Gopro Karma review

Just when you thought that the Karma was done for due to their major recall and a class action lawsuit back in November 2016, GoPro confirmed plans to further establish themselves in the drone market later this year. According to a GoPro representative at CES 2017, the Karma’s full re-release report will be publicly made “Early February.” With high hopes for a relaunch of their prized Karma.

The GoPro Karma has four arms (one rotor on each) that can be folded flat against the drone’s body for easy transport in a backpack. It also features a three-axis gimbal for stabilising video, and the camera is suspended in front of the drone so that the propellors aren’t in view.

Excitingly, the gimbal can also be removed for attachment to the included handheld Karma Grip, which features camera control buttons (shutter, filming modes and angle of gimbal) and delivers stabilised footage when used with the gimbal. You can attach the gimbal rig to other mounts too, which is handy.

The GoPro Karma battery life is on the average, GoPro Karma drone is said to have around 20 minutes of battery life from a one hour charge.

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If you were hoping Karma might get a little upgrade, or a price-cut upon its return to curry favor with potential and previous customers alike, sadly you were wrong. Introducing new functionality at the same time as trying to isolate and fix a problem is probably not wise, anyway. Instead, GoPro hunkered down and clocked in thousands of hours of test flights to make sure its fix (a change in the battery clasp mechanism) had done the job.

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