{"id":193,"date":"2017-02-04T22:53:19","date_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/?p=193"},"modified":"2017-02-04T22:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-04T22:53:36","slug":"gopro-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/2017\/02\/04\/gopro-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"GoPro Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of our time was spent in dealing with GoPro cameras. Yes, we&#8217;re using them in ways they are not necessarily intended for. But that hasn&#8217;t been the problem. We were all new to GoPro Hero 5 Black, which is significantly different from the Hero 3 which I used in <a href=\"http:\/\/passages.subversivepress.org\" target=\"_blank\">Passages II: Inhabiting the North<\/a>. And, as always, GoPro documentation is poor even though it has improved. \u00a0For future reference:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The zoom and framing is done digitally not optically (da!) and calculated from the center of the frame (double da!) even though a lot of the charts that are circulating out there that compare the resolution in different modes (superwide, wide, narrow, medium, linear) start from corner (WTF?!)<\/li>\n<li>Figuring out what FOV (field of view) was available in what shooting mode (video, photo, time lapse video, time lapse photo) was a real challenge.<\/li>\n<li>GoPro Studio software does NOT remove the fisheye effect from video footage because, I guess, they expect you&#8217;d do it in camera (don&#8217;t do it in camera because you lose a lot of the image field)<\/li>\n<li>The LCD display (the pride of Hero 5) does NOT show the actual image being recorded in the file (WTF!), so in Linear or 4:3 modes you just have to guess when framing and cross your fingers that you get it right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The way to deal with these:<\/p>\n<p>Shoot 4k video in wide mode (the only option) and deal with all the cropping and fisheye correction in post through a third party software. \u00a0I&#8217;m researching that now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large part of our time was spent in dealing with GoPro cameras. Yes, we&#8217;re using them in ways they are not necessarily intended for. But that hasn&#8217;t been the problem. We were all new to GoPro Hero 5 Black,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/2017\/02\/04\/gopro-challenge\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artists-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":195,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grounding.subversivepress.org\/states-of-gender\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}