Ahoj! This is Zdenka. DJI OM4 is out. New short name for the DJI Osmo Mobile
line of smartphone gimbals as we know it. Since DJI
is not giving out free samples for smaller channels I decided to purchase
one myself to be able to review it on this channel because you
have sent me so many requests to review this gimbal.
I'm gonna be very honest. When they announced the DJI OM4 I was super
excited. I was very thrilled it is out and I couldn't wait
to order it. And then I watched few sort of first impression videos on
Youtube from a large channels and then this arrived and I gotta say that
my excitement was sort of smaller... was gone.... but I'm gonna explain
completely in today's video. I'm gonna go through all the details. I'm gonna review
it very thoroughly so you should be able to get
all your answers. Is it really worth upgrading from DJI Osmo Mobile 3
to DJI OM4?
And for the new faces, welcome. My name is Zdenka Darula. If you want to learn
how to take better photos and videos with the latest gear and possibly
participate in creative camera challenges, consider subscribing. DJI certainly did a
great job on packaging. The box is nicely designed and thus
catches attention for sure. What do you really get in the box?
Gimbal, tripod, magnetic phone clamp, magnetic ring holder, wrist strap,
carrying back and manuals. What has changed and what didn't? When
you look at those gimbals, DJI Osmo Mobile 3 and OM4, they
pretty much look the same. They are the same except the new one OM4
is much lighter color. The other one is darker.
Also the phone holder, the clamp is different but I'm going to talk about
that a little bit later in today's video. The dimensions of the gimbal are few
millimeters here and there smaller than the older version. Here you
can compare the size of Osmo Mobile 3 and the size of OM4.
The weight of the gimbal is pretty much the same, only a few grams difference
depending if you are using it with magnetic clamp or magnetic sticker.
Mechanical range especially when it comes to roll motor has changed slightly.
Roll movement is smaller. I'm gonna show that also in today's video.
When it comes to compatible phones, the maximum payload is 290 grams
which is good. That means that the motors are now stronger.
That's actually a great news. If you want to see
more of the phone sizes, more information is here. Also, if you want to make sure
that your phone is compatible with this
gimbal, what you can do is go to DJI website where you can download
compatibility list which will tell you exactly if you are ready to go
or not. Now, charging time is 2.5 hours and if the gimbal is
properly balanced and if you are using it correctly,
then you can get up to 15 hours of working time.
Let's talk about the magnetic phone clamp and the magnetic
sticker. It is fantastic that they created this magnetic system in the
hopes that this might speed up the process of attaching a phone to a gimbal
and for some, actually for most of the users it will be
amazing. This gimbal comes with this plastic sheet where it shows you based
on your phone size where you can glue the magnetic ring
sticker on. And this will be fantastic for someone
who charges their phone via cable. It's not going to be fantastic
for someone who charges their phone via wireless charger.
This will be also fantastic for someone who wants to film with their smartphone
and perhaps has only one lens on the smartphone.
But for me unfortunately, since I have Iphone 11 pro and I have multiple lenses
on the phone, if I attach this ring sticker
on my phone so the phone is perfectly balanced
on DJI OM4 just like this tool tells you to do so, whenever
I'm filming will the ultra wide angle lens, unfortunately
in some movements I can see part of the motor
in the shots and that's actually something I was a little bit
disappointed over because I thought that by now they would have taken care of
that problem. I was hoping that I'm not gonna be able
to see the motors in the shots anymore. So in my case,
because I want to film with all three lenses, I want to film with the ultra
wide angle lens and actually want to even
use additional filters and lenses on the phone, what I can do, I can use this
magnetic clamp because I can move it freely to the side. The magnetic clamp
doesn't have very deep grip so some of the cases will not fit.
