motoscoddie
lvl.3
Australia
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Despite my Osmo seeming to be working correctly - as in the gimbal appears to be "stabilizing" - I'm getting very poor video results. No, not the corrupted video that some have experienced, but poor stabilization. In fact, I cannot tell much difference between a normal video camera and the Osmo for stability. Yes, I watched all of Annoying-Ty's tutorials, so I do walk with bent knees and I'm conscious of being smooth in my motion. I have also triple checked I have unlocked all three axes and done calibrations, etc. But I still just get appalling results!
Not only are my results showing a lack of stabilisation, there are some other issues with the Osmo that I am unhappy with:
I get regular beeps and "tap here to reset gimbal" (or something like that) messages in the Go app. Then the Osmo does a sort of reboot and then the video feed resets.
Battery life is appalling (as reported by others). Thankfully I bought a second battery.
The inbuilt microphone is a joke! All it provides is a constant recording of fan noise and unusable scene audio (plus the all too frequent beeping). Having a microphone jack means I may be able to attach my Rode video-mic. But I have no idea how. This lack of easily attaching an external mic means that the Osmo really is just another handheld drone camera that cannot create much other than scenes requiring post-production music.
The only thing that impresses me about the Osmo, is the Phone mount. What a quality engineered piece of equipment. Sadly, to me, it is attached to a very poor product.
To say I am extremely disappointed in the OSMO is an understatement.
Here’s hoping there’s something I have missed (re stabilisation) and someone in this forum can provide me with some tangible help.
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