- This is the DJI Osmo Mobile 6.
And in this video, I'm gonna show you everything
that's new about this gimbal
and also just why you would want to use a gimbal
like this for your smartphone.
All right, let's get into it.
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So all of that footage was shot using this setup,
and you could see how smooth the footage is
when you're using this little gimbal.
Now I know that smartphones have gotten super advanced
with the stabilization that's built into the phone itself.
However, when you're using a gimbal,
you can get even smoother footage.
And one of the big things that a gimbal does
is it keeps your horizon completely level
no matter how you're shooting.
So what that means is,
when you're looking out in the distance,
your horizon is always gonna be a flat line.
It'll never dip one way or another.
And so this is a level of stabilization
that you can't achieve by just hand-holding a phone.
You can get close, however,
the gimbal does add a second layer of stabilization
that really makes your footage look that much better.
So let me just show you some samples side by side.
This is handheld with my iPhone 13,
alongside the DJI Osmo Mobile 6,
And I just wanna show you the difference
between hand-holding and actually using a gimbal
and what it looks like.
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Now, one huge advantage that a gimbal has
is when you push into your longer lenses
you can still have super stable footage.
It's a lot harder to get these smooth shots
on the long lens when you're hand-holding the camera.
And another big thing is,
it's just easier to use this gimbal.
Right now I'm operating it
with just one hand and I can always get stable shots.
A lot of times what I'll do is I'll put both hands
on my smartphone to be able to get those stable shots.
But using a gimbal allows you to just use one arm operation,
and you know that you're always gonna get
super stable footage.
Now let me show you real quick
how easy it is to use this gimbal.
So it's just in my pocket and it's turned off.
Now I just open it up, it turns on the gimbal
and then I use the little magnet that comes
with this gimbal that goes on my phone.
You just attach it, line up the dots, and then
the gimbal automatically resets and gets ready to go.
And you can even have it set up
to where the Mimo app automatically activates as soon
as you turn on the gimbal and it's connected.
So you don't have to worry about like pressing
and holding a button to turn on or off this gimbal.
And also the magnet makes it super easy
to be able to pop it on and off.
And as soon as you take this off,
the gimbal's not gonna freak out or anything like that.
You just close it down and the gimbal turns off,
put it in your pocket and then that's it.
So you don't have to worry
about turning the gimbal on or off,
you just open or close it
and it automatically does everything for you.
Now one of the huge advantages
with using the DJ I Osmo Mobile 6
is you have a selfie stick built in.
So if you are someone who does vlog-style content, well
you could extend this out away from yourself
and now you're gonna get a much better shot
with that front facing camera
than you would if you were just hand-holding the camera.
All right, so let's start doing a vlog-style shot.
And you could see I just put it on the extension pole
and now I'm walking around and able to get this good shot
of myself no matter where I'm at.
It actually looks much more natural when I'm shooting
like this because my hand can be lower
and you're getting just an upper shot
of me doing the style of a shot.
So when it comes to working
with your smartphone to create your videos,
the gimbal is just gonna give you a lot more
creative control over your image
and all you did just do a lot different styles
of shots and the extra bit
of stabilization that you get from the horizon
always being balanced is gonna just
make your shots stand out.
Now, DJI has upgraded a lot
of the features on the Osmo Mobile 6
and let's go sit down and go over everything that's new
with this gimbal and how it works.
So the big thing when it comes
to this style of gimbal is simplicity.
It's easy to use, but everything you need is right here
on the gimbal or within the app.
So I'm just showing you a screen record here
so you can see what's going on in the app,
and then I'm gonna talk about
all the different buttons that you have access to
when you're working with the DJI Osmo Mobile 6.
On the bottom you have this tripod that you can remove.
So you don't have to use this if you don't want to
but what this allows you to do is set it down
on like a table or the ground or wherever you're at.
Easily, you could just set it up
at any point and then you could do something
like a time lapse or you could do a shot
like you're walking in the distance or whatever.
This is just an easy way to set this camera down
and then you have a good shot wherever you're at.
And with the extension pole, well
you can have a taller shot so
that the camera is not always on the ground.
A lot of times if you're trying to make videos
and you're just using your phone,
you have like a little tripod,
or you just like set it on a rock or something,
well, you're always gonna have the shot
where it's kind of like looking up.
So this does give you a little bit more flexibility
when it comes to working with this gimbal
and giving you different types of shots.
On the gimbal itself,
you have a few buttons here on the front.
In the upper right hand corner
you have a mode button and the motors will lock depending
on which mode that you have it in.
