
DJI Osmo Mobile 3 Review | Best Smartphone Gimbal for Instagram?
While filming you move, you focus on the action and the camera stays Rocksteady in position. No more shaky unprofessional footage like this. Instead, almost butter smooth recordings like this, hey, you guys what’s up it’s me again, Tom from TTT Tom’s tech time, welcome to a new episode. Today I want to introduce the brand new DJI Osmo mobile 3, and I want to take a closer look at it because actually I’m quite critical, with smartphone stabilizers, because I’m, an old school guy I like to use bigger cameras and all that stuff. So never the last let’s take a look. Wow. A bird almost hit my tripod over there that’s right now, we’ll take a closer look at the device. A product link can be found in the description below the video let’s get started. The hardware of the new Osmo mobile 3 has gotten a proper makeover. It is DJ eyes, first foldable smartphone gimbal, making it easy to transport and bring it everywhere. Building it up, takes and here’s the proof. A single second. Only now all you’ve got to do is slide in the smartphone and push it a bit to the right or left until the phone doesn’t fall to one of the sides anymore. No more screws, no more complicated and time consuming balancing procedures. Let’S make this quick. The level of stabilization the gimbal provides is excellent. I must admit that I did not expect anything else, as DJI has many years of experience and is what I call the mercies of the gimbal manufacturers.
Everything below excellent would have been a disappointment Music, while other gimble’s usually block both the charging port, and if your phone still has that the headphone jack you won’t have that trouble anymore. When using the Osmo mobile 3, you can at all times plug in your headphones or a charging cable sounds silly. It is not the DJI Osmo mobile 3 comes with a built in USB output, so you can comfortably connect a cable and charge your phone on the goal, even while recording the game builds inbuilt battery safely. Brings you through a full day of filming. I didn’t have any problems with that and recharging it through the USB C port works. Surprisingly fast, the Osmo mobile 3 has a comfortable grip and, in general, feels valuable, even though it is made out of plastic without the need of rebalancing. Users can switch the phone’s position from the standard horizontal to an Instagram like vertical position, to entertain the audience and create pro looking stories and live streams. That’S. Definitely a huge advantage and a big step for all Instagram lovers and users out there on the front users find the control panel. It features a power and a mode switch 3 battery and a status’ LED a record button for wireless control of the smartphone’s camera. So you don’t have to tap on your screen anymore and a joystick to move around and control the smart phones move only with your thumb on the back of the handle.
Dji installed a new trigger button that accomplishes multiple tasks and on the side, a zoom switch. The zoom switch gave me a headache, though it works flawlessly no doubt, but the app does not seem to notice that, for example, my smartphone has an integrated tella lens, instead of making use of it and getting crisp and clear shots, even when being zoomed in the App just crops into the white angled footage and therefore causes a hell of a quality loss, not smart, and I hope that DJI fixes that problem with the next update Music modes like motion let’s. Let you capture unique perspectives. Easily, using a gimbal can be problematic for people who really don’t care about the camera, who don’t care about how to you know, get the best shots done themselves. They just want to walk around, they want to point out things, they want to move and they want to be very flexible on the go and you can see it. The problem is that I am never having a good composition. I’M. Never staying like in the center of the composition, but that is very easy to fix with active Trek. I took it to the test and it’s working phenomenal DJI actually has quite a lot of experience with that. They have this active track mode already. On many other devices like other gimbals and drones and so on, but we can quickly take it to the test and it works like this.
You take your finger, put it on the screen and just draw a box around the object that you want to keep in the center of the composition. Then a little green box appears, and now, if I lean over here, if I lean over there, if I go down a bit, if I jump up it up, you can see that automatically and I’m not doing anything the phone slashed. The awesome mobile 3 now keeps my face in the center of the composition, which is really cool I’m, not walking around really not paying any attention to what the awesome about 3 is filming. I’M, even moving my arm around a bit, and you can judge yourself how well the Osmo mobile 3 does so here, I’m moving it around now, I’m. Moving around my face a bit big news is the gesture mode that lets you control, gimbal and camera from a distance. It is a neat tool for filming yourself. Just show the camera a particular gesture, and the gimbal then starts to automatically track and shoot you it’s. A suite tool I wouldn’t want to miss what we learn. Firstly, gesture control works and, secondly, active track works too, even though I’m not quite sure how well it would work. If I would now be cruising by let’s say with a bicycle major down site off the gesture control is that it eats up the battery. So you only should enable it when you really need it, and the second downside is that there is no way to stop the recording.
