DJI Osmo Pocket 4P

Price and Availability

• Standard Combo: From £529 / €599
• Vlog Combo: From £605 / €689
• Not currently available in the US

The Osmo Pocket 4P starts at £529 for the Standard Combo, rising to £605 for the Vlog Combo, which includes extras like the FrameTap remote, a fill light, a DJI Mic Mini 2 transmitter, a handle extender with a tripod mount, and a mini tripod. That’s the bundle I was sent to test, and if you don’t already own an external mic, it does feel like a useful set of add-ons rather than filler.

Either way, you’re paying a decent premium over the standard Pocket 4, which starts at £429 and tops out at £549 for its own Creator Combo. On the other hand, the Pocket 4P is much cheaper than the Insta360 Luna Ultra, which starts at £649 in the UK.

As with all recent DJI releases, the Pocket 4P isn’t officially launching in the US, at least not yet.

Design and Build Quality

• Around 40g heavier than the standard Pocket 4
• Same rotating touchscreen and joystick control layout
• Still comfortably pocketable

On the design front, it’s still very much an Osmo Pocket: small, lightweight and easy to hold and operate one-handed. It will, indeed, comfortably fit in your pocket. It’s a little heavier and slightly less discreet than the standard Pocket 4, though – and why wouldn’t it be, given it’s carrying a whole extra camera lens? At around 40g more than the Pocket 4, it’s a weight difference that barely registered, but it’s there.

I mostly used it with the handle extender and mini tripod attached, as I not only find it more comfortable to hold with the extra grip, but like having the option to set it up on a flat surface at a moment’s notice. Obviously, these accessories do add a little to the weight and size, but it’s nothing too egregious. 

Build quality remains excellent, as I’ve come to expect from DJI. The screen rotates easily but with a satisfyingly weighty feel, and everything about the Pocket 4P feels solid and sturdy, despite the more complex gimbal arrangement now having to shepherd two lenses rather than just the one.

Compared with the Luna Ultra, the two cameras end up in a similar place on weight: Insta360’s effort is around 230g too.

Features and Performance

• ActiveTrack 8.0 includes telephoto and multi-person tracking
• 103GB internal storage, plus microSD up to 1TB
• Real-world battery life of around 140 minutes at 4K/60fps

In many ways, the Pocket 4P is functionally identical to the standard Pocket 4, and if you’ve read my colleague Cam Bunton’s review of that camera, you’ll already be familiar with how it performs when it comes to general stabilisation and tracking. The Pocket 4 is a master at both, and that carries over here.

There’s a small upgrade to tracking, though, with ActiveTrack 8.0 replacing the Pocket 4’s 7.0 version. It supports telephoto tracking – useful, given how central the dual-lens setup is to the Pocket 4P’s whole appeal – along with multi-person tracking.

In practice, this means you can zoom in on a subject with the 60mm lens and still trust the gimbal to keep them locked in frame, which obviously wasn’t something the standard Pocket 4’s single wide-angle lens really needed to worry about. Still, the multi-person tracking is handy if you like shooting group videos.

Built-in storage remains generous, at around 100GB internal plus a microSD slot supporting up to 1TB more, and the battery is the same 1545mAh cell as the standard Pocket 4. DJI quotes up to 210 minutes of use, but that’s based on 1080p/24fps with the screen and Wi-Fi off.

In my own home testing, shooting 4K/60fps with nothing turned off, the battery dropped from 100 to 78% over roughly 32 minutes – so expect closer to 140 minutes of real-world 4K/60fps recording on a full charge.

The 240fps slow-motion mode on the main camera is superb, but it comes with a few caveats worth flagging. You have to use the standard colour profile to shoot it – no HDR, no D-Log or D-Log 2 – so if you like to grade your own footage, that’s a limitation.

The 60mm lens is also capped at 200fps rather than 240fps at 4K, and slow-mo is only available in landscape orientation, meaning anything destined for social media in 9:16 will need cropping down after the fact rather than being shot vertically from the off.

If you want to control the camera remotely, you’ve got DJI’s Mimo mobile app or the bundled FrameTap remote, which was originally designed for the Osmo Mobile 8P smartphone stabiliser.

It works well enough, but with nowhere to dock it on the Pocket 4P itself, it feels slightly out of place – almost like an afterthought. I suspect this is DJI’s answer to the Luna Ultra’s removable touchscreen remote, but it’s nowhere near as elegant a solution. It does the job, though you’ll want to make sure you don’t lose it.

