It's been a year since I posted my Pocket 2 review Part 1 here.

Link to previous posting



It's late already but here I conclude my review Part 2...





Overall, I don't own Pocket 2 any more...
After many defects I received... I had to let it go...



1st Defect
(SN. 3PYCHAQ00A4775)



Scratch & dust inside lens.


2nd Defect
(SN. 3PYCH9K00A0764)



Also dust inside lens.



3rd Defect
(SN. 3PYCHAD00A0907)



Glue like substence inside the center of the lens.


4th Defect
(SN. 3PYCHBE00A4597)


Lens was ok but it had shakey gimbal mount.

5th Defect
(SN. ???)


Also had a dust inside lens.

6th Defect
(SN. 3PYCHB900A3379)


The most dusty lens so far...




DJI was paitient enough to give me 5 replacement Pocket 2...
But I was unluckey enough not getting one without a defect.

It was a year ago when Pocket 2 first came out and I think this defect was an isolated incident since I don't see any other with same problem.

I just wanted to update what happened.

So sad............

Talk about a streak of bad luck... sorry to see your problems. No wonder if you are disheartened after all of this.

You would have thought after the second one someone would have inspected what the sent out. I thought i had bad luck.
Edit after watching your video i see you pocked them up from the store, such a pity you hit a bad batch?

Hello there Tide. I am sorry for read and to know about these information that you had with the DJI Pocket 2 and this is not the experience we want you to have with DJI. If you have concerns or any issue that we can help you with kindly please contact our DJI Support Team at https://www.dji.com/support?site=brandsite&from=nav . Again, I am sorry for the trouble this has caused and thank you.

Seems you had a lot of bad luck with yours!

I have to say I have looked for new videos from you from time to time but now I am glad to see that you are alive and hopefully well, even if none of your Pockets are!  It's a very sad story.  A number of reviewers whose opinions I trust continue to re-review the Pocket 2 (and 1) in glowing terms.  And of courseI love mine.  But I confess that despite that passion on my side, I have never looked deep into their eyes to see if there is any dust or other contaminants in there.   I really hope that even now, DJI will send you one that has been inspected by some employee who knows that one speck of dust would represent a career decision..


Best wishes!

So wait for the P3 I think.

What a string of bad luck.  Maybe when the Pocket 3 comes out you can try again.  I bought a used P2 and love it.

I look at my pocket today after 12 months and I cannot see as much of a spec of dust and no scratches, even magnifying its very clean. Because of your problems last year its something I’ve regularly checked and no problems. the OP2 is really excellent camera, yes some SW problems particularly for some bloggers. But overall its a camera that offers a lot to its users.
You have had extremely bad luck , but I wonder with the constant dust on the lens and scratches, was DJI manufacturing some OP in conditions not suited to such delicate manufacturing, where dust was prevalent in the air and overall conditions not conducive to correct manufacturing of this product.
You posted some great evidence and followed up by trying almost everything to allow dji to correct these problems without success. You are to be admired for your patience and diligence and if dji want to salvage anything from this it should be to award you with a FREE Gratis OA2.
I’m truly sorry you had this experience as we all know around here of your love for OP1 and your continued posts and participation here on this forum continually helping others was greatly missed. Hopefully OA2 will bring better memories for you “Good Luck”

DJI Stephen Posted at 10-18 19:47
Hello there Tide. I am sorry for read and to know about these information that you had with the DJI Pocket 2 and this is not the experience we want you to have with DJI. If you have concerns or any issue that we can help you with kindly please contact our DJI Support Team at https://www.dji.com/support?site=brandsite&from=nav . Again, I am sorry for the trouble this has caused and thank you.

Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the concern. It was unfortunate but I'm still looking forward to the new Action 2.

Tide Posted at 10-20 15:47
Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the concern. It was unfortunate but I'm still looking forward to the new Action 2.

Hi there Tide. Thank you for the reply and you are very much welcome. Again, thank you for your valued support and have a nice day.

Commiserations for your unfortunate experience.

No DJI customer should have to go through this much hurdle to get a satisfactory product. Worse of all, in your case, you didn't get a single good product after so many replacements.DJI, what is your official reply/comment? We, your customers want to know what's being done so this kind of sloppy workmanship is not a tradition of DJI.
I will be waiting to hear from DJI, not one of the moderators, and this will affect my decisions on the selection of any products from DJI.

I don't know why you have suddenly resurrected this old thread.  This is a discussion from many months ago and I don't recall anyone else reporting a similar experience.  I don't think there's now much more to be said on the subject.

fansfe82067d Posted at 6-13 15:16
I don't know why you have suddenly resurrected this old thread.  This is a discussion from many months ago and I don't recall anyone else reporting a similar experience.  I don't think there's now much more to be said on the subject.

I am not sure what happened to my an year old post. It just went up the thread and getting replies all the sudden.

May be a technical glitch on forum system?

"Psoon" seems to have resurrected it by responding above - about 8 months too late!  But hey, never mind, it gives me the chance to say hi, how are you, Captain Tide?  It's good to see you here - a rare pleasure these days!

fansfe82067d Posted at 6-13 20:23
"soon" seems to have resurrected it by responding above - about 8 months too late!  But hey, never mind, it gives me the chance to say hi, how are you, Captain Tide?  It's good to see you here - a rare pleasure these days!

Pleasure is mine fansfe. Wow it’s been 8 month already from my last posting. I met demanding but new and interesting work that time ago and had been pulled away from my routine. But when I was almost done with it, an email notification from a posting brought me back to the forum. How interesting the life is.