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 digicam 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 assist for the DJI Mic 2 wi-fi microphone, and you’ve got a digicam 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 digicam marketplace for its battery life. It will probably shoot effectively over two hours at 4K decision and 60 frames per second, which is way and away the longest run time of any motion digicam I’ve ever examined (and I’ve examined lots). I point out this primary as a result of one thing that always will get misplaced in critiques and spec comparisons is the straightforward proven fact that any footage is best 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 shade mode, however I will take it over no footage in any respect, which is what the GoPro Hero 13 would provide me after the 1-hour-and-45-minute recording mark when its battery would die and the digicam 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 may be an important consider getting the photographs you need.
The Osmo’s digicam design hasn’t modified—the physique is flippantly textured, making it simple to carry, and it stays the identical dimension, retaining the magnetic mounting system. (I’ve all the time appreciated 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, all the things 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.
