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TechRadar Verdict
The GoPro Hero 9 Blackness is the most powerful and versatile action photographic camera you can buy, but for most people its predecessor offers better value. While the new sensor and front display are useful additions, the changes don't collectively represent a big leap over the Hero eight Black. Its slightly unresponsive touchscreen is besides a little frustrating, even if a firmware fix is en route. No other activeness tin lucifer the Hero ix Blackness's skillset, but others do currently edge it for value.
Pros
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5K video delivers more detail
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Front display is handy for vlogging
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Improved battery life
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New software tricks
Cons
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Unresponsive touchscreen
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Little improvement to 4K shooting
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Still no 4K/120p mode
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HEVC files need recent editing hardware
Two-infinitesimal review
Update xvi/9/20: GoPro has released some new firmware for the Hero 9 Black, which could resolve some of the slight issues we found with its touchscreen interface and auto exposure – we'll update this review every bit soon equally we've tested it fully.
The GoPro Hero 9 Blackness is the most powerful and versatile activity photographic camera you can buy, but collectively its new features don't provide quite enough existent-world benefits over its predecessor to justify the price.
The ii biggest upgrades are its new sensor and forepart display. That new 23.6MP sensor shoots 5K video that does deliver slightly more item than the Hero 8 Blackness, in the right weather.
Just maybe the bigger benefit is to its electronic stabilization, with the Hero 9 Black able to provide HyperSmooth Heave – GoPro'due south strongest stabilization – in all shooting modes. This makes information technology a elevation performer for those who need high-quality 4K (and 5K) video.
That new front color display, while far from perfect, is also a very useful new feature for vlogging or general shooting. It's a little laggy and no friction match for a dedicated articulating screen similar the one on the Sony ZV-1. Only if you like to frame yourself in videos a lot, and so this is probably the GoPro for you.
Nonetheless, some of the GoPro Hero 9 Black'southward other new features aren't quite as polished. The new battery boosts its stamina a little, but it's only a minor improvement and we found the Hero 9 Black more prone to overheating that its predecessors.
While yous become slightly improved stabilization with GoPro'south new flagship, the actual quality of its 4K video isn't noticeably better than the Hero 8 Black'south. Other features like Scheduled recording, while useful on occasions, aren't yet completely reliable. And most frustratingly, we found the Hero nine Blackness's rear touchscreen to be pretty unresponsive at times.
Even so, the latter is patently going to be fixed past a November firmware update, and if GoPro can iron some of the Hero ix Black's other small-scale kinks, it could yet become our number i action camera pick. Right at present, the Hero eight Black pips it for sheer value, just this feature-packed sibling is a close second.
GoPro Hero ix Black price and release date
- The Hero 9 Black is available to buy now $449.99 / £429.99 / AU$699.95
- You can get a large discount if you lot purchase it with a i-year GoPro subscription
- The new Max Lens Mod will be bachelor in October
The GoPro Hero ix Blackness is bachelor to buy now for $449.99 / £429.99 / AU$699.95, which represents an 11% price increase on Hero eight Black'southward launch price.
However, you can get a sizable discount on the Hero 9 Black if yous get it with a 1-year GoPro subscription. If you go this route, the GoPro Hero 9 Black is available to buy $349.99 / £329.99 / $559.95, including the subscription.
Formerly known as GoPro Plus, the latter brings advantages like unlimited cloud storage and replacements for broken cameras (up to ii per year). While GoPro is clearly hoping you'll carry on paying the $49.99 / £49.99 / $69.99 annual subscription after the beginning yr, it is possible to cancel the auto-renewing service.
Already a GoPro Plus subscriber? You can likewise take advantage of the discounted $349.99 / £329.99 / $559.95 price for the Hero ix Black.
If you lot fancy getting a few accessories with your new action cam, there is too a Hero ix Black bundle. This includes a GoPro Handler floating grip, Magnetic Hinge Clip, spare bombardment, microSD card and the camera itself, all of which sets you dorsum $499.99 / £479.99 / AU$799.95.
GoPro has also revealed pricing and availability for its diverse 'Modernistic' accessories. The new Max Lens Modernistic, which is only compatible with the Hero 9 Black, will toll $99.99 / £89.99 / $159.95 when it becomes bachelor in October. That ultra-wide lens accessory will bring Max HyperSmooth video stabilization (also seen on the GoPro Max) and the ability to lock the horizon even when information technology's rotated 360-degrees.
