GoPro’s motion cams have adopted a predictable improve cycle for the previous few years, however that is about to alter in keeping with an intriguing new teaser – the video confirms that the Hero 11 Black will launch in two totally different sizes.

GoPro’s unusually revealing trailer offers us some sturdy hints of what to anticipate at its subsequent launch, which can happen on September 14 at 6am PT / 2pm BST / 11 AEST. For the primary time because the unique GoPro Session arrived in 2015, we’ll see its flagship motion cam arrive in two type components – a Hero 11 Black and a mini sibling.

Current leaks from WinFuture (opens in new tab) have advised {that a} Hero 11 Black Mini mannequin is en route. And it appears GoPro is making an attempt to personal the rumors by posting a teaser video that just about proclaims the compact motion cam, alongside a extra commonplace mannequin that appears very very similar to a GoPro Hero 10 Black.

The Hero 11 Black Mini, if that is certainly what the compact motion cam might be referred to as, seems prefer it might be the non secular successor to the GoPro Hero Session, which first launched in 2015 and was discontinued three years later.

Primarily based on the poster on GoPro’s website, the Mini will not be fairly as small because the cube-shaped Session (see beneath), which weighed simply 74g. However that might be a superb factor from a usability standpoint, with our GoPro Hero 5 Session evaluation remarking that the motion cam suffered from a poor battery life and fiddly controls. 

As a substitute, it seems just like the Mini will as an alternative merely be a Hero 11 Black with out its entrance and rear shows, which implies it ought to (in keeping with WinFuture, no less than) convey the identical new sensor and processing energy. The 2 motion cams will, although, seemingly have totally different batteries, so we’ll have to attend to see how this impacts their respective run instances.

The Session Reborn?

The arrival of a brand new Hero type issue would jive with feedback GoPro made earlier this 12 months about increasing into new “varieties” of motion cameras.

Throughout an earnings name transcribed by the monetary web site The Motley Idiot (opens in new tab)(opens in new tab), GoPro CEO Nick Woodman mentioned “on the finish of 2022, we plan to extend our {hardware} providing from the 2 product varieties we have now immediately, Hero and Max, to 4 distinct digital camera merchandise”.

It seems like these 4 distinct merchandise would be the Hero 11 Black, Hero 11 Black Mini, Max, and Hero 10 Black Bones, which is a drone-friendly mannequin that is at the moment solely accessible within the US. This apparently will not be the top of the GoPro shake-up both, with Woodman including that “we count on to increase that additional by the top of 2023”.

This all marks one thing of a change for GoPro, which has been streamlining its choices because the GoPro Hero eight Black in an try to stay to its residence turf of motion cameras. With the iPhone 14 introducing a brand new stabilized ‘Motion Mode’, although, it appears GoPro is once more trying to give us extra specialised choices.

Who will this new Mini motion digital camera be for? We’ll have to attend till September 14 to search out out for positive, however with the Hero 10 Black Bones protecting drone cameras, it appears prone to attraction to anybody who desires to mount a GoPro on their helmet  – for instance, cyclists, mountain bikers, and surfers. Hopefully, its price ticket may even match its smaller type issue, too.