GoPro Hero Session 8.0 MP Waterproof Sports & Action Camera with Standard Housing and 2 Adhesive Mounts (Renewed)

This is a tiny little camera, I keep it in my car or backpack most of the time to record random stuff, trips or take pictures. It is 100% waterproof, it's been a couple times to pools and ocean and no damage or corrosion has appeared. Image and video is good, sound is Ok too. The app is very useful to transfer pictures and videos. Overall a great value!! This renewed unit looks and works as new!

What do you want in your action camera?Do you want something so simple to use that you'll probably forget it has advanced features?Do you WANT those advanced features?Do you not mind if those advanced features are a little buried in menus?Do you really, really want a very small, rugged, self-waterproof camera that still gets good sound?Do you want high quality 1080p/60, 1440p/30, 720/100, or WVGA/120 video?Then you want this GoPro Hero (4) Session!You can even replace the face glass if an impact breaks it!-- Please make sure you have the latest firmware, release v2.00. This update adds several features that I make note of in this review. If your Session doesn't behave like I describe it, download GoPro's app and update it.I love this camera. It particularly shines in high-light high-action environments. Falters a little in low-light, underexposes night shots.It weighs only 74g loaded with a typical uSD card, and records at a fixed 25Mbit MPEG4 h.264 video stream regardless of resolution/framerate settings. You can fit up to a 64GB uSD card into it.All four of GoPro's major video modes are accessible via the beautifully crisp OLED display panel on top of the camera.If you've used older GoPro cameras, you already know this UI. It's just a little bit ... weird.Video> Press Record. Camera will take several seconds to power up, and will then begin recording.You can "prime" the camera by tapping the "Menu" (Info/Wireless) button on the back. Press "Record" while the screen is alive to start recording immediately.Photo> Press the "Menu" key twice to enter the menu, then "Record" when the screen says "Enter Photo Mode". Press "Record" to take pictures. Press "Menu", then "Record" when the screen says "Exit Photo Mode" to power back down.Time Lapse> Press and hold "Record" for several seconds until the camera powers up. Press "Record" again to power down.Burst Mode> Enter the menu by pressing "Menu" twice. Scroll down to "Camera Settings". Press "Record". Press it again to scroll to photo settings. Tab over to the 'Single' with "Menu", and use "Record" to change it to "Burst". This replaces your "Photo Mode" with "burst photo" mode, and can be accessed as above.You can also scroll around in that menu to change most of your major shooting settings, such as framerate, resolution, timelapse/burst timings, and view angle. The Session does not support "Linear" mode, sadly, but it DOES have "SuperView" accessible in the resolution settings.Don't be afraid to wander around in the menu. It's pretty simple, and if you get lost, just leave the camera alone and it'll power off.If you use the app or a wireless remote (The Session was the last camera to fully support the old-style Hero3 remotes), you can configure ProTune, but the options are a little limited and only apply to video mode. These functions are also squirreled away in the main menu, underneath photo and camera settings options.

Picked this up to replace a scratched/cracked lens from a mini quad crash. It works for a GoPro Hero Session and Hero 4 Session, but requires a tiny modification. The replacement lens comes with the light pipe installed in the lens, remove it for the Hero Session or Hero 4 Session. Where your red LED lights in the lens is a piece of rubber surrounding a white piece of plastic - that's the light pipe. The Session 4 or Hero Session has it installed into the camera body, you'll notice a while piece of plastic sticking out of the corner of the camera - leave it in place, it will go into the spot you removed the light pipe from.Installation is really easy. Remove the screws, pull the lens an o-ring off, install the new ones.With all that said, this thing is ridiculously overpriced. $20 for a plastic lens and a screwdriver with screws that aren't really necessary considering you're removing the same screws to pull of the broken lens. Same goes for the o-ring, but I understand why it's included. I would value this closer to $10, but when $20 is better than $120 for a new camera. If you're using it for something that risks the lens, like in my case a freestlye mini quad, you're better off buying the Hero 5 Session used/refurbished because you will probably spend that in much in lenses over the life of your camera.I'm happy to have my camera back without a massive blur in the center of the picture, but I'm disappointed in how expensive this is.

100 % recomendable

does exaclty what it says it will - great resolution, captures everything. Downside - large files and those files will be automatically broken down into segments for downloading (which is both good and bad depending on what you're looking to do). NO INFRARED/NIGHTVISION function - not good in the dark. Low lighting it gets a bit fuzzy but captures what you need on a basic level. I work for a video analytics technology company and this camera provides the best capture for multi-use and user-friendly for those who are not as tech savvy

I bought this as a helmet dash cam for when i'm riding my electric long board or bike in town. I haven't used it a ton because the school year is over, but honestly this cam is awesome. It light so i'm not worried having it on my helmet, its small enough not to cause a problem, and it works. Since it was a referb I was a little worried it wouldn't work, and that risk is there for anyone buying it. For the price however, you cannot ask for a better cam.

Everything working perfectly, battery life looks very good, been recording snowboarding days from ~11 to 4pm and there is always some charge left by the end of the day. It drains faster and warms up if the wifi/Bluetooth is enabled (don’t forget to switch off when recording) or if a longer video is being extracted/converted through app, what is expected due to the hardware boost needed to process the convertion from preview low resolution to the selected final resolution. Just matter of keeping it connected to charger when managing videos by the app. Image quality is 8MP 60fps, not a very impressive quality nowadays but still fairly as good as any GoPro configuration. Processing time could be (10/15min for a 3min video), but acceptable for a budget level camera.