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 could shoot nicely 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 loads). I point out this primary as a result of one thing that always will get misplaced in evaluations and spec comparisons is the easy incontrovertible fact that any footage is healthier than no footage.
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To supply 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 every one else—sensors, stabilization, ergonomics—might be so comparable, it is perhaps an important think about getting the pictures you need.
The Osmo’s digital camera design hasn’t modified—the physique is calmly textured, making it straightforward to carry, and it stays the identical dimension, retaining the magnetic mounting system. (I’ve at all times preferred that the cage for the Motion collection permits each vertical and horizontal mounting.) Whereas I haven’t got any equipment aside from some neutral-density (ND) filters, every thing that matches your Motion 4 ought to proceed to work with the Motion 5. And the extra succesful battery? It is backward appropriate with the Motion 4.
