You shoot R3 becuz its easier to make it look fluid and steady, blur isn't an issue if you flow, your motion of camera slowly and dont buck around with your movements(nice soft flutter kick with short flexy fins on, like my mares full foot pocket super channels')
Yes, Marty but why not 960p r4???
I will be shooting this' r4 this weekend! 960p is what the 19" screen was made for!
1080p is perfect if your good, use 720 a while so your got something you wanna watch, then you will see how you can improve your action and motion.
R5 is where you wanna be- on the FHD big screen plasma showing the terrestrian on lookers, what happens "below the surface"!!!!!!!*
*vodka martini in hand'
Cheers, fellow aquanauts,
Damo'ps- Queensland is where u wanna be Marty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If you see my blurfix comparison video you will notice as the camera pans the objects blur a little in all the 30p modes but in 60p you don't notice this motion blurring due to the higher shutter speed. So the 60p video will always look better if the camera moves around a bit.
In theory the lower frame rates should allow more light and have better low light video but I don't think this applies to 1080p on the gopro as the relatively low data rate for 1080p30 produces more noise then 720p60.
1920x1080x30=62,208,00 pixels per second
1280x720x60=55,296,00 pixels per second
max data rate for both is 15mbps so r3 will get more data per pixel meaning r5 is more compressed and will show more noise/artifacts due to this.
The conditions we get here in the Bass straight 90% of the time it doesn't matter what fins you've got on, if there is a 5m+ surge your not going to keep the camera still unless you mount it on a rock lol, you Queensland guys don't know much about that though in your tropical calm waters.
I think r2 and r4 in pal 25p should produce best results in low light but I haven't done much testing in those modes yet.
I will try some R4 filming but I don't have any 4:3 screens so I prefer to shoot all video in 16:9 formats which fill my displays without any black bars on the sides like the 960p mode produces.
My 50 inch Panasonic 3DHD plasma looks great in r3 with fast moving video and pretty good in 1080p if there is not much camera movement, I found r5 is best if the camera is kept stationary as any movement does have a bad effect on the video. I personaly prefer watching back my videos in 60p over the 1080p30 as its so much smoother and more lifelike most of the time, if there was a gopro with 1080p60 with a data rate around 40mbps I would film everything in that mode