Hi everybody, welcome to another episode
of Exploring Photography
right here on AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace and today I
want to tell you about this camera right here...
this is the DJI Osmo pocket.
It is a gimbal stabilized video camera/
still camera, and it is a camera that I
think might just be a GoPro killer, and
is definitely one of the my favorite
cameras that I have ever used in my life.
I have been using this pretty much
non-stop since I got it just around Newyears...
so about 4 months I have been
using this camera, and I've been
traveling quite a bit, so I've taken this
camera to Istanbul and to Madrid, and to
Paris and to the western United States.
I took a road trip with my brother from
California to Kansas, we use this camera
to sort of document that fun journey.
... my brother and I.
Right here, this is my brother,
and I'm just trying to capture
some footage on the road.
Something that you might do,
like on a vacation something like that...
My 50th birthday came and went, and we used
this to just sort of document the night
and the festivities... actually it was sort of
a week-long celebration, and so we used
this camera.
I would just pass it around
to my brother and my sister and friends,
and we just sort of had a blast with it,
and that's the point with this camera,
it is truly a pocket camera, and so you'll
use it all the time.
If you're wondering if you should buy this
camera or not...
you don't have to watch the whole video
you can just say 'yes'... go get it.
it's 350 bucks...
if you're looking for something to
document...
everyday life, this is the camera,
but I have shot tons of footage,
and so this is going to be sort of a
weird review.
Instead of going into all of the
specifications about this camera...
because there are some billion videos
that have already done that.
I'm just going to show you footage that
I've used, and how this actually works in real life.
Now one of the things that I love most
about it - is the case.
That sounds weird!
But this case...
it's actually a hard case
and this thing is so tiny
you can actually just throw it in your pocket.
it is actually the most appropriately
named-- camera that I
think I've ever heard, because I have
this in my pocket almost all the time.
Especially if you have a jacket
or something, it just slips right in there.
So this is an iPhone X, the small
one, and this is the Osmo pocket.
You can see that it is tiny,
it is really, really small.
And also if you want to compare that to
the normal Osmo mobile...
so this is the
Osmo mobile 2...
you can see that this is
smaller than the handle of this guy!
Right here now I've done a ton of videos
about the DJI Osmo Pocket.
I mean Osmo mobile about hyperlapse
and time-lapse photos,
and low-light stuff and all the
different features of this amazing device.
Well the Osmo Pocket does everything
this does, and even more,
and so let me
just walk you through some of the things
I love about this camera to explain why
I think you should buy it.
If you want to document everyday life.
If you want to document maybe your
senior year of high school,
or your college years, or you're a
vlogger or maybe you're going to a
friend's wedding.
If you're taking a family vacation,
or going out camping any
kind of thing that you need a small
camera to document what's going on...
this will do it, and the cool thing about this
is you might be asking well why don't I
just use my phone instead of this guy
right here?
Well the difference is....
one...
everybody knows that you're taking
pictures with your phone you can't be
quite as sneaky,
and secondly look at
this... this is stabilized, and so your
footage is going to be silky smooth, and
it can be sneaky.
So you can hold it like
this.. hold it down, low to the side and
with 'active track'...
this automatically
recognizes faces, it will track faces,
you can turn that on and off, and so it's
going to be a lot better footage than
you can get with just your phone alone.
And if you want you can connect these
two, and you get the benefit of this on
your phone as well, so you can upload
videos straight to Instagram or Facebook
or whatever you want to do.
This is a phenomenal deal,
and again did I mention
it's only 350 bucks.
All right, so let's talk about some of the things
that I love about this...
The first thing is you can shoot 4k 60
frames per second!
Now that's great for action footage and
doing.. capturing things that move, but
also you can slow that footage
to get some really cool effects.
In fact let me show you a quick video that I
made in Istanbul.
I edited that footage in Adobe Premiere
Pro, but you can edit the footage from
this camera straight from your Android
or iPhone, and so the software that comes
with the pocket actually has these
things called 'stories'.
Now the thing that are cool about stories,
that is that it'll automatically take video clips
that you select from your Osmo Pocket,
and it will assemble those, add music, add
some graphics, and then output those as
60 second or 10 second or 30 second
videos, and those are fantastic for
Instagram or Instagram Stories, or just
sending videos to friends and family to
say ..hey.. here's what our vacation looks like.
In fact I did that a little bit on
my... at my birthday party, because my
brother and my sister were in Paris
celebrating with me, but my other two
sisters were not, and so we were sending
some videos to them, and so here's one of
those little stories that I created
straight from the Osmo Pocket, and my iPhone.
One of the things that I love about this
little camera, is that it uses face
tracking, and you don't have to do anything.
It just automatically turns on...
so if you're a vlogger or you're just
recording videos for friends and family,
you can make this record you in 'selfie mode'.
So to do that, there's this little
button right here, and you just click
that three times, one, two, three, and then
that will turn around and automatically
lock on a person's face.
So if you're walking, it's going to lock
and you can see as I move around,
it's moving with me.
Let's talk about audio, the bottom line
is the audio out of the Osmo pocket is
better than the built-in audio on the
GoPro Hero 5 and hero 6.
Now you don't have to take my word for it,
let me just show you some clips, where I
recorded audio straight from the Osmo
pocket.
Well the question that a lot of people
have asked me, is how good is this at the
'selfie mode'.
How good is the audio?
And I gotta say that for a tiny camera
that's handheld... it's spectacular!
All I'm doing now is, I have it in fully
auto in face tracking mode.
I'm holding it at arm's length,
and I just push one button that's it,
and so I would say this is probably the
easiest camera to use for vlogging.
So if you're looking for something like that
this is for you.
Very, very good one.
Hey everybody...
I'm hanging out here with Rezza, Reza,
Rezza? Rezza.
Hi, from Afghanistan, we met when he
invited me to go to coffee.
How cool is that?
If you're using this to record family
events, or vacations, or weddings
whatever, you need good performance in low-light,
and that's one of the things that the
Osmo pocket promises,
great low-light performance...
in my experience the
low-light performance is good it's not
spectacular, but it's good, and once again
instead of talking about it let me just
show you some clips that
I shot in very low light.
So we're here in Madrid with Mark Wallace...
checking out the Osmo mobile pocket ...Osmo Pocket
So is this the perfect camera?
Well I'm not sure if it's
the perfect camera...
but I think it's the perfect tiny camera,
it is great to just turn it off,
throw it in your pocket in
this little case, and then it's there for
you whenever you need.
It... it's perfect
for family events.
It's perfect for life events,
things that you're going through,
like college, or your senior year of high
school, or your senior trip or your
family vacation, or your wedding or
whatever it is that you want to document,
but you don't want to be burdened with a
large camera or something that you have
to lug around.
This little guy is the thing for you.
I love the Osmo pocket.
Well thank you so much for watching this
review I know it
was a little bit different than most
reviews, but I think it gives you a good
idea exactly of what this camera can do,
and if you're like me you're gonna buy
one because they're just awesome!
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