Please disregard my other post. I don't know how to edit or delete that post.


Newbie here. If I don't use a phone while shooting, how do I focus while using Osmo Pro. There is AF mode, but you know it doesn't do much.

Is the handwheel going to help?

Thank you,

Osmo doesn't even record without connection to a phone. If you don't want to use a phone, you are better off with without camera with inbuilt stabilisation.

It actually records without connecting to a phone. So why there is no way to focus?

Did you mean, it records on the SD card? Cause I have a different experience, I could not find anything on the SD card at all.

DTK Posted at 2017-6-12 15:52
Did you mean, it records on the SD card? Cause I have a different experience, I could not find anything on the SD card at all.

Yes, it records to the SD card in my case. Maybe there is a mode to set it that way. But by default it is doing it for me.

Are you using Osmo Pro?

yes, Osmo pro. I have tried it because it is just taken too much time to set it up. And with the mobile phone attached to it, the whole thing is off center and creates a large twisting strain on the arm.

The Osmo Pro (X5 camera) will indeed record to the card without having a phone... the phone is not needed at all for recording.

BUT... maybe I'm missing something, but how the heck are you framing if you don't have a viewfinder (the phone)?

And yes, you can use the handwheel for focusing (you'd need to mark the handwheel ring with distance marks, as I have), but I'm still not sure how you can frame with any reasonable accuracy.

Because you find it a pain to set up, you should really pop the 20 bucks for the wired video adapter.  It absolutely works like a charm, and now the Osmo is (almost) "instant on," you power up the Osmo and the DJI GO app instantly launches and is connected to the camera.  I'll agree previously it was a pain in the rear to do the Wi-Fi connection, but this totally eliminates all of that.

As for it putting things off center and a strain on your arm, one of the little adapter brackets can be used to move the phone back into the same plane as the Osmo... I sometimes do that.

And as far as recording without the phone, the original OSMO will record without it as well. I do that sometimes as well. Most of the time I can't see the screen while outside. If I am filming outside and I don't have much shade, I will run and gun without the phone. I bet I shoot without the phone 20% time when outside.