DJI Osmo Pocket 3 | Filming in DIRECT SUN ☀️! 

Thank you so much for this! I was starting to think I should use DLOG more and stop relying on Normal Color but this just seals the deal for me! Normal all the way! Love the way the exposure looks!

Great video.. Finally someone is not trying to sell his color grading luts or nd filters to his audience! I own many pro level proper cameras. I love nd filters etc for cinematic looks..but... This is a vlog camera. Vlog means your face is the most important thing and all cinematographers knows that your first priority should be to expose for you main subject! This device definitely does not expose for your face in dlog. It tries to expose for everything in the scene and in high dynamic range situations you will be underexposed. You will try to fix it in post but since the lighting is not controlled.. you are supposed to be moving around.. You can't fix the whole video with a single click. However, surprisingly.. in the normal color mode(which is now also 10bit) it always exposes for your face and also has arguably more dynamic range too. Because probably the device is computing like iphone is doing and recovering shadow and highlight detail while already keeping your face exposed. I watched over 100 reviews and not a single one told about this man. You are the hero. Maybe you can use the dlog for broll(good luck to judge your exposure on that screen anyways).. I really don't understand people.. This is supposed to be a point and shoot vlog camera. Everybody is trying to make it look like a pro camera.. But it will not.. For vlog my choice is normal color with reduced sharpening.. a mist filter may also help get rid of the digital look.. But you will have an exposed face :) And for broll I still think HLG is superior. Again nobody is talking about HLG probably most don't know how to color grade it for SDR but it is much easier with greater details and color. Anyway.. that's another story.. Great channel.. keep up the good work mate

Just got my pocket 3 last week. I have the same thoughts. I’ll use Dlog M for studio recording where I can control the lighting. But for outdoor shots so far I plan to use auto to avoid having to worry about backlighting situations. I might use DLog outside for a more planned shoot, but for vlog style videos Auto seems the way to go for now. Hopefully DJI can fix this in a firmware update.

Hey Adam, another great video. You sold me the pocket 3. This is by far the best practical review of the picket 3.

Thanks so much for the test, Ahn. I've been using Normal Color profile these past week as well and it makes the whole editing process so much easier. Furthermore, the internal mics did very well indeed.

If one wants perfect motion blur.. you can always add a light nd filter but keep it in normal color mode like that. It will help..not the proper 180 degree maybe but will definetely help.. It's not the nd filter here.. the normal color mode is helping a lot and easing your life.. I now decided to create my own lut for normal mode. Just for color correction and nothing else. So i will get rec709 colors and properly exposed face everytime and than I can add whatever rec709 lut I want on top of that :) And no.. I'm not gonna sell my lut.. anyone can create one with the help of a colorchecker tool too.

As Polar Pro mentioned, put ISO manually and increase it a bit with a ND to get closer to the “normal profile”

Cheers so much for all your hard efforts appreciate it 😊❤

I agree with your thinking Ahn. As tech/photography nerds we love to (think we) have full control over settings and shoot fully manual and log but with the sophisticated tech these days I'm leaning more towards letting the tech do its thing. The pros can go full manual and colour grade things to an inch of their lives, I'm going to focus more on the story telling than the settings. Even in auto, with 10 bit profile there should still be plenty of scope to stamp your style on the end result in post.

Thanks for the extensive testing! Watched your other videos and gotta say you got alot of confidence walking in circles in public in order to give us consistent real world comparisons. For me the ND32 DLog is the look I prefer as it's more realistic and the colours are not washed out while also retaining the 180 shutter angle. It all depends on your goal I guess, either be in a place where your face is lit or sacrifice background exposure, just one of the challenges of video.

Another great video Adam! Makes me want to get out and use my pocket 3!

This was super helpful! Camera conspiracies keeps trashing d-log and I keep going back and forth whether to continue using auto or add one more thing to the workflow! I think your footage looks fantastic on auto fwiw!

Thanks for all the efforts comparing the settings helped me a lot!

Great review Jackie..

i appreciated the bonus audio test. ha. honestly I had no idea until you called it out that it wasnt the remote mic. although now hearing the remote mic its a slight bit better

The auto mode works exceptionally well. It does have a prime lens with auto facial recognition with the ability to auto focus on everything in frame. Its better than the latest flagship smartphones (iPhone/Samsung). It records significantly cleaner 4k night video compared with the Pocket 2. Goes to show the massive sensor size (1 inch) really comes into play to help us create content to share. The only issue that developed for me is when I try to rotate the camera up or down using the toggle stick, it zooms instead. Will try to resolve this via connecting to the mimo app.

that internal mic was just as good as the dji mic 2 lol😆 amazing!

I will be travelling to Thailand and Cambodia at the end of February. My idea is to use the action 4 in the morning until early afternoon and the Pocket 3 late afternoon and evening/night hours. I kind of find myself more at ease with the Action 4. I wish it was usable also in the dark.

Everytime I see the pocket 3 footage, im still blown away. Looks good and I def see the exposure issue on face with ND on! I am not mad that it does a better job in auto as that makes life easier but I also wonder if you locked shutter what that would it do with an ND filter on. THis way you could get the correct exposure maybe on face? Thanks for a great video.

