hello everyone today i have a pretty
exciting video at least one that i think
is exciting
because it's a question that i asked
myself a lot which is whether you should
be getting the dji pocket 2
or a phone gimbal like design smooth 23
to get some better videos
using mobile devices let's rule the
intro
for those of you who are new to this
channel i'm like ben mahalford a young
photographer and filmmaker on a journey
to become better at this side
both of these devices offer a pretty
similar value proposition
but they do it in a different way i'm
going to be using my google pixel 4a
and my friend's iphone for this review
but i'm going to try to keep it as
general as possible
so it can also apply to your phone
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let's start by talking about image
quality because this definitely one of
the biggest difference between these two
options
the dji packet 2 has overall really
great image quality
it can capture anything between 1080p 24
frames per second
and 4k 60 frames per second it has
pretty good autofocus
and the image quality i would say is
usually slightly better than what most
smartphones offer
on the other hand when you're using a
smartphone to capture some video it
really depends on the device you have
if you have an iphone a samsung device
or a huawei device you're probably going
to get pretty good image quality that
almost rivals what the jack pocket 2 can
get
but if you're like me and you have a
google pixel 4a the image quality just
isn't as good
in the video mode i'm not sure why but
google over sharpens
so much the image inside of the video
modes that makes it almost impossible to
look at
on a bigger device because it's really
just to see it on your phone
and not really made to look at it on a
tv or something like that the advantage
of using a phone is that you can
actually install other apps to get some
better image quality
so i tried using protig and filmic pro
but they both have the same disadvantage
the first one is that you cannot film at
4k because it starts dropping frames
because it's just too much to ask for my
phone
to be filming 4k and also using a
separate camera app
to do it the second problem is that you
don't get the really good image
stabilization that you get from the
default app
so that's definitely another problem
when using these apps because you end up
with more shaky footage because you
don't get any digital stabilization
at all so if you want a really reliable
device you can count down to get good
image quality the dji pocket 2 is
definitely a better choice
but if you have a good phone that
already takes really good video quality
it's definitely not a problem to be
using a gimbal you can still get really
good results
using it they both have the same pretty
neat feature which is that they can use
accessories on top of them
in this case i'm talking about nd
filters because this is very useful
if you want to be getting some more
synthetic results i'm not going to talk
about water and filters inside of this
video
but definitely stay tuned for my video
next week where i'm going to review the
sandmark filters
for my phone next week now let's talk
about stabilization because this is the
main selling point
for both of these devices zhiyun smooth
q3 has
slightly better civilization because
it's a bigger device so bigger device
means more weight
and more possibilities to stabilize the
shot when you're holding it
they both have the processing problem
which is when you're walking around
you still get this wobble going up and
down because they're so small
inside of your hand you cannot remove
that completely i would say one
advantage is that if you're using your
phone
and using usually the default apps on
your phone there's pretty good
digital stabilization so you can use
that to enhance the stabilization you
already have with the gimbal and get
even better results
on the google pixel 4 you can even use
the cinematic pan option
to get super smooth shots this is also
one of the down points because it really
depends on your phone so if you have an
iphone
a high in samsung or most high end
phones you're going to get really good
stabilization
but if you don't have that inside of
your phone only using the gimbal
can give very rare valuing this results
they're not always the best
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one thing that lots of people don't
understand when starting to take some
videos
is how important audio is you can get
away with pretty
bad video quality but you cannot get
away with bad audio quality
and this is a huge advantage for the dji
pocket 2 because it's wireless
microphone in the creator combo kit
allows you to get clean and crisp audio
even meters away
and even if you have some pretty
terrible noise from the
waterfalls in the background here by
using a little lavalier microphone like
this
if i take my phone we're just gonna see
that the audio quality isn't as good
at all because you get all the audio
from the background inside of your main
video so this is a fun one
because you cannot control this and you
cannot connect a microphone directly to
it
because it's going to mess up with the
balance on the gimbal so this is a huge
advantage when you're using the dji
pocket 2
is that you get pretty good audio
quality without any of the downsides
when using the
wireless microphone it is built inside
of it one thing that's really great with
both devices
is how easy they are to use so with only
one click you can start and stop
recording on both devices
with one click you can actually change
the gimbal modes
