HindSight captures the 30 seconds before you hit the
record button. Of course, it’s the camera that records
continuously, throwing away anything that has passed
30 seconds, only to save those when you hit the Record
button. And, of course, that eats away at your battery, but
it’s a surefire way not to miss anything from an unpre-
dictable event that you absolutely want to have “on tape.”
One real boon is the combination of Scheduled Capture
and Duration Capture. When you schedule a recording, you
can set a duration of as little as 30 seconds or as long as
three hours. And if you want the camera to keep recording
until it either gets too hot or runs out of battery power, you
can do that too.
With TimeWarp 3.0, you can simply tap the screen
while recording and your video will slow down to real
speed with audio. It’s kind of baffling when you see the
results, as it does work brilliantly.
HyperSmooth 3.0 includes a new Linear + Horizon
Leveling lens in-camera for smoother and straighter shots.
That lens is spectacularly good at what it’s supposed
to do, which is keeping shots level with the horizon
without introducing any sort of artifact. For example, if
you’re aboard a boat on a rough sea, the boat can yaw,
pitch, and roll its heart out, but the horizon will stay level
long after your stomach gives up. With the optional Max
Lens Mod ($99.99), other digital lenses can apply this trick
as well.
By the way, the Max Lens Mod doesn’t sit over the
built-in lens with protection cover. The latter can be
removed, as you could with the HERO7. You can there-
fore also replace the protection cap with ND filters from
PolarPro, which are for sale on GoPro’s website (that’s if
they’re not out of stock, of course).
Last but certainly not least, the HERO9 is the first GoPro
camera that comes without plastic packaging and with a
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