GoPro’s new flagship Hero 13 Black gets key upgrades and a wide range of lenses

GoPro has announced two new action cameras, the GoPro Hero 13 Black and a smaller GoPro Hero. The Hero 13 Black will cost $399 while the Hero will go for $199. Both are up for preorder now and will be released on September 10th and September 22nd, respectively.

Some of the new features GoPro is adding to the 13 Black include magnetic mounting and charging, three new lenses, and a redesigned battery that the company says has a 10 percent higher capacity than its predecessor.

The Hero 13 Black comes with in-camera noise reduction and can record HLG HDR video and 10-bit video in G-Log. It also sports a new burst slo-mo mode that can record 720p video at up to 400 frames per second, 900p at 360fps, and 5.3K at 120fps. The camera also got a bump to Wi-Fi 6, rather than the older Wi-Fi 5 protocol, enabling “up to 40% quicker content transfer speeds.”

Otherwise, as The Verge’s Vjeran Pavic notes in his video above, the camera still has many of the same specs as the previous model, the 12 Black, including the same 8:7 sensor.

GoPro is releasing a new set of HB-Series lenses to go with the Hero 13 Black. The Ultra Wide Lens Mod ($99.99) captures a 177-degree field of view with a 1:1 aspect ratio; its new Macro Lens Mod ($129.99) can grab close-ups, though it can’t focus nearer than 4.3 inches; finally, a new Anamorphic Lens Mod ($129.99) will offer a 21:9 aspect ratio recording and movie-style lens flaring when it’s released next year. (The Ultra Wide and Macro Lens Mods will be out on September 10th.)

As for the Hero, GoPro’s new miniature action camera is 35 percent smaller and 46 percent lighter, at 86 grams, than the Hero 13 Black. The company says its built-in battery can run for up to about 155 minutes when recording 1080p video at 30fps. It also captures 4K video at 30fps and can do 2.7K slow-motion captures at 60fps.