GoPro’s Hero 8 Black has new ‘Mod’ accessories made for vloggers

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GoPro has officially pulled the cover off its newest camera, the Hero 8 Black. Available starting today, the flagship action camera costs $399, and offers a number of improvements over last year’s Hero 7 Black in terms of image quality, image stabilization, updates to the software, and more.

But one of the biggest changes comes in the form of a new line of accessories that GoPro is calling “Mods,” which let users attach a higher-quality microphone, a small (but powerful) LED light, and a flip-up display. They all seem potentially useful in their own right, but viewed together, they are an obvious attempt to capitalize on the rise of vlogging by offering a more integrated solution than the hacked-together rigs that content creators often…

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