The GOOD and BAD of DJI Pocket 3

today's video is brought to you by Squarespace it has now been 3 months with the DJI pocket 3 and a ton of people have been asking me how has it been how have those three months been today we're going to go over the good and the bad the pros and the cons of the DJI pocket 3 over the last 3 months I will say right off the bat though there's been way more Pros than cons like I I kind of love this little pocket gimbal camera number one in the pros category is just the form Factor like having a tiny camera like this has been really fun 179 G for this camera system itself we'll we'll get into some of the other components that are involved but just the camera itself has been really nice like the screen is incredible it's DJI so things are very Snappy you just kind of snap through things having it just flip up and then the head folds up that's been awesome like this little look how tiny that little thing is and it's getting some impressive footage which brings us to number two which is image quality this thing has has that 1in sensor in there and it's shooting 10 bit footage 4K 60 and then you can go into the slow motion mode and go to 4K 120 if you want ah it looks awesome I've actually been shooting this thing almost primarily in normal color space you can go into the dlog which we'll talk a little bit more about later but just in the normal color space 10bit footage it looks great coming out of this thing I turned down the sharpness that was the only thing that I was like it's a little sharp by default turn that down Auto exposure Auto white balance I've been loving this number three on the pros side is something that that I said everyone should get if you buy this and it is the creator combo like the Creator combo is super dope and it comes with the DJI mic 2 system which I reviewed in a separate video where's the oh wow there it is so the same transmitters that are in here come with the Creator combo and the little case bit has a spot that you can hold your microphone so everything folds up together and you have a really great mic SL camera system that you can always have with you and this has this has a new trick we'll talk about that in a minute as well but having this with you is really cool because again you have your camera filming but then your audio Source could be right here so you can set this thing up you could be way back from it and still get really great audio I even used it for Morgan's Grandpa's birthday party I just set this up on a chair and I went and I put this on a book right next to him and as he was sitting there telling stories to us about World War II he's a World War II vet we got this incredible footage and incredible audio because the camera was able to be way back here and the microphone was able to be right next to him that is awesome the next Pro on this thing is that it is mechanical stabilization over digital stabilization made a whole video click up there on the pocket 3 versus The zv1 Mark I which is using digital stabilization this of course using physical stabilization and when you put those two next to each other you see that digital stabilization is good until we get into low light scenarios which is is where the 1-in sensor comes really into play and like at night with this thing it still looks amazing and because it's physical stabilization it's using that gimbal system you don't get that like d d of digital stabilization very solid number five on there is it's just easy to use I've kind of been using this like a like a dad handy cam from the '90s like this is just how I film my everyday life running around in the backyard with my girls and anything that we're doing around the house I reach for this over my phone because I know one again I have that mechanical stabilization in there but it's just going to be easy I can set it up I can track my girls if I want to I can flip it to selfie we can do so much with this one camera and I like having a separate camera that I'm filming things with then having my phone be my camera also and just in the normal modes with pretty much everything on auto I'm getting some really impressive 10bit footage but the next thing that you can do with it and the next Pro is that you you really can take it to the next level if you flip that dlog M mode you get a very flat color profile now you do have to go into post and now you're going to do your edits and you can color grade it against footage coming out of like a an A7 S3 or or any of the bigger cameras and when you grade it it looks it looks pretty dang good it is their mobile dlog it's a dlog m it's not like full dlog but if you are looking to take this camera to that next level like really shoot some impressive footage you can you can also get ND filters for it so ulanzi and I think free well I got the ananzi filters but I think free well is making filters for this also you can put in D filters on here you can drop down to that 150th for 24 frames a second footage and because again it is a mechanical stabilizer you don't get that like digital br br you can get cinematic esque footage out of a 179 G camera maybe like 182 by the time you put that ND filter on there number seven on the list is the battery life I'm getting like 2 and 1 halfish hours out of the internal battery and then I've got the external battery pack that you can clip on there I think that gives you like another 100 minutes which is like another hour and a halfish that you're going to get on this thing so battery life is not a problem the