I made a short video showing my latest rig with a Sennheiser  stereo shotgun mic connected to a Zoom H1N, with an iPhone and the Pocket.  One feature of the setup is that the Zoom recorder is mounted vertically so that the controls and display are facing me when in use.  The mic, obviously, points forward to the sound source.  The mic can be fitted with a dead cat windshield for outdoor use.


Apart from the rig itself, the video shows the Pocket gimbal doing its thing rather well.  I simply used the tracking feature to track the rig as I waved it around in front of the bathroom mirror.  You can see the Pocket moving around, but the background staying pretty stable, even when I unfolded the legs of the mini tripod while recording.  It's less than 2 minutes.  Enjoy!

Nice setup, thanks for sharing

Hello and good day. Thank you for reaching out and for this wonderful setup that you have. Beautiful rig and thank you for your support.

Very cool set up

What gimbal mode are you using so it stays focus on the same direction?
In mine, in all the 3 modes the camera is always facing front of dji osmo pocket.

Thanks for sharing

Kihom Posted at 6-4 05:20
What gimbal mode are you using so it stays focus on the same direction?
In mine, in all the 3 modes the camera is always facing front of dji osmo pocket.

I probably used Follow Mode with the tracking on, locked onto the image of the Osmo in the mirror.

If you are having problems working out what the different gimbal modes mean, here's my standard explanation -

In FPV mode (which should have been called 'Unlocked' mode), the gimbal head will follow the direction of the camera handle without restriction - though the movement will be smoothed. It means that the Pocket will behave like any other camera, apart from the smoothed movement.

In Follow mode - which should have been called 'Horizon Lock' mode - the gimbal head will always stay horizontal. This means that you don't have to worry about keeping the horizon straight. The camera will look after itself in that respect, and that's handy because with the tiny screen, it's hard to tell if the horizon is exactly straight or not. Note that "Follow Mode" has nothing at all to do with tracking a face or other subject. This mode is perhaps the most often used.

In Tilt Lock mode, which should have been called 'Tilt and Horizon Lock' mode (except that's too long) the camera behaves the same as in Follow mode (horizon always straight) but in addition, the gimbal will point ahead in one direction. If you move the handle, you won't be able to point the camera up to the sky or down to your feet. You can set it to straight ahead using the 'recenter' option, and you can adjust it down to your feet or up to the sky using the little slider on the right side of the screen. It will then stay pointing at the sky or your feet (or anywhere between) regardless of handle movement.

In all these modes, it's always possible to pan the camera from side to side. If you want to lock that axis as well as the axes locked by Tilt Lock, you'll have to use the controller wheel accessory and hold down the right hand button on the controller. That makes the camera point in a constant direction, regardless of how you move the handle, thus preventing panning.

Hope that helps.

Very interesting rig. Got curious about that Sennheiser mic of yours. I use the MKE 600 which I like a lot, but I didn't now that they make a stereo shotgun microphone as well (except for the rather odd looking MKE 440).

Cool interesting setup. I'm going for the Mke400 mic