DJI Osmo Pocket 3 vs Sony ZV-E1 

The Pocket has a crazy quality for this size. However, I see it purely as a vlogging camera. Due to the 20mm lens there is little variation in the shots. I would only wish that you could also film vertically with the full sensor in 4K.

@@adriansoworka9283 You can get an L bracket for vertical :) - Also, you can set up guide lines on the screen to frame vertical content while filming landscape, there is enough resolution in the 4k to crop the image for vertical video as Instagram is limited to 1080p.

Check NVU films. He's already done it

It’s a legitimately fantastic little cam for recording family stuff and little hiking vlogs. It does actually fit comfortably inside the slim half-case in a normal-sized jeans front pocket too.

Glad you enjoyed, and Go Bulls! 🤘🏼haha

When you’re shooting videos, the iPhone main camera isn’t 24mm anymore. You can clearly see the difference in FoV changing modes - photo to video (especially combined with the EIS). So the difference between the iPhone and the pocket 3 isn’t that close actually.

@@dougmorato Actually, yes, you are very right, it's more like 28mm as it crops in for the stabilisation, which also means you are losing a bit of depth field considering the focal length change, it then becomes more like a 28mm f/7.

You can get the Sony ECM-W3S wireless mics that go on the Multi Interface digital shoe. Not quite as seamless or compact as the OP2 plus up to 2x DJI Mic 2s but still pretty slick.

I know for a fact he wasn’t shooting at f/2.8- he probably stopped the camera up to around f/5.6 to match the osmo! I have both of these cameras as well, and as amazing as the osmo is- it doesn’t fully stack up to the ZV-e1. For the price though, it’s truly amazing!

@@ChChCheckIt Makes sense! - on paper it should be f/5.6 to get similar depth of field so I was surprised to see in some shots the depth of field difference wasn't as pronounced as it should have been :)

For the most part (besides the lowlight test), I remembered to match the Osmo Pocket 3 at f/5.6 to get a better comparison!

​@@DavidZhou Ah! - I guess then the main question is how often would you choose to film talking head and other type of content on your ZV-E1 at f/5.6? :) That's a bit of a double edged sword on the Osmo3 (and iPhone), sometimes you want f/13 for landscapes or to get nice sunstars or for macro (iPhone uses the f/10 equiv super wide for Macro for that reason). Sometimes you want to open up that aperture to get better object/subject separation and low light. But with Osmo you're stuck at f/5.6 forever (and f/6.3 on the iPhone), so you're not just limited on the focal length, but on the aperture too. This is actually why I personally went to the ZV-E1 from APS-C previously, the f/2.8 zooms on APS-C are huge and heavy and in terms of light gathering and shallow depth of field, the f/4 zooms on full frame beat them while being smaller, lighter and cheaper! What should be quite scary to APS-C manufacturers is you get a better image in literally every sense of the word (low light, dynamic range, noise, resolution, etc) using an iPhone 15Pro Raw vs a flagship Fuji X-H2 with their best 16-80mm zoom wide open at 16mm f/4 (24mm f/6 equiv), that's insane! - this probably applies to the Pocket3 too, though we're still waiting on the dynamic range tests.

@@DigiDriftZone I think you just helped sum up what I've been thinking about over the past few weeks while shooting with the Pocket 3! The fixed aperture, similar to the iPhone 15 Pro, along with the fixed focal length, is the biggest "weakness" of the Pocket 3. It doesn't make it a bad camera, just a camera that's great at a few specific shooting scenarios/types of shots. When compared to a versatile interchangeable lens camera, it just can't compete when used outside of it's intended use cases. Same argument goes for APS-C vs. Full-Frame, just to a much smaller degree.

While I personally like having the ZV-E1 as my “smaller rig” and my a7S3 as my “big rig”, $2k for a new lens is pretty tempting

All hail fixing it in post 😂

Id love that 😂

OP3 has equivalent FoV to 20mm FF and can get to 15mm w/ the wide angle adapter-IMO the ZV-E1 is the better camera because it’s more versatile but yeah it’s crazy how good these tiny sensor cameras are getting!

Every time except during the Stabilization & Active Track tests because I had forgotten-you also can’t adjust it if you’re in Low Light mode 😁

If you like your ZV-E1, I wouldn’t! Unless you really need that higher megapixel count for photography!

Glad you liked it!

Dlogm is different from Dlog. DJI is misleading everyone.

How’re you liking it?

@@DavidZhou I’m no pro and the Sony was too much for me, early days but the weight and size is great as I camp and have a ton of other gear.

Only color corrected both to Rec.709 for all comparison shots (or they were shot on full auto, so no correction applied). Only color graded clips are the intro and outro (7:44 and on) clips.

I added a lil on screen note that said 275 degrees when I said it, realized it as I was editing haha

:D@@DavidZhou

Exactly, it makes it a really solid beginner video camera (or if you just want a super compact package for travel)!

Think you’re hearing the fountain on campus in the background

I haven't had issues with mine, but I also haven't beat it up as much as the rest of my gear. I've seen a few reports of issues with theirs, but it's been a vast minority from what I can tell. Still something to be aware of but not extremely prevalent.

Just checked it out, really well shot!

8:11

It definitely has it's time and place, it's great for wide shots and "standard gimbal shots". It won't have the versatility of optical zoom so I treat it like an advanced point and shoot camera with solid dynamic range. Even though I've been shooting with it a lot more recently, it still won't replace my Sony cameras (except for in niche scenarios to get footage in places that don't allow "pro" cameras with detachable lenses, like concerts).

Just wanted to compare a “budget” Sony setup to the OP3 😁 didn’t want to make the Sony side like 8x the price of the OP3 haha

@@DavidZhou I just feel it would be good if u did a challenge to film only through osmo pocket 3, so to tell people it's not about just hardware but the skill to videography

What do you mean fake color??

i dont like fullfame. Big And heavy