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Osmo Pocket 2 as a Cab Ride Camera

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, September 6, 2021 5:15 PM

It is not great, however, if it is relatively inexpensive it might be worth keeping to shoot back towards a following train or something along those lines.

 

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Osmo Pocket 2 as a Cab Ride Camera
Posted by Pruitt on Monday, September 6, 2021 5:04 PM

I just bought a DJI Osmo Pocket 2 camera to use as a cab ride camera in videos.

The depth of focus is somewhat shallower than I'd hoped (to say the least). The f-stop is fixed, so all I can do is play with the point of focus.

Here's a short video of some testing I've done using four different points of focus - one about 40 scale feet in front of the lens, one at 80, one at 120, and one at 160 scale feet.

I'd sure like some feedback on this. IS the camera suitable at the farther points of focus, or is the depth of focus just too shallow for the application?

One thing I do like is the low camera angle - it scales out to about 6 feet above the ties!

So what do you think? Return and buy a cube camera? Or keep and use for future videos?

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