There was a time when putting two cameras on a phone seemed ridiculous.
One camera was enough, surely.
Then smartphones started adding ultra-wide lenses. Then telephoto cameras arrived. Suddenly, the little rectangle in our pockets had more photographic ambition than some folks.
And now DJI appears to have asked a similar question:
What if a pocket-sized vlogging camera had two cameras too?
Let’s Enter the DJI Osmo Pocket 4P.
At first glance, it is easy to think: Oh, wonderful. Another camera with another lens. Somebody calls the revolution committee.
But spend a month with Pocket 4P and the second lens starts to make considerably more sense.
Because this isn’t simply about having another zoom option.
It changes how you shoot people, products, interviews, travel, pets, food, street scenes and yourself.
And perhaps more importantly, it solves one of the Pocket camera’s bygone obstacles:
Wide-angle cameras are fantastic at showing the world. They aren’t always fantastic at making you look good in it.
The Pocket 4P wants to do both.
Table of Contents
- The Pocket Camera Gets a Second Eye
- Why the 60mm Lens Matters So Much
- The Smartphone Connection Is Surprisingly Important
- One Camera, Two Very Different Personalities
- Portraits Finally Get Their Moment
- The Pocket 4P as a Talking-Head Machine
- Why Product Creators Should Pay Attention
- The Numbers Are Rather Serious
- What Isn’t Perfect
- DJI Osmo Pocket 4P vs Pocket 4
- Who Should Buy It?
- Conclusion: Is Two Better Than One?
1. The Pocket Camera Gets a Second Eye
The biggest alteration is elegantly simple.
The Pocket 4P has two cameras.
The primary camera is a 20mm-equivalent f/2.0 wide-angle camera paired with a new 1-inch sensor. Above it sits a 60mm-equivalent f/1.8 medium-telephoto camera with a smaller 1/1.28-inch sensor.
That sounds like a specification sheet.
In real life, however, it feels more like having two completely different cameras in one tiny body.
The 20mm camera says:
“Look at this Gorgeous place!”
The 60mm camera says:
“Si, Si, the place is lovely. Now look at this person.”
And that distinction is enormous.
The wide lens is ideal for vlogging, landscapes, groups, and situations where you want the environment to become part of the story.
The 60mm lens is about isolation.
It brings your subject forward & compresses the background.
It produces a more flattering facial perspective.
And thanks to the f/1.8 aperture, it can create considerably more natural background separation than the wide camera. DJI says its portrait rendering produces a bokeh effect roughly equivalent to f/6.3 on a full-frame camera.
Suddenly, your tiny pocket camera is behaving less like an action camera and more like a miniature portrait machine.
2. Why the 60mm Lens Matters So Much
Here’s the funny thing about wide-angle cameras.
They are wonderfully honest.
Sometimes too honest.
Put a camera close to someone’s face with a wide lens, and the camera can exaggerate facial features. The nose becomes suspiciously ambitious. The forehead may suddenly apply for its own postal code.
The 60mm lens changes that relationship.
Because you’re shooting from farther away, faces appear more naturally proportioned and the background becomes compressed.
That’s one reason longer focal lengths are traditionally popular for portraits.
And now that idea has arrived in a pocket gimbal camera.
According to several hands-on reviews, the 60mm camera isn’t merely a gimmick. Reviewers found it particularly useful for portraits, interviews, product shots, and close-up details.
That is the important part.
The second camera gives the Pocket 4P a second visual language.
The wide lens tells a myth about where you are.
The telephoto lens tells a story about who or what matters.
That’s a much bigger upgrade than simply saying “3x zoom.”
3. The Smartphone Connection Is Surprisingly Important
Remember when smartphones started adding multiple cameras?
People initially wondered why anyone needed three cameras on a phone.
Then everyone started using them.
Ultra-wide for architecture.
Main camera for everyday photos.
Telephoto for portraits.
Suddenly, changing lenses became part of taking a picture.
DJI is bringing that same philosophy to a gimbal camera.