There is also a Media Modern for Hero 9 Black accessory, which fits the new flagship's redesigned trunk, available to purchase now for $79.99 / £79.99 / AU$129.95. This bring bonuses like a built-in directional mic and iii.5mm mic port for external microphones.
Finally, there'south the Display Modern (available for both Hero 9 Black and Hero 8 Black) for those who want a larger front end-facing screen the Hero 9 Black'due south i.4-inch display. That's available now for $79.99 / £79.99 / AU$129.95, and joins the already on-auction Calorie-free Mod (US$49.99 / £49.99 / $84.95).
Blueprint
- New 1.four-inch color brandish on the front end is useful for vloggers
- Redesigned trunk is around 10% bigger and heavier than Hero 8 Black
- Larger rear brandish isn't equally responsive as previous GoPros
The Hero 9 Black is the biggest redesign of GoPro's flagship action camera since the Hero five Blackness, and the results are more often than not positive (with a few caveats).
There are three big physical changes from the Hero viii Black: a new 1.4-inch color display on the front, a beefier body (to house its bigger battery), and a larger rear 2.27-inch rear touchscreen.
Collectively, these new features feel similar a response to the DJI Osmo Action, a fresh-faced rival that in some means made GoPro action cameras feel a little dated. In some ways, the Hero nine Black still does, and that's partly because the new features all come up with slight downsides.
First, the adept news. That 1.4-inch color display on the front is definitely a handy new addition for vlogging. It thankfully isn't bear on-sensitive, otherwise your memory card would quickly fill up upwards with lots of unhappy accidents, but information technology does provide a live video preview of your scene and some useful shooting info.
Beingness a square display, information technology certainly isn't quite in the aforementioned league as the side-hinged screens seen on cameras like the Sony ZV-1, or your smartphone'south screen when mounted on gimbals like the DJI OM 4. While the latter give you a generous live preview of your whole shot, the Hero 9 Black's is more than of a crude guide. It'south plenty to make sure your face is going to be in the frame, at least.
Previous GoPros have all had monochrome displays, which prove shooting info like the remaining battery life, how much space is left on your memory bill of fare, and your current resolution/frame-charge per unit. Not quite as exciting, merely certainly more applied if y'all don't shoot a lot of videos to camera.
Naturally, the new color display comes with greater battery demands, which is partly why GoPro has inflated the Hero 9 Black's body size to squeeze in a new i,720mAh battery. That bombardment'due south chapters is 40% bigger than the 1,220mAh ones its predecessors, which GoPro says leads to a 30% real-world improvement. Every bit we'll meet later in the 'performance' section, that's slightly optimistic according to our tests.
Still, these changes practice come with downsides for anyone who's upgrading from an older GoPro. The Hero 9 Black isn't backwards compatible with older GoPro batteries, as they're a dissimilar size, so you can't use older ones as spares. And the new blueprint, which boosts its size and weight by about 10%, will also be too large for your one-time cases or housings.
A GoPro redesign was inevitable at some point, so we can't be too critical about that, but one of our biggest disappointments with the Hero nine Black is the responsiveness of its rear touchscreen. This ii.27-inch display is slightly bigger than the Hero viii Blackness'due south, but it still has large, dated bezels and feels noticeably slower when responding to touches and swipes.
It'due south possible this is downwards to a processor clogging, given the GP1 chip now has to drive a larger rear screen and color front display simultaneously, while recording. Either way, GoPro has confirmed that a set is coming in a November firmware update, but it'southward not platonic for a flagship model with this cost tag.
Yet, GoPro has at least reintroduced the removable lens comprehend, which it omitted from the Hero viii Blackness. Whether you're replacing a cracked lens or adding an ND filter, this is a useful bonus, even if it can't exactly be considered a 'new' feature.
The reason GoPro has backtracked on its removal is because information technology'south created a new Max Lens Mod, which screws onto the Hero ix Black'southward lens mountain to give y'all a super-broad field of view and even stronger electronic stabilization. We'll update this review when nosotros've had the chance to have information technology for a spin.
Overall, the Hero 9 Black remains a handy, pocketable action camera that's waterproof down to ten meters and is now much better for vlogging. We'd merely similar to encounter some updates smoothen out its slightly rough overheating and touchscreen edges.
Features
- New 23.6MP sensor brings 5K/30p video and 20MP stills
- This as well helps heave its electronic image stabilization
- New features trialled in GoPro Labs are built into the Hero 9 Black
GoPro's special sauce has long been the combination of its class-leading HyperSmooth stabilization, beginning seen on the Hero seven Black, and clever software features similar TimeWarp. While the Hero 9 Blackness improves on these features and broadens its versatility, it doesn't really introduce one killer reason to upgrade from the Hero 8 Black.
