Fishing equipment and gear

[Fish0n4Reel]

First of all, Happy Easter everyone!

I'm thinking about saving my money to purchase a GoPro, to actually commence a professional fishing YouTube channel, and one of my inspirations (and my favourite YouTube channel) is BlacktipH. Does anyone know what GoPro is best for fishing (not underwater fishing, just a head-mounted GoPro). I might also even change my intro to make it better, and additionally alter my logo, as I'm really thinking about starting a professional YouTube-based fishing career. :water: :a_goodjob:

Once my first professionally-produced YouTube fishing video comes out, I'll delete my old ones (the ones with bad quality, etc)

Happy Easter all,

Fish0n4Reel

[croe04]

If you're interested in shooting 4k videos you would need to buy one of the higher end models, which start at 449 dollars, if not, the cheaper 1440p gopro starts at 299 dollars. head mounts are usually in the ballpark of 25 dollars. in my experience, 4k video is a pain to work with because of the file sizes, compression and upload times, unless you really want 4k video. also, many peoples computers and internet speeds (especially australias) struggle even to load it on youtube.
New gopros are pretty expensive and gopro is quick to remove all traces of old models from practically everywhere, unless your buying second hand.
Other companies do make pretty good alternatives to gopros as well, but its your choice what you buy.

[Jasonfish1234]

It not about the image is more contain, that you produce in the show. There is so many gopro fishing video. What make you different from them?

[purple5ive]

A 1080p gopro is plenty. As mentioned earlier 4k videos need specialist gear to be able to edit then easily. I's very time consuming as well.

I would buy a used gopro from Facebook buy swap and sell or somewhere similar to start off with.
For accessories go to Ebay..

[Kimtown]

Yeah don't buy the gopro brand accessory... ******* overpriced **** (as is everything gopro)...

I bought the 200 piece accessory kit for $30 off eBay.

Has everything you will ever need and exactly the same as the gopro brand

[Fish0n4Reel]

Is there such thing as a 720p GoPro? Does that mean the lower video quality, the cheaper?

[croe04]

Is there such thing as a 720p GoPro? Does that mean the lower video quality, the cheaper?

I reckon gopros are capable of filming in 720p, but 1440 is as low as they go. you could look for a second hand one, theyre just pretty hard to find. sony action cams are pretty good but they are similarly priced to go-pros and have a fish eye lens. on the jb hifi website their is a kaiser-baas action cam for 150, which is reviewed well.

[Fish0n4Reel]

I just want one you can mount on your head and record what you see.

[wem21]

YES! DO NOT GET A 4k GoPro UNLESS you have a really beefy computer, with parts equal or above (in performance) to i5 7700K(Cpu), 16gb of 2666mHz RAM and a GTX 1660Ti graphics card. Even with a standard 1440p gopro, you still need a decent computer to edit it

[Bayrock]

1080 resolution is plenty, as said before 4k is difficult to work with and more time consuming, you will have your hands very full editing as it is. On that note even with 1080 resolution make sure you have a computer with plenty of storage, a good screen (2 are better), at least a 4Gb graphics card and at least 16Gb RAM.
Most people in Australia don’t have 4k tv’s or 4k computers anyway, and I think it’ll be many years before we see substantial uptake of the technology.
BlacktipH is a very good show, it’s very american though (if you know what I mean).
I enjoy shows with a lot of humour in them