These range from a maximum of one shot every half a second to a minimum of one every minute. You get your usual resolutions to tinker with – 8-megapixel wide-angle being top dog – 5-megapixel medium-angle is the other – as well as changing the time-lapse intervals. While the photo settings can’t hope to eclipse the huge array of video ones, they’re not entirely lacking. This strips away a lot of the bells and whistles that GoPro adds to video, making it easier for video editors to tinker with it in post-production. If you want to use it as a dash-cam, for example, you’ll want to keep this on so it keeps the right light settings for everything outside the car. Spot meter, on the other hand, tells the Hero 4 Session to set its light levels to what’s dead in front of it and ignore what’s around the periphery. So, for example, it will reduce the Session’s framerate if it thinks the video is looking too dingy. GoPro has added an automatic low-light option to the camera that tweaks settings when it’s dark. The comprehensive level of settings doesn’t end there. You can further reduce the fish-eye effect during editing. You can change the FoV to 127 degrees, making the distortion less of an issue, but this option is only available for 1,080 and 720 resolutions. The bending can look a little odd and if you want something with straighter lines you can narrow the field to something less curvey. Otherwise known as barrel distortion, this is caused by the wide field of view (FoV) – 170 degrees is captured in front of the camera. GoPro is well known for its fish-eye effect – the way videos and picture bend round the edges. The idea is that this makes video more impactful – if the things that occur along the edges don’t matter much, that is. Everything in the centre of the shot is kept normal it’s the edges that are rolled out to fit the width. SuperView is a feature that effectively stretches a 4:3 aspect ratio to a widescreen 16:9. Resolution and frames per second range from a top setting of 1,920 x 1,440 (4:3 aspect ratio) to lowly WVGA, while framerates can reach a maximum of 120fps for slow-motion capture in the lowest resolution setting. The GoPro app (available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone) lets you tinker with a slew of settings you can’t otherwise get access to. This shouldn’t be a big problem for most. This is a bit of a problem if you’re using the GoPro Hero 4 Session at home or in the office, but let’s face it, the point of this little camera is to be out and about where there are more birds than Wi-Fi signals flying around. We did find that our iPhone 6 Plus tended to revert back to a known Wi-Fi source regularly. Less energy used means a longer battery life for both the Session and your phone. This is useful because it uses a lot less energy than a Wi-Fi connection. Connecting via low-power Bluetooth is also possible.
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