DJI’s new Osmo Motion 4 digital camera delivers brighter footage for extra money

DJI is launching the most recent iteration of its sports activities motion video digital camera: the Osmo Action 4. At $399, the new standard combo possibility is about $70 costlier than the Osmo Motion 3 it’s succeeding — however the firm is promising “exceptional 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 mild by 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 greater dynamic vary, supplying you with extra coloration correction flexibility within the enhancing room. Motion 4 additionally helps bigger 512GB microSD playing cards to carry doubtlessly 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 digital camera, which might match that and help 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 Action GPS Bluetooth Remote Controller straps to your wrist or handlebar so you possibly can remotely begin or cease recording, change between modes, or look on the digital camera’s standing on its small display screen.

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 digital camera 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 greatest with much less advanced backgrounds like snowy mountains.

There’s improved waterproofing on the Motion 4, too, permitting the digital camera to be submersible as much as 18 meters in comparison with the three’s 16 meters. For the reason that physique of the Motion 4 matches the earlier mannequin, you possibly can proceed to make use of equipment you may already personal, together with the diving case, so that you just’re not restricted by the marginally improved sealing.

The same seems to be between the Motion 4 and three additionally prolong to most of the options. Each cameras use the identical battery that lasts about 2.5 hours, have the identical back and front touchscreens, wirelessly connect with the identical AI enhancing LightCut app, and extra.