Not there aren't some significant changes under the hood. GoPro flagships have had 12MP sensors going all the way dorsum to Hero 3 Blackness in 2012, merely the Hero nine Black takes the radical pace of pushing this resolution upwards to 23.6MP with a new sensor. This allows it to shoot 5K/30p video and take 20MP stills, while likewise supporting the more than powerful HyperSmooth Boost stabilization way (which crops your footage by 25%) in all resolutions and frame-rates.
Of form, greater resolution doesn't necessarily mean amend image quality. Other factors, including image processing, lens quality and sensor size, can all have an equally large impact on the final upshot. The Hero nine Black's 1/2.3in sensor is also exactly the same size equally its predecessors, making it significantly smaller the 1-inch Edition module for the Insta360 One R.
But that new 23.6MP resolution is nevertheless the key that unlocks the Hero 9 Black's headline features. In practiced light and the right conditions, in that location's no dubiety that its 5K/30p fashion, particularly when combined with the 'High' 100Mbps bit-rate, can capture more detail than whatever GoPro and so far.
That resolution boost also gives the Hero 9 Blackness the extra pixels needed to support HyperSmooth Boost stabilization, which can atomic number 26 out judder from the bumpiest of mountain bike rides, in both 4K/60p and 5K/30p modes. This but isn't possible on the Hero eight Black.
On the other mitt, neither HyperSmooth three.0 nor TimeWarp 3.0, which are GoPro's moving timelapses, are radical improvements on their Hero 8 Black equivalents. HyperSmooth iii.0 effectively but gives you lot Boost stabilization in those ii higher resolutions and frame-rates, plus some handy horizon leveling that's previously only been available in the GoPro app.
And TimeWarp 3.0, while yet one of our favorite GoPro furnishings, really only brings the ability to add together a 'speed ramp' during the middle of your video to briefly slow it down while adding some audio. It's a nice bear on that fast-tracks the editing procedure, merely it's more than of a firmware upgrade than a headline-worthy feature.
More interesting are the Hero ix Black's new 'Ability Tools'. These handy footling software tricks were start teased in GoPro Labs, its new platform for GoPro users to trial new beta features. Some of the best ones have now been congenital into the Hero nine Black.
Our favorite is 'Retrospect'. Plow this on and the action cam will constantly buffer video in anticipation of something GoPro-worthy happening. One time said incident occurs – your true cat performing the perfect cartwheel, for example – y'all tin can printing the shutter button and information technology'll think the previous 15 or 30 seconds of video. It'due south definitely a good way to avert filling upwards memory cards if you're trying to capture your Rube Goldberg machine in activeness.
The other 'Power Tools', including 'scheduled capture' and 'duration capture', feel like they should have been on GoPros long ago, simply piece of work well and boost the Hero 9 Blackness's versatility.
Still, information technology'due south worth knowing that yous can bring some of these features and others to your Hero viii Black, admitting in a more than crude-and-gear up grade, by loading the GoPro Labs firmware onto your camera.
Performance
- Battery life is slightly improved compared to its predecessor
- Built-in mics provide decent wind noise reduction
- Still no improvements to high frame-rate modes
While the Hero 9 Black has lots of new features, it doesn't bring many major performance enhancements over the Hero eight Black – or ones that will be hugely noticeable in your videos, anyhow.
This doesn't mean that the Hero 9 Black isn't a fine action camera, only that its upgrades don't necessarily justify the premium over its two predecessors. For example, HyperSmooth 3.0 stabilization is still excellent and ideal for shooting first-person sports, equally long as you don't mind the 'floaty' wait.
Merely the addition of HyperSmooth Boost to the 4K/60p and 5K/30p modes probably won't be a huge deal for many people, because in nigh situations setting HyperSmooth to 'high' (which is a x% ingather, rather than Heave's 25% ingather) is enough to shine out any judder.
What nigh the Hero 9 Black's new, bigger battery? It does help boost its stamina, just probably not enough to make a huge practical difference to how y'all shoot.
In our side-by-side battery examination with the Hero eight Black, with both cameras shooting 4K/30p with HyperSmooth on, we got an extra 12 minutes from the Hero ix Black (84 minutes, compared to 72 minutes from its predecessor). And that included a short overheating interruption for the new model, which we didn't get on the Hero 8 Black.