So that means that I now have to go to my smartphone and turn it off somehow and now it keeps on tracking me. Come on stop the auto editor creates neat clips that can be uploaded to social media right away and it works flawlessly, provided that you film in horizontal mode, not a single one of the install presets, as of today works with vertical videos. I could not even find a button that allowed me to manually rotate the videos, therefore, the clips that the app automatically created for me somehow looked a bit awkward Music Music thumbs down for forgetting about this but I’m. Sure that DJ is gon na come up with a fresh bundle of presets for vertical videos very soon, and then the thump is finally gon na point upwards again, because the auto editor in general is a really cool tool. The new DJI Osmo MOBA 3 is a pleasant update. It’S compact size and intuitive handling are big plus points just as the excellent level of stabilization. If you are into filming with your smartphone, then the Osmo mobile 3 will significantly enhance your recordings. The Zoom slider and the author editor both would look better. If DJ, I provided a revised version of the app but all in all again I’m happy with the new DJI Osmo Mobil 3. Now take a look at the current price by clicking on the product link.
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Why is the video vertical but inside of an horizontal timeline? It looks terrible BOTH on mobile and on TV.
Tom, another terrific review. I have a question about INSTAGRAM live-streaming and the OM3. I see online that DJI enables "Live" for YTube and FBook, but not for IGram. Do you know if it is possible to INSTAGRAM live-stream with the OM3 while in Active Track mode?? I also own a Ronin-SC, which also has Active track. I was able to rig a Phantom Phone holder to the Ronin quick release plate. Even though the Ronin app has active track, I couldn't get the app to use the front camera. And if I could, would it be possible to do IGram live?? Thanks, and I appreciate all the videos. I would have never purchased any of these products were it not for your reviews.
You need to film in horizontal possition, just saying.. Nice video anyway
Hello Tom. Have you noticed the poor automatic calibration that makes for angled horizon? Can you think of a way to fine tune level the โgimbalโ?
Pls advise me which one to buy? DJI Osmo Mobile 3 or Zhiyun Smooth Q2. Price is not an issue for me…. Thanks brother
Mimo app keeps disconnecting on Redmi note 7 rendering it pretty useless ( I know it is not on the "approved list" of compatible devices, but it is one of the best sellers this year, several million phones) , had to send it back to amazon…I would have kept it, but the blotchy connection was very annoying.
With this gimbal osmo mobile 3 my phone gets really hot its that normal?
I love your reviews, although im not a fan of filming in portrait mode this turned out ok, maybe due to the size and shape of the the Osmo fitting so will in the frame. Either way I just purchased this gimbal and am using it with my Iphone 11 pro Max. Like you i hope they update to use the zoom lens. I just filmed my first vlog with it and for a one man band its extremely useful and provides a nice result.
extremely informative, can you also share your thought whether one should opt for the combo pack or can go only for the gimble? i'm planning to buy it asap.
cheers,
Love your review!! What is the app name for your auto editor in your review? Im not talking about story mode in mimo app
Good video!
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Can I work with iphone 11 Pro max with cover on Osmo?
german?
Whatโs a good external mic for it
Would this fit a mic like the rode?
Very good video
Best review so far. Thank you very much!
Hey Tom! Are you recording sound through your air pods??
Do your research. This is a copy of the Snoppa Atom that came out last year and still has more features than this.
Portrait video?! Who does that! Not very professional. Sorry. I do generally like your videos. Content and presentation was good.
sir, how about the auto focus of the phone? im worried if i walk using this gimbal the autofocus of the phone will ruin the shot.
Access to the charging port while using the device is a huge improvement over the Mobile 2. Many times I have had to quit shooting because my phone's battery died and I couldn't take advantage of the big battery pack already in my hand.
Does it still use the old DJI Go app or does it now work with Go 4?
You forgot to mention the fact you need a tripod to stand as it has a curved bottom
What USB cable are you using for the iPhone?
VVS. Vertical video syndrome… amateur.
1 dislike for vertical video
What I want to know, which was an issue with Osmo 1 and 2, is there still a conflict between the DJI software and stabilisation lens on the iPhone?
How to charge osmo mobile 3?
What happened Tom? Lost your main video camera? Please don't do the vertical video thing again.
But thanks for the review. Hopefully they work out the bugs soon. The Ronin SC will be on my Christmas list though! It would be more versatile for my needs.
why vertical filming. Please don't do it again