ACTION CAMERA OF THE YEAR: GOPRO HERO 11 BLACK

GoPro is to action cams what Bisleri is to water bottles. So us picking the latest model in the company's main Hero line as our action cam of the year may seem like a cop-out.

- 

It's not, we assure you: GoPro is the market leader for a reason (or rather a whole heap of reasons) but even by the company's usual standards, the Hero 11 Black is a banger. The key change from previous generations of Hero here? A new 27MP 8:7 aspect ratio image sensor, which gives users much more scope when it comes to choosing how they want to crop their footage. It's an acknowledgement of the 9:16 format beloved of Tik Tok and Reels creators, of course, but can happily handle 1:1 and 16:9 formats too.

The point is that, whichever way you choose to frame your footage, the new sensor is prepped for it.