The Pocket has a built-in battery (good for up to around 2 hours filming) but you can connect an external power pack.Ī range of accessories are available. You can also shoot in a flat D-Cinelike mode for easier colour correction. Continuous video autofocus is unreliable: it works better in AF-S mode where you choose a single focus point. It’s really sharp, though I don’t think dynamic range and colour are as good as the most recent iPhones, and it struggles in contrasty lighting. The camera has a roughly 28mm equivalent focal length, which is wide but not extreme.
It can record 4K in 60fps slow motion, or cropped Full HD at 120fps. The Pocket’s built-in camera has a 1/2.3″ sensor – that’s slightly bigger than the sensors in the newest iPhones. If you want to be discreet, but still use the pro settings, the Mimo will retain them when you disconnect your phone.
The Pocket is designed to be very easy to use, but the Mimo app also has a Pro mode which gives you manual control over exposure (shutter speed, ISO and white balance). You can also switch to FPV (first person view) mode, which follows tilts and leans to show dynamic movement. In selfie mode, FaceTrack will be really useful for vloggers. It has a very small built-in colour touchscreen, but it’s best connected to your phone. The phone app – Mimo – includes ActiveTrack (for tracking and following objects) and FaceTrack (for faces). It’s much more discreet and convenient than an iPhone on a gimbal stabiliser, which I find too big and cumbersome for travel and street filming. It offers lots of creative possibilities: you can use it to get smooth tracking shots, steady static shots without a tripod, or on a boom pole to get crane shots like this one. It’s small enough to take anywhere, and as they say, the best camera is the one you have with you. The Osmo Pocket is a really interesting camera with a huge amount of potential. That let me easily set up all kinds of unusual angles, and get the camera in close to the action without getting in their way. These students were working to a coursework deadline so I had to work around them. Thanks to Cosmic68 (YouTube channel) for permission to feature it. Filmed in 4K (24p, and 60p slow motion) downscaled to 1080p24, edited in Final Cut Pro X.
This short movie shows the kind of cinematic footage you can get with the original Osmo Pocket. The review and samples below are from the original Osmo Pocket. You can also get a ‘Creator Combo’ which includes a wireless microphone, a wide-angle adapter, and other accessories. Key features for video are a larger 1.7 inch sensor, a faster ultrawide (20mm equivalent) lens, better autofocus and audio, and an optional wireless microphone kit.
It costs around £299.Ī new version, the DJI Pocket 2 was launched in October 2020. It’s tiny, but you can get some great footage with it. It’s built around an electronic gimbal stabiliser like the ones in DJI’s Mavic drones. The Osmo Pocket is a stabilised camera from Chinese drone maker DJI.