DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Review: The Best Gimbal Camera of 2026?

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Review: How Good Is the New Pro Model? 2026 seems to be shaping up to be something of a year for gimbal cameras. Back in April, DJI released a pretty exciting update with its new version, the Osmo Pocket 4 (our review). Insta360 is also working on a competitor with the Luna Ultra. Now comes a true revolution: The new DJI Osmo Pocket 4P, officially unveiled in June, is set to impress even the most demanding vloggers thanks to a second lens, higher dynamic range, and other improvements. I’ve had the chance to test the camera extensively over the past few weeks and compare it to the DJI Osmo Pocket 4. In this Osmo Pocket 4P review, you’ll learn everything you need to know.

Technical Specifications of the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P

Product:	Osmo Pocket 4P
Dimensions:	159.5 × 63.3 × 33.5 mm
Weight:	230 g
Sensor:	Wide-angle: 1-inch CMOS (f/2.0) Medium telephoto: 1/1.28-inch CMOS (f/1.8)
Video Modes:	4K (16:9): 3840×2160@24/25/30/48/50/60fps 1080p (16:9): 1920×1080@24/25/30/48/50/60 fps 3K (9:16): 1728×3072@24/25/30/48/50/60 fps 1080p (9:16): 1080×1920@24/25/30/48/50/60fps
Slow Motion:	Wide-angle: 4K (16:9): 3840×2160@100/120/200/240fps; 1080p: 1920×1080@120/240fps Medium telephoto: 4K (16:9): 3840×2160@100/120/200fps; 1080p: 1920×1080@120/240fps
Video format:	MP4 (HEVC)
Photo resolution	7,680 × 4,320 pixels (≈ 37 MP)
Photo format:	JPEG, DNG, JPEG+DNG
Storage:	103 GB internal storage
Storage expansion:	microSD (up to 1 TB)
Display:	2-inch touchscreen; 556 × 314 pixels; 1,000 nits
Battery:	Li-ion; 1,545 mAh; up to 210 minutes of runtime
Connectivity:	USB-C, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax; Bluetooth LE 5.4
Waterproof:	No
Price:	???

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P vs. 4 vs. 3: A Comparison of the Gimbal Cameras

But before we dive into the new DJI Osmo Pocket 4P, it’s worth taking a look at the most important new features compared to the DJI Osmo Pocket 4, as well as its predecessor, the Osmo Pocket 3. The DJI Osmo Pocket 4P is the biggest innovation in the series to date: Instead of a single lens, it features—for the first time—a dual-camera system with a wide-angle lens (20 mm, f/2.0) and a medium-telephoto lens (60 mm, f/1.8). It’s ideal for cinematic shots and portraits with a telephoto effect. It also features an improved 1-inch sensor with 17 stops of dynamic range, the new 10-bit D-Log 2 color profile, ActiveTrack 8.0 with telephoto and multi-person tracking, and a 3x optical zoom (up to 12x digital) via the medium-telephoto lens.

So it’s clear: If you’re looking for maximum image quality and portrait-style optics, the 4P is your best bet. If you want a more affordable, compact all-around model, the Osmo Pocket 4 and Osmo Pocket 3 are still excellent choices. The new Osmo Pocket 4P remains surprisingly compact and, from a technical standpoint, delivers an impressive overall package.

