Review

https://www.ephotozine.com/article/gopro-hero6-black-action-camera-review--31497/

@EspenB That thread still seems to be there on the forum: https://community.gopro.com/t5/Cameras/Hero-6-shows-the-true-calibre-of-GoPro/td-p/66327

@EspenB As mentioned on the specifications page, the Yi 4K+ uses the Ambarella H2 chipset (introduced in 2016), not the newer Ambarella H22 (introduced in January 2017): https://www.yitechnology.com/yi-4k-plus-action-camera-specs

I'm not sure that there are any cameras available that use the H22 chipset yet.

@davedv

BTW: I recently heard that the minimum order quantity of an Ambarella SOC is 1 million pcs per month. I guess they need to clear old stock before introducing a new model. :-)

Here is my review (part 1) of the Hero 6

https://www.cinema5d.com/pixel-peeping-gopro-hero-6-look-different-modes/

In a nutshell, 4k is great, also the H265 encoder works a treat. The 2.7k and 1080p240 modes are rather disappointing unfortunately.

If it is of interest, I have created a plugin for Adobe AE and Premiere with a former colleague, which removes lens distortion on GoPro 3 through 5 (and 6 if optics remain the same).

It is free for testing and personal use: http://www.atomicimagelabs.com/#plugins

It is based on a proper lens calibration rather than ad hoc fisheye-removal. Autoscale is included in order to avoid loosing valid information or getting unnecessary black borders.

@gmc It's the difference between the Ambarella SOC and the Socionext GP1 clone... ;-)

I'm also currious if the different SOCs has cause the VIDEO + PHOTO mode to disappear in the Hero6.

@gmc: For one our plugin actually corrects the distortion, which the Premiere presets do not. Normal lens correction in Premiere only somewhat removes the barrel distortion but the result is nowhere near rectified. It also pushes valid pixels off the edges of the frame, which is an undesired loss of data.

Our plugin is based on the academic defacto standard for image rectfication and based on an actual camera calibration of each mode. It also autoscales so the result has less "zoom", the scaling (which can also work manually) is part of the rectification pipeline, so there is no double interpolation, which would be the result of correction and then scaling.

@EspenB I do not know about Vegas. We created the plugin because we needed it, and it annoyed us that a problem well described in academia was not solved for timeline video editing.

Review

http://www.photographyblog.com/reviews/gopro_hero6_black_review/sample_images/

A nice collage of the Hero6 firmware issues.

And now there is also swollen lithium batteries?

No firmware glitches for you @GMC ?

@EspenB no I did not have any issues with the cam itself, but the Karma Grip did not work well with the Hero6 despite the latest Grip firmware ...