DJI Unveils the Osmo Motion 4, With a Launch Worth of $399

DJI is launching the most recent iteration of its sports activities motion video digicam: the Osmo Motion 4. At $399, the brand new normal combo possibility is about $70 costlier than the Osmo Motion 3 it’s succeeding — however the firm is promising “outstanding low-light efficiency” with the brand new one because of a brand new, bigger 1/1.3-inch picture sensor.

With the brand new sensor, Osmo Motion 4 can seize extra gentle by means of its f/2.8 aperture 155-degree ultrawide lens, which has similarities to the one affixed to the Motion 3. As well as, Motion 4 can shoot footage in 10-bit D-Log M for increased dynamic vary, providing you with extra coloration correction flexibility within the enhancing room. Motion 4 additionally helps bigger 512GB microSD playing cards to carry probably bigger video recordsdata.

Regardless that the Motion 4’s sensor is greater than the Motion 3’s 1/1.7-inch one, each fashions seize 4K footage at as much as 120 frames per second max. That compares to GoPro’s present flagship Hero 11 Black digicam, which might match that and assist as much as 5.3K / 60fps footage.

GoPro has had a small function benefit: a built-in GPS. However DJI has a brand new accent that may inject GPS metadata into the video recordsdata on the Motion 4. The brand new $79 Osmo Motion GPS Bluetooth Distant Controller straps to your wrist or handlebar so you’ll be able to remotely begin or cease recording, change between modes, or look on the digicam’s standing on its small display.

The RockSteady 3.0 Plus function included is an upgraded model of the corporate’s digital stabilization system. There’s additionally HorizonSteady, which might lock the lean of a recording to maintain footage straight — even when the digicam does a barrel roll. DJI’s InvisiStick mode, which makes the corporate’s 1.5-meter selfie stick invisible, has been upgraded to be used in additional eventualities in comparison with the Motion 3, which usually labored finest with much less complicated backgrounds like snowy mountains.

There’s improved waterproofing on the Motion 4, too, permitting the digicam to be submersible as much as 18 meters in comparison with the three’s 16 meters. Because the physique of the Motion 4 matches the earlier mannequin, you’ll be able to proceed to make use of equipment you would possibly already personal, together with the diving case, so that you simply’re not restricted by the marginally improved sealing.

The same appears between the Motion 4 and three additionally lengthen to lots of the options. Each cameras use the identical battery that lasts about 2.5 hours, have the identical back and front touchscreens, wirelessly hook up with the identical AI enhancing LightCut app, and extra.