New gopro! looking for settings advice...

[EL Pistoffo]

Regarding fov...... Do many folks try to change this underwater? The screen is so small and it takes some time to scroll through the menus.....on a dark, non clear water dive, Might be kind of a pain


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Yes, it's definitely a PITA. I grew tired of switching FOV to go between wide and narrow for macro.

 

[large_diver]

Thx. I set in to narrow before leaving home since I was trying out new macro lenses...... Took surface video from the boat as we headed out to the dive site....obviously not optimal. May try some medium next time


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---------- Post added July 15th, 2014 at 03:00 PM ----------

So how is medium..... Both for macro and wider angle stuff? Need to do some more experimenting.....


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[havnmonkey]

In my opinion, the "wide" fov warps the edges too much. It does seem to work well with large animals
though. On the surface it bends the horizon too much. I haven't used narrow too often. I've been happy with medium most of the time. I also have an 8mm fisheye on my olympus, so I can get wide video that way if I want. My gopro is mounted to the cold shoe of my Olympus housing.

i think I've only switched FoV twice while underwater.

 

[Scubadude]

Do you have Windows 8.1 ? I cannot process videos on my Go Pro Studio editing program, no storyboard. Any advice?

 

[havnmonkey]

I have not updated to 8.1 yet, 8.0 editing still works fine. But I don't use gopro studio for anything more than importing and setting white balance. All other editing is in Premiere Elements.