GoPro HD Hero 3 released!

GoPro has just released their new offering, which heralds the era of portable, bullet-proof 4k and 2.7k camcorders that fit in the palm of your hand! The camera boasts an impressive set of features, such as:

4k video (12 fps)

2.7k video (30 fps)

1440p 48 fps

1080p @ 60fps (a feature missing from many a professional camera

960p @ 100fps

720p @120 fps

12MP 30fps photo burst

WiFi compatibility

and much more...

Take a look at the official page offering and the excellent promotional video below, featuring cool people doing awesome things to great music by Overwerk:

RCSchim's TriCopter over archeo dig & art installation

RCSchim has just released an awesome video showing a set of cool summer flights over an archeological dig site, as well as a very interesting art installation in the wild! More detail in the original blog post. Here is the video:

Team Black Sheep on SternTV

Team Black Sheep has just released a video from SternTV, which tells their story in about 12 minutes. German audio, English subs.

enjoy!

Polish RoboCopter - incredible stadium footage!

Another absolutely insane video from latajacakamera, a Polish robocopter camera outfit, who brought us the Polish riots videos recently. This time, filming stunning footage of a football match on one of the biggest stadiums in Poland... with winds of up to 50km/h... and at night!

Enjoy!

News: Polish riot police captured by a robo-copter!

I found this incredible post on Roswell Flight Test Crew's blog earlier today:
http://roswellflighttestcrew.typepad.com/blog/2011/11/the-future-really-truly-is-now.html

it features the following two videos, which I can only say are... impressive!

News: Roswell Flight Test Crew covers a Search & Rescue exercise

The phenomenal folks at RFTC  have just released an awesome video, where they cover a SAR exercise on location with their quad copters armed with FPV GoPro based systems! Enjoy the video and make sure to head on over to their blog for more details!

News: GoPro HD HERO2 released!

Image: GoPro.com

WOW! A new product from probably the coolest camera company in the world - GoPro! It's a second incarnation of their HD Hero! It sports an impressive array of new features, as well as some interesting improvements to the existing hardware! The highlights that impressed me so far are:

• WiFi triggering and streaming
• external microphone socket
• 2x faster processor 
• 11MP sensor (the Hero has a 5MP sensor)
• sharper glass
• adjustable field of view in most modes (170, 127, 90 degrees)
• higher fps at lower recording modes (well, 120fps at wide VGA and 48 fps at 960p, nothing more)
• improved low-light performance

You can read more about the new release over at the GoPro official product page and you can find a full comparison with the original HD Hero here.

Real-life FPV - on board a Piper Tomahawk

BrotherBloat had the chance to experience first person flight recently - aboard a two-seater Piper Tomahawk! Here's a video to some sweet music by Papa Jay. Make sure to watch is 1080p HD!

Landing our first GoPro HD camera!

The first step into proper videomaking has been taken! My new GoPro HD is a fantastic addition to the hardware we use to bring you cool videos!

Stay tuned to our YouTube channel to see how we put it to good use!