Focus on

This Diary entry focuses only on the photographic abilities with the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P - since you can make photos with it. Even in RAW format - albeit that requires that you push the "PRO" button, in order to access the device to take images in RAW (DNG) format. you can choose between 9:16 or the square 1:1 (6x6 Hasselblad) format. A RAW DNG file takes 37 MP

To my eye the RAW DNG file looks it looks pretty much "baked". And no, there is NO support in Photoshop RAW plugin. You can open it of course, but the "support" is funky. The AI Noise reduction does not work at all (due to that there is no true RAW support in the plug-in for the latest Osmo Pocket camera).

Because DJI already bakes the RAW files, you don't really need Photoshop's AI Noise reduction. Only if the ISO goes up a lot, then it would be welcome to do so.

6x6 Hasselblad format (1:1)

Using the 1:1 format is kind of interesting. Albeit combined with the 20 mm super wide angle lens - which has advantages as well disadvantages.

Selfies get easily distorted with such a wide lens since you are mostly pretty close to the lens.

Yet, for most other motives - the 20 mm ƒ 2 lens gives a interesting perspectives - practically on most things you aim the Osmo at... I had and still have quite some fun with taking photos like that - instead of videos.

And while you can change setting, once you have the "PRO" button enabled - fiddling with those on a small screen is... well, fiddling.

The quality reminds me of a mix between iPhone and Micro Four Thirds camera - albeit the latter has higher quality. It is the baked RAW type of quality, that is what makes it remind me of mobile phones. Yet, the RAW format gives you a lot of flexibility later in post processing at your computer / in your photo software, such as Photoshop etc.

If you are in dark environment, i recommend you to restrict the ISO - otherwise it gets really noisy. The Osmo Pocket 4P will allow you exposure times down to 4 seconds at the most. By dialing down the ISO one or two notches, you can limit the noise, which otherwise automatically would go very high since you have a Gimbal, you can easily take images up to 4 seconds, and if yo hold your Osmo steady - the photo will stay sharp.

I did a 4s test in my Photo Chemistry closet
(shown the last photo)

- with light seeping in from the outside. So, it was pretty dark in there. You can read every letter on the bottles despite the (max) shutter speed of 4 seconds.