GoPro HD HERO2: Motorsports Edition Camcorder - Silver

As a Professional Videographer, I often times end up in situations where I need a shot, but am either unwilling to risk my pro rig or simply can not get the shot any other way. The original Hero was pretty good if you had enough light, the new Hero 2 is light years ahead. I use it with the flat port housing from Eye of Mine for stunning underwater video and stills. The great part is my old accessories still work with the new camera!!! Thanks GopPro for not making me buy everything again! Its Dynamic range (how well it handles contrast from deep shadow to bright sunlight) is pretty amazing. I had excellent details in a shadow under a trailer, that was parked in sun lit snow, and still lost no detail in the snow at the same time.

VERY Nice burst mode, Time Lapse down to every half second, truely an amazing camera and camera system for the money. I now don't think of traveling without one, for work or play. I dove one in Hawaii this year and it looked great at 40ft without a light, and at 70 I got away with just a small dive light to highlight some areas.

In addition, the ability to adjust Field of View, in the menu is great, you can do wide angle, normal or a mild zoom. (remember wearable cameras are mostly useable only because they are in a wide angle mode, reducing the viewer getting motion sick). Still, this mode is useful for getting rid of distortion, and if handled carefully allows you to gain a diferent viewpoint that doesnt suffer the distraction of the barrel distortion you see normally.

The good: The GoPro HD Hero2 boasts improved optics, a few new video- and still-photo-shooting modes, and backward compatibility with current HD Hero accessories. Most importantly, its interface has been overhauled and is now much easier to view and understand.
The bad: As improved as it is, the Hero2's interface can still be a bit confusing for the first-time user.
The bottom line: The GoPro HD Hero2 is easily the best GoPro camera yet, with the ruggedness and quality that we've come to expect and a new user-friendly interface.
I've had a bit of a love-hate relationship with the GoPro HD Hero that we've used during the recording of the Car Tech Live podcast for the last year or so. On the one hand, the Hero takes phenomenal wide-angle video, is ridiculously durable thanks to its polycarbonate shell, and (when you get the settings right) relatively easy to use. However, that last bit is also my biggest point of contention with the first few generations of the GoPro Hero cameras; I'm a self-proclaimed techie who's recorded hours of footage using the HD Hero and I still have to break out the poorly written instruction sheet to change any of the settings. More often than not, I just leave the settings where I left them and just point and shoot.
So, when the new generation GoPro HD Hero2 landed on my desk boasting an improved interface, I decided to challenge myself to full-test the device without cracking the spine on its (also improved) 90-page user manual.

After having owned the previous two models of the GoPro, I just had to buy the new model.

Well worth the money. I have other camera gear costing many times the price which get used nowhere near as much as I use the GoPro.

The new features are well worth having. Quality is much better, low light performance much improved, sequence photos and photos every half second.

So easy to take a great photo if you have several thousand to look through.

It is a very very fun toy, and if you buy the LCD Screen it is even better because you can use it as your pocket camera ( without zoom of course ) but enough to have good videos and shots.
You have to know what are you gonna do with this camera, i have it especially for my trips on my motorcycle, and to put it on my RC helicopters. The accessories that you can add are great, almost for everything that you can imagine. good image quality ( too way better than previous versions) but obviously not as a Carl Zeiss crisp lens, and not a Full Frame sensor with High ISO clarity and resolution, but great for this small and funny camera.
So if you're looking for a versatile and ready to install camera for sports, hobbies and more, this is the right choice, and check the accessories for your specific need, i'm pretty sure that you'll find them.

The GoPro Hero 2 is the best of the range. You can tell the quality difference straight away and its so much better than the Hero. Easy navigation and sound prompts to let you know what your selected help out when recording. The new screen is easier to read and its got indicator lights on the top, back and front to let you know when your recording. Better sensor for low light shots and also faster frame rate for a better video of the action..
A must have for those extreme adventurers out there!!