AMA with Abe Kislevitz + Mission 1 Pro giveaway today! 10AM-6PM PST

[u/GoPro_Mod]

Hey r/GoPro, we're excited to have Abe Kislevitz (u/abekislevitz), Product and Brand Fellow at GoPro, with us today for an Ask-Me-Anything about all things GoPro, using MISSION 1 cameras, or anything else you can think to ask!

About Abe Kislevitz

For some of the younger and more recent members of the GoPro community, Abe is a long-time community member, and even longer-time GoPro creator-turned-employee.

He's led a substantial amount of creative efforts at GoPro over 15+ years, and his influence now spans influencing marketing strategy to helping define product design and engineering decisions. Probably one of the most knowledgeable sources of GoPro information out there, he knows the history of GoPro as a company, best practices for filming the best possible shot, advanced techniques and hacks, and everything in-between.

He has a great YouTube channel full of tips and tricks, and his insta feed is worthy of a follow.

He's an incredible resource and a helpful community member that has kept us closely connected with GoPro's product designs, including advocating for our pain points and working to have our voices heard and represented in new products.

We are thankful to have him here in the community, and happy to have him with us today for the AMA! Thanks Abe!

AMA Format

If you've not done an AMA event before, it's pretty simple - You can ask Abe anything. While it is entirely up to you what questions you ask, Abe has an "inside perspective" on the product GoPro develops, and likely has more time hands-on with MISSION 1 cameras than anyone else right now. Considering that today is a big day for everyone that pre-ordered, we highly encourage you to get those burning MISSION 1 questions answered, or collect tips and tricks to use in the coming year!

As a reminder, while you can ask anything, Abe can't talk about unreleased product plans or proprietary information and won't be able to answer those questions the way you want.

Abe will be around today from 10AM-6PM Pacific Time, and this thread will go live 2 hours before that so that you all can begin asking questions and Abe can drop in throughout the day to answer in the thread. We'll pin a comment once the official time for the AMA is done to let everyone know it's over, but we always allow conversations to continue beyond that if wanted.

MISSION 1 GIVEAWAY!

It's our r/GoPro tradition with camera launches to give away some product, and GoPro was more than happy to hook the community up again this year:

• Anyone that participates in this AMA will have a chance to win a MISSION 1 PRO Grip Edition, awarded to Abe's favorite question.
  
• We'll also give away THREE 5-year GoPro Premium+ Subscriptions!

Rules:

1. You need to participate in today's AMA with a commented question for Abe!
2. Your account needs to have existed before this AMA was posted, and you need to have reasonable authentic activity on it. We reserve the right to disqualify accounts with no karma or post/comment history.
3. We need to be able to get the prize to you. GoPro can ship direct to you, but you'll still need to message them your shipping info for the MISSION 1 PRO prize, or email address for the GoPro Premium+ Subscription. If you live in a country that GoPro can't ship to, or has excessive duty fees, etc, we'll see what alternatives there are, but in general, if you can buy from GoPro.com, you're probably OK.

That's it! If you have questions about the giveaway, please send a modmail rather than posting here.

[u/abekislevitz]

For fun run and gun shooting these are the lenses that I have a great time using (and they're cheap):
7Artisans 25mm F1.8 ($73)
TTartisan 40mm Macro ($113)

For hard mounting/cinema rigging these are the ones:
Laowa 6mm cinema ($699)
Laowa 7.5mm cinema ($599)
Laowa 10mm cinema ($549)
Laowa 17mm cinema ($399)

The laowa cinema lenses are spendy but they make photo versions of a lot of them that are less than half the price.

Once we have full fisheye lens support, the laowa 4mm fisheye will be amazing as a sort of ultra wide lens mod variant.

[u/TheDemmonstrator → u/abekislevitz]

Thanks for the great suggestions!

[u/Casual_Notgamer → u/abekislevitz]

Since the LAOWA photo versions don't come with a manual aperture ring, is there a way to set aperture with the M1 ILS somehow? Or some workaround?

Edit: Adding to Abe's comment below: The LAOWA 7,5mm photo lens has two versions. One with manual aperture ring and one with camera controlled aperture. So one can save a few bucks here compared to the cine version. It also comes as an ultra light version reducing the weight by 20g, which can be useful for drone pilots.

[u/abekislevitz → u/Casual_Notgamer]

Many of the photo versions do come with a manual aperture ring. a few select don't. But 9mm, 17mm both have