Feature	Osmo Pocket 4P (Dual Camera)	Osmo Pocket 4 (1-inch)	Osmo Pocket 3 (1-inch)
Image Sensor	New 1-inch CMOS, 17 stops of dynamic range	New 1-inch CMOS, 14 stops of dynamic range	1-inch CMOS
Lens	Dual: Wide-angle 20 mm f/2.0 (0.2 m–∞) + Medium telephoto 60 mm f/1.8 (0.3 m–∞)	Single: 20 mm f/2.0 (0.2 m–∞)	Single: 20 mm f/2.0 (0.2 m–∞)
Max. Recording	Wide-angle up to 4K/240 fps, medium telephoto up to 4K/200 fps	4K/240 fps	4K/120 fps
Color mode	10-bit D-Log 2	10-bit D-Log	HLG / D-Log M
ActiveTrack	8.0 (with telephoto & multi-person tracking)	7.0	6.0
Zoom	Medium-telephoto 3x optical, up to 12x digital; zoom during recording, ActiveTrack, D-Log & photos	2x lossless; zoom during recording, ActiveTrack, D-Log & photos	2x lossless; limited (not available in low-light, slow-mo, time-lapse, ActiveTrack, D-Log, or photo modes)
Glamour Effects & Filters	App Glamour Effects, In-Camera Skin Softening, Film Tones	App Glamour Effects, In-Camera Skin Softening, Film Tones	App Glamour Effects
Storage & Transfer	103 GB internal; Wi-Fi 6 & USB 3.1 (wireless up to 90 MB/s, wired up to 800 MB/s)	107 GB internal; Wi-Fi 6 & USB 3.1 (up to 90 / 800 MB/s)	No internal storage; Wi-Fi 5.0 & USB 2.0
Photo resolution	37 MP, 4K Live Photo	37 MP, 4K Live Photo	approx. 9.4 MP
Battery	1545 mAh	1,545 mAh	—
Weight	230 g	190.5 g	179 g

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Review: Barely Larger Than the Osmo Pocket 4

When I unboxed the Osmo Pocket 4P on my last trip and compared it right away to the Osmo Pocket 4 I’d recently tested, I immediately felt the difference in my hand. DJI confidently markets the device as a “Dual-Lens Cinematic Pocket Gimbal Camera.” This claim is, of course, reflected in its dimensions: While the standard Pocket 4 weighs a slim 190.5 grams and is 144.2 mm long, the Pocket 4P tips the scales at exactly 230 grams and measures 159.5 × 63.3 × 33.5 mm. This slight increase in size is due to the more complex optics, but it feels extremely high-quality and perfectly balanced.

The fantastic display remains identical—and that’s a major plus. Both models feature the bright 2.0-inch touchscreen, which has a resolution of 556 × 314 pixels and boasts a brilliant 1,000 nits of brightness. The physical buttons below the display represent a significant improvement in day-to-day use. The left zoom button allows you to instantly switch between the wide-angle and telephoto lenses (1x to 3x) with a simple click. A double-click jumps to a 6x zoom, while a long press ensures silky-smooth, even zoom movements.

The right-hand, freely programmable custom button can be configured in the drop-down menu for single, double, or triple clicks—from gimbal centering to switching between C1/C2 profiles to activating the clip-on light. This haptic feedback, combined with a mechanical pan range of -240° to 90° and a blazing-fast control speed of 180°/s, makes it incredibly intuitive to use for everyday vlogging. In the standard combo package, DJI also includes useful accessories such as a 1/4-inch threaded grip and a compact carrying case.

The only thing that really annoys me about the Osmo Pocket 4P is the lack of a gimbal guard. This feature made its debut in the Osmo Pocket 4 and allowed you to lock the gimbal in place using a small plastic clip. This protected the lens during transport. Anyone who’s used the Osmo Pocket 3 knows how quickly the small camera head can shift on its own when carried in a bag or backpack. Unfortunately, the 4P lacks a corresponding clamp and/or cover. Both lenses are always exposed, which can quickly lead to scuffs and scratches.

Features and New Features of the Osmo Pocket 4P

This is where the fundamental difference between the two models lies. In my test, the DJI Osmo Pocket 4 already delivered outstanding results with its 1-inch sensor and 20-mm fixed focal length. However, the Osmo Pocket 4P almost eclipses this, as it incorporates a true physical dual-camera system in which both lenses operate independently and switch seamlessly, without ever recording simultaneously.

The camera system in detail:

• The wide-angle lens: Features a massive 1-inch CMOS sensor with a 20 mm equivalent focal length and an f/2.0 aperture. It focuses as close as 0.2 meters and is ideal for expansive landscapes and group vlogs.
• The telephoto lens: For cinematic portraits and distant details, a brand-new 60-mm medium telephoto lens (optical, not a digital crop!) with its own 1/1.28-inch sensor is available. A particularly fast f/1.8 aperture with a focus range starting at 0.3 meters creates a natural background blur that isolates the subject in an extremely professional way.