and finally using the joystick you can
easily reframe your shot without having
to think about it too much
they both also have pretty similar
options when it comes time for gimbal
modes but designs move q3 has more or f6
or gti pocket 2 only has three and
that's because it's a 5 axis gimbal so
has a little bit more possibilities
but in the end having more gimbal modes
doesn't mean that you're going to get
more diverse shots it's just going to
have to move your hand a little bit more
when using the jet pocket too but you
can in the end get exactly the same
shots
with both devices so here it's both a
win
for both devices
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front facing screen pretty good audio
that's built in
that's what i'm using right now to
record this it's actually a really good
option for vlogging because it was
designed
task specifically i think that overall
it does a pretty good job
the only problem i have sometimes is
like in situations like this my face
might be blurry because the autofocus
sometimes has a little time
hard time getting my face in focus
designing smooth q3 plus my phone also
is a decent option for vlogging you
won't get the autofocus problem because
the post fix focus lens but it also
means you're getting everything in the
background that is perfectly sharp
and you don't get this nice black ground
blur when taking videos
other little problems that the sound is
not as good from my phone just don't get
as much
microphones are all around to compensate
and get better audio
but overall the gimbal works really well
with my phone and you can get super
smooth shots
when taking a video one fix to get
better video quality would be to turn
around
the phone but you would lose scene
yourself which can be a problem
when filming these types of video
because you don't really know what
you're filming
and if you're in the frame or not so i
prefer just using different facing lens
even if it means i don't get as good
video quality
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let's talk about the mobile apps and the
features that are unlocked when using
them
with both of these gimbals the mobile
apps look almost identically the same
and have pretty much the same
functionality one problem i had is that
i updated the firmware for the
science move q3 today and it doesn't
want to connect anymore to the gimbal so
i cannot show it to you right now
dji pocket 2 has a pretty big advantage
is that you have a pro mode inside of
the app which allows you to get much
more settings
and really customize the video photos
and everything to get
exactly the look you want to have
another thing about the dji pocket 2
is that you can use it wirelessly you
can just put it down and use the app to
control it
wirelessly from somewhere else so this
is really good when you're filming
yourself
or that you need to control it to see
multiple things and don't want to be
beside the camera
all the time this is not possible when
using a gimbal because the phone needs
to be on the gimbal
to be able to capture the video now
let's talk about a few of these modes so
first of all you have
hyperlapses that are just pretty bad in
both cases because they just speed up
the video
and it's pretty shaky in the end then
you have time lapses and they're not the
greatest results when you use the
default settings on both of them
but on the phone you can use another app
to capture some pictures and create your
own timelapse afterwards
you can also get some rough pictures
when using the dji pocket too
so both of them allow to get pretty good
results when you want to
put a little bit more work inside of it
to be able to customize everything
then the last mode is slow motion and
it's not the greatest slow motion
because it caps at 1080p in both cases
but it's pretty neat to have it in both
of them we need to quickly capture
something
but again this could really depend on
your phone and not the gimbal for the
slow motion
both device can take photos but i'm not
sure why you would buy a gimbal to take
some photos
dji pocket 2 can take some pretty good
pictures especially if you take them in
raw and it's doing afterwards
but here a phone is just going to blow
out the results from the high pocket 2
because the phone especially my google
pixel 4 with computational photography
can get way better results in the end so
if you're buying a gimbal for photos
i'm not sure why you would do it but
just stick with your phone because
you're probably going to get
better results by only doing that
i want to try this video by letting you
know which one is the right for you
if you already have a phone that takes
pretty good video in this case
just go and buy a phone gimbal it's
going to do pretty much everything you
need and you're gonna have very smooth
results
they're gonna help you get more
cinematic results in the end you could
add an nd filter like this one
and you can get a really great setup for
not too much money
this gimbal is only 89 so it's
definitely worth it
if you want to step up your video game
without having to spend too much money
if you want to get more control on your
shots or you want to have more advanced
features
then in this case the dji pocket 2 is a
great option
the other really great thing with this
gimbal is actually that's super small so
you can go in your pocket
like the name says which makes it really
easy to bring around with you
so which one would you choose let me
know in the comments below
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if you want to learn more about
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