GoPro Thread

Who has one?

I just bought a 3 Black. A bit of an impulse buy.

Ideally, I want to grab a DJI Phantom and have some fun making movies with that setup, but for now, I will use it on my car and other stuff.

So, I have a few questions

  1. Who else has one? Any good tips?

  2. What are your favourite settings for various functions?

  3. Where do you mount it on your car to get good exhaust sounds etc using the built in microphones? On my car mounting the go pro on the back of the trunk beside the license plate just turns into a bass loaded drone fest. Mounting it on the trunk looking backwards results in windnoise galore as the wind comes over the car and drills the gopro

  4. Anyone get an external microphone setup? The stock microphone is frankly dogshit. My GoPro came with 1 case which is waterproof. Great but the side where you would connect an external microphone is sealed in so I’m thinking I need a second case with a hole there…or I have to buy a second case and drill a hole.

  5. Is there some way to mount this to a normal tripod? I haven’t really looked too far into it, but is there a threaded mount included? Or is that something I need to buy?

Anyway, let me know if you have any suggestions or ideas. Post videos too.

I have made a couple exhaust videos and they’re terrible so I will work on improving. Here’s one showing my dog. I literally ripped the packaging apart (it’s on the counter ), popped in a card and filmed walking over to her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whj8I0g3QLs