Especially if you are using Moment cases with the extra lenses on it,
I already heard, they already said that some of the cases will not fit in this
clamp. What I also don't like is the fact that
some of the phones are already heavy enough. If you have to keep clamp
on the phone, it's going to get even bigger
and heavier. So it's going to pull your pants down if you don't have
a belt. That's something I hear from my husband complaining because he has
Samsung Galaxy S10 plus which is pretty large phone and heavy one. He
always complains that its pulling his pants down.
I tried to attach it on his phone and obviously yes it felt even heavier.
I honestly didn't like this feature already on Zhiyun Smooth Q2
which has also clamp you can leave on the phone.
After a while it was really bothering me. This is the same
thing. I simply don't like too many attachments on my phone when I'm using
the phone. It just, it just doesn't feel right in my hands.
With the Osmo Mobile 3, when you use it all the time, you know
exactly in which spot you attach the phone that is
balanced perfectly every single time. It's not going to speed up much here.
Otherwise, if you want to use extra lenses, it is exactly the same
thing like on the previous version Osmo Mobile 3.
You just need to attach counterweights. The magnet
is extremely strong. Your phone is not going to fall off.
What I'm wondering actually about is if I'm going to yank it like this
over and over again, maybe do it like 500 times 1000 times.
What will happen down the road to those motors? Now,
I might be completely off. I might be completely wrong for saying this,
that's something DJI knows, they know why they did it,
but it just makes me wonder because I like to be gentle with my equipment. I
want it to last. So what I'm doing when I'm removing the phone with this
clamp, I just pretty much hold the top part of the motor making
sure there's no pressure and then I remove this whole thing off.
Because the size of the arms changed little, they are shorter now.
Some of the large phones with big extra lenses attached won't work. They might be
touching the gimbal if you are rotating the motors,
if you move it around. If you will use heavy lens and use counterweights, you
might run into this problem for those who use extra lenses. Again,
there is one big plus though. As I said before, the motors are much stronger so
it should be much better to handle external lenses.
One thing people complained about Osmo Mobile 3 is that the motors are not
strong enough. OM4 took care of that so big points
there. Let's look at the buttons, how do you operate this gimbal?
And it's pretty much the same like Osmo Mobile 3 so let's.... let's quickly run
through this. For everything you want to do, you need
to use DJI Mimo App. You cannot switch gimbal modes if you're
going to be using native camera app or Filmic Pro you can only use the
record button with those, so nothing new here. Let's make sure that
we are in the Genie app. If you press the M button, you will get
to menu where you can change gimbal modes. Follow,
tilt lock, fpv and a spin shot. You can also switch
between shooting modes, story, panorama, photo, videos, slow motion,
dynamic zoom. That is new feature. Time lapse and hyperlapse. If you press the M
button 2x, you will switch between landscape and
portrait mode. If you press and hold until it beeps once
you will enter standby mode. If you press and hold until it beeps 2x,
you will turn it off. Joystick is the same. Move left,
right, up and down. Record button is the same.
Press one time to take photo or video. Press and hold for burst mode in photo
mode. Zoom sliders are on the side. The trigger on
the other side is also the same. Press and hold to enter lock mode. Press
one time to start active track 3.0. Press two times to
recenter the gimbal. Press three times to switch between
front and back cameras. Press one time and then press and hold
to enter sports mode and release to exit. Here is charging
port usb-c and here is usb-a where you can charge
your phone from the gimbal. At the bottom you can attach tripod and
a wrist strap. Quite the same like the Osmo Mobile 3.
How can we use the gimbal? In upright mode, under slug mode,
side grip mode and low position. So how stable this gimbal really is? So
let me go do some tests here. First I'm gonna do
just regular hard walk. Then I'm gonna do ninja walk that means
very softly in my knees and lastly I'm gonna go for full speed
run.
Let's look at the rotation of the motors. So let's first do pan move,
then let's do tilt movement,
and finally let's do roll movement.
Let's look at the app. Let's see what's new
and what didn't change. And here I gotta explain
why I felt a bit disappointed. Well, first of all when I saw
the new gimbal I saw that it's pretty much the same like the Osmo Mobile 3.
