GoPro Hero 10 Black vs Hero 9 Black: What's the difference?
The GoPro Hero 10 Black looks very much like the Hero 9 that came surpassing it but comes with a host of new features and capabilities.
When the visitor spoken the Hero 9 Black in 2020, it came with a whole new design, a second colour screen and lots of unconfined features. So it was unlikely GoPro would rip it all up and start then with flipside entirely new design. However, its new GP2 processor has enabled much increasingly powerful performance with higher frame rates and largest low light performance.
So what exactly has reverted between the Hero 9 and Hero 10, and should you upgrade to the newer model? Find out increasingly below.
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Design
- Hero 10: 153 grams
- Hero 9: 158 grams
- Both: Waterproof to 10m/33ft
- Both: Removable lens covers
- Hero 10: Hydrophobic and scratch-resistant lens cover
It's in the diamond that we see very little difference between these two models. That's unsurprising though, expressly since the Hero 9 Black was the first major diamond transpiration in a number of years.
With the 2020 model, GoPro made the camera worthier and widow a colour exhibit to the front so that you could use it for framing yourself. It moreover widow a new removable lens cover, making it easier to swap it out for a variegated lens or a new one if the original one breaks.
Speaking of lens covers, the new Hero 10 imbricate has been redesigned to make it increasingly durable. Not only is it increasingly scratch-resistant than the Hero 9's, but it's moreover increasingly hydrophobic so that water will glide off it increasingly easily. You'll moreover see reduced ghosting with video shot through it.
From a purely visual point, the only real difference is that GoPro's logo on the front and the Hero logo on the side is unexceptionable undecorous instead of white. The outer frame of the camera is darker and has a slightly rougher texture, and it is well-nigh 5 grams lighter. Otherwise, it's practically identical.
Both cameras are waterproof to the same 10 metre/33ft depth, and both have the same shower door diamond on one side and water waterworks on the other. Plus, they both have seated mounting stovepipe on the underside, meaning you don't need any spare cases to mount them to GoPro accessories. What's more, the Hero 10 is uniform with all Hero 9 Black Mods like the spare lights, microphones and display.
Video and photo capture
- Hero 10: 5.3K/60fps, 4K/120fps, 2.7K/240fps
- Hero 9: 5.3K/30fps, 4K/60fps, 2.7K/120fps
- Hero 10: 23MP photos and up to 19.6MP frame grabs
- Hero 9: 20MP photos and up to 14.7MP frame grabs
When it comes to video capture, GoPro's latest camera boasts twice the performance of its predecessor. What that ways is that - thanks in part to the new GP2 processor - it can shoot at twice the frame rate.
While the Hero 9 could record 5.3K video up to 30fps, the Hero 10 can shoot that resolution at 60fps. What's increasingly useful is that it can shoot 4K at up to 120fps, versus 60fps on the Hero 9. The larger sensor and processor moreover enable higher resolution still frame grabs.
For instance, if you shoot at 5K in a 4:3 ratio you can export a still 19.6-megapixel frame. Compare that to the 12-megapixel 4:3 frame grab from 4K on the Hero 9 and you get a lot increasingly detail. In 16:9 at 5.3K resolution, it can frame grab 15.8-megapixels versus 14.7-megapixels on the Hero 9 shooting 5K.
GoPro says it's moreover improved the low light performance so that noise levels are a lot lower on the Hero 10 too.
Stabilisation, features and shower
- Hero 10: HyperSmooth 4.0
- Hero 9: HyperSmooth 3.0
- Both: 1720mAh battery
- Hero 10: Horizon level tilt limit 45 degrees
- Hero 9: Horizon level tilt limit 27 degrees
As mentioned, the Hero 10 has been equipped with a new smart-ass which GoPro calls the GP2. Hero 9 features the GP1. It's enabled a few improvements, including a faster refresh rate exhibit on the front of the camera for smoother real-time framing. As for the rear display, that's got improved touch sensitivity, to make it increasingly responsive.
It moreover ways GoPro has been worldly-wise to introduce what it calls HyperSmooth 4.0. This is the impressive electronic/algorithm-based stabilisation which makes footage smooth. HyperSmooth 4.0 is misogynist in its "high-performance setting" when shooting 5.3K/30, 4K/60 and 2.7K/120 footage. It's moreover enabled a much increasingly capable horizon levelling feature, which can tolerate stuff tilted up to 45 degrees, compared to just 27 degrees on the Hero 9.
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Both cameras full-length stabilised time-lapse video and speed ramping, just like the Hero 9, and moreover features the worthiness to live stream and use it as a webcam. Both cameras moreover full-length the same battery.
GoPro has said that wireless transfers to your phone are quicker now, though, and the Hero 10 can automatically upload to your GoPro Cloud.
Price
- Hero 10: £379 with a subscription, £479 without
- Hero 9: £349 with a subscription, £449 without
The Hero 9 heralded a new way of ownership a GoPro. If you purchased it slantingly a GoPro subscription, you could save money on the initial outlay. Hero 10 is misogynist the same way, but it is increasingly expensive than the previous camera.
In the UK, the Hero 10 financing virtually £30 increasingly to buy than the camera that came surpassing it, so that spec uplift comes at a cost.
Conclusion
It's well-spoken the Hero 10 Black has a lot increasingly under the hood than the Hero 9 Black that came surpassing it. With faster frame rates misogynist at higher resolution, there's a lot of flexibility in what you can do with it. Plus, with a hydrophobic lens and improved low-light performance, there's a lot to love well-nigh it.
The Hero 9 Black is still a very capable whoopee camera, though, and not to be overlooked. Expressly now that it's increasingly than a year old considering that usually ways you can find it cheaper than when it first launched. And with the new camera costing increasingly than the Hero 9 did at launch, that could still be a sensible option.