Thank you for this video. I like Auto Mode. If objects are constantly changing then you don't have time to experiment with settings in real time. I have Pocket 2 and its 8-bit dynamic range and small sensor (and maybe something else too) washes out my outdoor videos where I have contrast scenes with both dark objects (dark color or in a shadow) and bright sun around. I hope pocket 3 is better when you film such scenes. Based on this video it seems it may be better indeed...

I(m agree Adam, I think that these 2 DJI cameras Pocket 3 and Action 4 are so good that after my own tests (I will probably do a small video on that) I will use the auto mode, and just put a ND filter on this auto mode when the sun will be there (I bought the Freewell 4 ND Filters "Bright Day" Pack, with the polarised ones) and that's it. :)

Try auto profile and 16 ND filter... for sunny days... works great in shadows as well... But, I do like your hybrid solution... There is great love here for you...

I'm sorry, could you explain the normal color profile pro mode? which setting should be changed that makes it "pro". And could you suggest the settings for me if I want to make a vlog video which I have do dynamically be outside and going inside some place that has big exposure change? Thank you...

Thanks for this info. I'm doing a Japan trip and am not sure if I should get the action 4 or pocket 3

Do you give up the ability to set your white balance in auto mode? great video as always!

hi i just got my dji mic and trying to pair with pocket3 and green light does not turn to blue after holding down "rec" button green light keeps flasing? any help? Thanks

You might have explained this and I just didn’t catch it, but for the first example of auto mode, where you also in normal color? Thank you.

Good video

The pocket 3 is doing computational video in normal colour (just like phones these days) The pro is that will always have amazing dynamic range but the con would be that it will look like an iPhone (bit fake) footage. Noticed putting it on -0.7 or even -1 actually makes it look a bit better and more realistic. (That's when it comes to normal mode) When in log, as most logs, you should definitely not underexpose. If anything - it should work well if overexposed with +0.7 or +1 and then bring down the highlights in post. Log formats normally have a lot of information in the highlights, so you can work with it. I think P3 acts same as P2.(i tested that) Try it yourself: Fix the exposure manually on one scene. Like shutter 50 and iso 100 locked. And then just swap log to normal or vise versa. It should show a difference of nearly 2 stops. So if log shows 0 in a certain scene, normal will show like -1.7 If normal shows 0, then log will show 1.7 overexposed in the same scene.

Nice whether out there

for simple run and gun vlogging it's pretty close to perfect.

What about HLG vs the Auto Mode? You think HLG would expose for the face while having a bit more dynamic range?

Only 18 to go! prepare the champagne in Thailand ! I think you'll hit the 1K subscribers before coming back to Korea ! 😃

Wow, actually the quality of internal microphone is pretty good.

Hi again, Ahn! Why do I get the feeling that full-frame cameras are soon going to come WAY down in price?!😃

I use -0.7 EV. I think pocket 3 blows a lot the lighter parts of the image.

Попробуй всё то же самое, только в DlogM установи EV +0.3

After taking a clip where do you keep your pocket 3 ?

how much was it the price ?

Do you not have to 'bring out the colours' with D Log M footages? You will not get to see it's true potential straight out of the camera. It requires editing after the fact. But i must say, i have shot in normal colour profile and have had great looking footages. I use D Log M or HLG for when shooting at night though. I feel it really does help in low light situations.

Why does no one ever talk about HLG on this camera? I did some test shots yesterday and HLG had BETTER dynamic range than D-Log M while still having decent colors. Using HLG doesn't mean you're forced to edit/export in HDR so why does everyone seem so afraid to even touch the setting?

Hoping you can try for indoor in next video.. as always, i really like your video

To be fair, the Normal Color mode looks better only because of the auto-exposure on the face. What doesn’t look good is the Normal colour when your face has the sun right on it OR when you use the DJI LUT with DLOG. Both are too flat and make skin look terrible in the sun. Properly exposing when in direct sun, and grading DLOG without the DJI LUT is the best look for me.

Is it normal to vlog in 50p? it seems the motion is unnatural.

It is a well understood practice to NOT point your lens directly into the Sun when trying to shoot a subject. It is standard good practice when shooting outdoors to always have the Sun over your shoulder (Behind you) with your camera pointed 180 degrees away from the Direct light source (The Sun) in the sky while shooting your subject from that position.. New Feature Requests for the New DJI OSMO Pocket 3 1. Add a dwelling time for each of up to four settable movement positions in Motion Time-Lapse Mode. As each of the four settable positions programmed into a motion time-lapse sequence is reached, the end user could set from 1 to 10 seconds of a pause in gimbal movement as each programmed position is reached during the sequence before the gimbal moves forward to the next programmed position. This would yield a much more dynamic and professional looking, smoother motion time-lapse sequence. 2. In Motion Time-Lapse Mode the ability to set movement ease in and ease out settings from 0.5 to 3 seconds for each programmable gimbal position before gimbal movement normal progression rate is reached. 3. True 24.00p filming speed. 4. The ability to set time-lapse sequences based on 24.00p. 5. The ability to be able to record from the DJI Mic 2 and from a plugged in via USB audio source at the same time. 6. Adding a 10 Bit 4:2:2 recordable video codec. 7. Please add zoom capability when shooting in all time-lapse modes.