GoPro ripped out the guts of the Hero10 Black to give its bones to drones
by Sean Hollister from The Verge - All Posts on (#5Y3DF)
When GoPro said it was going to build more specialized cameras this year, we didn't quite know what it meant. Today, it's revealing the GoPro Hero10 Black Bones, a cut-down version of its flagship camera meant explicitly for FPV drone pilots like the one who famously blazed through that bowling alley last year. The idea is that pilots will strap one of these to their drone to film brilliant footage while using a separate low-latency analog camera and a pair of FPV goggles to see where their drone is going.
When I say cut down, I mean there's no screens, no speaker, no door, no waterproofing, and no battery inside this thing: the $500 camera ($350-$400 with subscription) is the first GoPro ever made that requires soldering skills, the...