Hey guys, Chris from Stoked For Travel here! Today I want to talk to you about one of my
new favorite travel gadgets - the DJI Osmo Pocket.
For me me, the two things I take into massive consideration when buying new travel
tech is weight and size. I travel pretty much hand luggage only,
apart from surfboard of course, but all my camera gear is in my hand luggage. I've swapped
my Mavic Pro for my Mavic Air because it was just so much more portable and
I haven't carried around a Digital SLR for years. In fact most of the shots
you'll find on my website and social media are shot on either my GoPro Hero 7
Black, my Mavic Air drone, or even my iPhone X. Now what I have been lugging
around for the last couple years was the DJI Osmo. But then DJI announced the the new
predecessor, not predecessor, the new, yeah what's the predecessor? I don't know!
New little brother of the Osmo which is the Osmo Pocket. Now let's just take a couple
of seconds to appreciate how small this thing really is. Look at it! There's my
hand, there's that thing - that's absolutely nuts!
It weighs only 116 grams so that's that's crazy small in comparison to the
old Osmo. I've spent the last three months traveling around South Africa and
Mozambique with it and it's been incredible to shoot with it.
It does 4K at 60 frames a second it does 120 frames a second at 1080 - so it's so versatile but
it...it just packs a lot of punch! And the size for me is just I mean the size
alone is the only reason you really need to even be looking at this to be honest.
The fact that it fits in your pocket, it's so discreet. You can pull it out in
markets and no one bats an eyelid. You can just be moving around in the background
and be really subtle about you filming. You're not pulling out these big cameras
you know, your big zoom lenses, your full rigs - you're been really discreet but
still shooting 4K, getting amazing quality. And the 3 axis gimbal, it's just
so smooth. I mean yeah you do need to adjust yourself and you know, you're
walking around a bit like a crab and things like that - but you get used to it
and the results are amazing. I mean I'm gonna overlay some the shots
I've got some from South Africa here in a moment like I took it hiking up to
the top of Table Mountain. I wouldn't want to lug a full camera set
up to the top of Table Mountain - it's a grueling two hour hike and I did it
in like 30 degrees! It was it was testing, but yeah I don't know I'd have done it!
We've been around Mozambique in a 4x4 and it's been super steady. But yeah it's
just been an incredible camera to shoot with. You know, penguins everything!
You know if you put a big camera front of an animal they usually look at you
like "what the hell is going on"?! With this thing the penguins are all up in my face!
I loved it! So yeah its just allowed me to capture those amazing moments on
the road where, you just you know, you don't necessarily have the time to pull
out all your kit, or you're not in a situation where you want all your kit
like you know just hanging around with the people on the tour I was filming so
like you know we're there having some beers and I'm just like "boom" there we go,
got my bit of footage boom it's in the video! Like it's just an
amazing piece of travel kit and the size is just amazing. The speed of it's pretty
good as well and so you want to turn it on there's only two buttons on the front
of this thing and just hit this one it does the low spinning gimble axis thing
and you're ready to shoot. As you may know from that there is an LCD panel on
the front which you can use to record it does crop it a little bit you don't see
the whole image and but it does give you an idea of what you're shooting.
Personally for me though I do pretty much entirely shoot with it attached to
my phone and there's a cool little DJI Mimo App that you download for your
iPhone or Android and and then you just plug it in. So you plug it into the side
of your phone through the lightning port in the bottom and then the app just boots
up. Hang on I'm gonna show you how quick that is. So look plug that in that's me
filming and boom we are ready to go! And as you might notice on there here you do
have access to all the manual controls as well so if you know you're a bit more
clued in on your video you can have access to your ISO, your shutter speeds,
your white balance and you can even shoot D Log. Hang on I'm just going to put down
this thing so I can carry on talking and swipe back to my preview. And so it does
give you that bit of extra control which is also something to consider. For the
everyday user there's auto mode. This is absolutely fine you know you could give
it to anyone they could figure out how to use that no worries and because it's
got the app which has got loads of inbuilt things like templates where
making your own videos. It's really user friendly, but if
like me you want a bit more control you do have access to those shutter speeds
the ISO the white balance you can shoot in D Log if you want to do colour grading.
Its just got a lot packed into it to be honest - like surprisingly so! And every
software update that DJI has announced for this thing since its been released has
just added those little extra touches that make it even more and more useful.
For me it's a it's a no-brainer investment. Like, you know I speak to my
travel blogging buddies I'm like guys you've got to get the DJI Osmo it's just
so much fun to play with and the footage is incredible! The size you know,
ou are making some sacrifices, I'm not gonna lie about that.
You don't have so much control over the of depth of field as you would do with
an SLR or a mirrorless camera, but I feel like everything else outweighs the cons
and it just makes it super handy. I have got some accessories for it as
well which have made it even better. Polar Pro have got some ND filter
which is super nice, they're a bit fiddly to get out and super small
but the great thing about them is there's no screwing on its, boom , magnetic,
done! Ready to shoot! You can fit through you know you can flick through and
make sure you got the right filter on super quickly. So like there's some great
accessories out there but the best thing I've got for it is this PGY Tech
handle and I even bought a mini little tripod to put on it as well.
Basically this doubles up twofold - you can put your Osmo in there and then
your smartphone in here, and then it just gives you that little bit more control, a
little bit more stability to kind of do your nice smooth pans. It's got the
cold shoe mount on the top as well so you can add on lights and you can add on
external mic as well. Which if you wanting to look the part, like if I'm
doing some stuff for clients, boom, load this whole thing up it looks pretty cool
and it looks a bit more like you know what you're doing! I mean you always get
those weird looks people are paying you to make films and then you turn up
with this - I mean don't knock it it does the job - but it just doesn't look as
professional as say an SLR and you know if people are paying you people want to
you know, feel like you're doing a good job!
So yeah rig it up with this, boom, good to go! And bloggers out there this is a
pretty cool little camera for that as well, I'm not gonna lie. You know you can
turn it on it's going to be shooting forwards when it turns on
tap it three times it flips around- look at that so you now
I'll show you, there you go I'm actually filming this on my Hero 7 because I'm
waiting for my other cameras to turn up, but yeah you can film yourself you can
have yourself in view and you can see how you're framing things. You want to
turn it back? 3 taps again look at its turned around, sweet all good to go!
So where we? Guys sorry I'm in Bali in the moment in my guest house and the cleaners
just came up to do my room and totally interrupted the end of my shoot!
So yeah, conclusion, yeah let's get to the end of it! Yes absolutely love the Osmo Pocket
it's so much fun to shoot with, it's so small and compact, it delivers the
results. If you are going traveling, yeah chuck it in your kit bag for serious
videographers it's a great little kind of backup camera. And for the everyday user
it's just gonna produce incredible travel videos it's so easy to use and
the footage is great. Price wise £329 so it's not the biggest
investment you're ever gonna make either. So it's great value for money. If you are
in America it's price is the same in dollars as well - $329 -so if you're over
there or heading that way make some savings, great!
Great value, great size, another awesome product from DJI - no this is not
an ad, I'm just a huge fan! So yeah, chuck it in your kit bag take it on your
next adventure, enjoy! Alright that's the end of it guys so I hope you've
enjoyed my review. I hope it has given you a bit more info on what the DJI Osmo
is about, a few examples of what it can capture. If you do have any questions just
whack them in the comments, I'm happy to answer them! And yeah like
subscribe, do all that stuff... yay YouTube! And yeah see you next week!