The magnetic clamp didn't really amaze me
much to be honest and so my initial thought was okay but they probably
worked on the app really hard and they really
upgraded it heavily. Maybe we are getting the 120 frames per second, um
slow motion, maybe we are getting stuff like Moza has.
More manual controls, filming with three lenses at the same time and all that.
But unfortunately the app is the same. Maybe they will upgrade it
down the road but right now it's pretty much the same. There are few
new features here and there added but otherwise I would say it's the same.
I'm gonna be showing the app with Apple Iphone 11 pro and then I will
explain what the limitations are with Android. With Apple phone you can
shoot in automatic mode and manual mode as well.
You can film in 24 frames per second, 30 frames per second and 60 frames per
second in 4k, 1080p and 720p. There is no 120 frames
per second but you can do slow motion in 240 frames
per second in 1080p. Yes you can film with multiple lenses,
adjust gimbal settings, use timer, beauty mode is here as well
which is quite detailed. What has been improved is active track
3.0. Basically it is tracking your face, head
and shoulders. So it should be much easier to track model or yourself.
Story mode allows you to select your preferred template,
record video and it will cut in together into a small
story or you can do custom story where you have much
control over the final result. Then we have hyperlapse, time lapse, dynamic
zoom which is new. What you have to do is choose
move out or move in mode. Drag box around subject and start recording. Slow
motion allows you to film in 8x slow motion.
Video, photos and a pano where you can do either 3
by 3 panorama, 240 degrees or again new feature clone me panorama.
Let's just create one.
So what is different with the Android phone ? First of all, you can
only film in 30 frames per second either in 4k, 1080p,
or 720p. You are not getting 24 frames per second.
You are not getting 60 frames per second, you are not getting slow motion. Slow
motion is not there. You cannot film in manual mode, you can
only film in automatic mode. You cannot use multiple lenses, you can
do that digitally by digitally zooming in and
out so if you want to use other app like Filmic Pro, you certainly
can or native camera app where you will be
able to do all this. Unfortunately you are not going to be able to switch
filming modes with the gimbal outside of DJI Mimo. You have to be in DJI Mimo
to switch between follow mode, tilt lock mode, sports mode and all that.
What do I think about this gimbal? Well, quite honestly the magnetic clamp,
that magnetic system is a minus for me. I'm sorry it's just not good for my
style of filming. For others you might absolutely love it.
If you have Apple phone, this is probably one of the best
gimbals on the market. You will absolutely love it. If you have
Android... it's great, it's absolutely good gimbal
but you can still can get I would say better for Android phones
because like I said, there are quite limitations in the app. When it comes to
app in general for Apple, I was hoping again to be able
to film in 120 frames per second. I was hoping for a little bit more manual
control. This gimbal is more for beginners or
just general users. So they just want to pop the phone there and go.
If you are using external lenses like I said, I already mentioned before, there
might be some problems. You might run into some
challenges. If you never ever had gimbal before, this
is gonna be your first gimbal, I'd say go for it. It's gonna be fantastic.
You're gonna enjoy it. If you already have DJI Osmo Mobile 3, is it
worth upgrading? To be honest, I gotta say no because the
difference is not so huge. I would rather use the money and
maybe buy another external lense. To see the current pricing of this
gimbal and a little bit of a discount, the link can be found below the video in
the video description. And yes, those are international links. It will show you
the price in your currency based on where you live. Hit the thumbs up if you
found this video informative and don't forget to
subscribe for more. I'm gonna take this gimbal to a real world. Let's film a city
in a little bit. So I'm gonna take it out. I'm gonna take you behind the scenes
and I'm gonna show you how to use this new gimbal. If you have any
questions, comments, simply want to say hi or Ahoj, I would love to hear from you.
You can leave it in a comment section below and I'll see you my friends
in the next video. Cau.... Ahoj...