Image and Video Quality

• New 1-inch sensor delivers 17 stops of dynamic range
• 60mm f/1.8 lens brings smooth bokeh
• D-Log 2 shooting comes with some workflow restrictions

The standard wide-angle camera uses a new 1-inch CMOS sensor offering 17 stops of dynamic range – a significant jump over the 14 stops on the standard Pocket 4’s sensor. It also supports the new D-Log 2 colour profile, alongside HDR and regular D-Log.

The second lens adds a medium-telephoto camera with a 1/1.28-inch sensor and a large f/1.8 aperture, giving a 60mm-equivalent field of view – or, put another way, a 3x optical zoom over the wide-angle camera.

That’s handy for portraits or simply getting closer to a subject than the 20mm camera allows, and there’s digital zoom up to 12x on top, which held up better than I expected: I didn’t notice too much loss of detail even fully zoomed in, which isn’t always the case with digital zoom on cameras like this. Things certainly get a little softer, but it’s still usable.

That f/1.8 aperture on the 60mm lens also delivers some smooth background bokeh, which can nicely isolate a subject. It’s a real boost for portrait-style photos and video.

Stills have never really been the Pocket series’ strength, but the 60mm lens makes the 4P far more viable for photography than previous models. I was genuinely impressed by the detail and colour in the 37MP stills, not to mention the bokeh, and found myself taking far more photos during testing than I expected to.

That said, I suspect the 20mm camera will remain the main attraction for most buyers. Its wider field of view suits self-shooting and vlogging better, and the larger sensor is a tangible upgrade over the standard Pocket 4’s own 20mm camera.

The 60mm lens might be the headline-grabber, but I think most people will still use the 20mm more often – though that obviously depends on what you’re shooting. If wildlife or garden macro footage is more your thing than vlogging, the tighter 60mm plus digital zoom will likely become your default instead.

Where things get more complicated is D-Log 2. Shoot in it, and you lose access to the zoom lens entirely, while 4K recording is capped at 30fps. Regular D-Log doesn’t carry those restrictions. I took a mix of D-Log 2 and D-Log footage into DaVinci Resolve, using a combination of DJI’s official LUTs and my own modest colour grading skills, and came away impressed – D-Log 2 is a great option for anyone serious about post-production.

That said, for anyone who just wants to shoot and go, the standard 10-bit colour profile is excellent too, and footage looks good straight out of the camera without any grading at all. And if you do want to give your videos a more striking “look”, there’s a range of preset Film Tones to cycle through.

The dedicated Low Light video mode tops out at 4K 30fps, and doesn’t allow for different colour modes or Film Tones, but it does a fantastic job of delivering crisp, clear and punchy video in near-darkness. You can use both the cameras, too – so you aren’t limited to just the 20mm camera’s 1-inch sensor. You can see some examples of twilight and nighttime footage that I shot using this mode in the embedded video here, and I was impressed by the clarity and detail.

On the audio front, the Pocket 4P’s front and rear mics are perfectly serviceable, though you’ll get noticeably better results with one of DJI’s wireless mic transmitters. I tested the Mic Mini 2, included in the Vlog Combo, and it’s a significant step up from the internal mics, with a fuzzy windshield that does a superb job of cutting wind noise.

The built-in mics do have their own wind noise reduction setting, but it struggled on the blustery coast where I live – wind noise was still clearly audible in my recordings without the external mic attached.

The Pocket 4P doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and it’s worth being clear about how it stacks up next to its two closest rivals.

Against the standard Osmo Pocket 4, the case for paying more is straightforward: you’re getting a telephoto lens equivalent to a 3x optical zoom, a jump from 14 to 17 stops of dynamic range, D-Log 2, and smarter ActiveTrack 8.0 tracking, for around £100 more depending on the bundle. If portability and simplicity matter most to you, the standard Pocket 4 remains an excellent and cheaper choice. If you need more creative range, the 4P is worth the upgrade.

Against the Insta360 Luna Ultra, the comparison is more interesting. Insta360’s camera shoots up to 8K, has a clever detachable touchscreen remote, and impressed Trusted Reviews’ Michael Sawh in his review.

But I don’t see the resolution gap as much of an issue for DJI here: 8K sounds appealing on paper, but the files are enormous and taxing to edit for very little real-world payoff over 4K, which the vast majority of people will never max out anyway. The Pocket 4P is also considerably cheaper than the Luna Ultra – £529 against £649 – and DJI’s FrameTap remote, while less elegant than Insta360’s detachable screen, gets the job done without the Luna Ultra’s added bulk and quirks around gimbal smoothness.

Put simply: the Luna Ultra may be a more ambitious product, but the Pocket 4P feels like the more complete, more dependable one.

Should you buy it?