DJI Osmo Pocket 3 Review

The gimbal is not electronic stabilisation, it is three motors physically holding the camera level, and that difference is why footage from this looks like a dolly shot rather than a corrected handheld one. DJI put a one-inch sensor on the end of it, four times the area of a phone or an action camera, and that is the reason low light is usable rather than merely present. The two-inch screen rotates, and when you turn it the entire interface and the recording format rotate with it, so shooting vertical becomes a physical gesture instead of a menu dive.

Subject tracking moves the actual camera to follow a face around a room, which frees you to talk rather than to frame. There is 4K120, ten-bit D-Log M for grading, a surprisingly usable pair of built-in microphones and direct wireless pairing with the company transmitters. The limits are the ones the size implies: a fixed wide lens, a small battery, and a mechanical assembly with moving parts that needs protecting in a bag. For a solo creator who talks to a camera, nothing else near this price is close.