Xiaomi FIMI Palm Tutorial - Who Will Buy DJI OSMO Pocket Camera Next?

The DJI OSMO Pocket is a horrible cool camera, but it comes in almost the same way from Xiaom at half price.

Nowadays, vlogging is a very cool thing. What kind of generation xyz, mittomén, see in this is their own future, the easiest way to become famous and get rich, and how badly they see it will only be realized after years. Because it seems awfully easy to talk nonsense in front of a camera, which millions then sign up to, and the juice just stops unstoppably, but practice shows that it’s nowhere near as simple. It already falls there that in order for someone to be sold, they need something to bake, because only stupidity can quickly get boring. Then there’s the other problem, see the technique. There’s an awful, insanely big competition between vloggers, and it doesn’t really matter whether the materials you’re shooting are taken with an FHD sports camera, a bloody vlogger camera, or possibly a DSLR.

The DJI saw the niche here and created a camera called the DJI OSMO Pocket. It’s a very tiny but great structure that fits in a man’s pants pocket, but it has a good camera that tops off a gimball. You know the stuff, it's true, the built-in microphone is a waste, but since there are thousands of accessories available, everything can be remedied. The only but bigger thing about the stuff is that it’s damn expensive. Of course, a market niche and stuff like that, so the DJI could have asked for as much as they were not ashamed of, so many still bought it because they saw the vlogger as the fulfillment of their future, the opportunity for a breakthrough.

However, here is Xiaomi, our favorite Chinese manufacturer (DJI is of course) who decided they could make a Pocket Camera too, they have it all. The new widget was named FIMI Palm. The name FIMI may be familiar from Xiaomi’s drones this year, FIMI made the two birds for Xiaomi. They already have experience in cameras and gimball, as drones have to be fitted with just as small solutions as a pocket-sized camera, so it was a given, they paved the way for the Palm.

However, FIMI PALM is not quite the same as Osmo Pocket, although at first glance the two-structure is very similar. On paper, the FIMI solution is clearly better, as the battery is larger (1000 vs. 875 mAh), the battery life is longer with one charge (240 minutes vs. 120 minutes) due to the larger battery, the camera can be rotated at a larger angle with the gimball, and the FIMI PALM also has wifi and Bluetooth connectivity, which is missing from the Osmo Pocket. In the FIMI solution, we can control the rotation of the gimbal with a small joystick, while on the Pocket we have a touch-sensitive interface for this, and the latter, for example, has been criticized by many. What is definitely better about DJI OSMO is that it is suspected to have a stronger iron. This can be guessed from the fact that while the Pocket is capable of a frame rate of 4 frames at 60K resolution, the maximum value at Palm is only 4K / 30 FPS.

There is one thing that is mentioned as an advantage at FIMI, but I am not at all sure it will be an advantage, even a lens (camera) with a 128-degree viewing angle. Vloggers have completely different expectations for a camera. They don’t need a sports camera with a wide viewing angle and as much of the environment as possible in the picture. For a vlogger, a distortion-free optic with a 90-degree viewing angle, much like the one in the Osmo Pocket, is much more advantageous. So I think 90 degrees in this case is more than 128 degrees, at least in terms of usage.

Which, however, is definitely in the price of FIMI Palm. As I mentioned above, OSMO Pocket is quite expensive, we can currently get it from China for $ 360. In contrast, the Xiaomi FIMI Palm can be ordered for half the price, or $ 180, now in the pre-order promotion. This is also a good 50 thousand forints, which is a lot of money for a camera, but if we consider that we can buy two FIMI Palms for the price of an OSMO Pocket, we feel the point, that is, that the OSMO Pocket has been overpriced.

Of course, we don’t yet know how prices will change after the release of FIMI Palm, what DJI will do when it sees rival pricing. They are likely to need to improve at current prices because they don’t have much chance left against Xiaomi. If you want to buy a Xiaomi FIMI palm at the current introductory price, you will need to put down a $ 10 deposit. In return, you will be able to get your Xiaomi camera for $ 179,99, which will ship between February 22-28.

You can deposit your $ 10 deposit here:

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