From the course: GoPro HERO5 and HERO6: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Choosing a memory card for GoPro HERO cameras

Choosing a memory card for GoPro HERO cameras - HERO Tutorial

From the course: GoPro HERO5 and HERO6: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Choosing a memory card for GoPro HERO cameras

- Now the memory cards in the GoPro HERO are ridiculously small. You see here, it is practically the size of a thumb nail and it's really easy to lose this. But the memory cards had to go along for the ride, which means small camera, small memory card. Now, this is a Micro SD card and you can get them in a couple of different flavors. Micro SD, SDHC, or the newer SDXC which is pretty important, we'll talk more about those speeds in just a second. Now, if you're used to something like a standard SD card size, something more along like this. This is really the same thing, it's just a smaller version. This, in this case, is an adapter and what's designed to happen here is we can actually take this and put this smaller card into this larger carrier card, which will make it easier to mount it into things like a computer or a traditional card reader or even a full size DSLR. But the GoPro uses the smaller Micro SD card form factor. I've put a small, adhesive label on here, with my initials,…

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