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go throws back in black with the hero six and a new camera called fusion to make you excited about 360 video we'll get to that soon last year's hero 5 added voice controls waterproofing and better video quality to the action camera so what's new this time around first it's frame rates the new processor lets the hero 6 take 4k video at 60 frames a second and slow-motion 1080p video at 240 frames a second but some phones shoot super slow-mo anyway so why would you use a GoPro CEO Nick Woodman explains a phone is great for filming somebody else or something else happening me filming you a GoPro is great for me filming me or me filming us GoPro is also claiming improved dynamic range better low-light performance and an improved image stabilization feature that gives you a gimbal like effect so to test this out I took two Hero 6s side-by-side for a bit of a run and a stroll and I had one with image stabilization turned off and one with image stabilization turned on so you can see them side-by-side and see if there's an improvement another new feature is touch zoom so you just give a quick double tap on the screen and then you get this zoom slider on the side it allows you to just slightly zoom in on your subject now it's not too different from what you are already able to do it is a digital zoom so you're cropping in on the scene as for other specs the hero 6 is still waterproof to 10 meters still has voice control so you can do things like this GoPro take a photo and it still has GPS to track your location and overlay telemetry data on your shots so we've been shooting since about 10:00 a.m. and it's almost 1:00 p.m. now and I'm down to 30 percent battery shooting 4k 30 in 60 frames a second but still that's like only two hours of intermittent shooting and my batteries let's spin back 360 degrees to the fusion a pocket-sized camera that makes 5.2 case spherical stabilized video now most people don't watch 360 video as it was shot so the neat over capture feature lets you reframe footage into a regular 1080p video I can kind of change the perspective I want to export this video in and then I just tap this button to start the capture process and I can even manipulate the frame while I'm effectively filming the second time and remember comma the GoPro drone it now has a follow-me mode but it only follows the person with the controller rather than another subject GoPros got a camera for just about everyone at lots of different price points the hero 6 is $100 more than the Hero 5 so do you need to upgrade if we're talking about an older gentle a Hero 3 or a hero 4 yes it's definitely worth the upgrade Hero 5 it gets a little bit more iffy simply because it's not a huge bump in features or specs or anything like that GoPro is the big name in cameras by adding better stabilization and improved resolution GoPro is hoping the six is still the hero of the story