- Today I'm reviewing the DJI Osmo Pocket
to see how good this camera really is.
I'm gonna compare it against
a few other small action cameras.
All of them can fit in your pocket.
And guys, I'm not doing this alone,
I'm hanging out with my friends
Armando and Dave from Kinotika,
and we are going to review this on all of our channels
and just kinda get our general feedback
on how good this camera is.
So if you wanna see some more in depth reviews,
I'll put some links down below in the description
where you can check out their videos.
Also, we're all doing a giveaway for one of these.
So make sure you check out the link for the giveaway
down in the description.
Alright guys, let's see how this little camera compares.
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So here's how this comparison is gonna work,
we're basically going to just look at
all these cameras side by side,
and I'll let you guys judge
based on what you see in the footage,
and what you hear, and all that.
I'll give you guys some of my opinions
towards the end of this video,
and then I'm gonna put together a sequence
of just some awesome shots that we got,
with the DGI Osmo Pocket,
when we're out playing around with it.
So the most important thing
is stability for all of these cameras.
Now for the iPhone,
we're using a gimbal alongside the iPhone
because that is potentially what you would bring
if you were trying to get stable footage with the iPhone.
And then the GoPro HERO 7, and the Insta360 ONE X,
we're going to basically just hand hold those,
because both of those are suppose to be super stable
when you hand hold them.
So it's a battle of the stability.
And that's the first thing that we're going to look at
when it comes to all four of these cameras.
One thing to note, is that all the footage
is straight from camera,
I'm just using the standard profile to shoot all of these.
There's no color grading,
and there's no stabilization in post.
Alright, so let's check out
the stability of all these cameras.
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Alright, so that was just a little bit
of walking with each camera.
Now let's amp it up,
and let's run with each of these cameras.
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Alright guys, so we're gonna do a little vlog sample
between all four of these cameras.
And right now we're just using the GoPro
with the standard audio in the GoPro,
so its just got that little hole on the side.
Now the beauty with the GoPro
is obviously you can attach more microphones to it,
and be able to get better audio.
So that's why the GoPro does have an advantage
when it comes to vlogging.
But let's check out these other cameras,
just audio straight from camera
to see how they actually compare.
So this is the audio straight from iPhone,
and basically when you're using a gimbal with your iPhone,
you can do the forward facing camera,
so you can see yourself,
and this is the audio that you get.
Now obviously you can add attachments
to your phone to get better audio,
but in terms of just vlogging with a phone,
this is the audio that you're gonna get
straight outta camera.
So now we're gonna test the audio on the Insta360 ONE X,
and this is the audio that you get straight outta camera,
and this camera only has a little hole on top of the lens,
and there's no way to add additional audio to this camera.
So basically, this is the audio that you get
when you're shooting with a Insta360 ONE X.
So now I'm doing the audio straight from
the DGI Osmo Pocket.
As you can hear, basically there is a little hole
right underneath the screen.
And that's one huge bonus with this camera,
is that you have a forward facing screen,
so you can see yourself when your vlogging.
This is pretty amazing the size,
and just the ability that you have a screen for vlogging.
However, this is the audio that you get
straight outta camera.
So if you want to get better audio,
they are coming out with a little dongle
that comes out the bottom,
and then you can do better audio out of this.
But this is just the audio straight from camera.
So after looking at all of this footage,
I do have some ideas of which camera I prefer,
and it also depends on the situation.
So when it comes to stability,
definitely they all are stable in different ways.
The Osmo Pocket still had a little bit
of movement within it, and after playing with it,
I did stabilize this, and you can take all of this out
and you can make it super clean.
And you gotta keep in mind
that this is a pre-production model of the camera,
so as soon as they update the firmware,
a lot of these kind of like little issues might go away.
So this is early, it's version one of this camera,
and it's also early firmware.
So things will change as time goes on with the Osmo Pocket.
In terms of using these cameras like an action camera,
you're gonna wanna use the GoPro or the Insta360 ONE X.
The Osmo Pocket is definitely not set up
to be like an action camera.
I hear that they're gonna do like attachments,
one of them is gonna be like a pole attachment,
there'll probably be some sort of like GoPro attachments,
where you can hook it on to all of your GoPro mounts.
However, just because of the way it works,
I don't think it's gonna be the best
in terms of an action camera, camera.
The Insta360 ONE X is definitely the best,
because you can reframe and post.
So you basically could just hold the camera up,
and then reframe later and get your awesome shots.
The issue is the quality is not very good
on the Insta360 ONE X, compared to these other cameras.
So that camera really is good for social media,
but it's not really good to put in your bigger projects.
