The two-year wait is over!!!
GoPro has finally announced its new Karma drone, as well as two new camera models: The GoPro5 Session, and the Hero5 Black.
Hero5 Black and GoPro5 Session
The main features of the Hero5 Black are:
- Voice control. Think Siri, only for your camera. Ask it to take a photo, or a video, and it will do it. It also supports seven languages – so most people in the world will be able to talk to the thing. Not that useful a feature when it’s flying on your drone, though – lol.
- Waterproof without extra housing. Very useful feature – both because it saves time and hassle – and because you don’t lose audio quality. It also has three microphones – and automatically chooses the audio from the microphone that’s getting the cleanest audio. GoPro said at the launch the audio will sound as good as the video looks.
- Hero5 Black will shoot 12MP photos, while the GoPro5 Session will take only 10 MP images.
- Both the Hero and Session can shoot video in 4K.
- Built-in stabilization
Some of the features, including cloud-based video editing, are pretty impressive.

Now, let’s talk about GoPro KARMA.
It’s more than a drone! …or is it?
This time it looks like GoPro targeted middle-low end consumer market.
Check out the prices:
- KARMA without camera: 799 USD
- KARMA with Session 5: 999 USD
- KARMA with Hero 5: 1099 USD
10 Facts About GoPro Karma
- It has a foldable design that makes it so small and portable.

- It has a gimbal that you can take off and place it on a Karma Grip stabilizer

- Grip for the handheld stabilizer comes in kit.

- It has a built in-screen on a remote controller.
- Maximum flight time is up to 20 minutes.
- It has no obstacle avoidance.
- It has no sonar and vision positioning system.
- It’s only 100 USD cheaper than Phantom 4.
- Its maximum flight distance is 1000m.
The GoPro KARMA will be available on October 23rd.