Starting today, GoPro has announced that its Hero5 Black and Hero5 Session cameras are now available for purchase in India, along with Hero Session, via e-commerce website Flipkart as well as offline stores such as Reliance Digital. Creative Peripherals is distributing the units for Flipkart whereas Stereovision is distributing the units to offline stores.
The HERO5 Black is available for Rs 38,000 whereas the Hero5 Session is available for Rs 29,500.
Starting with the Hero5 Black, the waterproof (up to 33 ft) camera comes with 2-inch Touch Display and is also compatible with existing GoPro mounts. To dig in more, GoPro currently sells over 50 different mounts and accessories that allow users to wear or mount their GoPro camera nearly anywhere, enabling hands-free content capturing from creative, new perspectives. It can record up to 4K resolution at 30 frames per second and can also click photos at 12 megapixels. Complementing this, the camera also features professional-grade electronic video stabilization. There is also a RAW and WDR Photo mode. For the audio, it comes with stereo audio recording and advanced wind noise reduction. Further, it comes with Voice Control with support for 7 languages with additional languages to be added soon. It also comes with GPS functionality.
On the other hand, Hero5 Session resembles a lot in the design as well as video recording capabilities except that it can click images at 10-megapixel resolution. It is also waterproof up to 33 feet (10 m) and shares all other functionalities and features with the Hero5 Black.
Apart from auto-uploading the content to Cloud while the camera is charging, one can also easily edit the content with GoPro’s editing App – Quik, available for both mobile and desktop. GoPro claims that Quik enables users to quickly produce high-quality videos that are fun to create and easy to share.