coolest part though for me because I I forget to charge my things is 15minute fast charge I can go from 0% which is almost never at 0% but I can go from 0% to 80% in 15 minutes so if I realize like oh we're going to leave for something I want to grab this and bring it with me I go and I'm like ah it's at 20% 10 minutes before we leave I could plug it in and it's going to get charged up super fast battery life and fast charging is it's much bigger in like the actual user experience with a device that I think I think some companies realize DJI nailed it with this one uh number eight on the pros category is firmware updates they did a couple firmware updates one introduced cancel recording which I first saw on the Ace Pro but now they have it on here I'm glad they borrowed this feature you press record now you're recording a clip maybe you're trying to get something like really smooth you're trying to get a really cool shot or maybe you just accidentally hit the record button you look down and you go uh I've been recording for 3 minutes now you can cancel that recording simply by pressing and holding the record button you get a little popup and it has now deleted that clip so that never gets saved to the SD card you don't end up with an SD card full of files that halfway through the clip you realize like oh I don't want this clip now you you just delete it instead of having to save it and then go back later and delete it later cancel recording added in a firmware and then also with the DJI mic 2 they added something in the firmware where you can send the audio file to the camera which will marry it with the video file that you're recording that's how you you kind of do one of these setups but now internally you can set the internal mics to record the Ambient sound so if I have this setup way over here and I walk 10 ft away this isn't going to hear my voice at all but it could hear like the city sound or or the waves if I was at the beach and it will record those I now have a separate file that if I I listen to this audio and it sounds a little too isolated like you see that I'm at the beach but you don't hear the beach I can now take that file and it can bring up some of that Ambient sound in post to be able to blend with the audio that I picked up perfectly coming from the DJI mic 2 very cool that they added that uh next up on the list is the case I would say the case is a pro the only con I would have with the case is that while it's in the case it's fully protected this is a killer case it does have a spot that you can pop this on like very well protected lens is protected screen is protected while it's in here the only bummer is that because it's a hard case even when I take this out of there and I start filming something I still have like this large thing that I've got to put in my pocket and now I've got like a you know got like a big thing in my pocket so while this case does a fantastic job it does also magnetically hold the wild angle and black chromis filter in there I wish that there was also I wish they would also make a silicone case that would kind of just cover the head like I'll put a screen protector on here and I won't even worry about all this like just it's durable and I would just cover the head and then when I pull that off I could just put that in my pocket and like it would be flat like it wouldn't be a big wouldn't be a big thing but when I was going from place to place I could pull it out I could just kind of go and stick it on top of there to just protect like what I see as the most fragile elements of this thing but that does bring us to number 10 and that is the durability of this thing this thing has been shockingly durable I will say I was in the camp when I first got it of like oo this is cool but like what if I drop it it looks fragile as heck there's a a screen on there that's a flippy screen the gimbal head I've I've dropped it like four times now two times pretty rough like one time onto concrete uh it was in the case and it kind of blew apart out of the case and then one time actually while filming for this video I set it I was just stupid it was my fault I used the little tripod but then I put an extension pole in between it and I tried to set it up on the cliff and the wind blew it over uh right into the sand it took a digger and it survived not a problem at all taking a digger from like 5T I did scratch my wide angle lens though I had to get a new wide angle lens because I scratched this one so 10 Pros that I have on the pocket 3 again I do have a few cons before I tell you about the cono let me tell you about the sponsor of today's video Squarespace and if you guys have watch this channel for any amount of time you will know I am a massive fan of Squarespace I've been using them for over 10 years for my photography business and it's been a great experience there's rarely a situation where you deal with a company for 10 years and at the end of it you're like that was great I'm stoked but 10 years in with Squarespace and I I love them mainly because I'm a guy that does not know how to build websites but with Squarespace I built a super dope website and you can too if you want a super dope website for your business go to Squarespace and sign up for a totally free trial go in there and download one of their free professionally designed templates you just pretty much swap in your info for their info your photos for their photos and you 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there like you're not going to