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Which battery runs the longest in the GoPro HERO4?

Which battery runs the longest in the GoPro HERO4?

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Which battery runs the longest in the GoPro HERO4?

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- You know, Rich, early I was joking that we use the scientific method. Of course we are not scientists, we just play them here on TV, but we did use some, you know, I don't know standard ways of testing these batteries. And really when it comes down to it, there's two things that we are able to directly test and then there's a third thing that we're still testing. And the first one that we tested is drain. How long does it take putting battery into the camera, running under similar circumstances, same settings, et cetera. How long do each of these batteries last? - Yeah and we built a really good testing environment for this. So, we took three of the same camera, GoPro 4 Silver Edition, and we set it to record at 2.7k. Sort of an oversize frame size. We told it to leave the LCD on the back on continuously. Now part of the reason why I did this is I wanted to put it into a frame size that was gonna be really draining the camera. So 30 frames per second, 2.7k with the LCD on the whole…

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