And by default, you're in the mode
that's follow all, which basically means
that all the motors are going to be moving
nothing is locked.
So if you tilt the gimbal down,
the camera's gonna move down with you,
and if you move to the left or right
the camera's gonna move left to right with you.
The motor's gonna follow whatever your action is.
Now the next mode you could switch into is tilt lock mode.
And so this basically means
that any tilting action is gonna be locked.
So if your camera's looking out that way
and you move your hand up or down
well the camera is going to stay looking that way.
However, if you rotate left or right
the camera's gonna follow.
Now the next mode you have access
to is the same as the follow all.
However, it also rotates.
So if I spin, the camera's gonna spin with me.
It's also gonna follow down
and it's also gonna follow or left or right.
And then the last mode is spin shot.
So if I move left or right on the joystick
it's gonna spin in a circle.
So you can create those shots where it's kind of
like spinning through space left or right,
so you can be like walking forward
and have the camera spinning.
It's an interesting shot and you might have some use for it.
Most of the time I just shoot with tilt lock or follow all
because I'm just trying to keep the horizon level
and I want that super stable looking footage.
Now it's super easy to switch between all these modes.
You just press the mode button
and it cycles through all four modes.
Now also on the front of this gimbal
you have your record button.
So this is gonna take a photo or start your recording.
It's just easy.
It's right where your thumb is
so you never actually have to touch the camera
when you wanna start or stop recording.
Now underneath that
you have a button that has these two arrows
and it does three different actions.
So if you just press it once
you could see there's my camera there
and then it's gonna flip to me.
Now it's gonna be following me
as I do this kind of vlog style shot, press it once again
it's gonna flip back over to there
to you and the camera that's over there.
Now if I double press it
it's gonna go from horizontal mode to vertical mode.
So depending on the style of content that you're shooting
you might be shooting more vertical or horizontal or both.
And this is just a quick way to flip between em.
And then if you triple click this button
it's gonna go to photo mode.
So you can take a photo, triple click it again,
and it's gonna go back to video mode.
So easily with the buttons on this gimbal
you can access a lot of the different modes and a lot
of the settings without actually touching the app at all.
Now you also have a joystick, and this joystick just
moves the camera wherever you point the joystick.
And the cool thing about this joystick
is you could set how responsive it is.
So if you want to use some moving shots
in your footage, well, you could set this to super slow
and it's gonna really creep through the shot
and give you some good looking footage.
But if you just want to use it to reframe
you could set it to faster and you could just get
to wherever you need to go with the joystick super fast.
Now, on the side of this gimbal
you have a zoom and focus wheel.
So as I spin this, you could see
that I'm slowly zooming in and I'm slowly zooming out.
Now what I could do is just click on it.
So press down on this jog wheel,
and now I've switched over to manual focus.
So I could go close focus or far focus.
So if you wanna just take control
of your focus and you don't want it to be auto,
well this is a great way to do it.
And then you can easily set your focus
to the point at which you need something to be in focus.
You could also do some cool things
like rack focus where you're close on something
and then it focuses to something in the distance.
And you could do that all manually using this dial wheel.
And the last button that you have
on this gimbal is this trigger on the back.
You could double click this, it's gonna recenter the gimbal.
However, if you press once
it's gonna set up your active track
and then it's gonna start tracking whatever's in the center.
Click it once again, it's gonna stop that tracking.
And this trigger also works the same way when
the camera's facing you.
So if I switch the mode by pressing the two arrows
it's now gonna auto track me
because that's by default what happens
but I click it once, it's gonna stop tracking me.
So you could use this trigger to start
and stop the tracking when you're in either mode.
With the buttons that you have access to
on the gimbal itself,
you really don't have to use the app that much.
However, let me show you what you get with the DJI Mimo app.
So as you can see here,
the camera's facing me on the gimbal.
On the left hand side over here
you have auto and manual settings.
So you could click this
and you could switch your different modes.
So right now, I'm in auto.
This is auto exposure, but if I wanted to go over to manual
I could set my ISO, I could set my shutter speed
or I could set my exposure value,
which is gonna change where the camera thinks
best exposure is.
I'm gonna go back to auto so that it looks better.
And then underneath that, you could change all
of your settings for your resolution, your frame rate.
And when you're in photo mode
this is where your timer's gonna be.
So you could set up a timer if you wanna do
set the camera down, hit the button
and then walk away from it and get a shot.
Let's go back to video.
Now underneath that over here
you have this button that's supposed to
make your face look better.
It's like a beauty filter.
