GoPro Hero 3 Action Camera Will Give You 4K for $400
A lot of resolutions for little money.
GoPro just announced a rather enticing addition to its action camera series. The Hero 3 Black Edition is the new flagship model and boasts 4K (4096x2160) recording capability at 12 fps - for $400.
Sure, it is just a helmet camera, but if you are currently looking for a 4K video camera, you are typically looking for a professional camera at a price tag of $5,000 and up. The Black Edition camera can also record at 2.7K, 1440p/48 fps, 1080p/60 fps, 720p/120 fps, and 848x480/240 fps - and run in simultaneous video/photo mode with a 12 MP still camera. It comes with integrated Wi-Fi, support for microSD cards up to 64 GB, as well as a remote.
If you don't need the 4K capability, GoPro also offers a 1080p/30 fps camera with a 11 MP still camera for $300, as well as a 1080p/30 fps model with a 5 MP still camera.

4k at anything over 10fps is ok because the camera is the size of matches box and has no decent cooling, with 4k at 25/30fps it would give some serious issues even if it could produce that. So 10+ fps is very decent. Obviously depending on bitrates it produces. If you look even at DSLR or M43 camera 1080p @ 60fps would cost you well over $/€ 1000 and would be too big to wear it in any form. Plus, you can take this badboy under water and it has WiFi as standard!
I am personally going for White edition since it still has WiFi ant 720p @ 60fps for half the price.
2 reasons to get this.
1) pulling photos from the video
2) oversampeling for 1080p video
Besides, 4K TVs are getting the general high end release this year, and will only get more affordable as time goes on.
i wont condemn it without seeing footage, taken at any of those resolutions.
but 4k at 12fps... those pictures better be sharp, i just looked it up, 4k is roughly 8mp. so any single frame could be a decent picture if you take it out of the shot... lets say you want to capture your kids sporting event. if the camera is good enough, you could shoot 4k (12 8mp pictures a second) instead of hoping you can take that 1 picture at the right time.
but thats not what im looking at and likeing. 720p at 120fps... if that camera can focus well... this would be awesome...
but like i said, it all depends on the quality of the camea... and something that small and cheap... im calling bs on the quality aspect, it just wont be there for serious use, but be decent for where ever a small camera and only a small camera can fit.
If it can opffer close to 2.7K worth of detail at 30FPS, then there is a chance that after applying correction I can get a good looking 1080p video without having to scale down to 720p
PS no current 4K camera can actually offer 4K worth of detail, for example if you have a raw file from a hassleblad camera, take a 40+ megapixeel image from it and scale it down to around 12 megapixels or 4K, then compare/ look for what the smallest piece of detail you can see in 4K RED footage.
If a nearly $50,000 camera cant fully do 4K then we have to figure out how close does the go proget to it's 4K advertisement.
i would love to see red and a hq dslr 40mp reduced to 4k quality comparison. there any images for that online?
its 60 fps compared to the 30fps on the sliver and white edition models