DJI’s baby steadicam Osmo Pocket 3 has so many upgrades, I don’t know where to begin

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A camera attached to an arm attached to another arm in a gimbal configuration, connected to a stick with a rotating screen on it and joystick and button below that.
The DJI Osmo Pocket 3.
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Five years ago, DJI paired its super-stable drone cameras with a postage-stamp-size screen to create the Osmo Pocket, a tiny vlogger cam. It was neat, and its successor had a handful of key improvements.

But the new Osmo Pocket 3, announced and shipping today, has more than a handful.

While the baby steadicam now starts at $519 — a huge hike over its $349 predecessors — it’s got a way larger sensor, way larger touchscreen, faster autofocus, far faster charging, more battery life, built-in wireless, built-in joystick, a third microphone, and a nifty rotating screen that satisfyingly clicks into portrait or landscape while automatically switching your filming aspect ratio.

Portrait mode.

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