This is a cracking action cam. The best you can get, in fact. It's a great evolution of the firm's tried-and-tested line, featuring plenty of user-friendly extras that make capturing top quality footage a doddle.

Voice activated camera control; Improved video and stills; Brilliant optional drone

Fiddly rear touchscreen; Caseless waterproofing suspect; Package can get expensive

I did quite a bit of researching before my purchase. Before I speak of the cons I'll say it is a great camera and the size is awesome especially since it has the ability to record 4K. I believe it is built well and overall pretty user friendly.

It's been a long while since GoPro launched the Hero 4 Black, but has the Hero 5 been worth the wait? Well it certainly has. Read our GoPro Hero 5 Black review to find out why.

Overall happy with my purchase; Good value for money and amazing photo quality

Experienced issue connecting my phone to this cam via wireless; The first time, I had to reinstall the gopro app in my phone; The second and hopefully last time, had to manually set up the wireless connection within the gopro cam

GoPro Hero 5 has been launched alongside the Karma Grip in India. We decided to test the GoPro Hero 5 Black, along with its entire paraphernalia, including the Karma Grip.

The Hero5 Session is much improved compared to its predecessor, adding 4K and 2.7k video modes, as well as various options for frame rates and field-of-view controls. Unfortunately, the battery life isn't great, and with no way to swap in a fresh one (the battery is built in), you'll need to be...

With the Hero5 Black, GoPro is selling more than a camera. It's a solution for shooting, editing and sharing video nearly anywhere. Whether that's done at the beach, on a mountain or in your backyard is up to you.

The GoPro Hero5 Black is a true flagship camera with all the shooting options from its predecessor plus raw and wide dynamic range photo capture and linear field of view video; a touchscreen; a waterproof body; GPS; electronic image stabilization; stereo audio; voice control; the option for auto...

Battery life, especially with GPS, Wi-Fi and EIS on, is predictably short and the camera is not compatible with older batteries; Auto upload feature only works with GoPro's $5/month Plus service; Linear field of view and electronic image stabilization not available at all resolutions and frame rates

So far it has done everything well - but I have yet to test 'waterproof down to 10m' claim

I have large hands - it is inevitable therefore that loading micro-SD card etc; is a fiddly operation (for me); However that is not the fault of the camera..

GoPro has reigned as king of the action camera , and shows no sign of abdicating the throne with the Hero5 series. The Hero5 Black is the company's latest flagship action cam, and it adds a handful of new tricks to the Hero4 Black like waterproofing without a case and a built-in touch screen.

Waterproof without a case; Built-in touch screen; Tons of shooting modes; Excellent video quality

Battery can drain quickly, especially with the touch screen running; No external mic support without an adapter

Going on holiday is always the perfect time to test out an action camera such as the GoPro Hero 5 Black. So when I booked in two weeks in Vietnam, I figured it would be opportune to break out what I initially described as GoPro's "best camera to date" for another spin.

Superb image quality; Effective electronic image stabilisation; Great microphones; Waterproof without a case (to 10m; Additional still image functions; Improved design

Old batteries incompatible; No EIS in 4K; Poor touchscreen responsiveness