GoPro makes cinema cameras now, and one just landed on a notable list. GoPro announced on 20 October that its Mission 1 Pro ILS, a specialised interchangeable-lens version of its Mission 1 Pro, had been named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2026, one of 300 the magazine picked. It is a small, rugged camera built for video, and for a Malaysian creator the useful question is what it actually shoots. GoPro has not published a Malaysian price on its own channels that we could confirm today, so this is about what the camera does, not what it costs.
GoPro calls the Pro ILS "the world's smallest, most rugged compact cinema camera with interchangeable lenses," a superlative that is its own, not ours. GoPro says it weighs 197g, carries a 50MP one-inch sensor, and shoots up to 8K at 60fps and 4K at 240fps. "It puts the creative freedom of interchangeable lenses into a camera small and rugged enough to take almost anywhere, at a price that puts true cinema capability within reach of just about anyone," said GoPro founder Nicholas Woodman.
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On 13 October GoPro pushed a free update that matters more to working shooters than the award. It adds what GoPro calls a zero-lag shutter, capturing a photo the moment the button is pressed, and a Continuous Shutter mode that GoPro says holds down for more than 100 photos at 12MP or more than 20 raw frames at 50MP. GoPro says neither mode works in SuperPhoto, Interval Photo or Burst Photo, and that results vary with light, motion, settings and card speed. Separately, GoPro Labs public-beta firmware for the Pro ILS, also out on 13 October, writes aspect-ratio data so compatible desktop software can desqueeze anamorphic footage at ratios of 1.33x, 1.5x, 1.6x, 1.8x and 2.0x, working with GoPro's HyperSmooth stabilisation; GoPro says an on-camera desqueeze preview is coming soon. The companion app, MISSION Monitor, also gains a histogram, waveform, RGB parade and false colour for judging exposure, though GoPro lists it as an iPhone and iPad app needing iOS 18 or later.
What it can film
The number video makers will care about is 4K at 240fps, which GoPro's own figures list. Conformed to a 24fps timeline that is footage you can play back at a tenth of real speed, so a hand passing through frame or water hitting the ground slows down smoothly. The 8K60 mode records about four times the pixels of 4K (8K UHD against 4K UHD), which gives you room to reframe a shot in the edit. GoPro lists a 50MP one-inch sensor and an interchangeable Micro Four Thirds mount, and notes the mount has no electronic contacts, so lenses are used with manual focus, and either a manual or a fixed aperture. HyperSmooth, GoPro's stabilisation, is designed to smooth handheld movement. GoPro lists the body at 197g, though a lens adds to that.
It is still built as an action-size camera rather than a shoulder cinema rig, so the appeal is fitting cinema-style tools into something you can take almost anywhere. The draw against a phone-and-gimbal setup, in our view, is interchangeable lenses and a dedicated camera body. We have looked at the other end of that choice lately, in our writeups of the OPPO Find X10 and the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P.
Whatever you shoot on, the look comes mostly from the craft. A music video we shot on a phone did well for us, and in our experience framing, movement and a careful grade shape a film look more than the gear does. That is what our Pocket Cinematic course teaches, and it carries straight over to a camera like this.
GoPro sells the Mission 1 through its own store and camera retailers; check for current availability and pricing where you are, as both change over time. The zero-lag shutter and 50MP Continuous Shutter arrived in the free 13 October firmware update, and the anamorphic modes are in GoPro Labs beta firmware on the Pro ILS.
