jeff_kirkland
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The Osmo shoots at f/2.8 with a lens that's about a 24mm full frame equivalent. Shooting test charts is great to establish the limits of a camera, but to me they're sort of irrelevant because whatever a test chart may show to the pixel-peepers of the world, you just need to check out what people are shooting with it to know that, in the right hands, it's a very capable camera.
If you want to have any sort of control of the exposure outdoors, you will definitely need to buy a neutral density filter for it.
The Osmo X3 is, as I think its intended to be, a great take anywhere, stabilised camera for travellers, bloggers and anyone else who really just needs a point and shoot camera. The X5 is aimed more at professional shooters but it'll have a price to match.
In a professional production context, I have three canon DSLRs, a couple of GH4s, a few Go-Pros and a Sony FS100. The Osmo isn't a replacement for any of them, it's a new tool that does a different job. It's the gimbal mounted point and shoot b-cam that I can grab out of the bag, get a few shots that only a gimbal mounted camera could do, then go back to shooting with whatever main camera I'm using that day.
If you wait five minutes, there's always going to be a newer camera with better features but the Osmo is cheap and ticked all the boxes as far as I was concerned - so buying one was a no-brainier. As to Osmo or Black Magic camera... They are completely different beasts, designed to do entirely different jobs so that's an apples and oranges comparison. That's a decision about what it is you need to shoot with the camera.
I'll leave it to the test chart fanciers to argue the merits of the camera - meanwhile, I'll be out using my Osmo as the great little no-fuss b-camera that it is.
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