DJI’s smallest action camera will start recording when you nod

Even erstwhile connected to its touchscreen dock the DJI Osmo Nano is lighter than the Osmo Action 5 Pro. | Image: DJI

Following recent leaks, DJI has announced its caller compact and lightweight Osmo Nano. It’s DJI’s smallest enactment camera to day but features the aforesaid 1 / 1.3-inch sensor with 13.5 stops of dynamic scope and 4K / 120fps signaling capabilities arsenic the company’s flagship Osmo Action 5 Pro DJI, which launched a twelvemonth ago. As with rival products similar the Insta360 Go Ultra, you’ll request to brace the Osmo Nano with its included modular accessory, called the Multifunctional Vision Dock, if you privation a surface oregon privation to boost its artillery life.

Like different products that DJI introduced this year, including the Mini 5 Pro drone and the wireless Mic 3, the institution isn’t readying to instantly merchandise the Osmo Nano successful the US. “The Osmo Nano volition not beryllium disposable officially successful the U.S. marketplace connected authoritative websites upon its planetary motorboat connected September 23,” according to DJI spokesperson Daisy Kong. “DJI remains committed to the U.S. marketplace and is optimizing our strategy to champion service our customers amidst evolving section conditions.”

It’s launching contiguous successful different regions including Canada, wherever the Osmo Nano with 64GB of built-in retention starts astatine $309 USD, though that pricing doesn’t needfully bespeak however overmuch it volition outgo successful the US. In the UK, it volition commencement astatine £239, portion successful France, Germany, and Spain it volition beryllium €279. A mentation with 128GB of retention is $339 USD, £259, and €309, respectively.

The Osmo Nano is overmuch smaller than DJI’s erstwhile effort astatine miniaturizing its enactment camera. The square-shaped Action 2 launched successful 2021 with a akin modular plan but featured much accessories that could beryllium magnetically attached to the camera to grow its functionality and artillery life. The caller Nano is pill-shaped, 57mm long, and weighs 52 grams, making it a afloat gram lighter than the Action 2 and the precocious launched Insta360 Go Ultra. It’s besides overmuch lighter than the 146-gram Osmo Action 5 Pro — adjacent with the touchscreen dock attached, which bumps the Osmo Nano’s full value to 124 grams.

Battery beingness is rated astatine 55 to 60 minutes of 4K / 30fps recording, oregon up to 90 minutes of 1080p / 24fps recording. That increases to 125 to 135 minutes astatine 4K / 30fps portion the Nano is connected to the dock, oregon up to 200 minutes astatine 1080p / 24fps. The Nano is waterproof to depths of up to 10 meters, but the dock, which tin besides relation arsenic a wireless distant with unrecorded video previews, has a constricted IPX4 splash absorption rating.

Two wireless microphones tin beryllium straight connected to the Nano without the request for a receiver, and for those times erstwhile you’re wearing gloves oregon don’t person the dexterity to deed a tiny button, you tin commencement signaling by mildly patting the camera oregon simply nodding your caput if you’re wearing it connected a chapeau oregon helmet. There’s besides a pre-record enactment that tin prevention footage captured conscionable earlier you commencement a recording, but that could travel with an further deed to artillery life.