DJI Osmo Pocket 3 😲 Review 4 Months LATER

I've been using the Pocket 3 for a little over 3 months as one of my main cameras, to create all kinds of videos, and there are several questions in the air: * Is it better than using a phone that I always carry in my pocket? * Do you think that initial hype is still maintained almost 4 months later? Well, today I'm going to tell you my opinion after so many days, about what I like the most but also about things that could be improved and that I'm going to tell you little by little, throughout t

he video and at the end I'm going to give you a lot of cane. SIZE and PORTABILITY One of its main points is undoubtedly its size and weight, with only 179 grams, so you will not notice that weight in your pocket, or in your backpack or in your arms when you have been recording a lot. time. The included case also seems like a good solution to me. Compact, Semi-covered, rigid, it fits perfectly and allows you to protect your camera, although perhaps I would like something more closed and above all

that prevents dust from getting on the lens and the gimbal. It is very practical to carry along with the microphone, the wide-angle lens and if you have a filter like these from FREEWELL, which I am going to tell you all about very soon on the channel. Very very comfortable. EASE OF USE Another of its strong points, which I love, is the ease of use. If you're on the street and you see something you want to record, you simply take out the camera, rotate the screen, the gimbal adjusts, the camera

turns on and starts recording. I can assure you that it is faster than some current cameras like the GOPRO 12. Much easier than taking out your phone, mounting it on a gimbal, calibrating it, turning on the gimbal, activating the camera and starting to record. TO-DO plus SEN-CI-LLO.b SCREEN Although the brightness is 700 nits, in some situations it may not be enough, especially in summer, but what I do like is the good response of the screen and the menus. Despite some problems in its rotation

system, which I tell you about in the video of the PROBLEMS of the POCKET 3 and How to solve them that I leave you here above... the truth is that the menus move very fluidly, they respond well to touch and Above all, changing something as simple as the resolution or the fps is very close at hand, not hidden in menus and submenus and subsubmenus, right? Does it sound familiar to you? VLOG And of course, the camera rotation is perhaps the key point when it comes to a smartphone. With 3 presses on

the joystick, the camera rotates 180º so you will be able to record yourself and see yourself on the screen with the 1” sensor. As you know with a smartphone, the best camera is on the back and you cannot see yourself and record at the same time with that camera, so you do not get the best quality. So I think the POCKET 3 achieves a great advantage here… GIMBAL….as with the integrated gimbal, which offers us 3-axis stabilization. If you have seen my video of Pocket 3 Cinematic walking through t

he streets of Madrid that I leave you above, you will know that you can get very very good results, professional shots. To achieve something like this with your phone, you have to mount it on a gimbal like the insta360 flow that I told you all about on the channel, thus being able to avoid the image cropping that the electronic stabilizers of smartphones and digital cameras need to do. This means more gadgets that you need to transport and, above all, heavier and bulkier, so the POCKET 3 once ag

ain takes advantage. By the way, if the video is useful to you, please leave me a like and if you are interested in sports cameras, GoPro, 360º cameras, and you want to see tutorials, news and tricks, I recommend that you subscribe to the channel and give it a to the bell so you don't miss any video. CAMERA And of course, if you haven't realized yet, the quality of this 1” inch sensor is truly crazy. From the first moment I tried it, it surprised me a lot, both during the day, but at night it is

crazy at 4K, as you may have seen in the NIGHT comparisons that I published on the channel and I leave you up here. The results at night compared to any type of action camera such as GOPRO 12 or even the DJI ACTION 4 are much superior, the traditional problems of digital stabilization at night with these cameras are avoided, something that is avoided thanks to the gimbal integrated 3-axis, although the Insta360 ACE PRO achieves very good results, don't you think? Perhaps in the video section I

have to put a rather negative point on the vertical video, where “natively” we can only record in 3K, being a crop of the horizontal video, and that may be enough for rss but today, I It seems like a failure to not get the camera to rotate with the gimbal. And also the automatic exposure of the camera is not the one that achieves the best results, since it always tends to overexpose the captures, especially the clouds and the sky on difficult days with the light, which you can fix by reducing th

e exposure between - 0.3 or -0.7. And in the detail section, the default images are very defined, they are very marked, you already know that in moving images the objects become somewhat blurry and in the Pocket 3 it does not happen, so I recommend you lower the SETTINGS PRO, sharpness at -1 or -2. LENS And since I'm talking about video, the camera has a 20mm equivalent lens with an aperture of f2.0, which achieves quite good results for vlogging, blurring the background very well and achieving

very good detail on the face. [Footage] Now, if you come from action cameras the field of view may seem somewhat short or closed, so you can attach the wide angle lens, but the difference does not seem so necessary to me and simply by attaching it to a small selfie stick , may be enough, the truth is that I never USE it. PHOTOGRAPHY I'm not much of a fan of using this type of device for photography, and perhaps here we see a section where the Pocket 3 falls short. We will only have photographs o

