740th: New video expression with camera with stabilizer! Possibilities seen in DJI Osmo

I think it was first announced at CES 2015, but this time we're talking about DJI's Osmo 4K camera with a gimbal. It was released in October last year, and it feels like it's too late, but I've come to this point with the thought that I'll have to review it someday.

DJI is a drone maker known for its Phantom series, but you can understand that Osmo is a handheld camera that removes the gimbal and camera parts that are installed under the drone and makes it handy. right.

SteadyCam can be said to be the original hardware mechanism for correcting camera shake. This is a mechanism that absorbs camera shake mainly by the force of the spring, and it is quite large-scale. Currently, the patent has expired, and many similar products have appeared from other companies.

MoVI, announced in 2013, is known as a camera rig system that uses a gimbal mechanism. Since then, many similar products have continued to be developed, as if that was the case. As for small ones, stick-type ones for GoPro are now available for around 30,000 yen.

DJI Osmo is a well-known small type "Zenmuse X3", but from the gimbal part to the camera part can be removed and replaced. Originally, the camera unit of the Zenmuse X3 is the camera unit for the latest drone "Inspire 1" and is shared with Osmo.

As a replacement unit, the “Zenmuse X5” and “Zenmuse X5 R” that can use Micro Four Thirds lenses are also on sale, and can be installed on the Osmo. This time we will test the model with Zenmuse X3.

The list price is 85,000 yen, and the set includes a camera + gimbal, a holder for fixing a smartphone, a battery, and a charger. If you already have a camera and a gimbal part, the set of stick part, smartphone holder, battery and charger is 36,000 yen. At this price even on the mail order site, there is little price movement. Let's check the details such as image quality and usability.