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hi this is the DJI Osmo mobile - a bit of a mouthful of the name but it is a smartphone Kimble I've been using it with the iPhone 10 this is what I love about it and what I don't love about it that much so I want to start off talking about the price this is a hundred and thirty dollars and it's producing really cinematic quality results that to me is like a game-changer a lot of the other gimbals I've used to being pretty expensive including the first generation of the DJI Osmo so I really like the price point on this one but that being said it has been built to a price point because it doesn't feel necessarily as refined as the previous version but a little bit more plasticy but overall it's very functional like all of the buttons and controls are in a really good place i all positioned really nicely and inside the handle here this battery is absolutely massive like I don't think I've needed to charge this more than about three or four times in the past like two months I'd say because it's just lasts and lasts it reaches great so I think they say it's about 15 hours and I've definitely found that to be true I also love how there is a USB a on the back here and you can actually use that to charge like any other device that you have that being said I wish that this port on the side where you actually charge the entire device was USB see it's actually just micro USB and so just because everyone's moving towards USB see and I just feel like I have more of those cables around I just wish it was USB C but of course it was built to a price point also at the bottom yeh look at this tripod mount I can actually put it on a tripod if I want to do any kind of selfies or anything like that that is such a big deal for me I want to talk about the stabilization now cuz obviously that's the big feature and that's the thing that you probably want to know about so this has produced some really amazing results for me like I haven't as impressed with the stabiliser as I have been with this particular one before just because it just seems to kind of get it right all the time which I love so I've been using it between the DJI Go app which is actually the one that you're supposed to use it with and also the actual iPhone camera app as well just the default camera app now the reason why I've been using it with the camera app the default one rather than the DJI app is just because some of the time I want to record in 4k 60 frames a second and the DJI Go app cannot do that right now I bet you like as soon as I make this video there will be an update to the app and they'll be like oh hey 4k 60 frames a second great amazing but please do that like sooner rather than later that would be lovely so that's why I generally end up using the iPhone camera app as well and one of the downsides I know a lot of people have been talking about the fact that obviously if you're using with an iPhone or a camera or a phone camera that has internal optical image stabilization also the stabilization from the gimbal and it can kind of like counteract each other and produce kind of like that jelly-like effect I haven't encountered that as much as some other people but it is still present I actually found that if I use the default camera app rather than the DJI app it was a little bit better overall so that's also another reason why I use the default camera app - okay so it sounds like I really like it huh I really do but there are some big downsides some of them are particular to my situation but I still want to run them through with you just because I think you might have the same issues that I do with this thing big problem number one for me is that I want to record good quality audio with an external mic rather than the internal mic and I don't know if you can see this configuration but that that is where the Lightning port is and that is where the end bracket is I cannot plug in an external mic there right like it's just not possible but here's a little hack I actually worked out kind of how to do it but it's a little bit janky it only works about maybe 80% of the time which is actually good enough for me but I'm gonna show you Justin case run into the same problem and you kind of want to do something with an external mic so here we go I'm gonna take it off the mount so this only is going to work if you're using this selfie camera it's not going to work if you're going to use the back camera which is really unfortunate so I'm gonna put the phone in backwards so we have the Lightning port visible up here I found this microphone this is I believe a shure microphone with a lightning adapter plug it in like so turn it on hard for the best hope that it balances correctly that's going to be a difficulty if you have a mic that's particularly heavy it's just not going to want to do it okay so as you can see it's balancing okay and so I've been using this configuration if I want to record something like me talking to camera so that works the problem is the microphone doesn't really communicate very well with the DJI app and sometimes it doesn't work so well either in the default camera app that's a microphone problem though because I've been reading a bunch of things about it apparently it just needs an update from Apple to kind of get that compatibility 100% because sometimes the audio drops out but for what I needed it for I did a bunch of testing before I recorded each clip and it worked okay but still like please DJI for the next version please please please let me have some way of plugging in an external microphone some sort of accessory shoe just like make it easy for me because this is a weird kind of workaround it just it feels bizarre I know it feels like it's not balanced correctly as well so please please please fix it I really want you two guys to fix it because I want to use it like be able to use that back camera as well but it's not all bad with the DJI app thankfully there are a couple of really fun features that I loved using including the motion time lapse and hyperlapse mode so I did a walk up and down the beach watching the sunset it created this really cool cinematic clip I know if I just did it using another app without the stabilizer it was going to look really shaky it wouldn't have been very smooth or consistent so I really appreciated that function and an app that was a lot of fun and just overall it makes me really just want to shoot video which is a great thing the fact that it is so cheap means that I don't really mind if I do maybe you know accidentally drop it because I'm very clumsy I don't I haven't haven't trust me I haven't dropped it but I'm just saying if I did it probably wouldn't be that huge of a deal okay so in app then one other thing that I wanted to mention that I wish would be changed would be the ability to use that 2 X optical zoom on the iPhone 10 or any other phone that has two cameras with optical zoom because at the moment you can obviously use the digital zoom there is that zoom rocker there that moves in and out but unfortunately it's only using digital zoom and if I have the optical zoom like I'm gonna want to use that there's no reason to use digital zoom really like it doesn't look very good I just want to be able to use that extra bit of optical length if I can so that's why again I shoot with the default camera so those are my thoughts on the DJI Osmo mobile to let me know what you think if you have also been using it for about the same amount of time I would love to hear your comments to maybe you have a fix for that external microphone issue there's another way to do it it's not going to be external audio guys because I'm not gonna run external audio and sync it with this I'm sorry I'm just not but if you have a solution I'd love to hear it just let me know your thoughts in general about this or stabilisers find me in the comments or you can find me on twitter as well