The GoPro Hero 5 was previously hyped to be released in October this year but a few weeks before the month came, the American camcorder company announced that it has decided to push back the roll-out of the latest iteration to its action camera to next year.
The company did not specify any date in 2016 when it will release the GoPro Hero 5, but its decision to postpone the release of the action camera caused the share prices of its stocks to slide.
Subsequently, its revenues also got affected and it is likely that the company may not be able to achieve its revenue target for 2015.
Despite the expected dip in its earnings this year, GoPro is not about to respond by hastily releasing the GoPro Hero 5. It will definitely stick to its pronouncement that the action camera would not be released this year because it is going to make it to the retail market next year, notes the Christian Today.
The company is optimistic that the release of the GoPro Hero 5 next year would eventually arrest the temporary slide in the prices of its shares in the stock market and push its revenue earnings back or above projected levels.
GoPro Hero 5 is a very loaded action camera compared to its predecessors and it is the reason why the company is confident of a turnaround.
It is likely that the latest iteration to the GoPro Hero action camera may come out during the first half of next year since the company would surely not allow falling share prices of stocks and revenues to happen for a period of four consecutive quarters. The most that it can afford is three successive quarters of lower-than-expected revenues. Four consecutive quarters of below-projection earnings is not good business sense at all, so GoPro would not allow that to happen.
An exciting feature
One of the most exciting features that GoPro Hero 5 will have when it finally comes out to the retail market next year is its awe-inspiring Full Ultra HD video recording capability which is also called as 8K quality.
The 8K quality actually doubles the video recording resolutions of previous GoPro action cameras in the GoPro series. Because of such feature, the GoPro Hero 5 will actually sport a mind-boggling 4,320 pixels resolution, notes the Vine Report.
With Full Ultra HD quality, the video will be presented with eight thousand lines of resolution. But it comes with a trade-off as the high-resolution video will consume more battery power of the device and will eat more storage space in the device’s internal memory.
However, there is a drawback for using the Full Ultra HD mode because it actually decreases the frame rate of the device. However, the user has the option to switch the device at 4K resolution to enjoy a 60 frames per second framerate during video recording.
In addition to the capability to record 8K videos, the GoPro Hero 5 will also be able to capture 3D motion and images.
An action man’s camera
GoPro action cameras are rugged little camcorders that brought action man’s action movies within the grasp of the ordinary man. All GoPro action cameras are waterproof and most of them, particularly the current models, can shoot and record underwater, but most of them like the GoPro Hero 4 need to take on a different housing to have a better depth rating underwater.
Each of the GoPro Hero 4 cameras come with the standard housing that is capable of withstanding depths of up to 131 feet or 40 meters. The underwater depth rating increases to 197 feet or 60 meters if the so-called dive using is used.
The GoPro Hero 5 will apparently come ready to shoot and record underwater up to 60 meters depth which only means that it will be using a dive housing instead of the standard housing that other GoPro action cameras come out with out of the box.