You’ll almost definitely by no means purchase a GoPro digital camera for its battery life. As we talked about in our evaluation of the Hero 10, it has by no means been the model’s robust go well with — in reality, the Hero 9 outlasted the Hero 10 by virtually half an hour after we examined out the brand new mannequin. Now, the corporate has launched a brand new grip referred to as Volta that might lengthen a GoPro digital camera’s battery life by as much as thrice. Combined with the GoPro’s personal battery, the Volta grip can ship as much as 4 hours of 5.3K recording at 30 fps. When we took the the Hero 10 for a spin, it solely lasted for an hour and quarter-hour.

In addition to its built-in 4900 mAh battery, Volta additionally comes with built-in digital camera buttons to present you entry to one-handed controls whereas the GoPro is mounted. You may even use it as a distant management for as much as 98 ft away. And in case you want a tripod in your shoot, you possibly can flip out its built-in legs anytime. Volta is appropriate with each Hero 10 and Hero 9, however it’ll additionally cost any USB-C system, together with the GoPro MAX and older fashions.

Alone, the Volta grip will set you again $130, or $91 in case you’re a GoPro subscriber. However, it additionally comes bundled with the brand new GoPro Hero 10 Black Creator Edition. The firm has put collectively a neat bundle for creators to make it straightforward to seize every little thing they want in a single go. In addition to the digital camera itself and a Volta battery grip, the bundle comes with GoPro’s Media Mod and Light Mod. Those modifications add a built-in directional microphone, 3.5mm mic and HDMI-out ports, as effectively LED lighting with 4 stage of brightness as much as 200 lumens to the digital camera.

As you possibly can guess, the bundle is cheaper for subscribers that pay the corporate $50 a 12 months. New members will even be capable of get the bundle for $532, which represents fairly a considerable low cost from the $760-or-so complete value of the objects when bought individually.