Internal 32-bit float stereo paired with lossless 120mm reach from a 20mm lens — all inside a genuinely pocket-sized 10-bit 1-inch sensor gimbal camera?

[Emanuel]

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Originally posted in another thread, but given what it is, I think it deserves a place of its own.

There’s something very real happening here right now. This is not just a minor upgrade.

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Insta360 sample for focal length range.

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(from Leica HQ BTW)

 

And that detachable screen is basically an on-set field monitor. WOW What a killer combo : X

[eatstoomuchjam]

Starting at $770!! 

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Guess they saw GoPro's pricing on the Mission 1 series and said "hold my beer."

 

[Emanuel]

Well, for the price of a good but still affordable zoom lens, I still find it quite a deal! ; )

And AFAIK, it’s the first gimbal camera you can simply lock:

No idea whether the Osmo Pocket 4P will bring that too, but the non-Pro version doesn’t seem to.

EDIT -- I had heard that the Pocket 4 didn’t have it, but as far as I’ve been able to confirm now, they’ve introduced it across both new Pocket 4 models. Looks like the battle between the two brands has brought some benefits for their customers... ;- )

[QuickHitRecord]

I've never been tempted by one of these smaller pocket gimbals, but the image quality actually looks really nice. It doesn't look over-sharpened or GoPro-like at all. Of course, it's Brandon Li, who can make anything look good. The detachable remote is also really clever.

I want my next short to be captured guerilla-style in the city. I was originally considering the hacked EOS-M, but this has me re-thinking my strategy. I just really wish it had a mic input so that I could capture timecode.

[kye]

To me the zoom is the most significant function here.  This is meant to be a walk-around film-the-surroundings camera and my experience is that everyone who rigs a camera for this purpose uses a zoom with pretty significant zoom lens.

The biggest con of this is the fact it's a gimbal, and therefore stabilises rotation but not position, leading to the dreaded bobbing movement and foreground parallax errors.  These might be my candidate for the least cinematic image attribute of all time (linked to timestamp):

This is why gimbals need the fourth axis for walking, and why people don't shoot gimbal shots with any foreground in them.  By applying less stabilisation you end up with a more stable looking shot because the stabilisation doesn't call so much attention to itself.