So let's turn that on and make myself look pretty.
So we have auto, so it's gonna smoothen out my skin.
And I guess it's also gonna slim your face a little bit.
So let's really slim the face.
And let's really smoothen out my skin.
That's obviously pushing it too far
but you could use this to just do a little bit
of tweaks to your face to make it a little smoother
a little bit slimmer, a little bit better on camera
depending on the shot that you have.
I'm gonna turn that off, Maybe I should keep it on.
But down here in the corner
you have these three little dots.
This is like your menu
and this is where you could change things
like your gimbal mode.
You can calibrate your gimbal
but then also you could set things
like your joystick speed and joystick control.
I want my joystick to be slow because I want to
use my joystick to get some smooth creeping shots
of the pretty landscape that I'm at.
So you have a ton of options in your menu to take control
of your gimbal and dial in the settings that you need
for the style of shooting that you do.
Now on the screen itself, at the bottom
you see all of your camera settings.
I'm in auto, so they're fluctuating depending
on what's going on behind me.
You have your record button
the big red button here on the side.
You have your camera button that's gonna flip
from in front of camera to behind camera.
You see all of your battery levels up here at the top.
And then you have this little hand thing
which is a gesture control.
And so you could set this up
so to do like a gesture, and then it's gonna start shooting.
So I just put my hand up,
now it's recording using the gesture controls,
super useful because you could have this camera set
up at a distance, put my hand up,
And it's gonna start controlling.
So now I'm recording.
I don't have to be near the camera,
walking away, it's gonna track me.
Now the cool thing with this gimbal is
that you could set this up with your DJI Mic,
just put it on the phone here,
and then you could use wireless audio.
And this is how I do a lot of my videos
is I use the DJI Mic to get wireless audio
so I can walk away from camera.
Gesture Control has Follow & Shoot and Shoot Only.
So if you have Follow & Shoot turned on
what happens is when you turn it on
and you do the little motion,
it's gonna start following you
as soon as it starts recording.
But you can also have this set up to Shoot Only
so that you don't have the active track turning on.
And that's good if you just want a shot where it's just
like a wide tripod style shot
and you don't want the camera to follow you.
All right, let's go back here.
So on the side, you have your different modes.
Right now I'm in video mode.
You can go to photo mode, you can go to panoramic
you could do a time lapse, you could do a hyper lapse
you can do a dynamic zoom
which is like a push in with a pullout
and it creates that really interesting stretching effect.
And then you have your slow motion mode.
So a lot of different modes just easily accessible here
in the DJI Mimo app.
But beyond just all the different modes
that you have access to in the app
and on the Gimbal itself,
you also have this thing called shot guide
which is pretty cool.
It's in the upper left hand corner here.
So when you turn this on, you have access
to a lot of these different predetermined shot lists
which will walk you through the process
of shooting different styles of shots
that will create a good looking scene.
So if you don't know how you wanna shoot
say this park, well, you can go into the shot guide
and you could find like a lazy afternoon
or a night walk or a town tour or a street dance.
And each one of these is gonna have an entire shot list
so that you could see exactly what you need to
shoot to be able to create this sequence.
This one's called Lazy Afternoon, and it goes
through all the different shots that you need to
be able to create the sequence.
And then so when you scroll down, it shows all of the shots.
So let's do a low angle leave shot, and it's gonna show you
on the left hand side, when it goes back
to the camera screen, how to actually get the shot.
So it sets up the gimbal
in the mode that you need to achieve this shot.
Then it shows you a behind the scenes
of how the person is shooting it
and what the final shot looks like.
So let's make this shot right here.
So I'm gonna find my shot.
I'm gonna hit record
and then I'm gonna do the same action that they're doing
and they'll show you side by side
what the shot is supposed to look like
and what yours looks like.
And you could either retake
or you could use it and go to the next shot.
So if you're newer to making videos
or you just want some inspiration
these different shot guides are gonna give you a lot
of different interesting ideas when you're out filming
between the Mimo app and the gimbal,
there is a lot of different options
but at the same time, it's not very complicated.
So it's really easy to use this gimbal.
Overall, I think a gimbal is a great idea
if you are a smartphone creator.
I use Gimbals with everything that I do
because it just gives you that added layer
of stabilization that's really gonna
make your shots stand out.
Now, if you wanna see more information
about the DJI Osmo Mobile 6
I'll include a link down below in the description.
But next, you should check out this video right here
which goes through a ton of information
on how you're gonna be able to craft better videos
when you're out shooting with your gimbal.
I'll see you over there.