DJI Added a Dedicated Focus and Zoom Knob to its Stabilized Telescoping Smartphone Selfie Stick

Last yr, DJI took its smartphone stabilizer in a distinct route and turned the Osmo Mobile 5 right into a super-powered extending selfie stick. For the brand new Osmo Mobile 6, the corporate is sticking with that strategy, with some refinements that embrace a brand new standing show and a devoted knob for zooms and focus pulls.

Like the OM 5, the brand new OM 6 incorporates a design with additional articulation and hinges in order that it’s light-weight—300 grams with out a smartphone connected—and able to folding sufficiently small to slide right into a pocket.

DJI’s definition of a pocket most likely doesn’t take a pair of thin denims into consideration, however given the three electrical motors hidden contained in the OM 6’s pivoting joints that permit it to cancel out undesirable actions, it’s most likely about as small as a tool like this could get whereas nonetheless having arms sturdy sufficient to help immediately’s outsized smartphones.

Part of the OM 6’s folding prowess comes from the truth that its adjustable smartphone clamp, which might now unfold even wider to accommodate telephones in thick protecting instances, is magnetically connected and might be left on the telephone as a substitute of on the tip of the stabilized arm. DJI additionally guarantees that iPhone customers can begin taking pictures “three times quicker than previous models” with the OM 6, as a result of attaching the clamp to its magnetic mount robotically triggers the DJI Mimo app to enter its digital camera mode.

The five-section telescoping arm that makes it simpler to seize bigger group shot selfie movies or movie from increased or decrease views has apparently been a preferred sufficient characteristic for it to stay round, however it nonetheless comes with a battery life trade-off. The non-telescoping OM 4 provided as much as 15 hours of battery life, however just like the OM 5, the brand new OM 6 maxes out at round six hours and 24 minutes–an oddly particular estimate that may actually range relying on how arduous the stabilizing motors must work.

Most of the OM 6’s updates appear minimal and don’t fairly justify the stabilizer’s $159 price ticket, up from $139 for the earlier mannequin. But the inclusion of a small standing panel show that signifies which of the 4 gimbal modes the stabilizer is in—Follow, Tilt Lock, FPV, or SpinShot—is a welcome improve, because it removes the guesswork about how the connected smartphone goes to react to actions. Creative varieties can even be comfortable to see the addition of the Osmo Mobile 6’s Side Wheel, which can be utilized to shortly modify focal size, easily zoom out and in within the DJI Mimo app, and even change to a handbook focus mode for dramatic Hollywood-style focus pulls and divulges.

The DJI Osmo Mobile 6 is on the market for pre-order now via DJI’s online store for $159, and consists of the magnetic smartphone clamp, energy cable, storage pouch, and a set of brief tripod ft that may be connected to the underside of the deal with, permitting the stabilizer for use hands-free.