DJI’s new Osmo Motion 5 Professional is right here to compete with the brand new GoPro Hero 13 Black. The corporate’s newest motion digital camera is smaller and lighter, has 47 GB of built-in storage, and has battery life that GoPro house owners do not even dare to dream about.
Throw in a brand new, higher-resolution picture sensor, improved low-light capabilities, topic monitoring, and out-of-the-box help for the DJI Mic 2 wi-fi microphone, and you’ve got a digital camera that is not solely able to getting that shot however has the battery life to maintain getting the shot lengthy after the competitors has shut down.
Go Longer
The Osmo Motion 5 Professional stands out from the remainder of the motion digital camera market for its battery life. It will possibly shoot properly over two hours at 4K decision and 60 frames per second, which is way and away the longest run time of any motion digital camera I’ve ever examined (and I’ve examined quite a bit). I point out this primary as a result of one thing that usually will get misplaced in critiques and spec comparisons is the straightforward undeniable fact that any footage is best than no footage.
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To offer a concrete instance, I do not love the colour rendering of the Osmo Motion 5 Professional in 10-bit Regular coloration mode, however I will take it over no footage in any respect, which is what the GoPro Hero 13 would supply me after the 1-hour-and-45-minute recording mark when its battery would die and the digital camera would shut off. Battery life issues, and within the case of motion cameras, given that each one else—sensors, stabilization, ergonomics—could be so comparable, it is perhaps an important think about getting the photographs you need.
The Osmo’s digital camera design hasn’t modified—the physique is frivolously textured, making it simple to carry, and it stays the identical measurement, retaining the magnetic mounting system. (I’ve all the time favored that the cage for the Motion sequence permits each vertical and horizontal mounting.) Whereas I haven’t got any equipment apart from some neutral-density (ND) filters, every little thing that matches your Motion 4 ought to proceed to work with the Motion 5. And the extra succesful battery? It is backward suitable with the Motion 4.
