-board video and still photo camera. Professional quality 1080p, 960p and 720p HD resolutions record at 30 frames per second (60 fps in 720p). The HD Motorsports HERO easily mounts to any helmet, motorcycle, ATV, car, plane, jet ski, boat, snowmobile or other vehicle. The camera’s quick-release mounting design makes it easy to re-position the camera around your vehicle for professional quality HD video from several angles.
List Price: $ 299.00
SALE Price: $ 245.00
Rating: 
(out of 19 reviews)
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about 1 year ago
Review by Paul Claxton for GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera
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I bought this HD camera to replace a VholdR Wearable Camcorder (Black) which didn’t survive getting run over by my SUV. The Hero is a well constructed camera, very solid feeling with quality construction.
Pros: The camera has four modes – video (in several resolutions), still pictures, self-timer still pictures, and interval photos (pictures every few seconds). The lens gives a tremendously wide wild view which is nice for HD’s 9:16. It will shoot 1080p, 960p 720p (at 30 and 60 frames per second), and 480 (at 60 frames per second) line resolutions. It uses standard SDHC memory cards and has an internal battery which recharges via a USB cable. The recorded audio is very good both inside and outside of the motor sports waterproof case that came with my kit. Video is relatively good, not as vivid as a dedicated camcorder but the resolution is good. My kit came with a variety of mounts and a suction cup mount for windows and car body use. The waterproof case comes with two backs, one that is watertight and one that is not for better audio when waterproof use isn’t required. The kit comes with connectors for connecting the camera up to an HDTV monitor (component video) or a TV monitor (composite video). A neat feature in the menu is that you can flip both the video and still photos so you can shoot with the camera upside down without a problem.
Cons: The quick release mounts have a bit of wiggle to them. The back of the waterproof case can be difficult to lock closed. The menu system is a bit troublesome to use as there are only two buttons and three LCD characters to use. Once set you’ll not have to go into the menu very often.
Future: There’s a connector on the rear that GoPro plans on using for an external battery or a monitor. Neither are available at the time of this review but they are being worked on.
In use on the trail the mounts worked very well. I used the suction cup primarily to mount the camera to my windshield, bumper, side body panel, and side window. Across rugged rocky trails the camera held firm and the video came out very well. The simple interface was easy enough to use. One button to turn the camera on and select the mode and another to stop and start the recording.
about 1 year ago
Review by rc for GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera
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The selling points of this particular camera, for me, are the 720p@60 and 1080p@30 video modes. The 720p@60 in particular (60 frames per second), is ideally suited for fast action. It also has the widest field of view. The 1080p@30 is an interesting alternative, for its higher resolution and less wide field of view.
Also critical to my purchasing, was that the battery would last over 2 hours, as I want to record, without intervention — as that’s not practical — for about that long (up to 2 hours).
Unfortunately, I found out that the 720p@60 video mode crashes or stops recording after about 29 minutes! After spending (wasting) hours of my time, I found out on different forums, that this is a common — I suspect universal — problem with this camera. I believe I read it may also be a problem with the other 60 frames per second, lower resolution, mode as well.
There’s some confusion because there are a _lot_ of complaints about problems with different SDHC cards. For example, there is one forum thread that lists cards that work (finding one that does is an issue), and others then contradict the list and post that they _don’t_ work!
In my case, I’m using the SDHC card that is actually recommended and is used by GoPro. I’ve systematically tested the 720p@60 and 1080p@30 modes. The 1080p mode runs till the battery runs out. The 720p@30 does the same. But, the 720p@60 consistently crashes at 29 minutes +- a few seconds. It does so after it begins the 2nd video file. This is probably a problem with the camera design/firmware.
Beyond the above, there is another feature (the ability to select up or upside-down recording) that is supposed to be available in a firmware upgrade. There are no available firmware upgrades for this camera. Other’s have been waiting and waiting and waiting for GoPro to release an upgrade and it’s one of those any-day-now things. This is Spring and the camera has been out for a good while. So, who knows when or if there will be such an upgrade.
Bottom-line: I recommend to _not_ buy this camera until an actual firmware upgrade is released, and there are reports that it, at least, fixes the 720p@60 video mode recording problem. This is a POV action camera. It’s a fundamental flaw that it can’t record in its optimal video mode for more than 29 minutes without manual intervention.
