For those who use the GoPro Labs firmware, camera customization is done via well-established tools: the QR Control smartphone app for in-the-field adjustments, and the official GoPro QR Code Creator page for desktop. These are now joined by a third way, as innovative as it is powerful: a conversational assistant (a custom GPT) created by the brilliant David Newman...
In view of my next trip, I dedicated time to a fundamental operation: running the write and read tests on all of my microSD cards. First of all, I downloaded the Blackmagic Disk Speed Test app from this link. For optimal preparation, I formatted all the cards directly with the GoPro (even if, to tell the truth...
Sometimes, the most unexpected places offer the strongest emotions. This was the case for me with Siyal Island, which I discovered in August 2023 during a diving cruise to St. John’s, Egypt. Siyal is incredibly remote: it lies 5 nautical miles south of the Abu Fendera...
The following footage is from a liveaboard trip to the Farasan Banks, Saudi Arabia, in 2023. During that week, where I unfortunately participated as an individual diver and not as a group leader, I witnessed repeated incidents of serious disrespect towards the marine environment. Numerous corals were damaged by hands and fins...
This is a topic that is particularly to my heart, because it touches the safety of each one of us and, at times, it can make the difference between a memorable dive and a tragedy: the importance of having the GoPro ALWAYS secured to one's own equipment. Not a simple piece of advice for not losing the video camera and...
I dived for the first time at Small Crack in June 2024, during a “Sharm & Wrecks” cruise with Mastro Sommerso on board the M/Y Diamante. As soon as I put my head underwater, I immediately regretted not having been there before. Sha’ab Mahmud, the imposing semi-emergent coral reef on the route...
Too many times I see divers finning with the GoPro dangling, free to hit anywhere. It is a bad habit to avoid for many reasons. The most important is the protection of the marine environment: a GoPro that dangles freely represents a danger for the delicate ecosystem of the reef. It is easy to hit and break the fragile...
It is not easy that a reef shark approaches so to the GoPro: it must feel secure and, at the same time, curious. To obtain underwater footage of this kind, it is not enough to rely only on the video camera; it is fundamental to master the “triangle of skills” that I have identified, uniting three strictly interconnected skills that every...
August 2022, first post-covid19 cruise, with destination the Central Atolls in the Maldives. Enthusiasm to the stars and a lot of desire to film. I decided to experiment: I mounted on the stick the GoPro HERO10 rotated by 90 degrees to obtain vertical footage ready for Reels. The result? A disaster, for two reasons: The Impossible Framing and...