Hi everybody, welcome to another episode of
Exploring Photography right here on AdoramaTV.
I'm Mark Wallace out in the
middle of the blazing hot desert.
I've been playing around here in Desert
Wells recreation area riding my motorcycle
off-road, and shooting a lot of that with
my Osmo Pocket.
There's also other motorcycle riders
zipping around...
we've done some slo-mo and stuff...
Unfortunately I can't show you that
footage, they did not give me permission,
but I can show you some of the stuff
that we shot with this,
with my motorcycle.
Let me talk to you about some
things that I've discovered with the
Osmo pocket.
I've already done a video
all about it, but I left out some of the
add-ons that you can buy,
and so now I've had a chance to play with
those so I'm gonna break it down into
three sections...
let's talk about mounting hardware, audio
hardware and then remote control devices.
So let's start with our mounting options
the first option you have is from DJI
itself and that is this GoPro mount, now
the thing I don't like about some of
these is, you have to take off the the
phone adapter, which means it's gonna get
lost, so I hope that they fix that in a
firmware update later on, but a lot of
this stuff doesn't work if you have that
in, so make sure you take that out and
then the adapter from DJI, it just plops
on here, and then you click it on and
then it can mount to any GoPro mounting
device. So your normal GoPro adapter
works just fine, so you can stick that on
there, you can mount it to like... this is
a chest mount, for a harness, or a
backpack, a strap you can stick that on
there, you can mount it to different
places on your motorcycle or bicycle, or
whatever.
The one thing I don't like
about this is, that it's a little bit
wonky with its positioning, and so I
found that sometimes I can't get my
Osmo pocket exactly where I want it, so
I found a better option, I think the
better option are these cages basically
that are made by polar Pro,
there's two versions,
I have the version that just
allows you to slide the Osmo pocket in
there, and then it gives you two mounting points.
Now they're both quarter-twenty
mounting points, so you can use a magic
arm, a rock-solid mount, to just attach it
either to the top, or the bottom, and then
you can put this pretty much anywhere
you want, as long as you have a quarter
20 adapter, and it still gives you access
to the bottom of the Osmo.
So if you want to add power, or use the
wireless, use the audio adapter, you get to the
USBC port with no problem at all.
The other version of this that I don't have,
allows you to, it's exactly the same
thing but it allows you to put the
wireless module on the bottom, which is
really important, because that wireless
module is not very secure, and I have
picked up a tripod and had my Osmo fly
off a couple of times, and so if you're
doing a lot of wireless control and you
want a sturdy mount, then make sure you
get the cage from Polar Pro, that allows
you to mount the wireless module.
As the noisy motorcycles move behind us
let's talk about audio, the audio adapter for
the Osmo is awesome.
It is tiny, and it just plugs into the bottom
and it can be used with most
microphones that you already have, now
one of my grumps with
GoPros is this gigantic audio adapter
that you have to use with that, and so
it's really unwieldy, and who likes that
you can use this guy, and it is perfect,
now one of the things that is good to
know is, it works with like the little
guys like this. This is a Rode external
audio mic, it plugs right in, and then it
just works, or you can use it with a
wired lav, like this guy, or your
smartlav+ that I have here.
That works just fine, one of the things you
have to be aware of though is,
if you have a lavalier or microphone that
has the TRRS...
Tip ring ring sleeve, that is not
compatible with the audio adapter so
what you need to do is get some kind of
adapter that will take that from TRRS to
TRS.... tip ring sleeve, something like this...
It's only got a tip, a ring and a sleeve....
So I just use my Y adapter that I used
for my headphones, and I plug that in,
and all my microphones work just fine.
So you don't even have to have a fancy
adapter to make these microphones work,
and so now you can use wireless mics,
wired lav mics, external mics. it all works.
So let me show you exactly how all these
sound.
Now I'm using face tracking and a
normal GoPro mount from DJI,
and I havean external microphone,
I'm using the Rode videomic, and it's
working just fine.
So this is me pretty darn close, and then
I'm gonna back way up here, so you can see that even at
this distance, I really need to have a
wireless lavalier mic, or a wired lav.
Let me show you that night now.
I've attached my wireless lavalier mic, and
now you can hear that I can go as far
away as I want, and maybe the tracking is
not going to track me, but I could set
that where the face tracking is off, but
the point is, no matter where I go the
audio is consistent, and so I could set
this up in a really remote location, and
it'll be just fine, but it doesn't work
with a wireless module.
I don't know why,
that would be so nice, but it still is
better than the built-in audio, one of my
favorite things is the wireless module,
now to make this work, you just connect
it... you just stick it on the bottom of
the Osmo.
You have to take off the smartphone
adapter and now you can
wirelessly connect and control your Osmo
from your smartphone, so let me just show
you how it works for this demonstration.
I ditched the desert heat, and set up the
Osmo pocket at a small Harbor in
Oakland, California.
Once you've placed the Osmo
on the wireless module,
simply turn it on and then open the DJI
memo app on your smartphone.
The app will search for your
Osmo, and once it finds it you'll see a
prompt asking you to connect.
Once everything is connected, you'll be able
to control your Osmo remotely, you can
use your phone to control the gimbal to
frame that perfect shot,
you can also access the options for
changing video and photo settings.
Once things are set up, you simply hit
record for effortless shooting.
The video you shoot will be stored on the
micro SD card in the Osmo.
Almost all of the photo time-lapse,
and video modes are available
when using the wireless module, however
you can't use story mode, or easy save..
you can view and playback clips in your
library by hitting the play icon on your
screen, and things work the same as if
the Osmo and camera are connected directly.
You can also use your phone to
select objects to track and shoot in
selfie mode.
There are two things I really don't like
about the wireless module...
Number one is... it's not compatible with
the audio adapter.
So if you want to plug in the
audio adapter and record yourself
wirelessly control yourself from the
smart phone, and then have like a
wireless lab, you can't do it...
you have to use the built-in mic, so that means
that if you have the wireless module
you're basically restricting yourself to
being either close-up, which means you
don't need to remote control it.
Or you're doing things...
more advanced moves and controls,
for things like time-lapse
and motion lapse, and things like that,
and so I hope they fixed that in the future.
The other thing I think is a huge
oversight from DJI is, there's no way to
mount this on a tripod.
It's basically just got a flat bottom that
you put it on a table or something,
and then you can
use it in that way, but there is an
option from Polar Pro and that is this
little slide on adapter, and so what this
allows you to do this just slips on and
now you have the ability not only can
you access the USB C, port so if you want
to do external power, but you have a
quarter twenty thread on the bottom, and
an ARCA compatible plate, so you can
mount this on a tripod, and that is a
great example.
The problem with that is it's not secure,
so if you have this on a
tripod, you picked the tripod up phewwww...
this can fly off, so that's why I
mentioned before there is a bracket that
allows you to enclose both the Osmo
Pocket, and the wireless adapter from Polar Pro.
So get that one if you're going to be using
these together a lot.
Well I think you'll agree, just by adding
a couple of different accessories,
you can really increase the capability of
your Osmo Pocket, which is surprising
because right out of the box... it's a
pretty amazing little camera.
Don't forget that the in the description of
this video are links of every single
thing I have talked about, so if you
don't know exactly what that little cage
is, or the extras as I mentioned, just look
at the description of this video, and you
can click on those and go directly to
the products.
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