And this is where the Pocket 4P becomes particularly interesting.
A traditional compact vlogging camera might give you one lens and ask you to physically move closer or farther away.
The Pocket 4P gives you another perspective without changing cameras.
Want yourself and the Dubai Burj Khalifa?
20mm.
Want a tighter shot of yourself?
60mm.
Want to film a coffee cup dramatically enough to convince everyone that you are secretly directing a Netflix documentary about caffeine?
60mm.
Want the entire table, restaurant and your unfortunate friend who has been waiting 25 minutes for the food?
20mm.
It is not merely additional reach.
It is more composition.
4. One Camera, Two Very Different Personalities
Think of the Pocket 4P as having two personalities.
Personality No. 1: The Explorer
The 20mm camera is the extrovert.
It wants to see everything.
It is useful for: Walking vlogs, travel, landscapes, Architecture, Group shots, Selfie Videos, Room Tours, street scenes, events.
This is the camera that says:
“Come with me.”
Personality No. 2: The Director
The 60mm camera is quieter.
It doesn’t need the whole room & it wants the subject.
It is particularly useful for: Portraits, Interviews, talking head videos, product shots, food, pets, detail shots, lifestyle videos, cinematic B-roll.
This one says:
“Forget the room. Look at this.”
And that distinction is precisely why the second camera matters.
5. Portraits Finally Get Their Moment
This may be the biggest philosophical change to the Pocket series.
Historically, the Pocket concept has been brilliant for movement.
You can walk, blog, or travel
You can point it at yourself and let the gimbal do its little mechanical ballet.
But portrait photography and portrait video demand something different.
They need separation, perspective & the subject to stand apart from the background,
The new 60mm lens gives the Pocket 4P a much better tool for that job.
Reviews have highlighted the lens’s ability to produce attractive background blur and more flattering portraits, while also making it useful for product and close-up work.
And that changes the sort of footage you can create.
Imagine filming someone standing in front of a busy city street.
With a wide lens, you get:
Person + cars + buildings + people + signs + traffic + one man inexplicably walking behind you carrying three chairs.
With the 60mm lens, the composition becomes much simpler.
Person.
The background becomes supporting cast rather than the entire theatre company.
That’s cinematic thinking in a device small enough to disappear into a jacket pocket.
6. The Pocket 4P as a Talking-Head Machine
Here’s another group that should be interested:
YouTubers.
Not necessarily Hollywood or professional filmmakers.
Just people sitting somewhere saying:
“Hello guys, today we’re going to talk about…”
The 60mm lens makes this type of content much more interesting.
Instead of having your room completely visible, you can create a tighter composition.
Your face becomes the subject.
Your background becomes atmosphere.
Your bookshelf can quietly pretend you have read all those books.
And your laundry can remain safe outside the frame.
The camera also retains the Pocket series’ mechanical gimbal stabilization and tracking features, making it particularly suited to creators who want stable footage without carrying a larger camera setup.
That’s Pocket 4P’s real charm.
It doesn’t demand that you become a cinematographer before you are allowed to use it.
7. Why Product Creators Should Pay Attention
The second lens isn’t only about faces.
It could be fantastic for products.
Imagine reviewing:
- A smartphone
- A smartwatch
- Headphones
- A laptop
- A coffee machine
- A pair of sunglasses
- A tiny gadget that cost you far too much money
With the wide lens, the product sits inside the environment.
With the 60mm lens, you can compress the background and focus attention on the object.
That is particularly useful for tech creators.
A close-up of a watch with a soft background can immediately feel more polished.
A laptop shot can isolate the keyboard.
A phone can be framed against a blurred desk.
Even a humble cup of coffee can suddenly look like it has been cast in a Christopher Nolan film.
And the 60mm camera’s optical reach gives creators a much more useful perspective for those details.
8. The Numbers Are Rather Serious
The Pocket 4P isn’t just about its second lens.
The main camera has received a major upgrade too.
