DJI Osmo Pocket 4 and 4P Review 2026 — Excellent Cameras You Cannot Officially Buy in the US

Every camera on this site was bought at retail. No affiliate links, no sponsored placements, no free review units. Full policy

DJI Osmo Pocket 4P — The Dual-Lens Flagship You Cannot Buy Here

What the 4P would have competed against

The comparison that never happened is 4P against Insta360 Luna Ultra. The Luna Ultra pairs a 20mm F1.8 main lens on a 1-inch sensor with a 60mm F2.0 telephoto on a 1/1.28-inch sensor, offers 1× to 12× zoom, runs 240 minutes from 1550mAh, charges to 80% in 23 minutes on a 45W adapter, carries a 2.0-inch OLED at 1000 nits, includes 47GB of internal storage, and its gimbal is rated to ±0.005° angular vibration and 210°/s maximum control speed. It costs $769.99, weighs 233g, and has no water, dust or splash resistance whatsoever — Insta360 is explicit about that and so are we.

Two dual-lens pocket gimbals, then, and only one of them has a US price.

DJI Osmo Pocket 4 — A Fine Camera With No Retail Channel

Option A: what the camera actually is

Option B: what a grey-market import actually costs you

Pocket 4 vs Pocket 4P vs What You Can Actually Buy

The original version of this page compared the Pocket 4 with the Pocket 4P and stopped there. That is the wrong table for a US reader, because both of those columns are unbuyable. Here is the same comparison with the two cameras you can actually put in a basket added — no column removed.

Two rows in that table decide the page. The US availability row rules out half of it, and the lenses row rules out half of what remains. If you want two lenses and you are in the United States, there is exactly one camera in this table you can buy, and it is the Luna Ultra. Note also that it loses two rows outright — it is the heaviest at 233g and the only camera here whose manufacturer states plainly that it has no water, dust or splash resistance at all.

What to Buy Instead

Buy the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 ($439.00) if you:

• Shoot wide almost all the time — walk-and-talk, travel B-roll, family footage
• Want the cheapest route to a 1-inch sensor behind a mechanical gimbal
• Care about weight: 179g is the lightest here, 54g under the Luna Ultra
• Want expandable microSD storage rather than a fixed internal figure
• Can live with 166 minutes rated and a 700-nit screen
• Would rather spend $439.00 than $542-and-up on an import of a camera with no US channel

Buy the Insta360 Luna Ultra ($769.99) if you:

• Need a second focal length — a real 60mm F2.0 optical telephoto, not a crop. This is what the Pocket 4P would have given you, and it is the only dual-lens pocket gimbal on sale in the US
• Shoot interviews, products, or anything you cannot walk closer to
• Want 240 minutes rated rather than 166, and a published 23 minutes to 80% on 45W
• Frame outdoors in bright light and want the 1000-nit OLED
• Want 47GB of internal storage as a backstop when a card fills
• Can accept the three real costs: 233g — the heaviest in the category — $769.99, and no water, dust or splash resistance whatsoever

Should Pocket 3 Owners Upgrade?

If you are in the United States: there is nothing from DJI to upgrade to. That is the whole answer, and it is worth stating flatly because the original version of this page spent 150 words advising an upgrade path that does not exist for its main audience.

The upgrade the Pocket 3 actually wants is a second lens. The Pocket 3's real limit is not its 4K120 ceiling or its 166 minutes; it is that zoom is digital only at 2× and every framing decision has to be made with your feet. The standard Pocket 4 does not fix that — its zoom is digital too, max 4× with 2× lossless. The Pocket 4P does fix it, and you cannot buy it.

So the honest upgrade advice is: if your footage is fine and you shoot wide, keep the Pocket 3. It is a good camera, its gimbal is rated to the same ±0.005° as the most expensive pocket gimbal on sale, and there is no US-available DJI successor to move to. If what has started to frustrate you is reach — needing to be closer to a subject you cannot walk up to — then the upgrade is the Insta360 Luna Ultra at $769.99, because it is the only US-available pocket gimbal with a real optical telephoto.

If you are outside the US, the Pocket 4P is a legitimate upgrade for the same reason, at whatever your local authorised price is. Check whether your source is an authorised retailer before you buy either way.

Accessories: What We Can and Cannot Verify

The original version of this section listed eight accessories with Japanese yen prices and dollar conversions. None of those figures is verifiable from an authorised US source, and for a camera with no US listing there is no US accessory price to quote either. So here is what we can actually stand behind, which is filters — and only for the cameras where a manufacturer or retailer publishes a price.

Two things worth saying plainly. Freewell makes no filters for the Insta360 Ace Pro 2 — if you have read otherwise on this site before, that was wrong; for Insta360 the honest options are Insta360's own set or K&F Concept. And we do not publish Amazon ASINs on this site any more, because the previous version of these pages carried a dozen that pointed at nothing.

Final Verdict

The DJI Osmo Pocket 4 and 4P are good cameras and that is not the point. A 1-inch sensor at f/2, 4K240, 240 minutes from 1545mAh and a 1000-nit OLED is a strong specification; the 4P's second lens with a 3× optical step is a stronger one. In a market where you can walk into a shop and buy them, they are easy to recommend.

The United States is not that market. There is no DJI US listing, no B&H listing and no official US price for either camera, and the trade press has been consistent about it since spring: PetaPixel in April said the Pocket 4 "isn't available in the US and it might never be"; PetaPixel in July described the 4P as "available everywhere except the USA"; Digital Camera World in July confirmed no authorised US stock and no announced US launch. What reaches American buyers is importer stock at $542 to $777 and up, and at those prices you are paying more than a Pocket 3 costs — sometimes almost exactly what a Luna Ultra costs — for a unit with no US retail channel behind it.

So the recommendation is not a compromise, it is arithmetic. If you shoot wide, buy the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 at $439.00. It is $103 cheaper than the cheapest Pocket 4 import, it is the lightest camera in this comparison at 179g, its gimbal is rated to the same ±0.005° as anything else here, and you can buy it from an authorised retailer this afternoon.

If you need a second focal length, buy the Insta360 Luna Ultra at $769.99. It is the camera the Pocket 4P was meant to compete with, it is the only dual-lens pocket gimbal on sale in the US, and it wins the specification lines that follow from having two lenses: 1×–12× zoom with real optical reach, 240 minutes rated, 23 minutes to 80% on 45W, a 1000-nit OLED, 47GB of internal storage. It also costs $330 more than the Pocket 3, weighs 233g — the heaviest thing in the category — and has no water, dust or splash resistance at all. Those are real costs and you should weigh them. But it is available, and its rival is not.

WM — William Madden · Gear Reviewer

Kai tests pocket gimbals and action cameras for Action Camera Auditor. Availability claims on this page were checked against DJI's own US store and B&H on 1 September 2026, and every specification figure comes from a manufacturer listing or an authorised retailer. Where a figure is not published, this page says so instead of estimating. More about Kai →