About a month ago I made the much overdue and procrastinated commitment to start video blogging.
My plan: to make specific property marketing videos, community videos, event videos, agent drip campaign videos and even team training videos (like Buyer and Seller presentations). To video blog about the things that my potential customers and clients might be interested in knowing about, you know, come from contribution and service and be the area expert for my target audience.
I did a fair amount of research and decided to start out with the GoPro video camera. It looked easy to use, had a GREAT wide angle for capturing smaller rooms and was highly recommended on the internet.
I had some good results with it e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMVehf_N_AM
But after 3 weeks my GoPro Hero 3 Silver camera stopped working.
It would not power up, then when it did power up it would only record for 30 seconds, it froze in the middle of recording...and on and on.
I Google searched and found out that this specific camera has a known issue - apparently the firmware software platform for this camera has been riddled with problems since the inclusion of Protune in the software program. There are tons of videos about this on YouTube and even suggested remedies for the problem on the GoPro website. I tried all the remedies but they did not work. I even invested in an extended battery as the out of the box battery does not last long, but I was not able to fix the problem. Apparently even if the remedy did work is was a band aid not a cure; and at best would only make the problem less frequent, not fix it!
So in my opinion there is a latent defect with the product...yet the camera is still being sent to market?
Some advice for you GoPro, you apparently have a great product, speaking in general terms, if one of the versions of the product is not working - REMOVE IT FROM THE MARKET, FIX THE PROBLEM, RECALL FAULTY UNITS and make things right with your customers, or you will become knows as the NoPro camera.
And since I am venting and doling out advice, make your product selection easier- GoPro 2,3,4, white, black, silver... how are consumers supposed to know how to chose the right camera when all the specs are so similar?
...but digress.
Point of this blog (besides a good venting).
1) Call out "NoPro" for putting out a faulty product to market, and save a few folks the frustration of the learning curve that I have had with the NoPro 3 Silver edition camera.
2) Anyone out there have a better recommendation for a great easy to use, wide angle video recording camera for video blogging?
Feedback after reviewing blog comments 6/12/2014.
The problem I was having was specific to a few models of the camera. I have now replaced the camera with a GoPro Hero 3+ White Edition and so far it is working great.
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