My question is in action camera territory. I have very limited space available for the camera and it is out of reach by man or wireless while it is moving and shooting. I want to set auto ISO, manual shutter speed, enable timelapse, activate the camera and send it off to its mission that may well last a couple of hours. GoPro manual settings live in a setup section called ProTune or PT.

The wanted result is a set of still images shot at 1 second intervals or faster while the camera is moving. I want the camera to use shutter speed 1/250s or faster to reduce motion blur.

I have two GoPro "Black" edition cameras available, a Hero 5 and a Hero 8. Both let me set the photo mode I need (auto ISO, manual shutter speed). Alas, both also have separate settings for the photo timelapse mode where the shutter speed is on auto. My manually selected mode (auto ISO, manual shutter speed) works in photo mode where I can operate the shutter manually or via wireless control. In timelapse mode the shutter speed is reduced to compensate for low light. Images get motion blurred all the way to useless. I would rather have them underexposed and noisy, their purpose is purely technical, they are not supposed to be beautiful.

Setting the min/max ISO to the highest possible helps somewhat. The shutter speed starts out high in daylight but still drops too much because the camera is striving for "perfect" exposure. Setting exposure compensation low helps a little as well, but I need to keep the shutter speed at 1/250s or faster.

Information from GoPro tells me their cameras can not do what I want.

There are other action camera makers than GoPro, I know of Sony, DJI (the drone maker), Garmin and perhaps a few more.

My question is simply: which action camera should I get?

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OddS