shake it off but if you bump it you could definitely knock it out like a good like and it'll go flying not really the case for the the little filters like these little ulanzi filters and I'm sure the free Wells like they're very slim so like this one like you really can't knock off so only the wide lens is like potentially knock off and lose it uh number two on this guy is I wish that there was a physical exposure compensation dial the one thing that I do use a lot or I seem to use a lot is again I'm in normal mode on this thing I'm running around filming and then I realize like o I would like to bump my exposure a third of a stop or a half a stop or 7 of a stop I have to swipe over wait no I have to start recording while recording swipe over and now I get an exposure it's a slider it's a slider on the touch screen and now I got to kind of like hone it in and there we go There's 7 exposure compensation now I can film I want to be able to just like walk around and while I'm walking just kind of go so the con is that to access exposure compensation is in the touchcreen and the fix for that would be on the pocket four when they give me a physical exposure compensation dial please DJI number three is face tracking face tracking is really good you swipe down I turn on face tracking and anytime that I'm in selfie mode like that now it sees my face face track enabled and no matter where I go with the gimbal I could be walking through a city looking at the city and just holding the gimbal over here anywhere and it's going to track my face it's going to keep me very centered and that is good my issue comes with hey let's see if I can recreate it for you guys hold on all right let's see if we get the effect so if I'm nice and close to the camera right now this is pretty decent framing like the framing looks pretty good I am a little I kind of wish okay watch this if I back up quite a bit it continues to track my face but look at all this space up here what I want it to do is I I want to be like a third line I want to be right here whether I'm next to the camera or I'm super far away from the camera so as it see right now I got all this extra space I would like it to be fra it just looks a little wonky with the framing now the fix for that is very simple and it's just don't use face tracking use my favorite feature which is dynamic framing so I go into Dynamic framing I select my face right where I want at the top third and boom so now it wants to keep my face in this upper third so upper third and in the middle so no matter how far back I go the gimbal is going to come down quite a bit more I have what much less of this like weird space above me and I can still do all the same tracking that I would do before but with the dynamic framing I can tell it always keep my face in the upper third and in the middle even if I go way back away from the camera it's going to it's going to keep I don't know this space up here with the with the just face tracking you get a we way too much of it way too much upper uh spacing it would almost be cool if on the face tracking I could also give it framing like within Dynamic framing I can tell it where I want that to be tracking me with inace tracking I wish I could just say I always want to be and upper middle or wherever you want to be uh number four I guess I could mention like like the skin smoothing features are right there and I just wish there was other controls the glamour effects don't do no don't use the glamour effects no one should use those and then oh number five number five is this guy you guys know my issue with having the low cut filter turned on by default on this system it's also turned on on this system if you have these two paired together and you go into the settings on here for the transmitter you will see the low cut filter is on by default so same thing that happened with that click up there and go watch that video same thing that happened with this system to me uh is also present here if you want to turn the low cut filter off you have to go into the settings and turn it off Yeah by default it is on and honestly after 3 months of using this thing those are the only cons I could really think of I love the pocket 3 I use it as like an everyday camera we're going to Maui in like a week this will be my travel camera like filming all my family Vlogs will I'll be filmed on this thing like I'm not filming anything for the channel so I won't be filming with my big cameras everything will be filmed for a family with the with the pocket 3 and then when we go in the water probably the Ace Pro and I I'll probably bring this for photos maybe but all video all video for that trip will be on the pocket 3 what do you guys think have you been waiting like have you've been waiting post hype cycle of the pocket 3 to figure out if it is any good like if people had problems with it or are you someone that picked it up right away I'd love to hear your thoughts also like how have the last 3 months been for you I've been stoked and again I was in the camp of like oh I'm going to drop that and break it and I have but it hasn't broken so that's pretty sweet uh questions comments comment down below and I will see you soon tell me a joke yeah what's your joke why did the PO here go to the movie theater why can't the who the poop the poop Why can't the poop go to the movie theater because he pooped out popcorn oh wow let's put that in the video comedic gold yeah

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Published: Tue Feb 27 2024