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Do not mistake new for better.
The Osmo Mobile 2 can shoot in portrait mode (if you really want to, though I honestly don’t see a reason to other than panoramas and selfies).
It has a handy tripod mount in the base.
It’s slightly lighter and stores more compact.
It has a (theoretically) very nice battery.
It can recharge your phone
Those are the only advantages that I see over the Osmo Mobile.
On the other hand, it has some MAJOR disadvantages:
It’s now plastic instead of metal
That battery is non removeable, so once it’s empty it’s empty, you can’t change it, you have to stop what your doing and recharge for 2 hours. If you do not have access to power (say you are hiking, camping, traveling in a remote area, or something like that), your out of luck, you now have a paper weight. The Osmo Mobile batteries don’t last as long but you can carry as many as you need. Also, if that battery goes bad, you have no way to replace it, your device is now trashed, not so with the Osmo Mobile.
The rosette mount has been eliminated so you cannot use ANY of the Osmo Accessories, save for the base, tripod, and vehicle mount if your feeling daring. Need to mount a light or external microphone? You can’t. Use the bike mount? Nope. Body mount? No. Extension rod (selfie stick)? Not that either. Nothing. Just the base and tripod.
The trigger has been eliminated and replaced with an awkward button (which used to be the shutter button).
The buttons have all been remapped. The shutter is now the trigger, the power switch is now a digital zoom control and has been moved to the other side, and the record button is now the record button AND the shutter button AND the power button.
The ergonomics suck, by most accounts.
It is a knockoff of the Smooth Q, which is itself a (bad) knockoff of the Osmo Mobile. |
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