Another complaint… the camera can only be mounted when it is in its water proof housing. This adds significantly to its weight and bulk (and awkward appearance). For some uses, the waterproof housing makes sense. For many other uses — such as inside a car or cockpit or any non-wet or damaging environment — it doesn’t. The camera itself, without the housing, is small. But there’s no way to mount it — it doesn’t even have the standard tripod screw opening that other cameras have. So, I’m scratching my head trying to figure out a way to use the camera without its housing (and protect the lens w/out the housing– it doesn’t even have a lens cap)… yet another problem to be solved.
about 1 year ago
Review by Carlos O. Ruiz for GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera
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Well, the camera works fine, but often I get corrupted videos that are unplayable, I have one of the reccomended SD CArds, then I haven’t been able to use the camera for about 2 weeks because the latch broke, I’ve read in user forums that the latches are apparently defective or just too weak and they break often, so while the latch is broken forget about using your camera, on the website there is no way to purchase extra latches or even a replacement case, also no wrist mount is available for the HD GoPro. Also the firmware update that allows upside down filming hasn’t come out yet and no sign of it anywhere.
about 1 year ago
Review by Douglas W. Teeter for GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera
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I bought the camera to film dual sport rides on my Husqvarna TE610. I bought a 32Gig card and the mounting kit.
The camera is pretty easy to use and once you go through the menu a couple of times it’s easy.
I takes great movies but the extreme wide angle makes things hard to see ahead very far and it’s hard to see
evevation changes IE up and down hills. I tried different methods of viewing the movies and I like Quicktime
the best. Uploading to U-tube takes hours and you have to be careful not to go over 10 minutes or U-tube won’t
take it. I’m sure there is some way to get around that but haven’t figured it out yet.
Overall very pleased. On a motorcycle the hard mount does not work well. I use the helmet srap on mount that
comes with the camera, works great.
Also check around for prices, after I purchased this from Amazon I found the same deal on E-bay for $50 less.
D.Teeter Arizona
about 1 year ago
Review by FTR for GoPro HD Motorsports HERO Camera
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I bought this camera to use on off-road single track rides and adventure races. It worked once on my road bicycle commute,but has not worked since then. Customer support has suggested changing battery types without any difference in performance. It just will not stay on in a bumpy environment. If you buy this camera hang on to your warranty and purchase documents do you can send it back. I have encountered other people on off-road rides who have expressed similar concerns. Amazon will not respond to my emails asking for assistance on a return and Go-Pro insists on documentation. Perhaps my experience is unique, but hang on to your purchase documents nevertheless.
about 1 year ago
More introduce of Extreme HD119
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Extreme HD sports camcorder which is capable of recording videos of up to 1080p resolution at 30 frames per second. The action camera is fitted with a wide angle lens that has a wide angle lens. The lens is also capable of rotating 300 degrees and allows the user to shoot videos from a first person perspective.
Users can frame their shots in cases of the camera being mounted on a vehicle or helmet using the 1.5-inch color LCD screen that is present on the side of the camera. The footage can also be previewed immediately on the screen. The camera can shoot video in low light conditions owing to the night mode feature. It comes with 2pcs Cell phone Li-batteries and support 6 hours video recording, the working time would be as long as 10 hours if use 2 original cell phone batteries(NOKIA BLC-2).
The camera is also capable of taking photos of up to 8 megapixels. And you could capture different resolution pictures according to your requirements base on the limited memory.The HD119 has a small internal memory for system program only. However, it can accommodate SDHC cards of up to 32 GB as external memory, which is used for storing video footage.
The camera, which consists of a standard internal microphone, and this high sensitive MIC got very clear sound and no need for a external microphone . HDMI is ready, and it is easy to play the video on TV to watch the HD quality pictures and video, but please make sure your monitor support HD resolution display.
Here has many custom settings that you could do in HD119 software interface, you could playback the video&pictures like introduced above, you could also do many other operaiton and settings like ” delete video&picture, cycle recording in different time, time&date stamp, 7 kinds of language, power save settings, etc”, welcome to contact us if you have any question about our products.