f approx. 9.4MP, which today seems to be very small, wasting the quality of that 1” sensor, so I do not highly recommend enlarging the images or printing them in a large format, although they will have enough quality to post in rss. ACTIVE TRACKING Getting into the smarter features, we have ACTIVE TRACKING. Perhaps the most powerful function thanks to the integrated gimbal of this device. A great function for content creators, with which the camera will automatically follow you without losing yo

u while recording video, something that until now could only be done with some gimbals + smart smartphone apps and this device greatly reduces work and It is very comfortable. TRIPOD But for this you need a good anchor, a good base. And the POCKET 3 does not have that, or it does, but it comes in the form of an extra accessory that must be placed at the bottom, to have a ¼” anchor. It seems to me to be one of the biggest flaws that this Pocket 3 has, although it is true that once assembled, it i

s more comfortable for me to pick up and use the Pocket 3, my hands do not cover the microphones, although we lose some of that ultra-compact size. What I do like about this accessory is that it moves the USB port to the back, which seems more practical to me and by the way, if you are looking for accessories for your POCKET 3, I recommend that you join my TELEGRAM channel where I publish discounts and offers every week. MICROPHONES And since I mention the microphones, we have 3 internal microph

ones, which are normally associated with poor quality, more metallic sound, but as we can hear... Pretty good, right? But of course, this is as long as you don't stray away from the Pocket 3. For that case, you need to grab the DJI MIC 2. Either with the creator combo, which I recommend 100% (I know, it's not cheap, but it's very top) or by buying it separately (again , it is not cheap) with which you will be able to greatly improve the audio quality, in addition to having a remote control for y

our POCKET 3 automatically, as I explained to you in the video of the Best DJI POCKET 3 TRICKS that I leave you here above. BATTERY Yes, another hot topic. And the first reviews cannot summarize the level of evidence after several months and here I have to say, again, it surprised me. I have never reached that 166 minutes of autonomy, but I have been able to record an entire day without problems. And furthermore, I have done a test by recording at 4K 30fps until the battery runs out and as you c

an see here it has reached no less than 127 minutes, a real blast, with the screen always on. If you need more, again, in the creator combo you get an external battery, very similar to the previous module, which increases the battery by approximately 60%. The best thing, you can attach/detach it without having to stop recording nor will it stop. One of the points that I didn't know when I did my initial review (I'll leave it up here) and that I have learned afterwards: perfect for timelapses or

long days. The bad thing, it seems to me that it lengthens the Pocket 3 a lot and is not as compact. And of course, if you don't have that module, you have no other way to change the batteries, since it is integrated and you will have to wait for it to charge again to continue using it. You have fast charging, yes, but you need a specific charger... so many lights but without a doubt, shadows also in this section. ROBUSTNESS Yes, a lot has been said and I have seen many controversies among users

in my videos in reference to the resistance and robustness of this camera. And the solution is CLEAR: you cannot treat this camera as if it were a sports camera, GOPRO or DJI ACTION 4 style. It is NOT intended or designed for that, remember. We have on the one hand a mechanical gimbal, which can break in case of a fall, as well as a fairly large touch screen, and you also do not have a replaceable lens in case of scratches or falls. Be careful with water, dust and sand, it doesn't like them ver

y much either and strong wind, for example riding a motorcycle at high speed, I don't think it would be good for it either. IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED * The first is exposure lock. Something that can be done from the DJI Mimo app, but cannot be done from the device and its screen at the moment. I think that with a firmware update it would be possible and very useful for many users. * And in that update, it wouldn't be bad to have the option to create keypoints to record normal video and have the gimbal

rotate. Currently you can do it for timelapses, but in video it would be great, to record yourself in a more natural way. * We do not have built-in internal storage, unlike other DJI devices. Something that we already saw in the DJI ACTION 2, with 16GB of storage and in DJI drones, which would be great for us in case we forget our memory cards. * As we said before, water is not your friend, whether it is light rain, heavy rain or just splashes, do not use it. As soon as it starts to rain, store

it inside your coat, its carrying case or your backpack, since it does not have any type of water resistance. If we go back to the question we asked at the beginning: is the pocket 3 better than your smartphone? A resounding OF COURSE. The image quality is brutal, the mechanical stabilization is far superior to what any smartphone offers, especially at night, where everyone tends to suffer much more, due to the smaller sensors they mount, but above all due to the lack of mechanical stabilizatio

n. , instead of digital. The screen is large enough and with good response and also being able to rotate that camera with a 1” sensor to record Blog with the best quality, as well as using tracking functions, which a smartphone does not have by itself, are key for me . And the second was, has this camera lived up to the hype? Another of course yes. I recommend this camera 100%, and together with the ACE PRO they have been the cameras that have surprised me the most in 2023 and I think it will co

ntinue to give a lot of talk in 2024, especially if the price drops a little. If you're looking for a camera to vlogging, record yourself, or even start a YouTube channel, the POCKET 3 is perfect. If you are thinking about sharing it or you already have one, here is the most complete Guide to the Pocket 3 and also some hidden tricks that you should not miss to get the most out of it. See you!