DJI says the primary 20mm camera uses a new 1-inch stacked CMOS sensor with LOFIC technology and can deliver up to 17 stops of dynamic range. It also supports DJI’s 10-bit D-Log 2 profile for greater flexibility in color grading.
The headline specifications include:
| Feature | DJI Osmo Pocket 4P |
| Main camera | 20mm equivalent |
| Main aperture | f/2.0 |
| Main sensor | 1-inch |
| Portrait camera | 60mm equivalent |
| Portrait aperture | f/1.8 |
| Portrait sensor | 1/1.28-inch |
| Optical zoom | 3x |
| Maximum digital zoom | Up to 12x |
| Video | Up to 4K/60fps |
| Slow motion | Up to 4K/240fps in supported modes |
| Dynamic range | Up to 17 stops |
| Color profile | 10-bit D-Log 2 |
| Stabilization | 3-axis mechanical gimbal |
| Weight | About 230g |
| Internal storage | About 107GB |
Specifications vary by mode and region, so the tiny print remains undefeated.
9. What Isn’t Perfect
Of course, every camera eventually reveals its little personality defects.
The Pocket 4P is no exception.
The biggest physical compromise is obvious:
Two cameras take up more space than one.
The dual-lens module makes the camera more top-heavy than previous Pocket models. Reviewers have also noticed that switching between the two lenses during recording can introduce a brief visual transition or judder, with some reports of slight color differences between the cameras.
And while 12x zoom sounds wonderful on a specification sheet, don’t expect miracles at the end.
The 3x optical lens is the important part.
Once you push deep into digital zoom territory, image quality inevitably begins to decline. Reviews generally found moderate digital zoom more useful than pushing all the way to 12x.
Then there’s another question:
Do you actually need two lenses?
That’s where things become interesting.
10. DJI Osmo Pocket 4P vs Pocket 4
If you already own a Pocket 4, the question isn’t whether the Pocket 4P is good.
It obviously is.
The question is whether the second lens changes enough to justify upgrading.
For someone who mostly records: Walking tours, wide blogs, travel, family videos, Landscape…
…the original Pocket 4 may remain perfectly sensible.
But if you shoot: Portraits, Interviews, product reviews, talking head videos, fashion, food, close -up B-roll, Lifestyle content …the 60mm camera becomes much more difficult to disregard.
The price difference isn’t enormous considering the extra hardware. The Pocket 4P launched at around £529 / AU$959, compared with the Pocket 4, which starts at around £429 / AU$749.
Disclaimer: Prices may vary depending on the region, retailer, seller, and availability.
So the argument isn’t:
“Should I pay more for another camera?”
It is:
“Will I actually use the second perspective?”
If the answer is yes, the 4P becomes considerably more attractive.
11. Who Should Buy It?
Buy the Pocket 4P if…
You are a serious vlogger who wants more than a wide selfie shot.
You make YouTube videos, review products, shoot interviews, or travel frequently.
You want cinematic-looking B-roll without carrying a giant camera bag.
You photograph or film people regularly.
You want a compact camera that can go from “Look at this place!” to “Look at this person!” without changing lenses.
And especially if you’re upgrading from an older Pocket model, the additional flexibility makes a strong case.
Think twice if…
You already own Pocket 4 and almost exclusively shoot wide-angle footage.
You rarely photograph people.
You don’t care about background separation.
You mainly use your phone.
Or you bought your last camera because it was supposed to fit into your pocket.
12. Conclusion: Is Two Better Than One?
Adding another camera isn’t automatically useful—unless it offers the right perspective. The DJI Osmo Pocket 4P isn’t just about longer spec sheets; it’s about creators’ true cinematic depth, effortless focus, and steady gimbal performance in a pocket-sized body.
Ultimately, the real question isn’t whether two cameras are better than one, but what you could create if your camera finally matched your imagination.
What do you think? Would you upgrade to the Pocket 4P, stick with your current setup, or keep using your phone? Let us know in the comments below!