Nosotros did also go an overheating shutdown when shooting 5K/30p video, with the Hero 9 Blackness needing a cool down after 28 minutes of continuous shooting. In both cases information technology did recover enough afterwards 5 minutes to keep shooting, and shooting 5K is significantly more demanding than any manner on any other GoPro. Just information technology certainly still makes sense to carry a spare bombardment, or an external USB charger, if you want it to last the twenty-four hours. With mixed, intermittent employ (shooting video, stills and fourth dimension-lapses), our Hero nine Black lasted effectually 4-v hours.
Sadly, there are no real improvements to high frame-charge per unit shooting, either. We'd take loved to run across a 4K/120p manner for some crisp slo-mo footage, just that'due south still only possible at 2.7K resolutions or below (the same as on the Hero 8 Black and Hero 7 Black).
Again, the Hero 9 Black does take some skillful quality slow move clips that are groovy for breaking upwardly your social media videos. Just the usual rules apply – like its predecessors, this is best done in vivid sunlight, because from dusk the high ISOs will plow your clips into a noisy, smudgy mess.
One pleasant surprise we did notice with the Hero 9 Black, though, was a slight improvement in its handling of wind dissonance. The Hero eight Black made some big leaps here, and it seems the new model has improved the vox isolation in noisy environments even further, which could be handy if you like to provide alive commentary over your activity sports adventures.
Video and image quality
- 5K video is the near detailed on any GoPro
- Hero nine Black's footage looks more processed (out of the box)
- Resolution supports cropping of both video and stills
The GoPro Hero 9 Blackness shoots some of the all-time video and stills you lot can get from an action camera, but it isn't a huge upgrade over the Hero eight Blackness.
The new 5K/30p mode certainly captures more detail than any other GoPro flagship, particularly when you switch to the high 100Mbps bit-rate manner. File sizes too aren't noticeably bigger thanks to the use of the efficient HEVC codec in some modes, although they tin very demanding on your computer.
But if you're mainly looking to shoot videos to watch on smartphones or social media, then the extra resolution probably won't be hugely noticeable. Fifty-fifty on a 4K monitor, you lot'll simply exist able to see a pregnant increment in detail when cropping or pixel peeping. Of course, having the pick to crop tin be useful, but information technology's worth considering whether or not y'all'll realistically need this.
Of course, if prototype quality is your principal business organization and yous want the best detail possible from whatever action camera, then the Hero ix Blackness could well exist worth the investment. But for nigh people, the Hero viii Black and Hero 7 Black are perfectly skilful enough in this department. Afterward all, the three cameras all have the same size sensor. And as good as GoPro's Hypersmooth stabilization is, even tiny amounts of judder can be enough to negate that resolution boost.
When shooting 4K/30p on both the Hero ix Blackness and Hero eight Black, we sometimes really preferred the latter's video. Out of the box, the Hero 9 Black'due south footage tin can wait more candy and oversharpened, which is possibly downwardly to some slightly more aggressive racket reduction. Having more than photosites crammed onto the same size sensor can better item, but information technology can likewise increase the amount of noise that needs to exist managed.
We did also find that the Hero nine Black has a greater tendency overexpose vivid scenes, particularly in the sky, compared to the Hero viii Blackness. This may be fixed in a firmware update, but it'due south another case of other factors being more important to image quality than resolution.
Withal, y'all certainly won't exist disappointed with the footage you shoot on the Hero 9 Blackness, especially in its 5K/30p mode. HyperSmooth stabilization remains the best yous can get from an activeness camera, and the in-camera horizon leveling is a useful (if not entirely flawless) addition.
The new sensor does likewise let y'all shoot 20MP yet photos, and grab 14.7MP frames from your videos. While this does deliver a slight increase in detail over its predecessors, there isn't a major pace upwardly in the Hero 9 Black's stills photography.
You get notwithstanding options as earlier – the choice to shoot in Linear mode to correct broad-angle distortion, plus SuperPhoto for regaining some highlight detail. In skillful light, the results are very skilful, with sharpness across the frame and well-baked particular.
But in challenging conditions, such every bit backlit scenes like the above, the performance shows how far flagship smartphones like the iPhone 11 Pro (right) have moved alee of GoPros similar the Hero ix Black (left) for stills.
You do have the option of shooting in raw to lift the shadows a petty, simply on a sensor of this size the corporeality of leeway you become is pretty small. The lack of zoom can also be frustrating, making the Hero 9 Black more of an emergency, waterproof backup to your smartphone for stills, rather than a genuine alternative.
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