Hero4 Session: GoPro’s Smallest, lightest camera yet

The new Hero4 Session is now the smallest and lightest camera from GoPro

GoPro Hero4 Session

GoPro has added another camera to its extreme-action video photography portfolio. Announced on 6th July, the new Hero4 Session is now the smallest and lightest camera from the San Mateo, California based electronics major.

GoPro Hero4 Session is 50% smaller and 40% lighter than GoPro’s best-selling HERO4 Black and Silver cameras making it ideal to strap to your hand or mount on helmet. Though lighter and smaller, HERO4 Session packs GoPro’s Emmy® Award-winning image quality and performance into an exciting new low-profile form factor.

As Sean O’Kane noted for The Verge “The Session is extremely simple to use: you start and stop it with just one press of a button. In fact, the Session only has two buttons. The main one is a red, circular button found on the top side of the camera. Tap it, and the Session turns on and starts recording. Tap it again to stop recording, and the Session turns off.”

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Speaking at the launch, GoPro founder and CEO Nicholas Woodman said “With HERO4 Session, we challenged ourselves to produce the smallest, lightest, most convenient GoPro possible. HERO4 Session combines the best of our engineering and user-experience know-how to deliver our most convenient life-capture solution, yet. I’m so excited about the launch of HERO4 Session because now I can finally use mine in public!”

GoPro Hero4 Session Mounts

Hero4 Session shoots 1440p video at 30 frames per second, 1080p up to 60 frames per second, and 720p up to 100 frames per second. It’s waterproof up to 10 meters so it doesn’t require a bulky housing. Hero4 Session is compatible with all the housing and mounts that GoPro sells to make your adventure pics even better. Notably it can’t shoot 4K videos like its elder cousins.

Hero4 Session has only two buttons- one to start/stop the camera and other for turning the camera’s Wi-Fi on and off. However you need to use the GoPro app to switch between single photos or burst mode. In fact, every setting needs to be changed using the GoPro App or the smart remote.

Hero4 Session will be available next week for $399 and will come with the entire ecosystem of mounts and accessories including the ones from third-party manufacturers.

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