Another massive leap forward: While the Osmo Pocket 4 already boosted the dynamic range to a very impressive 14 f-stops compared to its predecessors, the Pocket 4P’s performance has literally skyrocketed. The camera extracts a whopping 17 f-stops of dynamic range from its sensors.

In addition, the 4P now supports dynamic “Live Photos” directly from the camera. Since this is a dynamic format, DJI allows for tremendous flexibility here with up to 12x zoom. For traditional, static photos, however, a stricter quality standard applies, which is why the zoom has been limited to 9x to maintain image sharpness.

For hassle-free data management, the 4P features not only a microSD slot (up to 1 TB) but also a massive 107 GB of internal storage, which delivers transfer speeds of up to 800 MB/s via cable for lightning-fast backups. For vloggers, the new “Selfie Flip” feature is also worth its weight in gold, as it horizontally flips the image during selfies.

When it comes to tracking, the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P has an extra ace up its sleeve. That’s because the new gimbal camera supports the compact FrameTap screen, which we’re already familiar with from the Osmo Mobile 8P gimbal (our review) and which is conveniently included in the Vlog Combo. It’s a detachable remote control that lets you operate the camera from a distance and adjust the framing. The module features a small touchscreen display and allows you to take photos and videos, switch between portrait and landscape modes, and adjust gimbal settings from up to ten meters away.

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P: Battery Life

Anyone who films a lot while traveling needs to be able to rely on their equipment without compromise. Like the Osmo Pocket 4, the Osmo Pocket 4P features a built-in battery. Although the sophisticated dual-sensor architecture and the motors for mode switching consume power, my hands-on tests have shown that DJI has mastered power management.

The energy efficiency of the new smart features is particularly noteworthy. When using automatic background transfer (Seamless Transfer) to a smartphone, power consumption remains remarkably low. As soon as the files are transferred, the camera enters an energy-saving deep sleep mode. Even if a transfer fails due to a lost connection, a safety mechanism kicks in to ensure that the battery drain caused by the attempt remains below 5 percent.

Nevertheless, the dual-lens setup is naturally a bit more power-hungry than in the case of the Osmo Pocket 4, so the runtime here drops from 240 minutes to around 210 minutes. That’s still a very good figure. On the other hand, the camera charges to full capacity incredibly quickly. A full charge takes just 32 minutes (assuming you’re using a compatible 65-watt power adapter). The Osmo Pocket 4P charges from 0 to 80 percent capacity in 18 minutes.

App Integration: DJI Mimo

Connecting to a smartphone via the DJI Mimo app is quite convenient for modern creators, although the app isn’t necessary to use the camera. This is where the Pocket 4P showcases what is arguably its greatest software feature: the “Seamless Transfer” function. Unlike the standard Pocket 4, which requires both devices to remain actively paired and powered on, the Pocket 4P establishes a connection completely silently in the background. Even with the camera screen turned off, newly captured Live Photos are transferred to the phone in a mere 0.5 seconds, and regular, extremely high-resolution photos in about 1.5 seconds.

To prevent accidentally filling up your smartphone’s storage, you can set a storage limit in the app that pauses the transfer in time. The only downside: At launch, this groundbreaking feature is officially available only for iPhones running iOS 26 or later. Otherwise, the app offers the familiar features such as advanced camera settings, live streaming, direct clip transfer, and control via smartphone.

If you prefer, you can also use the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P entirely without the app, which works just as well. Personally, I didn’t actually use the app at all during my test, since I tend to edit my videos on a PC or laptop. But if you’d like, you can also do that in Mimo.

Image and Audio Quality of the Osmo Pocket 4P

If there’s one area where the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P impressively lives up to its “Pro” moniker and highlights the difference from the already excellent Osmo Pocket 4, it’s the uncompromising image and audio quality. Here, DJI has put together a true cinematic powerhouse that pushes the boundaries of what we’ve come to expect from pocket-sized cameras. Basically, the 4P can do everything the Osmo Pocket 4 can do—and then some.

