I make the simple point that the Gizmodo review is mistaken in it’s belief that the GoPro Hero3 shoots raw footage.

You correct me, your supporting evidence for your argument ? The Gizmodo review itself.

Lol. : )

If you don’t know what circular reasoning is then look it up, but let me illustrate your poor epistemic / logic like this:

Person A says: all cars are green.
Person B says: person A’s belief is a mistaken belief.
Person C says: “no, it’s true. all cars are green”
Person B asks person A to corroborate their claim.
Person B says: “Person A said so”.

Basically the Hero3 doesn’t shoot raw.

By shooting, using the full sensor resolution, you have much more scope within editing to crop while maintaining fullHD (1080p).

Sure, you will lose wide angle but who wants to shoot fisheye all the time? This is an unnatural view of the world, not something you really want to use all the time if you can help it.

As for 4K? When I bought into HD, I bought into the original, 720p format on the understanding that 1080p was many years off. Within six months it went mainstream and now the only TV’s you find below 1080p are budget or 30″ or less units. Boy, did I get that one wrong !!!

“Cam RAW (Camera RAW)
The HERO3 camera can record Video in Protune mode in Cam RAW. GoPro

Cam RAW mode yields a minimally processed data file direct from the image sensor that allows for more precise adjustments to be made in post-process. Working in this mode takes full advantage of the image sensor’s capabilities.”

Either nobody can read properly or I’m in the wrong job

“The Hero 3 makes a lot of adjustments on the fly for contrast, sharpness, and colour when you’re shooting in “Basic mode”. At first glance they’re prettier, but you sacrifice image quality—a lot of detail gets lost in shadows.”

“Shooting in Protune” not only opens up other framerates and resolutions, but it boosts the bitrate and doesn’t do any compensation. The resulting footage has a flatter, but far more detailed look. It basically gives you raw video which you can really tweak in editing. Pros and semi-pros will love this feature (as we do)

See? Just need to read a little slower

>”Shooting in Protune not only opens up other framerates and resolutions, but it boosts the bitrate and doesn’t do any compensation”

No compensation ? . . . . . what on earth are you on about ?

>”the price; £260 ain’t cheap . . .”

Not only ain’t it cheap, it also ain’t the price.

>”4K video . . . it’s just a pointless feature.”

Gizmodo lacks an understanding of things like chroma subsampling, aliasing and green screen work (etc), so they look around, see none of their friends have a 4k TV and declare the function pointless.

. . . and so on . .

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, you really need to get someone who knows about at least a little about cameras to write this stuff . . . otherwise it’s little better than a health article in the Daily Mail.

Well, that’s the best excuse I can come up with.