The Fusion is priced similarly to its direct competitor, the Garmin VIRB, except the VIRB is actually $100 more. The Fusion starts at $699 which includes the camera, the very well built tripod/selfie stick, USB-C cable, two very sturdy mounts, a kind of strange case, and a battery. What could be the potential drawbacks of the GoPro Fusion? Price. I’ve dropped and fumbled a lot of GoPros from the Hero 3, 4, 5 and even the Session 5 without any technical problems. Over the past 5-7 years of my GoPro use I’ve really grown to like how the cameras operate and generally have no technical problems, so I am pretty loyal to the brand. What’s more is that the Fusion is water resistant down to 16 ft and generally built to handle rough circumstances - search 'GoPro fails' on YouTube and you’ll see what I mean.

That's pretty incredible considering that is at least 3 standard GoPro’s worth of footage, albeit only 1920x1080 at the moment. If you use a Fusion you can have at the least the passenger, driver, and view out the windshield from one camera. For example, if you work in any sort of documentary or reality television, conversations inside of cars can require lots of small cameras when filming, and lots of work in post production to sync and group. One of the most glaring examples of how useful the Fusion could be for professional users is the ability to capture multiple angles, in sync, from one camera. You have a little more flexibility when swinging hues around and bumping the contrast. GoPro’s Standard Color mode seems to oversaturate colors like blue and green as well as set the contrast of the video or image to a good S-curve, and the overall image typically looks great. However, if you want to turn the blues teal, the grass brown, and the sky purple - the flat ProTune color profile is where you will want to live.

Gopro fusion photo samples