At the heart of this leap in quality is the true physical dual-camera system, which combines two dedicated optical lenses, each with its own high-performance sensor. We can quickly dismiss the 20-mm wide-angle camera, as it’s identical to its counterpart in the Osmo Pocket 4 (with the exception of the improved dynamic range). The new zoom lens is, of course, much more interesting.

This is the real star for content creators. Instead of a digital zoom, the Pocket 4P uses a true optical lens with its own 1/1.28-inch CMOS sensor. Thanks to the very large f/1.8 aperture, it produces a silky-smooth, completely natural background blur (bokeh) that fantastically separates the subject from the background, especially in portrait shots. The typical, flat “smartphone look” is now a thing of the past.

Of course, the lens is also ideal for zoomed shots. Until now, anyone wanting to film themselves in a landscape, for example, had to stand—well—very close to the camera due to the wide-angle lens. Thanks to the 3x optical zoom and 12x digital zoom, that’s no longer necessary, of course, which opens up many new possibilities.

The engineers deserve high praise for the factory calibration: The color profiles of both sensors are so strictly and precisely matched that there are virtually no visual jumps in image tone or white balance when switching seamlessly between lenses. While the standard Osmo Pocket 4 already delivers a remarkable 14 stops of dynamic range with its 10-bit D-Log profile, the Pocket 4P really kicks it into high gear here. The wide-angle lens benefits from the brand-new D-Log 2 color profile and unleashes a massive dynamic range of up to 17 stops.

What does that mean in practice? If I’m filming at noon in a dark alley with a bright sky in the background, the highlights in the clouds no longer blow out (no pure white areas), while the face in the shadows retains all its details. For professional editors, this D-Log 2 footage offers incredible headroom during color grading to create the perfect, cinematic “look.”

Action and sports vloggers will love the frame rates. DJI has further optimized the series’ already absurd slow-motion capabilities. With the wide-angle lens, you can record razor-sharp 4K videos at an incredible 240 frames per second, which corresponds to an extremely smooth 8x slow motion. The 60-mm standard lens is hardly outdone, delivering a smooth 200 fps in 4K resolution (also for 8x slow motion).

Impressive Audio Quality

All these visual superlatives would be useless if the camera sounded like a tin can. The Osmo Pocket 4P features a total of three microphones that ensure outstanding audio quality. The microphones precisely capture surround sound, isolate the speaker’s voice very clearly, and effectively dampen light ambient noise as well as distracting wind.

The camera also benefits from its compatibility with DJI’s own ecosystem: Just like with the base model, external microphones such as the DJI Mic 3 can be seamlessly paired directly with the camera without any annoying dongles or cables. The Vlog Combo also includes the DJI Mic Mini 2, which was launched in April. It delivers excellent sound, although I’m a bit surprised that the manufacturer included “only” the Mic Mini 2 here and not, as with the Osmo Pocket 4, the higher-end Mic 3. But oh well.

This means that when traveling, you can rely entirely on the internal microphone array, but for interviews or extremely noisy environments, you always have the option to instantly expand your setup with a professional, wireless audio system.

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P Review: Conclusion

After shooting countless travel clips, delving deep into the menu structures, and directly comparing it to the Osmo Pocket 4, I can draw a clear conclusion. For the vast majority of content creators, the standard DJI Osmo Pocket 4 remains a revolutionary camera with an extremely fair price point that leaves little to be desired in the realm of mobile vlogging.

The DJI Osmo Pocket 4P, on the other hand, is a dedicated, uncompromising production tool for film enthusiasts and discerning professionals who are no longer satisfied with the typical wide-angle smartphone look. The integration of a true 60-mm optical lens enables cinematic portraits with a natural, deep bokeh that could never be reproduced digitally. Coupled with the excellent dynamic range of 17 stops provided by the D-Log 2 profile, ingenious workflow improvements like “Seamless Transfer,” and further-enhanced tracking, the 4P’s premium status is justified in every respect.

If you’re looking for the ultimate pocket-sized camera with absolutely no technical compromises, go for the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P without hesitation. Everyone else will, of course, save money with the “regular” Osmo Pocket 4, while the Osmo Pocket 3 also remains a valid alternative.