Is It a Good Travel Camera? • Indie Traveller

We’ve all seen how GoPRO advertises its cameras: often showing some person jumping out of an airplane or doing a triple cork on a snowboard.

But what about using a GoPRO as a travel camera? That’s what I most wanted to know when I got my hands on the latest GoPRO Hero 7 Black.

Of course, it’s an action camera at heart — and I do a fair bit of actioney stuff on my travels. I hike, I swim, I climb, I scuba dive. Whether it’s mountain biking down Death Road in Bolivia, exploring caves in Thailand, or diving through sinkhole caverns in the Mexican Yucatan, I’ve loved having a GoPRO with me in these situations. But… I also wanted to know if the GoPRO is versatile enough for normal use.

What do I mean by “normal use”? Well, anything you might want to do with a regular camera, such as taking travel photos, selfies, vlogging or short videos for social media, and other fun stuff like timelapse or timewarp videos. After all, travel isn’t all action all the time, and if…