The Osmo Pockets quality is definitely on point,
so you have very good quality coming out of this camera.
You have 4K, 60 frames a second,
and when you shoot the log profile,
you can definitely color grade this footage,
and get some really good results.
I've been playing with this footage,
I've been doing some color grading,
and doing a little bit of stabilization posts.
And I'm getting some really awesome cinematic footage.
So when it comes to quality,
definitely the Osmo Pocket, the GoPro,
and the iPhone XS Max, all have really good quality,
and it's all very usable quality.
And I would consider using any of them
in my professional work,
if it makes sense to use that camera.
Now like I said, when it comes to social media,
the Insta360 ONE X, definitely takes it
because you can reframe and post,
you can do your 16 x 9 hall and post.
But the cool thing about the Osmo Pocket
is you can do vertical mode.
What you do, is you actually flip the camera,
hold it sideways, and then you get a vertical shot.
You can do this either from the screen
that's on the DGI Osmo Pocket,
or you can use your phone,
and have it go directly to your phone.
So this makes it a lot easier
to do social media content
when you're using the DGI Osmo Pocket.
So let's also talk about vlogging.
Always when your vlogging,
you wanna get the best audio possible.
There's definitely times
where you just grab the audio that you can,
but if you can add an external mic,
it just makes your vlogs that much better.
So out of all of these,
the GoPro definitely takes it in the vlogging category,
because it's much easier to add an external mic,
and it's a pretty light and small setup.
Now with the Osmo Pocket,
they're gonna have an attachment that goes on the bottom.
However, I don't think this is gonna be very practical
when it comes to vlogging,
because when I vlog, I like to set my camera down,
I like to do other things with it
besides just holding it out in front of my face.
And when you put a microphone on the bottom of Osmo Pocket,
what's gonna happen is,
there's not gonna be really a way to set it down.
There's gonna have to be some bigger attachment
to make this whole thing work,
and I just don't know how it's gonna work yet.
However, when you hear the audio
coming from the Osmo Pocket,
it's not bad using straight from camera.
It's not great, it's not the best thing in the world,
but it's definitely usable.
So you can get away with doing some vlogging
with the Osmo Pocket.
However, as you could tell,
I was out of focus,
and that was something that was consistently happening
when I was testing out this camera.
There was issues with focusing,
and I noticed that there was some weird
like mechanical jitter going on when it came to vlogging.
Your body kind of shifts back and forth,
and it was kind if a weird thing.
So in terms of a vlogging camera,
I'm not sure if this is something I would use for vlogging.
I know that they're gearing this camera towards creators,
towards people who are creating content,
because it is like setup as the perfect vlogging camera.
It's tiny, it has a screen facing you,
and it just makes it easy to vlog with.
However, from working with it,
I don't know if I necessarily like it as a vlog camera.
Using it to get awesome cinematic B roll,
now that's a different story.
You can get some really cool,
pretty shots using this camera, and it fits in your pocket.
And the quality is so good,
that you can definitely use this in your professional work,
you could sell it as stock footage,
and it's something that you could just always have on you.
So you know that you can get stable,
gimbal like shots whenever you're out in the field,
even if you don't have a gimbal with you.
How I would use this camera personally,
is that I would always just keep this
in my pocket when I'm traveling,
or somewhere where I don't wanna carry a lot of gear.
So I'd carry my GH5 with some lenses,
but instead of bringing a gimbal with me for my GH5,
I would just bring the Pocket,
and that would give me the ability
to grab these cool stabilized shots,
and not have to have a bigger setup.
It's less intrusive, especially when you're traveling,
it draws less attention,
and it's just easy to pull out of your pocket and shoot.
So I definitely think that there is a place for this camera,
and I think it's definitely revolutionary
when it comes to pocket gimbals.
Like this is something so new,
and DGI has really hit it on the nose with a market
that hasn't been tapped yet.
However, this is version one,
and version one of any product is gonna have some flaws.
So guys, I made another video
all about the flaws that I found in this camera.
The things that really bug me about this camera.
And I'll put a link to that down below in the description,
and also up here on the card.
I highly suggest checking this out
to get a little more information about this camera,
and just kind of see if this camera is a good fit for you.
Also, I highly suggest you head over
to Armando's channel as well as Kinotikas,
because they also have more reviews on the Osmo Pocket.
And so I highly suggest just doing your research,
checking out all of our videos,
to see if this camera is the right fit for you.
And also make sure you head down in the description,
we are giving a DGI Osmo Pocket away for the holidays.
So go down there and make sure that you enter,
so you have a chance to win one of these cameras.
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